HIV Clinical Leadership Program Fellows
Our first group of fellows have diverse backgrounds in HIV care, public health and serving low-income communities. Click on the images to learn more about each fellow.
2018-2020 Class
Jessica Schneider
Dr. Jessica Schneider
Jessica was born in New York and enjoyed a migratory childhood across the Deep South and Midwest before landing in Baltimore, where she studied creative writing and Kiswahili at Johns Hopkins University. After college she joined the Peace Corps, and spent three years in Zambia, where she taught people how to dig and maintain fish ponds and realized that she would rather study parasites than host them. This led to an increased awareness about health disparities and the decision to go to medical school. After four years in the mountains at University of Colorado, she moved to the beach, and spent four years at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency, working at one of the largest public hospitals in the country. As an aficionado of both tropical fruit and tropical viruses, Jessica loved the four years she spent in Miami, but despite regular encounters with Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya, HIV was the virus that most captured her professional attention. She is super excited to move to LA as a fellow in the HIV Clinical Leadership Program, where she hopes to acquire a full set of skills to become an agent of positive change in medicine!
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Please click link below for, my video diary journey here as an HIV Primary Care Physician Fellow:
Dr. Jessica Schneider
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Jessica was born in New York and enjoyed a migratory childhood across the Deep South and Midwest before landing in Baltimore, where she studied creative writing and Kiswahili at Johns Hopkins University. After college she joined the Peace Corps, and spent three years in Zambia, where she taught people how to dig and maintain fish ponds and realized that she would rather study parasites than host them. This led to an increased awareness about health disparities and the decision to go to medical school. After four years in the mountains at University of Colorado, she moved to the beach, and spent four years at Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency, working at one of the largest public hospitals in the country. As an aficionado of both tropical fruit and tropical viruses, Jessica loved the four years she spent in Miami, but despite regular encounters with Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya, HIV was the virus that most captured her professional attention. She is super excited to move to LA as a fellow in the HIV Clinical Leadership Program, where she hopes to acquire a full set of skills to become an agent of positive change in medicine!
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Please click link below for, my video diary journey here as an HIV Primary Care Physician Fellow:
Dr. Jessica Schneider
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Kevin Tangonan
Dr. Kevin Tangonan D. O.
Kevin Tangonan D.O. most recently completed his Residency in Family Medicine locally in Boyle Heights: White Memorial Medical Center. Kevin completed his undergraduate studies in Clinical Laboratory Sciences at Loma Linda University after which he attended medical school at Touro University CA. Throughout his training, Kevin has strove to maintain an active role in his community by volunteering as a mentor at various local high schools as well as providing STI testing and safer sex education within the LGBT community. Through his work within the community of east LA, Kevin experienced the lack of general medical knowledge and unnecessary stigma surrounding the diagnosis of HIV firsthand. This deficit was noted not just with his interactions with his patients but extended throughout the medical healthcare community as well. Kevin believes that a physician’s primary responsibility is to provide information to his community and advocate for his patients. By affecting a change in attitude among patients and co-workers at a local level, Kevin hopes to impact how HIV care is delivered and received within the community of Los Angeles.
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Please click link below for, my video diary journey here as an HIV Primary Care Physician Fellow:
Dr. Kevin Tangonan D. O.
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Kevin Tangonan D.O. most recently completed his Residency in Family Medicine locally in Boyle Heights: White Memorial Medical Center. Kevin completed his undergraduate studies in Clinical Laboratory Sciences at Loma Linda University after which he attended medical school at Touro University CA. Throughout his training, Kevin has strove to maintain an active role in his community by volunteering as a mentor at various local high schools as well as providing STI testing and safer sex education within the LGBT community. Through his work within the community of east LA, Kevin experienced the lack of general medical knowledge and unnecessary stigma surrounding the diagnosis of HIV firsthand. This deficit was noted not just with his interactions with his patients but extended throughout the medical healthcare community as well. Kevin believes that a physician’s primary responsibility is to provide information to his community and advocate for his patients. By affecting a change in attitude among patients and co-workers at a local level, Kevin hopes to impact how HIV care is delivered and received within the community of Los Angeles.
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Please click link below for, my video diary journey here as an HIV Primary Care Physician Fellow:
Dr. Kevin Tangonan D. O.
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Norris Tran Duc
Dr. Norris Tran Duc, MD
Norris Tran Duc, MD received his Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science from the University of California, Berkeley and his Medical Degree from the McGovern Medical School (formerly known as the University of Texas Medical School at Houston). He completed his Family Medicine training locally at the Glendale Adventist Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program in 2018, where he graduated as Chief Resident.
He applied to Family Medicine because he wanted to become a physician that could empathize, treat, and heal high-risk and underrepresented patient groups, focusing on a culture of prevention, harm reduction, outreach and awareness, and non-marginalized access. He has particular interest in spreading health care awareness and addressing health care disparities in the LGBTQ and immigrant communities.
With greater advancements in the care of HIV, the diagnosis is slowly becoming more of a chronic condition, befitting of the preventive health, continuity of care, and trust, characteristic of the family medicine practitioner. He is excited to be trained in HIV primary care to become a force of change to help drive away stigma, prevent, and treat HIV. He wishes to make patients living with HIV feel that although the diagnosis may be a part of their identity, it should not define or confine them.
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Please click link below for, my video diary journey here as an HIV Primary Care Physician Fellow:
Dr. Norris Tran Duc, MD
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