ZSFG Primary Care General Internal Medicine Track

Program Director

Joan Addington-White, MD, FACP | [email protected]

Joanie Addington-White MD is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). She is the Program Director of the San Francisco General Primary Care Track. She went to Medical School at the University of Chicago and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Northwestern University. Before assuming her responsibilities at UCSF, Joanie was a faculty member in the Division of General Internal Medicine in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin, where she started and served as the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Primary Care Track Residency. She is passionate about practicing medicine in both the inpatient and outpatient settings, complex medical issues, care of the patient with a history of incarceration, and HIV primary care. Dr. Addington-White teaches about health equity, general internal medicine, and focuses on creating a curriculum and program which attracts and mentors a diverse group of residents. She leads the Health Equity pathway for the Internal Medicine residency. 

Associate Program Director

Lisa Ochoa-Frongia, MD | [email protected]

Lisa Ochoa-Frongia, M.D. is a clinician-educator and Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF, in the Division of General Internal Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). Dr. Ochoa-Frongia is a practicing primary care physician and Associate Program Director for the ZSFG Primary Care General Internal Medicine Track of the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Program (SFPC). She is also the former Associate Medical Director of Richard Fine People's Clinic and Ambulatory Site Director for the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency at SFGH. Dr. Ochoa-Frongia is a proud graduate of SFPC and is passionate about resident education, social justice, mental health within primary care and helping people achieve wellbeing through health care. Outside of work, she loves spending time with her family including her husband and two sons, hiking and cooking.  

Dr. Ochoa-Frongia's scholarly interests include best practices in the treatment of mental and behavioral health conditions in primary care, behavioral health integration in safety-net clinics, curricular development and mental health curricula for primary care providers. She is the PI for a 5-year HRSA Training Enhancement award for a project entitled Training for Residents Integrating Skills, Treatment, Advocacy and Resilience for Mental and Behavioral Health (TRI-STAR). Through this project, she is working with a team of outstanding UCSF faculty members to enhance the SFPC mental health curriculum.