Education
MPH-Harvard University, MD-Unviersity of Wisconsin
Background
Sonali Saluja, MD, MPH is an assistant professor of clinical medicine and health services researcher at The Gehr Family Center for Implementation Science in the Department of Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Dr. Saluja – who completed medical school at the University of Wisconsin and residency at Providence Portland Medical Center in Portland, OR – is board certified in internal medicine and currently sees patients at LAC+USC hospital where she teaches and supervises residents and medical students. She completed a fellowship in General Internal Medicine at the Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance and concurrently earned a Master’s in Public Health at the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Saluja's research focusses on health disparities as well as access to care for vulnerable populations. Her projects have examined access to insurance and needed care in the setting of health care reform. With support from the CTR Scholar program, Dr. Saluja is studying how safety-net patients in Los Angeles County are navigating the healthcare landscape under the ACA and how its potential repeal or replacement could impact them.