Associate Dean for Multicultural Affairs
University of Washington School of Medicine
Office of the Dean
1959 NE Pacific St
HSC T-539, Box 357430
Seattle
WAUSA
98195
Email:
dacosta@u.washington.edu
Biographical Sketch: David Acosta, M.D. is the Associate Dean for Multicultural Affairs at the University of Washington School of Medicine (UWSoM), and Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Family Medicine. He completed medical school at the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine in 1979, and completed his residency in Family Medicine at the Community Hospital of Sonoma County (an affiliate of the University of California, San Francisco) in 1982. He served as medical director at Northeastern Rural Health Clinics in Susanville, CA for 7 years where he provided care for a large underserved, rural and migrant farmworker population. He joined the faculty at Tacoma Family Medicine Residency Program (affiliate of the University of Washington) in 1989 where he served as Associate Director, Residency Director and Director of the Rural Health Fellowship Program. He is the P.I. on a NIH/NHLBI grant and is developing a new Center for Cultural Proficiency in Medical Education (CC-PriME) at the UWSoM. He is a certified diversity trainer, and has taught a number of cultural competency/diversity workshops for medical students, residents, faculty and staff.