Assistant Medical Director--Adult Emergency Department, Administrative Director of the Trauma Recovery Center
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, California, United States
Natasha Thomas MD, MPH is the Assistant Medical Director of the Emergency Department, and Administrative Director of the Safe Harbor Trauma Recovery Center at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Her focus is on improving quality of healthcare to the underserved population both within the hospital and vis addressing social determinants of health. She oversees a weekly food pharmacy at Harbor-UCLA that aims to address food insecurity by providing produce to patients and the local community. She is part of a larger SDOH workgroup in the Department of Health Services at Los Angeles County, with projects that include creating screening and resource tools to assess and address SDOH needs for emergency department patients. Through these projects, she has collaborated with multiple community-based organizations to help connect patients with available resources, and is also part of an evaluation program to determine if these resources are adequately assisting patients in need.
I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.