Dr. Maria Garcia

Dr. Garcia obtained an MD from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, an MPH from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and an MAS in Clinical Research as well as a Certificate in Implementation Science from the University of California, San Francisco.

As a clinician investigator, Dr. Garcia focuses on co-morbid mental health and chronic diseases and their disproportionate impact on vulnerable and marginalized populations. She conducts research on mental health integration in primary care, with a focus on racially, ethnically, and linguistically diverse populations. Dr. Garcia has researched the unique challenges that patients with co-morbid mental health and chronic diseases face and focused on implementation work in mental health integration and improvement of service delivery for populations with language barriers using implementation science and mixed methods.