Alice Kuo, MD, PhD, MBA

Dr. Alice Kuo is the Principal Investigator and Director of the MCHB-funded University of California Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (UC-LEND) program. Dr. Kuo is also a Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and of Health Policy and Management in the Fielding UCLA School of Public Health; Chief of Medicine-Pediatrics at UCLA. Her research interests include access to and delivery of developmental services, cognitive and language development in young minority children, and services for children and adults with autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities. Clinically, Dr. Kuo sees primary care patients at the Medicine-Pediatrics Comprehensive Care Center in Santa Monica, the first ambulatory practice at UCLA with extended hours in the evenings and on weekends and holidays. 

Dr. Kuo received a BA in Biology from Harvard University, her MD from UCLA, her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology with a focus on Early Childhood and Special Education from the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at UCLA, and her MBA in Healthcare Administration from the University of Massachusetts Isenberg School of Management.