1/16/25 – The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force) announced today the addition of two new members: Alicia Fernandez, M.D., and Ericka Gibson, M.D., M.P.H. Their 4-year terms begin in January 2025.
Dr. Fernandez is a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), associate dean of population health and health equity, and director of the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence. A general internist, she practices primary care and hospital medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
Dr. Gibson is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with the Southeast Permanente Medical Group at Kaiser Permanente in Atlanta, Georgia. As the physician program director for perinatal safety and quality, she works to ensure that patients receive the highest quality maternity care through data collection, data analysis, program design and implementation, protocol development and dissemination, quality improvement, and safety systems oversight.
Full biographies for the new members and all Task Force members are available here.
