About

Ronald Labuguen, MD

Professor of Family and Community Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Workshop Speaker

Ronald H. Labuguen, M.D., is a Professor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.  He is the Medical Director of the Adult Urgent Care Center at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center (ZSFG), and a volunteer faculty preceptor with Mabuhay Health Center, a UCSF student-run free clinic serving mostly Filipino patients living in the South of Market area of San Francisco.  He also sees primary care patients at the Family Health Center at ZSFG, the largest primary care clinic in San Francisco.  Prior to joining the UCSF faculty in October 2006, he was an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at the University of Southern California, Associate Director of the USC/California Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program, and Medical Director of the USC Family Practice Center at California Hospital in Los Angeles. He grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and received both his undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Virginia. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at the Virginia Commonwealth University-Hanover Family Practice Residency Program in 2000, and served as Co-Chief Resident during his third year.  He joined the faculty of the residency program upon graduation, and in 2001 he completed a fellowship in Education, Leadership, and Administration (Faculty Development) in the Department of Family Practice at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Medical College of Virginia.  He remained on the faculty there until moving to Los Angeles in March 2003. His clinical interests include evidence-based medicine, academic family medicine, urgent care, physician leadership and leadership development, health care for underserved populations, organized medicine and health care advocacy, and musculoskeletal medicine.