Diabetes Collaborative Care: An Innovative Model to Mitigate Disparity in Type 2 Diabetes Outcomes

Professor Noya joined UCSF in 2013 and is an Associate Clinical Professor, Director of the Diabetes Concentration and has a dual appointment in the School of Medicine Adult Endocrinology Division. She received her Master in Community Psychology at Michigan State University and her MSN, FNP and PhD at UCSF. Her clinical career for the first 13 years was in Federally Qualified Health Centers throughout northern California delivering full scope primary care to underserved communities. Currently, her faculty practice is at the Division of Adult Endocrinology and the Office of Population Health at UCSF. Her work as a clinician and researcher is focused on reducing health inequity for people living with diabetes. She has collaborated with Partners in Health since 2017 to improve diabetes care of impoverished rural communities in Chiapas Mexico. She currently works as a researcher in a collaboration with the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology evaluating the impact of a novel community-based intervention to improve outcomes for children with type 1 living in the context of multiple complex social determinants of health. Additionally, she is the lead in an innovative interdisciplinary collaborative care model pilot program with the Division of Population Health to improve outcomes for people with type 2 diabetes in the Bay area. She is passionate about social justice and is committed to fighting racism through self-reflection, humility, activism, clinical practice, and research.