Scott Loeliger, MD, MS

Scott Loeliger, MD, MS is a faculty member at the Contra Costa Family Medicine Residency in Martinez,CA. He is a family physician attached to the obstetrics and gynecology department. Along with his principle role in training residents in women's health, obstetrics and gynecology he has taken a lead role in focusing the extensive interest in global andunder-served health care issues. With the support of the county government, hospital administration and physician/residents on the training campus he has developed a two-year, post residency fellowship that will incorporate an MPH degree from the University of California, Berkeley with clinical and faculty training in the county's extensive health care system. There is now also a two year global health track for second and third year residents.

After an undergraduate degree in health sciences from the University of California, Scott served as a healtheducator/planner for the city of San Francisco. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Fiji from 1979-81 working within the Ministry of Health to promote and plan primary health care for the country. After a very brief stint as a returned volunteer he then returned overseas to work for the International Rescue Comittee (IRC) in Somalia. Work training refugees as community health workers in one camp progressed to a position on Refugee Health Unit within the Ministry of Health in Somalia.

During his medical school training he also completed a Master's Degree focused on primary health care research, primarily in Fiji during the 1980's. Most of his family medicine practice has been in rural areas of California with under-served populations. He has been a program director with Global Health through Education, Training and Service (GHETS) since 2006 and continues to work on development of primary care and family medicine throughout the world.