Christine Ma

Christine Ma is a professor of pediatrics at UC San Francisco with a focus on families experiencing homelessness, and a focus on Integrative Medicine.  She is the medical director of the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland’s Encore Medical Clinic which serves the unique health needs of unstably housed families, is the faculty advisor on family homelessness for the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, and ran Kerry’s Kids, a non-profit pediatric mobile health clinic. After years serving on San Francisco County and Alameda County Boards that guide city and county homeless policies, she is currently serving as a Commissioner for Alameda County Health Care for the Homeless. She received her S.B. degree in molecular and cellular biology from M.I.T. and her M.D. from UCSF, where she also completed her pediatric residency, and a faculty fellowship in the Osher Collaborative for Integrative Health. She resides in Berkeley with her husband and three children, two who are alums and one who is currently attending Black Pine Circle School.