Michelle Bholat, MD, MPH

Co-Founder
  UCLA International Medical Graduate Program (IMG)

Executive Director Associate Professor and Vice Chair UCLA Dept. of Family Medicine

Dr. Michelle Anne Bholat serves as associate professor and Vice Chair, Clinical Affairs in the UCLA Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and Co-Director of the UCLA International Medical Graduate Program. Dr. Bholat graduated from the University of California, Irvine College of Medicine and completed a family medicine residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, a public academic safety net hospital in Los Angeles County. She received a Masters Degree in Public Health from the University of California Los Angeles in Health Policy and Management.

From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Bholat served as Medical Director and Associate Residency Program Director of the Wilmington Family Health Center followed by three years as the Director of Clinical Operations for the UCLA Department of Family Medicine and Chair of Ambulatory Care Services for the UCLA Health Systems Westwood. Between 2000 and 2002, she served as liaison between the UCLA Department of Family Medicine and Olive View/UCLA Medical Center in developing a family medicine training site for the UCLA Family Medicine Residency Training Program. Further, she served as transition manager for the merger of the UCLA and Santa Monica Family Medicine Residency Programs. Up until recently, she has served as one of the five Commissioners on the LA County Board of Health and is a field surveyor for The Joint Commission Bureau of Primary Health Care.

In addition to her clinical and educational work, she serves as site director for grant projects related to chronic care as well as clinical trials related to substance abuse. She is a former fellow of the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) and active member of NHMAs California chapter. For her many contributions in the field of Medicine, in 2008 she was awarded the "Rising Star" and recognized at the Women Who make a Difference Award event by the Los Angeles Business Journal.