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Summary

• Dr. Amber Burnette is an Assistant Area Medical Director for Kaiser Permanente Orange County (KPOC), which includes 2 hospitals and 25 medical offices, providing health care for nearly 600,000 KP members. Dr. Burnette joined KPOC in 2009 and is an established leader in multiple areas of the organization and the community, where she serves on the Board of Directors for the Orange County Medical Association (OCMA) since 2021. She has been KPOC’s Chief of Service for Allergy and Immunology since 2015 and is currently the executive sponsor for Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity (EID), after previously serving as EID Physician Leader from 2017-2020. Dr. Burnette is also an Assistant Professor and Admissions Interviewer at the Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine, on faculty since 2018.
  Dr. Burnette’s presentations and publications focus on topics such as COVID-19 vaccines, asthma and food allergies, and Equity, Inclusion, and Diversity. She has led KPOC’s COVID-19 vaccination efforts since December 2020, with a focus on safe and equitable vaccinations for KP members and the community. She achieves excellent patient satisfaction scores and has been an OCMA Physician of Excellence every year since 2020. In 2022, she was awarded the Physician Exceptional Contribution Award, the highest honor offered by Southern California Permanente Medical Group.