KennethDavidPettersenMDMPH, FASAM

Assistant Clinical Professor, Olive View - UCLA Medical Center

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Office
14445 Olive View Dr 2d154
Sylmar, CA 91342
Phone+1 747-210-4990

Fax+1 747-210-4573

Dr. Kenneth Pettersen is a clinician educator specializing in adult primary care and addiction medicine physician at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. He is an Associate Program Director for the UCLA-Olive View Internal Residency Program and an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He received his medical degree and completed residency in internal medicine primary care at the University of California San Francisco. He is also board-certified in addiction medicine and is a Fellow of the American Society of Addiction Medicine. He co-directs the Medications for Addiction Treatment Bridge Program at Olive View - UCLA and collaborates across the LA County Department of Health Services on expanding access to addiction treatment in the safety net. He is a co-investigator for clinical trials including high-dose buprenorphine for patients with fentanyl withdrawal as well as telemedicine treatment for opioid use disorder with buprenorphine.

University of California (San Francisco)Residency, Internal Medicine, 2015 - 2018
University of California San Francisco School of MedicineClass of 2015
University of California, BerkeleyMasters of Public Health, 2013 - 2014
University of California, San DiegoBS, Human Biology, Magna Cum Laude, 2006 - 2010

Dennis Cope Golden View Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentorship Olive View - UCLA Department of Medicine, 2024
Thomas Evans Teaching Award UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Program, 2018

PubMed

4 citations
First-Line Therapy for Type 2 Diabetes With Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors and Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists.
Caroline Hanna, Kenneth Pettersen, Nathaniel Pedley
Annals of Internal Medicine. 2023-04-01
21 citations
Plasmodium falciparum ookinete expression of plasmepsin VII and plasmepsin X
Fengwu Li, Viengngeun Bounkeua, Kenneth Pettersen, Joseph M. Vinetz
Malaria Journal. 2016-02-24
6 citations
A paradoxical decline: intracranial lesions in two HIV-positive patients recovering from cryptococcal meningitis
Kenneth D Pettersen, Peter G. Pappas, Peter Chin-Hong, Sanjiv M. Baxi
BMJ Case Reports. 2015-10-16

Journal Articles

Identifying priorities for data quality improvement within Haiti׳s iSanté EMR system: Comparing two methods
Nancy Puttkammer, Kenny Pettersen, Nathaelf Hyppolite, Garilus France, Jean Solon Valles, Jean Guy Honoré, Scott Barnhart, Health Policy and Technology, 12/7/2016

Books/Book Chapters

First Aid for the USMLE Step 1
Chapter: Gastrointestinal and Respiratory chapters
Pettersen KEditors: Le T, Bhushan V, Sochat M, Micevic K, Petersen M.The McGraw-Hill Companies, New YorkEdition 2014,2014

Abstracts/Posters

A Haitian man with tongue swelling: diagnostic reasoning and clinical challenges in rural Haiti.
Pettersen K, Pierre J, Canlatte M, Goldman RS, Society of General Internal Medicine, Annual Meeting, Washington DC, 4/21/2017
Developing Rheumatology Capacity in Haiti: Piloting a Rheumatology Training Program, Establishing a Teaching Clinic, and Advancing Medical Curriculum
Adeel Ashfaq, Kenny Pettersen, Rebecca Gordon, Claire W. Belliot, Ami Ben-Artzi, Nazaire St. Fort, Tu Tran, Jessica Jaswal, 6th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, Boston, MA, 3/25/2015
Health systems strengthening in the post-2015 global development agenda
Pettersen K, 5th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, Washington D.C., 5/11/2014
Organization and optimization of global health resources for US medical trainees: the Global Health Hub Resources Page Project
Pettersen K, Park E, Lipnick M, 5th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health Conference, Washington D.C., 5/10/2014
Emergency Medicine Training for Senior Haitian Medical Students
Pettersen K, Ashley S, Edris M, Marc J, Salmon M, Miss J, 12th Annual UCSF Education Symposium, San Francisco, CA, 4/2013
Expression and Characterization of Plasmepsin X, a Plasmodium falciparum Aspartic Protease
Pettersen K, Bounkeua V, Vinetz JM, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 58th annual meeting, Washington D.C., 11/2009
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