Rebecca Rada, DO, MBA
Associate Medical Director, Gender Health Program
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Experiece
Dr. Rebecca Rada, DO, MBA, MS, AAHIVS (they/them) is a queer, nonbinary Family Medicine physician at UCLA. They serve as the Associate Medical Director for Health Equity in the UCLA Gender Health Program and are an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine. They completed their fellowship in LGBTQ+ Primary Care at UCLA from 2021-2022 and stayed on as clinical faculty. Originally from the Midwest, they concomitantly completed medical school and received their DO and MBA at Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences and Rockhurst University, Helzberg School of Management, respectively. Prior to medical school, they completed their master’s in biomedical sciences at Kansas City University from 2013-2014. Their clinical interests include pediatric, adolescent, and adult Gender Healthcare, LGBTQ+ primary care, HIV treatment and prevention, high resolution anoscopy for prevention of HPV-related anal cancer and implementing LGBTQ+ topics and affirming care into medical education and healthcare systems. They also have an affinity for teaching LGBTQ+ and gender affirming care to medical students, residents, and fellows who routinely rotate at their clinic.
Education
Medical Board Certification: Family Medicine, American Board of Family Medicine, 2021
Fellowship: LGBTQ+ Medicine, UCLA School of Medicine, 2022
Residency: Family Medicine, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, 2021
Degrees
- DO, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, 2018
- MBA, Rockhurst University, Helzberg School of Management, 2018
- MS, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, 2014