FCM Grand Rounds creates a space for clinicians, researchers, educators, and community leaders to learn together about the forces shaping primary care and community health. Through conversations grounded in equity and lived experience, sessions illuminate emerging challenges and share actionable strategies for improving care for the communities we serve.
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Upcoming 2026 Grand Rounds
April 3 - Contemporary Immigration & Migrant Health: Navigating Medical & Legal Uncertainty
Speakers: Mariam Carson, MS; Coleen Kivlahan, MD, MSPH; Dawn Gross, MD, PhD; Amanda Maya, and Kenan Arun
In the medical and legal professions, we are faced with unprecedented levels of uncertainty and ambiguity that have caused sadness, frustration, and moral distress. This presentation will describe the effects of uncertainty on the current medicolegal landscape in the context of contemporary immigration and migrant health. We will also provide moments of personal reflection through a panel of physicians, attorneys, and community leaders with expertise in human rights and building resilience. We hope that this panel will facilitate a space where uncertainty is openly acknowledged and discussed, and that the audience will leave with enhanced resilience strategies.
Mariam (Mimi) Carson is a 4th year medical student at UCSF and is a member of the UCSF Human Rights Collaborative. From 2022 to 2023 and served as clinic coordinator, where she led operations for the adult asylum clinic with 100% of adjudicated cases granted asylum. During her third year clinical rotations, she returned to the Human Rights Collaborative to conduct monthly forensic medical evaluations under the guidance of Dr. Triveni DeFries and Dr. Coleen Kivlahan. Carson now serves on the Student Advisory Board for Physicians for Human Rights, an internationally recognized humanitarian organization that specializes in investigating and documenting human rights violations. She plans to continue this work as a family medicine physician throughout her career.
Carson's co-host is FCM Professor Emeritus Dr. Coleen Kivlahan, an international expert in forensic medical evaluations for survivors of torture and human rights violations. Carson and Dr. Kivlahan will be joined on the panel by palliative care physician Dr. Dawn Gross; Amanda Maya, Program Director for the Immigrant Justice Program at the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area; and Kenan Arun, Executive Director at the LGBT Asylum Project.
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6/5 – Catherine Gathu, MBChB, MMed, MSc, FHEA
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8/7 – Sondos Al Sad, MD
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10/2 – Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, MPH
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11/6 – Sandeep P. Kishore, MD, PhD
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12/4 – Kristen Marchi, MPH, and the UCSF Center for Health Equity
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