Dominic Dizon, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Director Ambulatory Care. UMC

1. Dizon D. Effects of Inhaled Anesthetics on Permeability of Cell Membranes. Minority Undergraduate Research and Letters and Sciences. May 1989, UC Davis

Poster Presentations:

1. Dizon D., Deamer D., Use of Vibrating Probe in Membrane Potentials. Honors Research Symposium. April 1990. UC Davis

1. Dizon, DT. A Comparative Study of Tuberculosis coming from Vietnam, the Philippines and Cambodia (abstract). Proceedings of the 24th Annual Central California Research Symposium, April 17, 2003
2. Dizon, DT. Tuberculosis Control in the United States Necessitates Collaboration in Eradication Measures with Countries in the Pacific Rim (Abstract). Journal of Investigative Medicine. Volume 52(01-S1) January 2004, p S079
3. Dizon, DT, Garza A, E., Xiong, J. and Chaw Chaw, Cultural Competency and Directly Observed Therapy for Active Tuberculosis: Ethnic and Linguistic Matching of Outreach Workers with Patients to Enhance Patients' Compliance and TB completion Rate in Fresno County (Abstract). Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society. Volume 2, Abstracts Issue, May 2005, p. A447

1. The Role of Cultural Competency in the Implementation of Directly Observed Therapy for Patients with Active Tuberculosis in the San Joaquin Valley (Principal Investigator)—Awarded Internal Medicine Seed/Pilot grant March 2004. UCSF CHR approval letter re-issued April 2005. Study #H44174-24339-01
2. Molecular Typing of Myobacterium Tuberculosis Strains from Southeast-Asian Patients in Fresno County using IS6110 RFLP and Spoligotyping (Principal Investigator)—UCSF CHR Approval letter re-issued April 2005. Study #H44174-24178-01
3. The Utility of the Quantiferon—TB Gold Assay in Detecting Tuberculosis Infections amoung HIV patients and its Implications for Public Health in Fresno County (Principal Investigator) reviewed and approved via expedited review by the Chairman of the CMC IRB on Sept. 2, 2005
4. Phase III Randomized, Double-Blind Dexamethasone-Sparing Study Comparing Human Corticotropin-Releasing Factor to Placebo for Controlling Symptoms Associated with Peri-tumoral Brain Edema in Patients with Malignant Brain Tumor who require Administration of High-Dose Dexamethasone on Ongoing Basis (Co-PI). PI is Dr. Loan Nguyen. Currently in CMC IRB board
5. The Documentation Study for Residents in the UCSF Fresno Internal Medicine Program. (Faculty Mentor) Done by Dr. Peter Boehringer at University Medical Center. CMC IRB approval granted in May 2005

Dr. Dizon was born in Vietnam and raised in the Philippines. Immigrating into the U.S. after high school, he received his undergraduate and medical school degrees from the University of California at Davis. He then finished his residency in internal medicine at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland.

He then joined his wife in Texas as she was activated in the US Army Aeromedical Unit and started his teaching career with the Texas A&M College of Medicine.

Returning to California in 2002, he joined the UCSF Fresno Medical Education Program as clinic director in internal medicine. Six months later, he was promoted to medical director of ambulatory care for the entire hospital. Currently, he oversees 14 primary and specialty care clinics at the University Medical Center and throughout Fresno county, with a total of 180,000 outpatient visits a year.

He is also a member of the Cultural Competence Committee in the corporation that owns the teaching hospital as well as a part of the Quality Improvement Committee of the IPA that serves the 4 affiliated hospitals in the network.

He is also proud to be among the core faculty at UCSF Fresno and carries the appointment of health sciences assistant clinical professor of medicine. He values his role in educating the future doctors who will primarily stay and practice here in the Central Valley and was awarded Outstanding Faculty of the year in the department of internal medicine. He currently has 3 original UCSF research projects going on locally, which deal with tuberculosis and cultural competence, his special areas of interest.

Dr Dizon firmly believes that Fresno is poised to becoming a center of excellence for health care in the Central Valley and that this would raise the level of health care throughout the region for everyone.

Dominic is also halfway in his executive MBA program at the Craig School of Business. He and his wife live in Clovis with their 4 children (ages 2 to 7). They are expecting their 5th child in February.

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