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Zeina Samaan, MD


  • Attending Physician, Pediatric Primary Care Center, Division of General and Community Pediatrics
  • Associate Director, Clinical Integration, Division of General and Community Pediatrics
  • Associate Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics

About

Biography

My main focus is in the area of primary care redesign. I am involved in collaboration with other primary care leaders in redesigning the system of care delivery to improve health promotion and prevention, access to medical care, outcomes for children with chronic disease, and patient and family experience, while decreasing the cost of care at a population level. My role focuses on improving primary care preventive service delivery to the patient population I serve, and I co-lead the Thrive By Five improvement initiative, a SP2020 Community Health Pillar goal, that aims at ensuring all five-year-olds have a healthy body and mind at kindergarten entry.

MD: Damascus University, School of Medicine. Damascus, Syria, 1985.

Residency: Medical College of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.

Certification: Pediatrics, 1993.

Interests

General pediatrics primary care

Services and Specialties

General and Community Pediatrics, Primary Care

Research Areas

General and Community Pediatrics

Additional Languages

Arabic

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Publications

Improving Access to Early Developmental Evaluation in Academic Primary Care Centers. Samaan, ZM; Williams-Arya, P; Copeland, K; Burkhardt, MC; Schumacher, J; Hardie, J; White, C; Reyner, A; Taylor, M; Ehrhardt, J. Pediatric Quality and Safety. 2025; 10:e789.

Provider Perspectives on an Integrated Behavioral Health Prevention Approach in Pediatric Primary Care. Rybak, TM; Herbst, RB; Stark, LJ; Samaan, ZM; Zion, C; Bryant, A; McClure, JM; Maki, A; Bishop, E; Mack, A; Ammerman, RT. Journal of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. 2023; 30:741-752.

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4.6
Overall Patient Rating