Jennifer Karlin, MD, PhD, 

Medical Consultant, FPACT

Jennifer Karlin, MD, PhD, is a board-certified family physician and fellowship-trained family planning specialist in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Trained as an anthropologist and historian of medicine, her mixed-method research addresses how we can alter healthcare relationships and systems to encourage patient empowerment, equity, and quality—as defined by patients themselves. Dr. Karlin is committed to medical and resident education that encourages physicians-in-training to approach their practices from a historical, trauma-informed, and self-reflexive perspective to improve quality of care and decrease additional trauma caused by the medical system.