Natalie Rodriguez, MD, is a Clinical Professor in Family Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine. After completing her Family Medicine Residency at Scripps Chula Vista, she returned to UC San Diego for an Underserved Medicine Fellowship. She also returned to the UC San Diego Student-Run Free Clinic Project, where she is now the Associate Director. She has dedicated her career to caring for under-resourced and vulnerable populations throughout San Diego, while teaching and inspiring the next generation of physicians to provide compassionate, humanistic, and equitable care to all patients.

She joined the HEAL family in 2024 and is excited to bring the HEAL pillars to San Diego as the Hub Lead for the California Program.