Deans of the College of Medicine--Historic Overview

Daphne Calmes, MD, MSHS

Dr. Calmes served as Interim Dean from 2012--2016. Biography below is from 2015 Career Day event. She is currently Associate Dean, CDU/UCLA Medical Education Program.

1: Walker KO, Calmes D, Hanna N, Baker R. The impact of public hospital closure
on medical and residency education: implications and recommendations. J Natl Med
Assoc. 2008 Dec;100(12):1377-83. PubMed PMID: 19110905; PubMed Central PMCID:
PMC2868965.

2: Robinson LD Jr, Calmes DP, Bazargan M. The impact of literacy enhancement on
asthma-related outcomes among underserved children. J Natl Med Assoc. 2008
Aug;100(8):892-6. PubMed PMID: 18717138.

3: Ogunyemi D, Bazargan M, Norris K, Jones-Quaidoo S, Wolf K, Edelstein R, Baker
RS, Calmes D. The development of a mandatory medical thesis in an urban medical
school. Teach Learn Med. 2005 Fall;17(4):363-9. PubMed PMID: 16197324.

4: Diamant AL, Hays RD, Morales LS, Ford W, Calmes D, Asch S, Duan N, Fielder E,
Kim S, Fielding J, Sumner G, Shapiro MF, Hayes-Bautista D, Gelberg L. Delays and
unmet need for health care among adult primary care patients in a restructured
urban public health system. Am J Public Health. 2004 May;94(5):783-9. PubMed
PMID: 15117701; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC1448338.

5: Calmes D, Leake BD, Carlisle DM. Adverse asthma outcomes among children
hospitalized with asthma in California. Pediatrics. 1998 May;101(5):845-50.
PubMed PMID: 9565412.