General Practitioners

• Primary Care
  He is a teacher, as well as a healer. Internal medicine specialist James O’Brien, M.D., has received numerous teaching awards from the University of California, Irvine, including the Excellence in Teaching Award in 1996, 2006 and 2007. Additionally, Dr. O’Brien was nominated for the Association of American Medical Colleges’ Humanism Award in 2006. This award recognizes medical school faculty physicians for demonstrating caring, compassionate and patient-centered care. Prior to his private practice, Dr. O’Brien co-directed the UCI Primary Care Clinic and served as an associate clinical professor. He is board-certified and will continue teaching medical students as a volunteer member of the UCI faculty. “I believe listening is the key to treating patients,” Dr. O’Brien says. His clinical interests include hypertension, diabetes, hypercholesterolemia, and preventive care.

Internists

• Internal Medicine
  As an associate clinical professor at the University of California, Irvine, internal medicine specialist Julie Kuniyoshi, M.D., has helped train the physicians of tomorrow. In 2006, the UCI Medicine Residency Program honored her as “Attending Physician of the Year.” And even though she recently left the medical school to start her own private practice, Dr. Kuniyoshi will continue teaching as a volunteer member of the UCI faculty. Dr. Kuniyoshi originally began her career as a hospital dietician, but decided to go to medical school so she could do more for her patients. Her clinical interests include preventive medicine and managing such conditions as cholesterol, hypertension and osteoporosis. Patients find Dr. Kuniyoshi to be very warm and personable.

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care