LMSA Community

Erica Lubliner, MD

Dra. Erica Lubliner grew up in an immigrant Latino community and was the first in her family to receive a higher education at UCLA where she double majored in History and Women’s Studies with a minor Chicana/o Studies. While finishing her pre-med studies after UCLA, she served as a college advisor at Wilson High School in East Los Angeles, director of a non-profit scholarship organization called the Scholarship Association for English as a Second Language Students (SAESL), and business partner of a small jewelry design company, Mio Designs. She attended the UC Irvine Post-Bacc Program and worked for the UC Irvine School of Medicine’s Program for the Medical Education of the Latino Community (PRIME-LC). She was admitted to the UCLA-Drew Program where she took on leadership roles in the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) as Co-Chair, and served as Editor-in-Chief of UCLA School of Medicine’s Humanities Journal—The BEAT. She was a Medical Education Fellow for the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA’s Center of Excellence. Her research explored female medical student perspectives on their clinical interactions with female superiors. As a APA Diversity Leadership Fellow, she participated in the Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning. Dra. Lubliner completed a combined adult and child adolescent psychiatry program at the UCLA/GLAVA working with diverse families in the community, military, and schools. She currently serves as Associate Program Director at the UCLA/GLAVA Psychiatry Program and also has a private practice.