Elena Fuentes-Afflick is an American pediatrician who is Chief of Pediatrics at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine at University of California, San Francisco.
[1] After graduating in 1984, she moved to Michigan Medicine, where she earned her medical doctorate in 1986.
[1] She moved to the West Coast of the United States, where she worked as a pediatric intern at the UCSF Medical Center.
[3] She has concentrated on equality within the research community, specifically focussing on compensation inequities in academic medicine.
[5] Together with Eve Higginbotham, Leslie Gonzales, Beronda Montgomery and Renetta Garrison Tull, Fuentes-Afflick argued that the pandemic endangered the retention of women in the academy.