Theresa Hsiang-Ting Cheng, MD, JD

Dr. Cheng is an assistant clinical professor of emergency medicine and associate co-director of social emergency medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She earned her medical degree from the Mayo Clinic and a Juris Doctor specializing in international law from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. ​

Dr. Cheng focuses on integrating social equity into emergency care through a human rights and international law perspective. She co-authored a chapter on homelessness in the textbook "Social Injustice and Public Health" (4th edition). Her previous work includes collaborating with the United Nations Development Programme on issues of medical neglect and coercion of HIV-positive individuals in Southeast Asia, as well as partnering with the American Civil Liberties Union to investigate reproductive health violations of migrants in detention centers. ​