Alison Bartleman, M.D. is a graduate of University of Maryland and Howard University College of Medicine. She currently is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Director of the Doctoring Selectives and Health Policy & Economics module and Assistant Director of Social Cultural Issues in Healthcare, all of which are part of the first year Doctoring Curriculum. She also is the Director of Georgetown's practice based research network, CAPRICORN and serves as Advisor to the Family Medicine Student Interest Group. Dr. Bartleman is a clinician at Unity at Columbia Road (formerly Columbia Road Health Services) where she practices full-spectrum Family Medicine in an urban underserved Latino community. She also is an attending physician at Providence Hospital with the Providence Hospital/Georgetown University Family Medicine Residency Program. She teaches both on the inpatient medicine and Obstetrical services teams and as a preceptor at Fort Lincoln Family Medicine Center in Bladensburg, MD. Her professional interests include care for the underserved and vulnerable populations, effectiveness research and preventive medicine.