Dr. Kuo is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and of Health Policy and Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is Chief of the Medicine-Pediatrics Section and Director of the Medicine-Pediatrics Comprehensive Care Center at UCLA. Her research interests are mainly in early childhood, and she has published in the areas of developmental screening and services, early literacy practices, cognitive and language development in young minority children, and mental health services for children.
She is the Director of the Research Training and Education Core for the CART, and also Principal Investigator of the HRSA-funded Health Care Transitions Research Network for children with autism spectrum disorder. She is the Director of the Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency program at UCLA, the Pathways for Students into Health Professions and the NHLBI-funded Summer Research Fellowship in Health Disparities in the Fielding School of Public Health, and the Training Core for the Center for Population Health and Health Disparities.
At the national level, Dr. Kuo is the Chair of the Transition Committee for the Medicine-Pediatrics Program Directors Association, and is on the Task Force for Adults with Complex Conditions Originating in Childhood for the Society of General Internal Medicine and the Steering Committee for the Pediatric to Adult Care Transitions Workgroup of the Council on Subspecialty Societies of the American College of Physicians. She is also Policy Chair of the Council on Community Pediatrics for the American Academy of Pediatrics. Dr. Kuo has written and edited a book entitledChild Health: a Population Perspective, published by Oxford University Press in 2015.
Dr. Kuo obtained her BA degree from Harvard University, her medical degree from UCLA, and her PhD from UCLA in Psychological Studies in Education. She has been on the faculty at UCLA since 2000.