Expert Profile
Vincent Felitti
Founder & Executive Director
California Institutes of Preventive Medicine
Biography
Dr. Vincent Felitti is the founder and executive director of the California Institutes of Preventive Medicine. A graduate of Johns Hopkins Medical School (1962), he was previoiusly a physician in the Department of Preventive Medicine, Southern California Permanente Medical Group. He founded the Department of Preventive Medicine for Kaiser Permanente in San Diego 30 years ago and served as chief of Preventive Medicine until March 2001. Under Dr. Felittis leadership, the Health Appraisal Division of the Department of Preventive Medicine provided Comprehensive Medical Evaluation to 1.1 million people. During his career, the health risk abatement programs expanded from three (weight loss, smoking cessation and stress management) to a wide range of cutting-edge programs offered to more than 1,000 patients per month at one facility. Dr. Felitti was also clinical professor of Medicine at University of California, San Diego, and a Fellow of The American College of Physicians, licensed to practice medicine in Maryland, California, and Arizona.
P.O. Box 1854
La Jolla California 92038
United States
