Dr. Carmen Cobb is a board-certified internal medicine and pediatrics physician with academic, clinical, and leadership expertise in global health, medical education, and hospital medicine. She has advanced clinical expertise in the care of hospitalized and acutely ill patients of all ages, including the inpatient treatment of acute illnesses and the management of exacerbations of chronic diseases in both adults and children. She currently serves as an HS Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), where she is also Director of the Graduate Medical Education Global Health Pathway and Director of the Pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant Hospitalist Service.

Dr. Cobb earned her Bachelor of Arts in Spanish from Armstrong Atlantic State University in 2007, followed by her medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia in 2012. She completed an internship in Internal Medicine-Pediatrics at the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2013, followed by residency training in Internal Medicine-Pediatrics from 2013 to 2016. She was selected as Chief Resident in 2016–2017.

Her academic career began at the Medical College of Wisconsin, where she served as Instructor and later Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics from 2016 to 2019. In 2019, she joined UCSF as Assistant Professor before being promoted to Associate Professor in 2023. Dr. Cobb has held multiple concurrent leadership roles, including Associate and Co-Director of the Pediatric Global Health Track at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Co-Director of UCSF’s Pediatric COBIE Course, and Director of UCSF’s Global Health GME Pathway.

Dr. Cobb has been widely recognized for her teaching, mentorship, and service, earning honors such as the Gold Humanism Honor Society, the Physician’s Physician Award, and multiple teaching awards from both the Medical College of Wisconsin and UCSF. She was inducted into UCSF’s Academy of Medical Educators in 2022.

Her scholarly contributions include numerous peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, and curricular innovations, particularly in refugee and immigrant health. She co-developed the I-PACK (Immigrant Partnerships and Advocacy Curricular Kit) and has authored impactful studies on medical education, immigrant health, and chronic disease management.

In addition to her academic and clinical work, Dr. Cobb actively serves the broader medical community as an abstract and manuscript reviewer and has presented nationally and internationally on global health, education leadership, and immigrant health ethics. She is a member of the American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Society of Hospital Medicine.