Staff

Sandra P. Daley, M.D. / Principal Investigator
Dr. Daley received her Medical degree from UCSD School of Medicine.  After completing her residency training, she spent the next twelve years of her professional career as a Clinician, Medical Director, and then Executive Director of Comprehensive Health Center, a community-oriented Primary Care Clinic located in a predominantly Hispanic and African American low-income neighborhood in San Diego.   She is currently Professor of Pediatrics, and Assistant Dean of Diversity and Community Partnerships at the UCSD School of Medicine.   Dr. Daley continues to address the need to increase diversity in the workforce in order to address health care access for underserved populations through her work with this program.  As a leader of New Beginnings, a San Diego experiment in interagency collaboration, she has developed the current partnership that we maintain with COPC.  While her work is mostly behind the scenes, she plays an important role in keeping our program running smoothly.

Carmela Arstill, M.Ed. / Program Coordinator
Carmela Arstill received her Masters degree from University of Southern California in Computers and Education.  She is an alumnus of UCSD, with her undergraduate years spent here at Revelle College.  Carmela also worked for the world-renowned UCLA Jules and Doris Stein Eye Institutes, as well as for UCSD Medical Center's Burn and Trauma Lab.  As Coordinator for our program, Carmela works directly with the middle and high school students at Sweetwater High School, and National City Middle School.  She teaches alongside the science teachers during in-class instruction, and runs the after school instruction program as well.  She is extremely devoted to the program, and makes it both fun and educational for our students.