BACHELOR OF ARTS IN PSYCHOLOGY
University of California at San Diego - Revelle College, La Jolla, CA 8/85 to 6/17/89

Revelle College Honor Roll - twelve times
Summa Cum Laude
Phi Beta Kappa 1989
Departmental Honors in Psychology with Highest Distinction 1989 Revelle College Award for Excellence in Scholarship 1989 UCSD Alumni Association Scholar of the Year - 1988-89
Merit Scholar - fall 1988

DOCTORATE OF MEDICINE
Washington University School of Medicine - St. Louis, MO 8-89 to 5-14-93

Distinguished Student Scholarship (full medical school tuition annually reawarded)
Alpha Omega Alpha 1992
American Medical Women's Association, Inc., Scholarship Achievement Citation 1993
The Family Health Foundation of Missouri Scholarship Award 1993
Mission Bay Hospital Auxiliary Health Care Scholarship 1989-91
Washington University School of Medicine Liaison Committee on Medical Education Reaccreditation Effort, Subcommittee Member 1992

POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL TRAINING
Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center 7/1/93 to 6/30/96
Family Practice Residency- 1255 15th St. Santa Monica, CA 90404 (310) 319-4709
Chief Resident 1995-1996

ACTIVITIES
Coordinator of monthly resident orthopedic casting seminars 6/94 to 3/95
Medical Records Committee, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center 1994-95
Revised standardized well child check forms used at Les Kelley Family Health Center 6/96

PRESENTATIONS
Thrombocytopenia - 12/93
Interpretation of Cervical Spine Films - 4/94
Management of Cerebral Vascular Attacks - 6/94
Management of the Acute MI - 11/94
Hearing Impairment in the Elderly - 12/94
Pediatric Advanced Life Support - 12/94
Bites & Stings - 6/95
Prenatal Preparation - 7/95
Antenatal Fetal Surveillance - 11/95
Basic Colposcopy - 12/95
Well Child Care - 6/96

Prenatal Preparation: A Physician's Guide to the Lay Perspective
Noon conference for SM-UCLA Family Practice Residency 12/1/99

ADDITIONAL TRAINING
Basic Life Support (BLS) certified last 9/04
Advanced Cardiopulmonary Life Support (ACLS) certified last 6/04
Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certified 8/94
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) certified 6/18/96

BOARD CERTIFICATION Diplomate American Board of Family Practice since 7/12/96

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Urgent Care Physician - Bay Area Family Physicians 6/95 - 6/96

Employee Physician 9/1/96 - 4/14/97
10^th Street Family Physicians - 1450 10^th Street Suite 200, Santa Monica, CA 90401

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine 4/15/97 - 4/10/01

UCLA Medical Group Family Practice

Kaiser Permanente Panorama City 11/2002-6/2003

Surgical Urgent Care Physician - part-time

VITAS Healthcare Corporation of CA 4/2003 - 7/2006

Team Physician

Pacific Clinical Research LLC 1/2004 - 05/2005

Physician Member

PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
Wilfred Snodgrass Award for Excellence in Teaching Family Medicine for 1999
Awarded by Santa Monica-UCLA Family Practice Residency Program

Hugh Westbrook Community Service Award - VITAS Healthcare Corporation - 2005

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
HOSPITAL AFFILIATIONS/COMMITTEES
Santa Monica - UCLA Medical Center St. John's Hospital
1250 Sixteenth Street 1328 22nd Street
Santa Monica, CA 90404-1200 Santa Monica, CA 90404
(310) 319-4000 (310) 829-5511
Family Practice QAI Committee 98-2001
Residency Oversight and CME 98-1999
Family Practice Committee 1999-2001
Credentials Committee 2000-2001
UCLA Primary Care Network Quality Assurance Committee 1998-2000

ORGANIZED MEDICINE ACTIVITIES

Blue Cross of California

Quality Management Committee winter 2004 - present

Patient Advocate Improvement Program (PAIP) advisory committee member 2004/5/6

California Academy of Family Practice

Practice Affairs Committee Member 2005/6

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

American & California Academy of Family Physicians Member 8-93 to present
California Medical Association Member 8-93 to 8-98
California House Officer Medical Society Member 8-93 to 8-98
Student Affiliate of American, Missouri and St. Louis Academies of Family Physicians 1989 - 1993
Missouri Academy of Family Physicians Student Forum Coordinator-1990-91
Student Representative to the St. Louis Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors 1990
American Medical Association (AMA) 1989 - present

COMMUNITY SERVICE

Volunteer Physician - September 2005 at the River Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Worked nights at a Katrina Refugee Shelter in the River Center Convention Center housing about 1,800 people within the first 30 days after the disaster

"Talking To Your Kids About Sex" - Parent Education Talk for Edison Elementary 2/25/2004
Eldermed Speaker Community Speaker Presentation 4/1/2000
Edison Language Academy Pre-K Volunteer Speaker 2/29/2000
Volunteer preceptor for first year medical student in Washington University School of Medicine
Primary Care Clerkship - summer 1999, summer 2000
Speaker for Sony Picture Child Development Center Parent Meeting 3/23/99
Topic: Pediatric Infections and Antibiotic Resistance
Community Outreach for Prevention and Education (C.O.P.E.) On-Site Supervisor fall 96- fall 1998
Venice Family Clinic Volunteer Physician 1994, 95, 96
Public Health Care Project Participant 1990
Perinatal Health Care Project Participant 1989-90
Participant and Student Coordinator of AMSA Students Teaching AIDS to Students (STATS)
program 1989-91
Volunteer at Beach Area Community Health Clinic 1988
Language House Tijuana relief program participant 1985-87

PUBLICATIONS/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sunwoo, J., Brenman, A., Escobedo, J., Philpott, T., Allman, K., Mueller, J., Jaeger, J., Brown, L. and Cole, F.
S.: School Based AIDS Education for Adolescents, Journal of Adolescent Health 1995; 16:309-315.
Escobedo, J. Family Practice Including Obstetrics: Overcoming the Barriers, Proceedings of UCLA
Healthcare Spring 1999; 3:26-30
Escobedo, J. Incontinentia Pigmenti without Systemic Malformations: A Case Presentation and Description
for Primary Care Clinicians, Proceedings of UCLA Healthcare Summer 2000; 4:2, 10-12
Escobedo, J. Rethinking Refills, Family Practice Management October 2002; 9:299, 55.

CLINICAL RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

2005 AstraZeneca

Principle Investigator - A Randomized , Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Multicenter, Phase III Study of Rosuvastain( Crestor) 20 mg in the Primary prevention of cardiovascular events among subjects with low levels of LDL- Cholesterol and Elevated levels of Creactive protein. .

2005 Vivus

Principle Investigator - Phase III Multi- Center , Double-Blind , Placebo-Controlled study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of Estradiol Metered- Dose Transdermal Spray (MDTS) in the treatment of vasomotor symptoms in postmenopausal women.

2005 Sankyo

Principle Investigator �� A Randomized, Double ��Blind-Dummy, Placebo- Controlled, 26-week Dose Response Study of Rivogitaxone HCI (CS-011) with Active comparator (Plogitaxone HCI) in Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes.

2005 Perlegen

Principle Investigator - A Pharmacogenomic Sample Collection from Subjects with Type 2 Diabetes Treated with Pioglitazone or Rosiglitazone.

2004 Takeda

Principle Investigator - A Long-Term, Open-Label, Phase IIIA safety study of oral Take-559 (32mg QD) in the treatment of patient with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

2004 Takeda

Principle Investigator �� A Multi-Center Double Blind randomized placebo controlled Parallel study of the safety and efficacy of TAK-559 Compared to placebo in the treatment of patients with type 2 diabetes.

2004- 2005 Lilly

Principle Investigator - A Multi-Center Randomized trial to gather information on how effective Cymbalta (duloxetine) is in many different groups of depressed people.

2002-2003 Pfizer

Principle Investigator - Chronic Pain Screener Study

2002-2003

Sub- Investigator - ATHENA Study (ASCUS Triage & HPV: Evaluation and National Averages

Fall, Winter 2002

Sub Investigator - T.R.E.A.T. (Telithromycin Respiratory Effectiveness Assessment Trial).

Winter 2001

Sub Investigator- Southern California Research Institute under Candace J. Wilkinson, Ph.D. (310) 390-8481