San Diego County Public Health Officer from February 2007 through June 2024, Dr. Wilma J. Wooten holds a longstanding adjunct and volunteer clinical faculty appointment in UC San Diego's Department of Family Medicine and Public Health, with her group listing at 330 Lewis St Suite 302 in 92103. Infectious disease surveillance priorities she directed at the county overlap with the HIV and hepatitis-C clinical practice of UCSD infectious disease specialist Dr. Michele L. Ritter, MD, whose panel sits across the same Hillcrest corridor. Her preventive medicine residency was completed through the joint UCSD/SDSU Graduate School of Public Health program in 1990, following family medicine residency at Georgetown University and Providence Hospital and an MD-MPH sequence from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986. During her county tenure she led the regional response to H1N1 in 2009, the 2016-2018 hepatitis A outbreak declared a local public health emergency, and the COVID-19 pandemic beginning in 2020. Linkage-to-care programming for people living with HIV intersects with AHF Wellness Center - San Diego, the AIDS Healthcare Foundation's Hillcrest site providing testing, PrEP, and outpatient HIV primary care. The most complex work of her county tenure remained real-time outbreak control for novel respiratory pathogens, where case investigation, contact tracing, hospital capacity coordination, and public risk communication had to run in parallel under evolving CDC and CDPH guidance.