Founder and director of the UC San Diego School of Medicine Physician Assessment and Clinical Education (PACE) program since 1996, Dr. William A. Norcross has served on the UC San Diego family medicine faculty since 1977 and earned his MD at Duke University School of Medicine. His clinical work combines family medicine, preventive medicine, and geriatric care within the UC San Diego Health Family Medicine department where he previously served more than a decade as residency director. The PACE program he founded operates as the largest physician competence assessment and remediation program in the United States, having served more than 2,000 physicians and medical professionals since inception. His published research spans physician competence assessment, suicide prevention and depression awareness in medical trainees, and remediation of clinical deficiencies across the medical-education continuum. Hillcrest patient visits take place at the UC San Diego Health 4th & Lewis Medical Offices at 330 Lewis Street, co-located with more than a dozen other UC San Diego Health primary-care physicians. The most complex patient encounters combine geriatric cognitive assessment with multi-medication reconciliation and coordination of subspecialty care across the UC San Diego academic medical center.