Most people call me (Dr.) Bernie.
My life's calling is centered on bringing Whole-Person Healing to the People integrating the wisdom of Ancestral Healing with the strengths of Western medicine.
MD, UCSF School of Medicine
PRIME-US Scholar
2017 - 2022
MS, UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Medical & Health Sciences with an emphasis in Community Health
2017 - 2019
BA, Harvard University
Human Evolutionary Biology and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality with a secondary in Global Health & Health Policy, cum laude in field
2012 – 2016
Faculty, San Francisco State
Institute for Holistic Health Studies
2022 - present
Bio
Dr. Bernadette (Bernie) Lim, MD, MS is the Founder and Executive Director of the Freedom Community Clinic, a healing movement and clinic based in Oakland, CA that has brought Whole-Person Healing to 6000+ people in the Bay and beyond, prioritizing the healing of Black, Brown, and immigrant communities. She serves as the youngest faculty at San Francisco State’s Institute for Holistic Health Studies. In addition, Dr. Bernie also is the creator of the Woke WOC Docs Podcast, Freedom School for Intersectional Medicine and Health Justice, and part of the founding team of the Institute for Healing and Justice in Medicine.
Dr. Bernie graduated from UCSF School of Medicine and earned her Master’s at UC Berkeley School of Public Health through the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. She graduated from Harvard University in 2016 with cum laude honors, and went on to be a Fulbright-Nehru Scholar in India. In her work, Dr. Lim also practices and/or teaches intuitive herbalism, Reiki, meditation, and hatha yoga. She is a pianist of 25+ years, a DJ, farmer, and hula and salsa dancer.
For her work, Dr. Bernie has received many honors including, but not limited to being the youngest recipient of the San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business, an Echoing Green Fellow, World Policy Forum Young Global Changer, Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation Award for Excellence in Social Mission in Health Professions Education, Yamashita Prize Outstanding Emerging Social Activist in California, AAMC Herbert Nickens Scholar, National Minority Quality Forum 40 Under 40 Leaders in Minority Health, California Senate District 29 Women of the Year Honoree, U.S. Philippines Embassy Filipino Young Leaders Program Delegate, UCSF Dean's Prize Scholar in Health and Society, and Pacific Standard Top 30 Under 30 Thinkers in Policy and Social Justice, among many others.