OUR PEOPLE
Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH
Professor
Alice Betts Endowed Chair in Arthritis
Robert L. Kroc Chair in Rheumatic and Connective Tissue Diseases I
Alice Betts Endowed Chair in Arthritis
Robert L. Kroc Chair in Rheumatic and Connective Tissue Diseases I
School of Medicine
2540 23rd Street, #4301
San Francisco, CA 94110
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Education and Training
University of California, San Francisco, Residency - Internal Medicine
University of California Los Angeles, M.D. - 2000 School of Medicine
Overview
Dr. Jinoos Yazdany is Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital, the Alice Betts Endowed Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and the inaugural Executive Director of AI Monitoring in Clinical Care at UCSF. She leads the Impact Monitoring Platform for AI in Clinical Care (IMPACC), a first-of-its-kind effort to evaluate how AI tools perform in real clinical settings and to safeguard their equity, effectiveness, and safety.
A rheumatologist specializing in systemic lupus, she practices at ZSFG and co-directs the UCSF Health Lupus Clinic. Her academic background includes undergraduate at Stanford University, medical school at UCLA, Masters in Public Health from Harvard University, followed by internal medicine residency and rheumatology fellowship at UCSF, where she joined the faculty.
Dr. Yazdany’s research blends health services science, informatics, and implementation methods to improve care for people with chronic rheumatic diseases and to guide the responsible integration of AI into clinical workflows. She co-directs the UCSF Rheumatology Quality and Informatics Lab, which develops evidence to inform national quality and safety initiatives. Through IMPACC, she is advancing new approaches to monitoring of AI performance and its downstream effects on outcomes and equity.
She played a central role in building the American College of Rheumatology’s RISE registry and has led the development of multiple federal quality measures. Her work has been supported by NIH/NIAMS, AHRQ, and CDC, and she holds a NIAMS K24 mentoring award. She also co-directs a research core supporting human subjects recruitment and clinical informatics within the NIH/NIAMS-funded P30 UCSF PREMIER Center.
Nationally, she has served in several leadership positions, including co-chair of the ACR Quality Measures Subcommittee, chair of the ACR Registries and Health IT Committee, research lead for the RISE registry, member of the NQF Health Professional Council, Council Member for NIAMS, and Scientific Advisor to the Lupus Foundation of America. Her contributions have been recognized with major awards from the Lupus Foundation of America and the Arthritis Foundation, and she was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 2021.
A rheumatologist specializing in systemic lupus, she practices at ZSFG and co-directs the UCSF Health Lupus Clinic. Her academic background includes undergraduate at Stanford University, medical school at UCLA, Masters in Public Health from Harvard University, followed by internal medicine residency and rheumatology fellowship at UCSF, where she joined the faculty.
Dr. Yazdany’s research blends health services science, informatics, and implementation methods to improve care for people with chronic rheumatic diseases and to guide the responsible integration of AI into clinical workflows. She co-directs the UCSF Rheumatology Quality and Informatics Lab, which develops evidence to inform national quality and safety initiatives. Through IMPACC, she is advancing new approaches to monitoring of AI performance and its downstream effects on outcomes and equity.
She played a central role in building the American College of Rheumatology’s RISE registry and has led the development of multiple federal quality measures. Her work has been supported by NIH/NIAMS, AHRQ, and CDC, and she holds a NIAMS K24 mentoring award. She also co-directs a research core supporting human subjects recruitment and clinical informatics within the NIH/NIAMS-funded P30 UCSF PREMIER Center.
Nationally, she has served in several leadership positions, including co-chair of the ACR Quality Measures Subcommittee, chair of the ACR Registries and Health IT Committee, research lead for the RISE registry, member of the NQF Health Professional Council, Council Member for NIAMS, and Scientific Advisor to the Lupus Foundation of America. Her contributions have been recognized with major awards from the Lupus Foundation of America and the Arthritis Foundation, and she was elected to the American Society of Clinical Investigation in 2021.