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Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH
Professor
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 (ZSFG), the Alice Betts Endowed Professor of Medicine at UCSF, and the inaugural Executive Director of AI Monitoring in Clinical Care at UCSF. In this new role, she is leading the Impact Monitoring Platform for AI in Clinical Care (IMPACC), a pioneering initiative to ensure the safe, equitable, and effective use of artificial intelligence in health systems.
She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford, her MD from UCLA, and her MPH from Harvard, and joined the UCSF faculty after completing internal medicine residency and rheumatology fellowship at UCSF. As a rheumatologist specializing in systemic lupus, she practices at ZSFG and co-directs the UCSF Health Lupus Clinic.
Dr. Yazdany’s scholarship focuses on improving health care quality, safety, and outcomes for individuals with chronic rheumatic diseases, as well as advancing the responsible integration of artificial intelligence into clinical care. She co-directs the UCSF Rheumatology Quality and Informatics Lab, an interdisciplinary group that uses health services research, informatics, and implementation science to inform national health care improvement initiatives. As part of her role directing IMPACC, she is also developing new methods to monitor AI tools in real-world clinical environments, generating evidence on their impact on patient outcomes, equity, and safety. She helped develop the American College of Rheumatology’s RISE registry, which aggregates and analyzes data from rheumatology practices across the U.S., and she has led the creation of multiple quality measures now in use in federal programs. She has served as PI of grants from NIH/NIAMS, AHRQ, and CDC, and is the recipient of a NIAMS K24 mentoring award. She also co-directs a research core focused on human subjects recruitment and clinical informatics support for the NIH/NIAMS-funded P30 UCSF PREMIER Center.
Nationally, Dr. Yazdany has held numerous leadership positions, including co-chair of the ACR’s Quality Measures Subcommittee, chair of the ACR’s Registries and Health IT Committee, chair of Research and Publications for the RISE registry, and member of the NQF’s Health Professional Council. Her work has been recognized with several honors, including the Mary Betty Stevens Young Investigator Prize from the Lupus Foundation of America, the Ephraim Engelman Award for Arthritis Research, and the Hulda Irene Duggan Arthritis Investigator Award from the Arthritis Foundation. In 2021, she was inducted into the American Society of Clinical Investigation.
She received her undergraduate degree from Stanford, her MD from UCLA, and her MPH from Harvard, and joined the UCSF faculty after completing internal medicine residency and rheumatology fellowship at UCSF. As a rheumatologist specializing in systemic lupus, she practices at ZSFG and co-directs the UCSF Health Lupus Clinic.
Dr. Yazdany’s scholarship focuses on improving health care quality, safety, and outcomes for individuals with chronic rheumatic diseases, as well as advancing the responsible integration of artificial intelligence into clinical care. She co-directs the UCSF Rheumatology Quality and Informatics Lab, an interdisciplinary group that uses health services research, informatics, and implementation science to inform national health care improvement initiatives. As part of her role directing IMPACC, she is also developing new methods to monitor AI tools in real-world clinical environments, generating evidence on their impact on patient outcomes, equity, and safety. She helped develop the American College of Rheumatology’s RISE registry, which aggregates and analyzes data from rheumatology practices across the U.S., and she has led the creation of multiple quality measures now in use in federal programs. She has served as PI of grants from NIH/NIAMS, AHRQ, and CDC, and is the recipient of a NIAMS K24 mentoring award. She also co-directs a research core focused on human subjects recruitment and clinical informatics support for the NIH/NIAMS-funded P30 UCSF PREMIER Center.
Nationally, Dr. Yazdany has held numerous leadership positions, including co-chair of the ACR’s Quality Measures Subcommittee, chair of the ACR’s Registries and Health IT Committee, chair of Research and Publications for the RISE registry, and member of the NQF’s Health Professional Council. Her work has been recognized with several honors, including the Mary Betty Stevens Young Investigator Prize from the Lupus Foundation of America, the Ephraim Engelman Award for Arthritis Research, and the Hulda Irene Duggan Arthritis Investigator Award from the Arthritis Foundation. In 2021, she was inducted into the American Society of Clinical Investigation.