Faculty | UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

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Role

Department

Focus Area

Expertise

Steven Shortell

Jonathan Showstack, PhD, MPH

Adjunct Professor Emeritus

James Smith, MD, MS

Professor

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD

Professor

Julie Sosa, MD, MA, FACS

Professor

Joanne Spetz, PhD

Professor
Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies

Michael Steinman, MD

Professor

Anne Suskind, MD, MS

Associate Professor

George Taylor, DMD, MPH, DrPH

Professor

Matt Tierney, MS, NP, FAAN

Professor

Jack Turban, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor

Anusha Vable, ScD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Sharad Wadhwani, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Laura Wagner, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor

Professor

Associate Professor

Professor Emeritus

Associate Professor

Professor

Professor

Professor

Professor

Assistant Professor

Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH

Professor

Charlie Wray, DO, MS

Associate Professor

Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH

Professor

Ed Yelin, PhD

Professor

Setting or Clinical Focus
-Ambulatory Care
-Behavioral Health
-Community-based Services
-Dental
-Emergency and Urgent Care
-Hospice and Palliative Care
-Hospitals
-Long-term Care
-Pharmacy
-Safety-net Providers
-Substance Use Disorder Care
-Surgical Care
Research Methods
-AI and Machine Learning
-Behavioral Economics
-Community-based Participatory Research
-Cost-effectiveness Analysis
-Dissemination and Implementation Science
-Econometrics
-Epidemiology
-Ethnography
-Evaluation Research
-Experimental Methods
-Mixed Methods
-Qualitative Methods
-Quantitative Methods
-Survey Research
Government Programs & Policies
-Environmental Policy
-Food Policy
-Healthcare Reform
-Insurance Regulation
-Medicaid
-Medicare
-Pharmaceutical Regulation
-Welfare Programs
Healthcare Systems
-Health Insurance
-Healthcare Delivery
-Learning Health Systems
-Medical Education
-Medical Technology
-Nursing
-Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
-Practice Organization
-Precision Health
-Team-based Care Models
-Telehealth
Population
-Adolescents/Teens
-Asian
-Black/African American
-Immigrants
-Infants and Children
-Latinx
-Low-income Populations
-Maternal Health
-Native American
-Older Adults
-People of Color
-Persons with Disabilities
-Rural Populations
-Sexual and Gender Minority
-Veterans
-Women
Patient Experiences and Outcomes
-Medical Ethics
-Patient Outcomes
-Patient-provider Communications
-Population Health
Data Sources
-Commercial Claims Data
-Electronic Health Records
-Hospital Discharge Data
-Hospital Financial Data
-Medicaid Data
-Medicare Data