Find an Expert | UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies

Find an IHPS expert in any of our key focus areas, area of expertise or using a keyword.

Department

Focus Area

Expertise

Rosa Rodriguez-Monguio, PhD, MS

Professor
Director, Medication Outcomes Center

John Rose, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Surgical care: access, quality, outcomes

Benjamin Rosner, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

Urmimala Sarkar, MD

Professor

Patient safety, chronic disease, and health equity

George Sawaya, MD

Professor

Dean Schillinger, MD

Professor

Health communication, Chronic disease, Primary care, Health policy

Gabriela Schmajuk, MD

Associate Professor

Laura Schmidt, PhD, MSW, MPH

Professor

Neelam Sekhri Feachem, MS

Associate Professor

Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS

Professor

Food & nutrition insecurity, food policy, and impact-oriented science

Lauren Shapiro, MD, MS

Assistant Professor

High-value, patient-centered care in orthopeadic surgery

James Smith, MD, MS

Professor

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD

Professor

Julie Sosa, MD, MA, FACS

Professor

Diversity and inclusion in surgical education and the surgical workforce Paid sick leave and cancer screening adherence

Joanne Spetz, PhD

Professor
Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies

Health workforce capacity and roles in all care settings

Anne Suskind, MD, MS

Associate Professor

George Taylor, DMD, MPH, DrPH

Professor

Sharad Wadhwani, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

Pediatric liver transplantation, social determinants of health, and implementation science

Laura Wagner, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor

Long term care, patient safety, geriatrics, nursing, workforce

Louise Walter, MD

Professor

Derek Ward, MD

Associate Professor

Justin White, PhD

Associate Professor

Economics of risky behaviors, policy evaluation, tobacco use

Mary Whooley, MD

Professor

Applied data analytics and clinical research informatics

Elizabeth Wick, MD

Professor

James Wiley, PhD

Professor

Leslie Wilson, PhD

Professor

Lena Winestone, MD

Assistant Professor

Pediatric cancer racial and ethnic survival disparities

Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH

Professor

Charlie Wray, DO, MS

Assistant Professor

Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH

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