OUR PEOPLE

Jason Nagata, MD

Associate Professor
School of Medicine
550 16th Street, #001
San Francisco, CA 94158
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Jason Nagata
Education and Training

University of Pennsylvania, B.A. - 2008 Health and Societies

University of Oxford, M.Sc. - 2009 Medical Anthropology

University of California, San Francisco, M.D. - 2013 Medicine

Stanford University, Residency - 2016 Pediatrics

University of California, San Francisco, Fellowship - 2019 Adolescent & Young Adult Medicine

Awards and Honors

Dean’s Prize in Global Health, UCSF, 2013

Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society, UCSF, 2013

Hugh O’Brodovich Excellence in Scholarship Award, Stanford University, 2016

Career Development Award, Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, 2016

Melvin Grumbach Award for Excellence in Research, UCSF, 2019

Fellow's Clinical Research Award, Society for Pediatric Research, 2019

Emerging Leader in Adolescent Health Award, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2019

Young Professionals Prize, International Association for Adolescent Health, 2021

Young Investigator Award, Western Society for Pediatric Research, 2022

Nemours Child Health Services Research Award, AcademyHealth, 2023
Overview
Jason Nagata, M.D., M.Sc. is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and affiliated faculty with the Institute for Global Health Sciences and the Center for Sexual and Gender Minority Health. He is Co-Founder of the International Association for Adolescent Health Young Professionals Network. He is an expert in eating disorders, particularly in boys and men. His other research interests include adolescent and young adult screen time, digital technology use, eating behaviors, food security, nutrition, alcohol use, cardiovascular disease, HIV, and LGBTQ+ health. His global health work is focused in Kenya and Guatemala and he led an adolescent health research priorities exercise for the World Health Organization. He has published over 300 articles in academic journals including The Lancet, the Journal of the American Medical Association, and Pediatrics. He serves as Senior Editor for the Journal of Eating Disorders, on the International Advisory Board of The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, and the Editorial Board of the Journal of Adolescent Health. He is a Commissioner for the Lancet Commission on Adolescent Health and Wellbeing.