Salomeh Keyhani, MD

Dr. Salomeh Keyhani is a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the Director of the Center for Data to Discovery and Delivery Innovation, a VA-funded Center of Innovation focused on improving health and health care delivery. The Center brings together 27 UCSF investigators engaged in Health Systems Research (HSR) and supports research and training that advances patient centered health behavior change. A primary focus of the Center is the novel application of data science to improve identification of patients who would benefit from behavioral intervention. The Center also focuses on developing, testing, and implementing innovative models of evidence-based care that promote positive health-related behavior change.

Dr. Keyhani is an NIH and VA funded investigator with expertise in both health services and clinical outcomes research. She has an active research program focused on the health effects of cannabis use and is leading multiple prospective cohort studies examining the health effects of cannabis. She also has an active research program in health care quality and health policy. She has conducted comparative effectiveness research (e.g., management of carotid disease), predictive modeling studies, and hospital profiling studies of 30-day readmission using VA national and electronic health record data, and conducted numerous national surveys examining physicians’ views on health care reform.