Hemal Kanzaria, MD

Professor of Emergency Medicine

Location: UCSF San Francisco & Oakland

Specialty: Emergency Medicine

Biography

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Terry A. Patinkin, MD, Endowed Professorship in Health Equity

Education:
BS: Brown University
MD: University of California, San Francisco
MSc: University of California, Los Angeles
Training: Emergency Medicine Residency at UCSF/SFGH, and Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA
Board Certification: American Board of Emergency Medicine

Hemal Kanzaria, MD MSc is a Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Kanzaria practices clinically at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFGH), where he teaches housestaff and co-directs emergency department lean improvement efforts. He is currently leading a multi-disciplinary 'Social Medicine' Team to address ED patients' social determinants of health and avert short-stay hospitalizations. He is also the Director of Complex Care Analytics for the San Francisco Health Network (SFHN), the public health delivery system in San Francisco County. He championed the successful implementation of ED Information Exchange across SFHN, and leads efforts to improve and coordinate care for frequent users of emergent/urgent medical, behavioral, and social services.

Dr. Kanzaria is also an Affiliated Faculty at the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS), an Adjunct scientist at RAND Health, and a core member of The Policy Lab for Acute Care Emergencies (The PLACE). His research on patient engagement and health care delivery system transformation has been featured widely in high impact policy journals and the press. Prior to his current appointment, Dr. Kanzaria was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at UCLA. He completed his medical degree and residency at UCSF-SFGH, during which time he founded Remedy at UCSF to recover unused medical supplies for socially responsible redistribution. The organization has provided medical equipment to underserved communities both locally and globally, and has been instrumental in several disaster relief efforts.

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