Dr. Kenneth B. Wells, M.D., M.P.H., received his M.D. from UCSF and his M.P.H. from UCLA. He is a psychiatrist, a Senior Scientist at RAND, Professor of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences at the David Geffen School of Medicine and Professor of Health Services at the UCLA School of Public Health. He directs the Health Services Research Center of the Jane and Terry Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior, which focuses on improving quality of care for psychiatric and neurological disorders across the lifespan.
Education
- MD, University of California, San Francisco, CA
- MPH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, MPH, PhD is Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Policy and Management at UCLA, and the Founding Director of the UCLA Department of Medicine Statistics Core (DOMStat) Data Core. Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, he was a health specialist at the World Bank group and a research fellow at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School. Dr.
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Health Policy (Concentration: Statistics), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
- MPH, Health Policy and Management, Harvard University, Boston, MA
- MD, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan
Dr. Alan Tomines is the Director of the Child Health and Disability Prevention (CHDP) program and Medical Director for the Health Care Program for Children in Foster Care (HCPCFC) for the County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health.
Education
- MD, State University of New York, Brooklyn, NY
- BS, Cybernetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BS, Psychobiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Steven M. Teutsch, MD, MPH is an adjunct professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health; Senior Fellow at the Public Health Institute; and Senior Fellow at the Leonard D. Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics at the University of Southern California.
Center Affiliations
Education
- Residency, Internal Medicine, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA
- MD, Medicine, Duke University, Durham, NC
- BA, Biochemical Science, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS, is director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai and Professor of Medicine and Public Health at UCLA. He directs the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE), a multidisciplinary team that investigates how digital health technologies; including wearable biosensors, smartphone applications, virtual reality (VR) and social media; can strengthen the patient-doctor bond, improve outcomes and save money.
Education
- MSHS, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MD, New York Medical College, Westchester County, NY
- BS, Philosophy and Community Health, Tufts University, Medford, MA
Stephanie L. Taylor is an Adjunct Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Taylor’s primary appointment is Senior Investigator at the Greater Los Angeles VA. As a health services researcher and sociomedical scientist with over 25 years’ experience in effectiveness and implementation research, Dr.
Education
- PhD, Sociomedical Sciences, Columbia University, New York, NY
- MPH, Epidemiology, Columbia University, New York, NY
Dr. James Macinko was a co-author of work recognized as among the journal Health Affairs’ top 10 studies of 2021.
Dr. Gerald Kominski is a co-author of work recognized as among the journal Health Affairs’ top 10 studies of 2021.
Dr. Roy Hays was among the most highly cited researchers in the world in 2021, according to Clarivate Analytics.
Dr. Risha Gidwani was appointed to the National Quality Forum’s Cost and Efficiency Standing Committee.