Michael Ong, MD PhD, is a Professor in Residence of Medicine & Health Policy and Management at UCLA. He is currently the Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development, and was the Hospitalist Chief from 2018-2022, at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. Dr. Ong is the inaugural co-recipient of the VA Office of Research & Development's Field Research Leadership Excellence award in 2025, for his work as Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development.
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Health Services & Policy Analysis, University of California, Berkeley, CA
- MD, University of California, San Diego, CA
Dr. Keller is an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Her primary appointment is in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Keller's research focuses on the use, prescribing, and deprescribing of high-risk medications such as opioids, benzodiazepines, and antipsychotics in older adults. Dr.
Education
- PhD, Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Human Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Robert M. Kaplan is a Distinguished Research Professor of Health Policy and Management at UCLA. Previously he served as Chief Science Officer at the US Agency for Health Care Research and Quality (AHRQ) and as Associate Director of the National Institutes of Health, where he led the behavioral and social sciences programs. At UCLA, he led the UCLA/RAND AHRQ health services training program and the UCLA/RAND CDC Prevention Research Center. He was Chair of the Department of Health Services from 2004 to 2009.
Dr. Burt Cowgill is an associate professor-in-residence who resides in the UCLA Kaiser Permanent Center for Health Equity and Center for Cancer Prevention and Control Research in the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. He is also a Pod Leader for the Research Well Pod at the UCLA Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center. Dr.
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MPH, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. Joann G. Elmore is a professor of health policy and management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, in the Department of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She also serves as Director of the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program. She is a national leader in academic general internal medicine and has a distinguished career as an investigator, mentor, administrator and educator.
Education
- Fellowship, Infectious Diseases, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- Fellowship, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- MPH, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- MD, Honors in Research and Teaching, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
- BS, Biology, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA
Dr. Julie Elginer is an associate professor at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She teaches master’s and doctoral-level classes in the Department of Health Policy and Management. Her courses on Healthcare Financial Management, Healthcare Marketing, Building Advocacy Skills in Reproductive Health, and Healthcare in International Perspectives consistently receive teaching evaluation scores in the top 3% among faculty.
Center Affiliations
Education
- DrPH, Health Policy and Management, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- MBA, Strategy and Marketing, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- BA, Carthage College, Accounting and Business Administration, Kenosha, WI
Dr. Moira Inkelas, PhD, MPH is professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management. She has a background in public health and public policy, with specific training and expertise in designing and implementing improvement science research. Her research focuses on improvement in primary care and human service organizations, and she has led learning networks of national and local health care providers and systems. She teaches core courses in the Master of Science in Implementation and Improvement Research in the Fielding School of Public Health.
Education
- PhD, RAND Graduate School, Santa Monica, CA
- MPH, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
Dr. W. Scott Comulada, DrPH, is Professor-in-residence in the UCLA Departments of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences and Health Policy and Management, Director of the Semel Institute Center for Community Health, a statistician, and a public health researcher. His work focuses on the development and evaluation of AI-enhanced digital health interventions that incorporate chatbots and virtual reality.
Semel Institute Center for Community Health
Education
- DrPH, Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2006
- MS, Biostatistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 2000
- MPH, Biostatistics, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, 1998
- BS, Biophysics, Pacific Union College, Angwin, CA, 1993
Dr. William S. Comanor is Professor of Health Policy and Management and also Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. At UCLA, he is Director of the Research Program on Pharmaceutical Economics and Policy and also organizes a Seminar by the same name. Dr. Comanor received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University in 1964. Since completing his dissertation on "The Economics of Research and Development in the Pharmaceutical Industry," that subject has been one of his primary interests.
Education
- PhD, Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Dr. Paul Chung is an adjunct professor of health policy and management at the UCLA School of Public Health and chair of health systems science at the Kaiser Permanente Medical School. He is also Research Director of the UCLA/RAND Prevention Research Center, associate director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program at UCLA, and Public Policy and Advocacy Chair of the Academic Pediatric Association. Dr. Chung was the recipient of the 2009 Nemours Child Health Services Research Award, given annually to a single emerging child health services researcher in the United States.
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