Hemal Kanzaria

Hemal Kanzaria, MD, MSc, is an adjunct fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California and the Terry A. Patinkin, MD, endowed professor of health equity and professor of emergency medicine at UCSF. He is chief of performance excellence at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG), where he oversees the Kaizen Promotion Office and is responsible for advancing organizational strategy and performance improvement. Prior to his current role, he served as director of complex care analytics for the San Francisco Health Network and as medical director/associate chief medical officer for the Department of Care Coordination at ZSFG. He is a health services researcher, a decision editor for Annals of Emergency Medicine, and an associate director at the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative. His research focuses on patient engagement, health-related social needs, homelessness, frequent users of the healthcare system, improvement science, and delivery system transformation. He is the founding co-director of the Department of Emergency Medicine Section of Social Emergency Medicine and Health Equity and serves on the board of directors for the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. He is a graduate of Brown University, UCSF School of Medicine, and the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health.