The Division of Geriatrics Virtual Grand Rounds Welcomes Invited Speaker, Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, MPH, PhD

Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management

Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, MPH, PhD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and Associate Professor of Health Policy and Management at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. 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. His research focuses on determinants of the quality and costs of care of individual physicians. Dr. Tsugawa's research has been published in leading medical journals including JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, BMJ, and Lancet. The Altmetric selected Dr. Tsugawa's paper comparing the quality of care between male and female physicians as the 3rd most widely-read article in 2017 (https://www.altmetric.com/top100/2017). Dr. Tsugawa's research has also been featured in several media outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, and National Public Radio.