Hal Yee

Hal Yee Jr, MD, PhD, is Chief Deputy Director, Clinical Affairs & Chief Medical Officer for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the nation’s 2nd largest municipal health system, which includes 4 academic medical centers, a large ambulatory care network, affiliations with USC, UCLA, and Charles Drew Schools of Medicine, ~25,000 employees and contractors, and a ~$6.5B budget. He serves on the Board of Directors of the California Association of Public Hospitals & Health Systems, and the advisory boards of the UCLA and Southern California CTSIs. He was Rice Memorial Distinguished Professor of Medicine at UCSF; founding director of the UCSF-SFGH Center for Innovation in Access and Quality; and Chief Medical Officer and Chief of Gastroenterology at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. He has >25 years of extramural research grant funding and authored over 90 publications. He made fundamental discoveries in our understanding of the molecular signals that control cellular contraction and motility, and the pathogenesis of hepatic and intestinal fibrosis. Over the past 15 years his research has evolved to focus on development and implementation of disruptive interventions to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of health care delivery. Most notably he 1) conceived of and served as the architect for the implementation and evaluation of an award-winning electronic specialty care consultation management system in both San Francisco and Los Angeles, and 2) developed and implemented a novel approach, the Expected Practice, that effectively standardizes clinical behavior. Both have become national models for improving the quality and efficiency of clinical care. In 2020, he was selected as one of Modern Healthcare’s Top 25 Innovators.