Associate Professor
Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Elizabeth Dzeng, MD, PhD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in Residence in the Division of Hospital Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a Senior Research Fellow at the Cicely Saunders Institute at King's College London. She is a hospitalist, sociologist, and ethicist who draws from diverse qualitative research methods including empirical bioethics, sociology, community-based participatory research, and human centered design to improve health equity and quality of care during serious illness. She is a recipient of a NIA Beeson Award and Sojourns Scholar Leadership Award which funds her community-based participatory research focused on understanding and addressing structural racism and its influence on the quality of end-of-life care in older Black adults. She is also the Principal Investigator for a comparative ethnography on the influence of institutional cultures and policies on end-of-life care and is employing that ethnographic data to mitigate burdensome end-of-life care using human centered design. She holds several national leadership roles including membership on the Governing Council of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) and Executive Committee member of the Research Centers Cooperative Network (RCCN), . She earned a BS in Biology and MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, a MPhil in Development Studies and PhD in Sociology as a Gates Cambridge Scholar at the University of Cambridge in the UK, and completed her MD, MPH, and General Internal Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University.
Saturday, March 7, 2026
11:15am - 11:30am PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose