Hemal Kanzaria, MD, MSc, is the Department of Care Coordination Medical Director at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) and an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). At ZSFG, he is responsible for co-leading the design and implementation of care coordination, social services, and utilization management activities. He has led several health systems improvement projects, including the implementation of Emergency Department (ED) information exchange and the development of a novel multi-disciplinary Social Medicine team to address patients’ health-related social needs. The ZSFG Social Medicine team was awarded the statewide 2018 Quality Leaders Award through the California Association of Public Hospitals and Health Systems, and was instrumental in the SFGH Foundation #IAmTheirPeople campaign, raising millions for individuals with mental illness.

Dr. Kanzaria is currently the Co-Principal Investigator on the evaluation of San Francisco County’s 5-year Whole Person Care pilot to improve the health of patients experiencing chronic homelessness. He is also an Affiliated Faculty at the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies, where his research focuses on patient engagement and health care delivery system transformation. He has published over 50 book chapters and peer-reviewed articles, including in JAMA and Health Affairs, and his work has been featured in Time Magazine, The Boston Globe, and National Public Radio.

A graduate of Brown University, UCSF Medical School and emergency medicine residency, the UCLA School of Public Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program, Dr. Kanzaria is a practicing emergency physician at ZSFG. He and his wife live in San Francisco, with their two daughters and rescue dog.