Dr. Coelho is the Associate Designated Institutional Official, and Director of Graduate and Continuing Medical Education at Alameda Health System (AHS), an integrated public health system of hospitals and wellness centers with over 800 beds and 1,000 physicians in the San Francisco Bay Area. Prior to taking on this role, he served as Senior Clinical Quality Improvement Manager for the health system. Prior to joining AHS, he was the Director of Quality Improvement and Assurance at the Institute on Aging (IOA), a San Francisco-based non-profit dedicated to preserving the dignity, independence and well-being of aging adults and people living with disabilities across California.
Dr. Coelho is the author of numerous academic peer-reviewed publications, and his interests include academic affairs & student assessment; institutional research review and protection of human subjects; accreditation and leadership development; graduate medical education; public health & epidemiology; global health equity and quality & patient safety. Dr Coelho has over 20 years of experience in healthcare and quality improvement, accreditation, analytics and operations, in educating, managing and leading teams in support of continuous process improvement and change management for public and county health services in City and County of San Francisco, County of Alameda, University of California, San Francisco, and academia.
Dr. Coelho participated in the Bay Area Patient Safety Collaborative Leadership Institute and has completed the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Certificate in Quality and Patient Safety and the UCSF Certificate in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. He is an arbitrator for the State Bar of California and served on the board of a local technology company and a number of non-profit organizations including the United Nations Association of USA- San Francisco and international non-profit, Goa Sudharop. Dr. Coelho is an accreditation site visitor for the Public Health Accreditation Board (PHAB), member of the National Association of Designated Institutional Officials (NADIO), outgoing member of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Osteopathic Recognition Committee, incoming chair/chair-elect of the ACGME Council of Public Members, and member of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). He has completed studies at A.T. Still University of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, and University of California, Berkeley. He is an elected Fellow of the British Royal Society of Medicine (FRSM) and Public Health (FRSPH) and appointed Fellow of the American College of Health Data Management (FACHDM).