Chief Medical Officer, San Francisco Health Network; Prof. of Medicine, UCSF
Alice Huan-mei Chen, M.D., M.P.H., is the Chief Medical Officer of the San Francisco Health Network, San Francisco Department of Public Health’s vertically integrated delivery system, and a Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. As Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Chen is responsible for providing clinical leadership, vision, direction, and expertise in the oversight and operations of the Network, with a focus on clinical integration; access, quality and cost of care; patient satisfaction and retention; and strategic initiatives and programs for enhancing clinical effectiveness. A practicing primary care physician, Dr. Chen previously spent a decade at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) in a variety of roles, including Chief Integration Officer, Director of the Center for Innovation in Access and Quality, and Director of eReferral, an integrated electronic referral and consultation system recognized nationally as an innovative model for improving access to specialty care. She is a graduate of Yale University, Stanford University Medical School, and the Harvard School of Public Health, and is a fellow of the Aspen Institute’s inaugural class of the Health Innovators Fellowship.