Principal Investigator

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 holds several national leadership roles including membership on the Governing Council of the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM), Associate Editor for the Journal of General Internal Medicine (JGIM), Executive Committee member of the Research Centers Cooperative Network (RCCN), and member of the Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA) Taskforce for Clin-STAR, an NIA funded national platform for clinicians focused on aging research. 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.