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Mitchell H. Katz | |
|---|---|
| President and CEO of New York City Health and Hospitals | |
| Assumed office September 25, 2017 | |
| Mayor | Bill de Blasio Eric Adams Zohran Mamdani |
| Preceded by | Ramanathan Raju |
| Director of the Los Angeles County Health Agency | |
| In office November 24, 2015 – September 25, 2017 | |
| Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services | |
| In office January 3, 2011 – November 24, 2015 | |
| Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health | |
| In office 1997–2010 | |
| Preceded by | Sandra Hernandez |
| Succeeded by | Barbara A. Garcia |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Mitchell Howard Katz December 29, 1959 |
Domestic partner | Igael Gurin-Malous |
| Children | Maxwell and Roxie |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Physician and civil servant |
Mitchell H. Katz (born December 29, 1959), also known as Mitch Katz, is the president and CEO of New York City Health and Hospitals, the largest public health care system in the United States.
Early life and education
[edit]Katz was raised in Brooklyn, New York, the third eldest of four children.[1] He has a brother and sister who are developmentally disabled.[1]
Katz received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at Yale University and received a medical degree at Harvard Medical School.[2][3] In 1989, he completed his residency in internal medicine at University of California, San Francisco.[3]
Career
[edit]After his residency, Katz remained in San Francisco. In 1991, he joined the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), serving as chief of research and director of the AIDS Office, director of the Emergency Medical Services Agency and director of the department's health and safety branch.[4]
From 1997 to 2010, Katz served as the director of health and health officer for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, where he implemented the Healthy San Francisco program, which is the United States' first municipal universal health care system.[5][6]
During his tenure, Katz also served as a medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics professor at the University of California, San Francisco, while operating an outpatient practice at San Francisco General Hospital's Positive Healthcare Practice.[7]
In 2010, Katz was recruited by the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Officer William T Fujioka to lead the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.[8]
In 2012, Katz was awarded the National Center for Healthcare Leadership's Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award for his contributions to the health care field.[9]
On November 24, 2015, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appointed Katz as the director of the Los Angeles County Health Agency.[10][11]
Mitchell Katz is deputy editor of the scientific journal JAMA Internal Medicine.[12]
Personal life
[edit]Katz and his partner, Rabbi Igael Gurin-Malous have two children, Maxwell and Roxie.[13][14] Maxwell and Roxie were adopted from an orphanage in Vietnam.[6]
Notes and references
[edit]- 1 2 James, Scott (December 16, 2010). "A Life Devoted to Health, Framed by His Siblings' Disabilities". New York Times. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ↑ "Credo: Dr. Mitchell H. Katz". San Francisco Examiner. March 14, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- 1 2 "Mitchell H. Katz, MD". Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. October 11, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ↑ "San Francisco health chief in running to head L.A. County's massive health department". Los Angeles Times. September 20, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ↑ "Mitchell H. Katz, MD". UCLA School of Public Health. 2011. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- 1 2 Hennessy-Fiske, Molly (October 18, 2010). "L.A. County's next healthcare chief will be entering a big new world". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ↑ "Speaker Biography". World Congress. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ↑ Knight, Heather (September 21, 2010). "L.A. County taps Mitch Katz for health chief". San Francisco Gate. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ↑ "Dr. Mitchell Katz, LA County Department of Health Services and Margaret O'Kane, NCQA Named Co-Recipients of NCHL's 2012 Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award". PRWeb. July 9, 2012. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ↑ "Notices of Closed Session for November 24, 2015" (PDF). Statement Of Proceedings. Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. November 24, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
- ↑ Sewell, Abby (November 29, 2015). "L.A. County supervisors choose Mitch Katz to head health agency". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 31, 2016.
- ↑ Katz, MH; Redberg, RF (November 6, 2017). "Science Requires Open Discourse". JAMA Internal Medicine. 178 (1): 15–16. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2017.5763. PMID 29114738.
- ↑ "Public health chief bids farewell". The Bay Area Reporter. December 23, 2010. Retrieved October 23, 2012.
- ↑ "Alumni Profile: Steering the Wheels of Change". Frontiers of Medicine. UCSF Department of Medicine. Spring 2011. p. 9.
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