Mark I. Rosenblatt, , M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., M.H.A
Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences
Mark I. Rosenblatt, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., M.H.A., is the Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences at UC Davis Health.
A former UC Davis attending physician and assistant professor, Rosenblatt returns to UC Davis with deep experience in academic hospital systems and a record of collaboration across disciplines learned from decades of experience. In his role as the senior executive for UC Davis Health, he is responsible for overseeing all of the health system’s research, education, and patient care.
UC Davis Health employs more than 20,000 people and operates with an annual budget that exceeds $4.5 billion. It includes the UC Davis Medical Center, the UC Davis Children’s Hospital, the UC Davis Rehabilitation Hospital, 17 primary care clinics, and more than three dozen hospital telehealth partnerships bringing care into communities across Northern California. Rosenblatt also oversees two nationally ranked schools of health — the UC Davis School of Medicine and the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis.
Rosenblatt describes his management philosophy as taking a servant leadership approach, working to highlight the integration between research, education, and clinical operations. He underscores the need to stay focused on the “quintuple aim” of health care, which focuses on improving quality of care, ensuring patient safety, enhancing the patient experience, promoting health equity, and supporting caregiver well-being.
An internationally recognized clinician-scientist, Rosenblatt still leads groups of scientists investigating the mechanism of corneal peripheral nerve regeneration following injury, and the use of nanoengineered biomaterials for use in stem cell delivery to the ocular surface. His research is widely published, including more than 225 original manuscripts, review articles, book chapters and abstracts.
His academic career began at UC Davis in 2005 as an assistant professor of ophthalmology and vision science, where he split his time between research in Davis and clinical care in Sacramento.
Before rejoining UC Davis in 2026, he served as the G. Stephen Irwin executive dean at the University of Illinois College of Medicine, the chief executive officer of the University of Illinois Hospital and Clinics, and as a distinguished professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences at the University of Illinois Chicago. Rosenblatt has also previously served patients at Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, where he was vice chair of ophthalmology and director of the Margaret M. Dyson Vision Research Institute.
Rosenblatt is a graduate of the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine’s Honors Program in Medical Education and the Combined M.D./Ph.D. program, receiving his Ph.D. in biochemistry, cell and molecular biology. He completed his M.B.A. at New York University and his M.H.A. at the University of Illinois Chicago School of Public Health. He completed his ophthalmology residency and combined clinical/research fellowship in corneal disease at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary/Harvard Medical School.