Executive Leadership at UC Davis Health

Ranked Among the Nation's Best

UC Davis Health is an integrated health system with 20,000 employees, 1,000 students, 1,000 trainees, 1,300 faculty members and a large regional primary care network that provides 1.5 million-plus outpatient visits every year. Executive leadership oversees UC Davis Health’s academic, research and clinical programs, including a Top 10 ranked School of Medicine, Top 25 ranked Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, and the Top 50 ranked UC Davis Children’s Hospital and UC Davis Medical Center. UC Davis Medical Center, the health system’s flagship hospital, is a 684-bed Level 1 Trauma hospital consistently ranked among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, and Becker’s.

UC Davis Health's academic, research and clinical programs include:

• UC Davis School of Medicine, ranked in the top 50 by U.S. News & World Report.
• Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, ranked in the top 50 by U.S. News & World Report.
• UC Davis Medical Center, a 648-bed Level 1 Trauma hospital consistently ranked among the nation's best by U.S. News & World Report, Newsweek, and Becker's.

UC Davis Medical Center, in partnership with Shriners Children's Northern California, also operates a top 50 children's hospital, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report. UC Davis Health includes a second hospital, the UC Davis Rehabilitation Hospital. The health system is an innovation hub for biomedical discoveries that helps advance health around the world. It is ranked in the top 35 nationally for medical research.

UC Davis Health is committed to expanding care for the underserved. This includes caring for Medi-Cal patients and others with few resources while creating a sustainable financial model. Among initiatives, a key partnership was developed with Sacramento County Health Services as well as other initiatives with health allies. These collaborations aim to expand primary and specialty care to the underserved, reform the managed care system, and address the crisis in mental illness and homelessness. UC Davis Health is positioned as a resource to "complete, not compete" with other health systems to improve access and care throughout the region.

UC Davis Health serves more than half of California's counties as the only academic medical center between San Francisco and Portland, Ore. Partnerships with Adventist Health and the California Medical Association were developed to address recruiting, training and retaining doctors in rural areas throughout Northern California. Novel training programs to advance rural and inner city care have been championed and are now embraced by the American Medical Association (AMA) as national models. To adapt to health care's evolution and leverage UC Davis Health is creating a digital platform and virtual hospital to lead in technology and connectivity to adapt to health care's evolution and leverage the organization's early success in creating California's telehealth backbone. All of this is done while reinforcing the values of empathy, inclusivity and a patient-centric ethic.

UC Davis Health's nation-leading Alzheimer's research program is ranked 14th nationally in Alzheimer's research funding. UC Davis takes a public health approach to its studies and programs. The health system pays special attention to measuring the toll of the disease across the social spectrum, identifying groups that are disproportionately impacted, and researching the differences between Alzheimer's and dementia. UC Davis Health's national ranking in geriatric care is another important part of supporting patients, as well as caregivers through a nationally modeled Family Caregiving Institute.