Profiles

Catherine Sarkisian MD, MSHS is a Professor at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA/Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research, and Staff Physician at the Greater Los Angeles VA Healthcare System. She is Director of the recently-launched UCLA Value-Based Care Research Consortium. She is also Director of Los Angeles Community Academic Partnership for Research in Aging (L.A. CAPRA), an NIH funded partnership between UCLA and The City and County of Los Angeles Area Agencies on Aging to support research on sustainable programs to improve quality of life of under-resourced seniors. Recently her research has increasingly focused on health system interventions to reduce low-value care; she was Principal Investigator on an American Board of Internal Medicine Foundation-funded project to implement Choosing Wisely™ interventions at L.A. County Department of Health Services and she is a Co-Investigator on the NIH/NIA-funded U.S. Deprescribing Research Network (USDeN), supporting research to reduce unnecessary medications. She is Director of the NIH/NIA-funded Resource Center for Minority Aging Research/Center for Healthcare Improvement of Minority Elders (RCMAR/CHIME) Community Liaison Core and Co-Leader of the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute Special Populations Program. She received her A.B. Degree (with Honors) in Philosophy from Princeton University, her M.D. from University of California San Francisco, and an MSHS in Health Services from the UCLA (now Fielding) School of Public Health.