Elizabeth Dzeng, MD, PhD, MPH, MPhil

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 is a recipient of an NIA Beeson Award and Sojourns Scholar Leadership Award, which funds her community-based participatory research focused on understanding and addressing structural racism and its influence on the quality of end-of-life care in older Black adults. She is also the Principal Investigator for a comparative ethnography on the influence of institutional cultures and policies on end-of-life care and is employing that ethnographic data to mitigate burdensome end-of-life care using human-centered design.