Biography

Samuel A. Bozzette is a senior natural scientist at RAND, a senior research associate at the Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, and professor of medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and has more than 125 scientific publications, primarily relating to questions of treatment evaluation, patient outcomes, clinical epidemiology, provider education, and cost and quality of care for HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Sam is currently Director of the Health Services Research Unit and the Center for Patient-Oriented Research at the VA San Diego, and Research Director for the VA's Quality Enhancement Research Initiative in HIV/AIDS. His current work includes evaluating the cost and utilization of medical services in the treatment of HIV; the relative contribution of disease and host genetic, social and self-care, and health services factors to survival in HIV disease; large-scale studies of the process of HIV care in American veterans; and randomized trials of intervention for improving the quality of that care. He has recently become interested in bioterrorism and modeling the consequences of possible attack and response scenarios. Sam received his M.D. from the University of Rochester and his Ph.D. in Policy Analysis from the Pardee RAND Graduate School.