Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

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FACULTY & STAFF

CONTACT

  • Mission Bay
    Orthopaedic Institute
  • 1500 Owens Street
    San Francisco, CA 94158
    Phone: 415-353-2808
Kevin J. Bozic MD, MBA
Willam R. Murray Professor and Vice Chair
 
Kevin J. Bozic MD, MBA

Biography

Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA is William R. Murray Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and a member of the core faculty of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).  Dr. Bozic is a graduate of the UCSF School of Medicine and the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program.  Additionally, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.  Dr. Bozic has fellowship training in Adult Reconstructive Surgery from Rush University Medical Center in Chicago.

Dr. Bozic’s clinical interests are in adult reconstructive surgery of the hip and knee, with an emphasis on primary and revision hip and knee replacement. His research interests are broadly in the fields of health policy and health care services research, and specifically in the areas of healthcare technology assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, shared medical decision making, and the impact of healthcare reform on cost and quality.

In addition to his clinical and research activities, Dr. Bozic is actively involved in numerous regional and national health policy initiatives, including the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s (AHRQ) Effective Healthcare Stakeholder Group, the Integrated Healthcare Association’s Value Assessment of Medical Technologies Program, and the California Health Care Foundation’s California Joint Replacement Registry Project. Dr. Bozic also holds both regional and national leadership positions, as President of the California Orthopaedic Association, Board of Trustees of the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF) and the Board of Directors of the American Joint Replacement Registry (AJRR), and as Chair of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) Council on Research and Quality.

Dr. Bozic has been the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation’s Clinical Research Award, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon’s Clinician-Scientist Traveling Fellowship Award, the American Orthopaedic Association’s American-British-Canadian Traveling Fellowship, the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeon’s James A. Rand Young Investigator Award, and the Orthopaedic Research Society’s William Harris Award.   Since arriving at UCSF, Dr. Bozic has received extramural funding for his research from the OREF, AHRQ, National Institutes of Health (NIH), Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), and the California HealthCare Foundation.

Selected current projects:

Shared Decision Making in Total Joint Replacement

Identification of Risk Factors for Revision Surgery Following Primary THA and TKA

Integrated Care Delivery and Episode of Care Payments in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty.

View Dr. Bozic's UCSF Mini-Med School presentation, "Osteoarthritis Care in the 21st Century: Remarkable Advances in Joint Replacement" online here

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