Gabe Ortiz
Associate Professor, School of Medicine
Email: gabriel.ortiz@ucsf.edu
Biography
Gabriel Ortiz, MD, PhD, is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF and a hospitalist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General. As the Medical Director of the Medical-Surgical Care Areas, he is focused on quality improvement work to enhance the care delivered to the vulnerable communities served by ZSFG. He is deeply engaged in applying Toyota's LEAN production and LEAN daily management systems as tools for achieving healthcare systems transformation (see links below for more information). Dr. Ortiz is also engaged in the implementation and optimization of Epic, the new enterprise EHR at ZSFG.