Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, PhD, MPH, is a faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research. His research interests include understanding the variation in the quality and costs of health care across individual physicians and its determinants. His work focuses on using large databases and quasi-experimental approaches. Tsugawa's research has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and National Public Radio.
Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Tsugawa was a health specialist at the World Bank Group and a research associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management of Harvard School of Public Health.
Tsugawa earned his medical degree from Tohoku University School of Medicine in Japan, a doctoral degree in health policy from Harvard University with a concentration in statistics, and a master's degree in public health from Harvard School of Public Health.
A new study by Dr. Yusuke Tsugawa, a faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, found that patients who have a female doctor are less likely to die in the days after being admitted to the hospital and less likely to be readmitted to the hospital than patients who have a male doctor.
Coverage of this study appeared in dozens of news outlets.