Mark Smith , M.D., is president and chief executive officer of the California HealthCare Foundation  and will be a part of CHI’s upcoming California Healthcare Policy Forum , to be held in San Francisco at the Mark Hopkins InterContinental, from 11:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The Foundation is an independent philanthropy with assets of more than $700 million, headquartered in Oakland, Calif., and dedicated to improving the health of the people of California through its three program areas: Better Chronic Disease Care, Innovations for the Underserved, and Market and Policy Monitor.

A board-certified internist, Smith is a member of the clinical faculty at the University of California, San Francisco, and an attending physician at the Positive Health Program for AIDS care at San Francisco General Hospital. He is a member of the Institute of Medicine and serves on the board of the National Business Group on Health.

Prior to joining the California HealthCare Foundation, Smith was executive vice president at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. He previously served as associate director of the AIDS Services and assistant professor of medicine and of health policy and management at Johns Hopkins University. He has served on the Performance Measurement Committee of the National Committee for Quality Assurance and the editorial board of the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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