Dr. Dohan is Professor of Health Policy and Social Medicine in the UCSF School of Medicine. His primary appointment is at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS), where he serves as Deputy Director as well as Associate Director for Training. He is also co-Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy and the co-Director of the recently-launched MS degree program in Health Policy and Law, which is jointly conferred by UCSF and UC Hastings. Dan’s research focuses on understanding and enhancing the culture of medicine. His current studies examine clinical decision-making among advanced cancer patients, engagement of diverse patients in large-scale biomedical research resources, and development of new methods for analyzing and disseminating narrative accounts of health. Dan received his Ph.D. in sociology at UC Berkeley, was a fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program, and published his dissertation as The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican-American Barrio (UC Press).