Sophia Chang, M.D., M.P.H.
Director
Better Chronic Disease Care Program, California Healthcare Foundation 

Dr. Sophia Chang is director of the foundation's Better Chronic Disease Care program, which focuses on improving clinical outcomes and quality of life for Californians with chronic diseases. The foundation's work in this area includes strengthening safety-net systems of care, managing care for the most costly, leveraging health information technology, and promoting appropriate care toward the end of life.

Chang is the former director of the Veteran Health Administration's Center for Quality Management in Public Health, which worked to improve patient care through the use of innovative quality management techniques and clinical information systems.

Chang's previous positions include director of the HIV/AIDS program for the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation; medical director of the San Francisco Health Plan, a managed health care plan for Medicaid recipients; and director of AIDS Health Services for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, where she oversaw the Ryan White CARE Programs for the city. She also has worked as a medical researcher, examining health disparities in breast cancer care.

She recently served on the Managed Risk Medical Insurance Board, which oversees Healthy Families (the state's Children's Health Insurance Program) and California's Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan (from September 2006 to May 2011). Chang continues to practice general internal medicine at San Francisco General Hospital as a UCSF faculty member. She holds a bachelor's degree from Amherst College; a master of public health from the University of California, Berkeley; and a medical doctorate from Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.