Preceded by Sandra Hernandez Name Mitchell Katz Children Maxwell and Roxie | Succeeded by Barbara A. Garcia | |
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Born 1960
Brooklyn, New York, U.S. ( 1960 ) Alma mater Yale University
Harvard Medical School Occupation Physician and civil servant Residence Los Angeles, California, United States Education Harvard Medical School, Yale University | ||
Domestic partner Igael Gurin-Malous | ||
Dr mitchell h katz los angeles county annual report 2011
Mitchell H. Katz (born 1960, also known as Mitch Katz) is the incumbent Director of the Los Angeles County Health Agency and the Director of Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the United States' second largest municipal hospital system.
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- Dr mitchell h katz los angeles county annual report 2011
- Early life and education
- Career
- Personal life
- References
Early life and education
Katz was raised in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of three children. Both his brother and sister are developmentally disabled.
Katz received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at Yale University and received a medical degree at Harvard Medical School. In 1989, he completed his residency in internal medicine at University of California, San Francisco.
Career
After his residency, Katz remained in San Francisco. In 1991, he joined the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), serving as chief of research and director of the AIDS Office, director of the Emergency Medical Services Agency and director of the department’s health and safety branch.
From 1997 to 2010, Katz served as the Director of Health and Health Officer for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, where he implemented the Healthy San Francisco program, which is the United States' first municipal universal health care system.
During his tenure, Katz also served as a medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics professor at the University of California, San Francisco, while operating an outpatient practice at San Francisco General Hospital's Positive Healthcare Practice.
In 2010, Katz was recruited by the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Officer William T Fujioka to lead the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
In 2012, Katz was awarded the National Center for Healthcare Leadership's Gail L. Warden Leadership Excellence Award for his contributions to the health care field.
On November 24, 2015, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors appointed Katz as the Director of the Los Angeles County Health Agency.
Personal life
Katz and his partner, Igael Gurin-Malous have two children, Maxwell and Roxie. Maxwell and Roxie were adopted from an orphanage in Vietnam.