Renee Hsia
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Renee Hsia | |
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 Renee Hsia in 2022 | |
| Born | Huntsville, Alabama, USA |
| Occupation | Emergency physician |
| Academic background | |
| Education | BA, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs MSc, London School of Economics / London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine MD, Harvard Medical School |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | University of California, San Francisco Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center |
Renee Yuen-Jan Hsia is an American emergency physician. She is a professor of Emergency Medicine and Associate Chair of Health Services Research at the University of California, San Francisco, as well as an attending physician in the emergency department at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.[1] She is also a core faculty member of the UCSF Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies. Her research is aimed at studying how health services and regionalization of care impact access to emergency care.
Hsia was born in Huntsville, Alabama and grew up in Arlington, Texas.[2] She graduated from Lamar High School as valedictorian. Hsia attended Princeton University and during her junior year received the George B. Wood Legacy Junior Prize for academic achievement.[3] In her final year, she was named the co-recipient of the M. Taylor Pyne Prize, the highest honor conferred on a Princeton undergraduate.[4] Upon completing her Bachelor of Arts degree in Public and International Affairs, Hsia received a Master's degree in Health Policy, Planning, and Financing from the London School of Economics/London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine before returning to the United States for her medical degree at Harvard Medical School.[5]
Career
Upon completing her residency at Stanford University,[1] Hsia joined the faculty at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in 2007.[6] During her tenure at UCSF, she became the founder and director of The Policy Lab of Acute Care and Emergencies (The PLACE) and served as Associate Chair of Health Services Research in the Department of Emergency Medicine. As a result of her research, Hsia was elected a member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation.[7] In 2021, Hsia was elected a member of the National Academy of Medicine "for expertise in health disparities of emergency care, integrating the disciplines of economics, health policy, and clinical investigation."[8] Hsia has worked extensively abroad, including in Rwanda, Senegal, Uganda, South Sudan, Eritrea, China, Haiti, Honduras, and Mexico with various organizations.[2] From 2019 to 2020, she spent one year as a Fulbright-Schuman Scholar in Spain, studying disparities in access to the Spanish healthcare system for undocumented migrants.[9]
