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Joann Elmore

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Joann Elmore

Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Joann Elmore

Dr. Joann G. Elmore is The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Endowed Chair in Health Care Delivery, Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and Director of the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program. She is an established investigator in the fields of epidemiology and cancer research and a national leader in academic general internal medicine. With more than 250 publications, her research portfolio spans cancer screening (e.g., skin and breast), diagnostic accuracy, physician variability, and AI/machine learning (computer image analyses and diagnostic aid tools for skin and breast pathology), and incorporates an important clinical perspective to the evaluation of medical screening. Her pivotal research in cancer screening contains notable, and practice-changing, publications in the NEJM, JAMA, and BMJ. Her research support includes continuous NIH funding for over 25 years and a long history of backing from major foundations, such as the Melanoma Research Alliance. Dr. Elmore previously held faculty and leadership positions at the University of Washington, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Group Health Research Institute, Yale University, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars program at Yale and the University of Washington. Dr. Elmore is board certified in internal medicine and serves on many national and international committees, as well as serving as Editor in Chief for Adult Primary Care at UpToDate.