Christopher S. Saigal, MD

UCLA Department of Urology

Christopher Saigal MD, MPH is Professor and Executive Vice Chair of Urology at the UCLA School of Medicine . Dr Saigal’s major research area is in shared decision making, where he has been funded by an R-01 from the National Cancer Institute to innovate new approaches to shared decision making in men with prostate cancer. Dr Saigal served as the Rand PI of the Urological Diseases America (UDA) project, a $22 million NIH-funded effort to characterize quality, cost, and access to urologic care in the U.S. As a former Gallagher Health Policy Scholar, he has provided leadership on behalf of the AUA in many arenas, including the National Quality Forum and the Surgical Quality Alliance. His surgical practice in urologic oncology is at the Ronald Reagan Medical Center in Westwood. He serves as Medical Director, UCLA Physician Quality Officer Program..

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Presentation(s):

• MP13: Health Services Research: Practice Patterns, Quality of Life and Shared Decision Making I

  Friday, May 13, 2022
  2:45 PM – 4:00 PM