
A Message From the
Interim Chair,
Ted Ganiats, M.D.
Our department ranks first nationally among peer departments in federal research dollars granted. We have world-class epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and health services researchers who work independently, and also in collaboration with other departments in the School of Medicine. Close contact among our divisions helps our clinical division of family medicine to better evaluate medical literature critically and stay abreast of the newest developments in prevention, while our researchers benefit by grounding their work in the real world where it is useful to clinicians and ultimately the patient. It's a win-win situation.
Dr. Ganiats received his M.D. degree from UCSD,
where he completed his family medicine residency, serving as Chief Resident
in 1980-81. He has been a faculty member in the UCSD School of Medicine's
Division of Family Medicine since 1981, serving as Chief of Family Medicine
from 1986 to 1996.
He has been Interim Chair of the Department
of Family and Preventive Medicine since 2004. In 1993 he became the founding
Executive Director of the UCSD Health Services Research Center (formerly
Health Outcomes Assessment Program), a position he still holds.
Dr. Ganiats
is a health services researcher, primarily dealing with quality of life
and cost-effectiveness. His work includes both theoretical and applied
projects. Samples of theoretical work include evaluating how preferences
for outcomes vary as a function of when the outcomes occur as well as
issues dealing with some assumptions in cost-effectiveness analysis.
He is one of the principals in a multinational
project looking at the ‘basic
science’ of quality of life assessment.
Applied projects include
the assessment of quality of life in clinical trials.
In addition, he has chaired or been a member of over 30 national quality
improvement and guideline panels. A member of the Institute of
Medicine, he is the author of over 100 scientific and medical publications.



