Daniel Dohan

Daniel Dohan is a Professor at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), holding leadership roles including Deputy Director of the Institute for Health Policy Studies and co-Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy. His work focuses on mixed-methods social scientific analysis of medical culture, patient decision-making, and health policy implementation.

• Harvard College AB in Sociology (1987)
• UC Berkeley MA (1991), PhD (1997), and postdocs in Health Policy (1999, 2001)

His research explores how medical culture influences patient care and clinical research, with projects like EngageUC (biospecimen data harmonization), Cancer Patient Deliberation Study (treatment decisions in advanced cancer), and PCORI-funded initiatives integrating qualitative methods into patient-centered outcomes research. Recent work examines Alzheimer's disease treatment ethics, neurotechnology disparities, and surgical care for frail older adults.

Key scientific awards include Harvard's Hoopes Prize, UC Berkeley's Carol Hatch Ethnography Award, and the UCSF-Coro Faculty Leadership Collaborative. His grants include multiple NIH-funded studies on aging research (LEARN-MC), neurotechnology ethics (R01MH126997), and dementia decision-making (DP1AG069809).