Dr. Nasim Afsar

Nasim Afsarmanesh, MD, MBA, is a hospital medicine physician and health system leader. Her clinical focus includes hospital medicine care coordination, patient safety and quality improvement, and population health and value-based care. Her research interests span performance improvement science, health services research on care delivery efficiency, and clinical quality analytics. She received the Master in Hospital Medicine designation from the Society of Hospital Medicine and has served as a board member and past president of the organization. Her leadership experience includes roles as Associate Chief Medical Officer and Chief Quality Officer at UCLA Health, Executive Director of Quality and Safety for the Departments of Medicine and Neurosurgery, Chief Operating Officer and Executive for Population Health Management at UCI Health, and former Chief Health Officer at Oracle. Dr. Afsarmanesh earned her MD from the University of California, Davis School of Medicine and also holds an MBA.