Chief Quality Officer and Vice President, UCSF Health & Clinical Professor, Anesthesia & Perioperative Care
UCSF 

Amy Lu, MD, MPH, serves as the chief quality officer and vice president, UCSF Health and clinical professor, anesthesia and perioperative care at UCSF Health where she leads initiatives to improve the quality of care in the ambulatory, inpatient and network settings. Her efforts are dedicated to improving value, creating innovative care models, establishing teamwork and improvement programs, and decreasing health disparities. She is a core faculty member for the Institute for Healthcare Improvement CQO program, co-chairs the Vizient Quality Executive Network, and was named as one of Becker’s patient safety experts to know.

Amy graduated from UC Berkeley, attended medical school at UCSF, and obtained an MPH at Harvard School of Public Health. Amy completed a research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health, medicine internship at Beth Israel Deaconess, and residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital in anesthesiology, perioperative and critical care. She has practiced at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Stanford Health Care, and currently practices at UCSF.