Mitchell H. Katz
| Mitchell H. Katz | |
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| Director of the Los Angeles County Health Agency | |
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Assumed office November 24, 2015 |
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| Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services | |
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Assumed office January 3, 2011 |
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| Director of the San Francisco Department of Public Health | |
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In office 1997–2010 |
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| Preceded by | Sandra Hernandez |
| Succeeded by | Barbara A. Garcia |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1960 (age 57) Brooklyn, New York, U.S. |
| Domestic partner | Igael Gurin-Malous |
| Children | Maxwell and Roxie |
| Residence | Los Angeles, California |
| Alma mater | |
| Occupation | Physician and civil servant |
Mitchell H. Katz (born 1960, also known as Mitch Katz) is the incumbent Director of the Los Angeles County Health Agency and the Director of Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, the United States' second largest municipal hospital system.
Katz was raised in Brooklyn, New York, the youngest of three children. Both his brother and sister are developmentally disabled.
Katz received a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology at Yale University and received a medical degree at Harvard Medical School. In 1989, he completed his residency in internal medicine at University of California, San Francisco.
After his residency, Katz remained in San Francisco. In 1991, he joined the San Francisco Department of Public Health (SFDPH), serving as chief of research and director of the AIDS Office, director of the Emergency Medical Services Agency and director of the department’s health and safety branch.
From 1997 to 2010, Katz served as the Director of Health and Health Officer for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, where he implemented the Healthy San Francisco program, which is the United States' first municipal universal health care system.
During his tenure, Katz also served as a medicine, epidemiology and biostatistics professor at the University of California, San Francisco, while operating an outpatient practice at San Francisco General Hospital's Positive Healthcare Practice.
In 2010, Katz was recruited by the Los Angeles County Chief Executive Officer William T Fujioka to lead the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services.
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