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Patricia Kapur, M.D.
Chief Executive Officer, UCLA Faculty Practice Group
Executive Vice President, UCLA Health System
As CEO of the Faculty Practice Group, Dr. Patricia Kapur will provide oversight of all FPG activities and spearhead the FPG's strategic development and growth during a time when the nation's health care delivery system will be undergoing tremendous change. Specific functions and management responsibilities she will oversee include: ambulatory clinical operations, oversight of the Community Physician Network as well as the UCLA-Santa Monica Bay Physicians, clinical services agreements for UCLA physicians with other regional sites, contracting and contract-management, physician billing and other physician support activities, risk-management, legal matters, and IT priorities.
During Dr. Kapur's distinguished career, she has held many important positions in UCLA Health Sciences and in the larger academic medical community. Most recently, Dr. Kapur co-chaired the clinical component of the UCLA Health System's Strategic Planning Initiative. She has served as Director of Perioperative Services since 1997 and as Chair of the UCLA Medical Staff Operating Rooms Committee. She is also a member of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center Medical Staff Executive Committee and the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center and Orthopaedic Hospital Medical Staff Surgery Committee, and is currently serving on the UCLA Health System Strategy and Services Council.
Outside UCLA, Dr. Kapur has served as President of the American Board of Anesthesiology, President of the Foundation of Anesthesia Education and Research, as a member of the editorial board and section editor of Anesthesia & Analgesia, and as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Anesthesia Research Society. She is a member of the governing Council's of the Association of University Anesthesiologists, the Society of Academic Anesthesiology Associations, and the Association of Academic Anesthesiology Chairs. Dr. Kapur currently serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation, which was lauded by the Institute of Medicine for significantly changing the culture of safety and improving outcomes in anesthesiology care across the United States.
A graduate of Oberlin College and the University of Pennsylvania medical school, Dr. Kapur completed her residency training at Stanford University Hospital before coming to UCLA's department of anesthesiology in 1979 as a research fellow. She has held numerous visiting professorships and now holds the Ronald L Katz, M.D., Endowed Chair of Anesthesiology.
