Janet Diaz

Janet is an accomplished specialist in Intensive Care Medicine with expertise in clinical medicine and global health.  She is committed to working with medical and public health professionals to deliver quality, safe, and cost-efficient care to critically ill patients in resource-limited regions.  Since 2010, she has worked for the WHO Epidemic Clinical Management Team, as the Technical Lead for the Severe Acute Respiratory Infection (SARI) Critical Care Training project which has trained over 1000 doctors globally. In San Francisco, she works at the California Pacific Medical Center, a tertiary referral center.  She received her post-graduate training in Internal, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF).  From 2006-2010, she served as the Medical Director of the MICU at San Francisco General Hospital and as an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF where she was recognized for her leadership in hospital quality, patient safety, and clinical teaching.