Jeff Belkora, PhD, is Director of Decision Services at the UCSF Breast Care Center  and Assistant Adjunct Professor of Surgery  with an appointment at the Institute for Health Policy Studies, at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
Dr. Belkora  studies  leadership, teamwork, and decision making.  He has created and evaluated patient education, participation, and decision support programs that have been implemented at UCSF and elsewhere. He is involved with national and international initiatives promoting patient-centered care as a part of quality improvement in medicine. Dr. Belkora is a  frequent lecturer on decision making at the UCSF School of Medicine, the Health Psychology Program at UCSF, the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, and in Engineering courses at Stanford University. Dr. Belkora has been the featured speaker at decision making conferences and seminars in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand. He is the author of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, and case studies on decision-making.
Dr. Belkora serves on the Board of Directors of  Breast Cancer Connections, a community-based resource center in Palo Alto, CA. Prior to joining the UCSF faculty, Dr. Belkora was a co-founder of Outcome Software, a decision analysis software company,  and before that he worked as a management consultant at Strategic Decisions Group.

Dr. Belkora earned an Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University. His graduate training at Stanford University included an M.Sc. in Statistics and culminated with a Ph.D in Engineering. Dr. Belkora's doctoral dissertation in the Department of Management Science & Engineering at Stanford won the Goldsmith Award from the Stanford Center on Conflict and Negotiation in 1997. The Oncology Roundtable of the Advisory Board singled out his Consultation Planning methodology as a National Best Practice in 1999. In 2006, Dr. Belkora was selected as a UCSF Teaching Scholar and as the recipient of a Career Development Award sponsored by UCSF and the National Institutes of Health.