Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA
Associate Professor in Residence

UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
500 Parnassus, MU 320W
San Francisco, CA 94143-0728
Email:  bozick@orthosurg.ucsf.edu
Phone: 415-476-3900
Fax: 415-476-1304

Assistant: Cecilia DeGuzman
Email: deguzmance@orthosurg.ucsf.edu
Phone: 415-476-3320

Link to: Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

• technology assessment and cost-effectiveness analysis of surgical technologies
• influence of direct to consumer advertising in health care
• shared decision making/consumer incentives in health care
• impact of variability in orthopaedic practice patterns on quality and cost

Kevin J. Bozic, MD, MBA is an Associate Professor in Residence in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Bozic is a graduate of the UCSF School of Medicine and the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program. Additionally, he holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. Dr. Bozic has fellowship training in Musculoskeletal Traumatology from Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, and in Adult Reconstructive Surgery from Rush Medical College in Chicago.

Dr. Bozic’s clinical interests are in complex hip and knee reconstruction, and in minimally invasive techniques for total hip and knee replacement. His research interests include technology assessment and cost-effectiveness analysis of surgical technologies, the influence of direct to consumer advertising in health care, and the impact of variability in orthopaedic practice patterns on quality and cost. As an active member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon’s Board of Directors and the American Association of Hip & Knee Surgeon’s Health Policy Committee, Dr. Bozic has been involved in numerous regional and national health policy initiatives that affect orthopaedic practice, including a Medicare DRG advisory panel, the Surgical Quality Alliance’s Pay-for-Performance Initiatives, and the AMA’s RVS Update Committee.

Dr. Bozic was recently awarded the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation’s Clinical Research Award and the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeon’s Clinician-Scientist Traveling Fellowship Award for his work in Economic Evaluation of Total Joint Arthroplasty.