Daniel Dohan, PhD

Dr. Dohan is a Professor of Health Policy, Surgery, and Social Medicine at UCSF where he studies the culture of medicine. His work examines medical culture in the context of clinical research participation, the ethics of novel technologies, and the care of older, vulnerable adults. Dan’s primary appointment is at the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS) where he heads the Medical Cultures Lab and serves as the Institute’s Deputy Director and Training Director. He is faculty in the Department of Anthropology, History, and Social Medicine, the Department of Surgery, a Member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center, and co-Director of the UCSF/UC Hastings Consortium on Law, Science, and Health Policy. Dan received his PhD in sociology at UC Berkeley, and his dissertation was published as The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the Mexican-American Barrio (UC Press).