Joann G. Elmore, MD, MPH, is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Endowed Chair in Health Care Delivery and Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, a Professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, and an American Cancer Society Professor. She also serves as Director of the UCLA National Clinician Scholars Program.

Dr. Elmore is an internationally recognized leader in academic general internal medicine and has a distinguished career as an investigator, mentor, administrator and educator. Her work focuses on cancer screening, diagnostic accuracy, medical technology, artificial intelligence, human-AI interaction, health IT, OpenNotes, patient engagement and health care delivery. Her research has advanced scientific understanding in these areas and influenced clinical practice, with notable publications in cancer screening published in The New England Journal of Medicine, BMJ, and JAMA.

She has maintained continuous NIH funding for more than 25 years and has also received support from major foundations. Dr. Elmore currently serves as Principal Investigator on several multi-center R01s and is currently leading the first U.S. randomized clinical trial evaluating AI use in 3D mammography through support from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

Dr. Elmore has authored more than 350 publications and co-authored a widely used textbook on epidemiology, biostatistics, preventive medicine and public health that has been translated into multiple languages and used internationally in graduate education.

Before joining UCLA, Dr. Elmore held faculty and leadership positions at Yale University and the University of Washington. She served as Associate Director of the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars program at both institutions and was Professor of Medicine and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Washington. She was also affiliate investigator at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the Group Health Research Institute, and served as Head of General Internal Medicine at Harborview Medical Center from 2000- 2010.

Dr. Elmore earned her medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and completed residency training in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, with advanced training in epidemiology from the Yale School of Epidemiology and Public Health and the RWJF Clinical Scholars Program. Board certified in internal medicine, she serves on numerous national and international committees, is Editor in Chief for Primary Care at UpToDate, and continues to practice primary care medicine while teaching students and residents.