Christopher S. Saigal, MD

Chris Saigal, MD, is the vice chair of the Department of Urology at UCLA and is on staff at West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Saigal is the medical director of the UCLA Physician Quality Officer Program. He has been active as a physician leader at UCLA since 2001, focusing on practical implementation to improve decision-making, describe new approaches to measuring the cost of care, and introduce new techniques to incorporate the patient's voice into service line redesign. Dr. Saigal's major research area is in shared decision-making, quality, cost and access for urologic care in the U.S. He has published more than 130 policy- and quality of care-related manuscripts and two comprehensive compendia about utilization of health care services in urology. He has chaired or served as a committee member for several National Quality Forum (NQF) quality measurement efforts. As a former Gallagher Health Policy Scholar and American Urological Association (AUA) Quality Improvement and Patient Safety committee member, he has provided leadership on behalf of the AUA in many arenas, including the Surgical Quality Alliance.