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Jane Zhu

Jane Zhu MD, MPP

Internal Medicine
Portland, Oregon, United States of America

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Dr. Zhu is a primary care physician and Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine and core faculty in the Center for Health Systems Effectiveness at Oregon Health & Science University. She holds a secondary appointment in Health Systems Management & Policy at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health and is an adjunct Senior Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Zhu's research centers on healthcare access and quality, particularly for mental/behavioral health services, as well as provider incentives and organization of care. Her work has been published in high-impact journals, including JAMA, New England Journal of Medicine, and Health Affairs, and has been cited in government and legislative reports. Her work is supported by NIMH, AHRQ, and foundation grants.

Dr. Zhu obtained her BSc degree in global health and international development from Duke University, where she was an A.B. Duke Scholar and awarded a Fulbright Fellowship. She received dual degrees in medicine and public policy from Harvard Medical School (MD) and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (MPP). After internal medicine residency training at the University of California, San Francisco, she was selected as a National Clinician Scholar at the University of Pennsylvania where she completed a two-year fellowship.

Dr. Zhu serves on national and regional committees for the Society for General Internal Medicine the American College of Physicians, and the National Academy of Medicine.