BRENT SUGIMOTO, MD, MPH, FAAFP
     Family Physician
     President, QVMD
     Richmond, CA

Brent K. Sugimoto, MD, MPH, a family physician and President of QVMD Health in Oakland, California.  Dr. Sugimoto has served on the California Academy of Family Physicians Board of Directors, and as editor of the California Family Physician magazine since 2018, and co-president of the local CAFP chapter serving Alameda-Contra Costa counties. He is the CAFP representative on the California Surgeon General’s Workgroup for Trauma-Informed Care Primary Care Implementation, a group that focuses on reducing the impact of adverse childhood experiences.

He launched his career in 2013 as a family physician with the Permanente Medical Group in Oakland. He joined the group’s HIV Consult Service in 2014, where he worked to address health disparities in minority youth at risk for or affected by HIV. In 2017, Sugimoto became a senior physician and shareholder with the practice. During his tenure, Sugimoto served on the Kaiser Permanente-Northern California HIV Advisory Committee and has lectured nationally on HIV. He also volunteered his expertise as a member of the community advisory board at the San Francisco Department of Public Health HIV Research Section from 2006 to 2008.

After consistently encountering the challenges associated with the use of health information technology, Dr. Sugimoto joined Decoded Health, Inc. as a founder and chief medical officer in 2018. The company is developing artificial intelligence technology that can achieve the Institute of Healthcare Improvement’s Quadruple Aim, streamlining workflow to reduce administrative complexity with a focus on improving the affordability and accessibility of health care, especially to the underserved.

In 2008, Sugimoto earned his Master of Science in Health and Medical Sciences at the UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Joint Medical Program, a five-year curriculum that awards a master’s and a medical degree to graduates. He completed his medical degree at the University of California, San Francisco and his family medicine residency training at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, where he was chief family medicine resident in 2012 and 2013.

DISCLOSURE

Brent Sugimoto, MD declares that in the past 12 months neither he nor his partner/spouse have a financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with one or more organizations that could be perceived as a real or apparent conflict of interest in the context of the subject of this continuing education activity.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATEMENTS

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