Patrick Romano


Patrick Romano MD, MPH

Patrick Romano is Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of California, Davis, School of Medicine. He is a graduate of Princeton University, Georgetown University School of Medicine, and the School of Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. He completed joint training in internal medicine and pediatrics at Case Western Reserve University Hospitals, followed by fellowship training in health services research and clinical epidemiology at the University of California, San Francisco. His research interests include comparative evaluation of health care outcomes, the use of outcomes data to improve the quality and effectiveness of health care, and the role of physicians, nurses, and other professionals in optimizing the quality and safety of health care. For the past 8 years, he has served as the Clinical Lead for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality’s national Quality Indicators program.