Diane Chau Editor

Diane Chau, MD, is the PI of a $2.5m grant through the US Department of Health & Human Services to change clinical training environments for health care professionals from all disciplines through telehealth and technology to create a better skilled health care workforce. She is Associate Professor (past Program Director of Geriatric Medicine training program) at UC San Diego. A US News & World Report Top Physician, she completed her geriatric fellowship at UC San Diego School of Medicine in 2002 with a focus on education/curriculum design. During her career she has won over $5.5 million in peer-reviewed grant funding involving simulation training. She has been a published educator, mentor, educational program developer since 2002 with numerous historic and active grant-funding successes. She has a history of work in the area of simulation team training/telemedicine, dynamic team leadership, the successful completion of previous multimillion dollar projects related to education, and (excluding abstracts) has authored over 20 papers and book chapters in her field. She is also the Medical Director of GeriJoy, a tele-monitoring device company for seniors.