2003 Health Care Symposium:
Michael Karpf, M.D.
Michael Karpf received both his undergraduate and medical degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. After an internship in Medicine at Johns Hopkins Hospital, he served as a Research Associate in the Laboratory of Immunology at the National Institutes of Health. He returned to the University of Pennsylvania to complete his medical residency, fellowship in Hematology and Oncology and a Chief Residency in Internal Medicine. In 1978, he went to the Miami Veteran Administration Hospital to start a Division of General Internal Medicine.
In 1979, he was recruited to the University of Pittsburgh to develop a Division of General Medicine. In 1985, he assumed the Falk Chair in General Medicine and became Vice Chair of the Department of Medicine. At the University of Pittsburgh, Dr.Karpf was instrumental in restructuring the educational programs for medical students and housestaff as well as the clinical programs of the Department of Medicine. The Division was described in the literature and served as a paradigm for Divisions of General Medicine at other academic institutions.
In 1994, Dr.Karpf went to the Allegheny Health Systems as Senior Vice President for Clinical Affairs at Allegheny General Hospital and Senior Vice President for Clinical Affairs at the Allegheny Integrated Health Group. His responsibilities at that institution included recruiting physicians, evaluating and acquiring medical practices, developing relationships with appropriate community hospitals and participating in the development of integrative processes.
In 1995, he was recruited to UCLA as Vice Provost for Hospital Systems. Dr. Karpf integrated the UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, the Santa Monica /UCLA Medical Center and the Neuropsychiatric Hospital into one corporate entity and has responsibility for this system. Working with the leadership from the Medical Group and the Department of Medicine, he has been instrumental in developing a primary care network for UCLA, which is central to the UCLA¨s emerging, integrated delivery network. He has extensive management responsibility for the planning and rebuilding of the replacement hospitals for the UCLA Medical Center and the SM/UCLA Medical Center. These two building projects will have a committed budget in excess of $900 million. As Vice Provost, he is a member of the senior leadership team of the UCLA Medical Enterprise. Recently, he has been instrumental in forging a partnership between the practice plans and the hospital system. This partnership has spawned the development of UCLA Healthcare as an integrated business entity uniting the hospital system and the practice plans. In addition to his hospital responsibilities, he has taken on a responsibility for the business functions of the practice plans and assumed the position of Director, Practice Plan Operations.
Dr. Karpf¨s academic interests have been in developing and evaluating innovative educational and clinical programs. He established the Primary Care Training Residency and the General Medicine Fellowships at the University of Pittsburgh. He established a health services research program at the University of Pittsburgh which received extensive funding from the National Institutes of Health, the National Library of Medicine and other sources, has published extensively and has been a reviewer for many journals. At UCLA, he has established a Center for Patient Safety and Quality.
Dr. Karpf had been involved in many civic and professional organizations. He was the Chairman of the Statewide Healthcare Coordinating Committee for Pennsylvania in 1993. He was a member of the Governor¨s Task Force evaluating Managed Care in California in 1997-1998 and served on the Board of Directors of the Hospital Association of Southern California for 1997-2000. He is currently on the Boards of Directors of American Heart Association and OneLegacy, a transplant organ procurement network, he also serves on the Board of Trustees of the California Healthcare Association (CHA). Since 2001, Dr. Karpf serves as the chairman of Advisory Panel on Health Care Delivery for the Association of American Medical Colleges. In 2002, he has been appointed to the Executive Committee of University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) and to the Executive Committee of the CHA Board of Trustees.
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