Yusuke Tsugawa, MD, PhD, MPH, is a faculty associate at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research and an assistant professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research. His research interests include understanding the variation in the quality and costs of health care across individual physicians and its determinants. His work focuses on using large databases and quasi-experimental approaches. Tsugawa's research has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and National Public Radio.
Prior to joining the faculty at UCLA, Tsugawa was a health specialist at the World Bank Group and a research associate in the Department of Health Policy and Management of Harvard School of Public Health.
Tsugawa earned his medical degree from Tohoku University School of Medicine in Japan, a doctoral degree in health policy from Harvard University with a concentration in statistics, and a master's degree in public health from Harvard School of Public Health.
It doesn’t take a Ph.D. to deduce why this many be; it’s the same reason men shouldn’t be making the decisions on reproductive rights. When I tell my female doctor I have a headache, hot flashes and I’m tired, she doesn’t chalk it up to “being a busy mom.” Dr. Yusuke Tsugawa, one of the researchers behind the study, theorized that male doctors may underestimate how severe a female patient’s symptoms are, particularly when it comes to pain levels. Dr. Tsugawa further suggests female doctors may communicate better with their female patients. It should be noted, Dr. Tsugawa is male.