Dr. Ronald D. Hays

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Ronald D. Hays

Professor of Medicine, UCLA Department of Medicine/Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research

Dr. Hays has a background in patient-reported outcomes, survey methods, and patient-centered care.  He has published over 500 peer-reviewed articles, 13 reviews of the literature, and 37 book chapters.  

For the last 17 years he has held the position of professor of medicine in the Department of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Hays worked full-time as a behavioral scientist in the RAND Health program from 1984 until 1997 and has been a RAND consultant since starting at UCLA in 1997.