Joel Tsevat, M.D., M.P.H.
Member
Joel Tsevat, M.D., M.P.H., is a general internist, professor of medicine, and Joaquin G. Cigarroa, Jr., M.D., distinguished chair in the Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. He is director of the Center for Research to Advance Community Health, a community-engaged research, health services research, population health, telementoring, and dissemination and implementation science center. Dr. Tsevat is also the director of The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio’s Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) K12 program and a professor in the Departments of Population Health and Internal Medicine at The University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School. In addition, he holds secondary appointments at the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, The University of Texas at San Antonio, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston—San Antonio regional campus, and the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. His internal medicine experience includes more than 35 years of providing patient care to adults of all ages across primary care and in-patient settings.
Dr. Tsevat is a past president of the international Society for Medical Decision Making. He is also a long-standing member of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians. He served on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences CTSA Steering Committee, where he co-led the Collaboration and Engagement Enterprise Committee, which focuses on community engagement, dissemination and implementation, and team science.
Dr. Tsevat’s research interests include patient-reported outcomes, decision modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis, shared decision making, and health communication. He has served as principal investigator on multiple federally funded grants from the NIH, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), including an AHRQ grant, “Incorporating Patient-Reported Outcomes Into Shared Decision Making With Patients With Osteoarthritis of the Knee.” He has been a principal investigator on CTSA grants at the University of Cincinnati from 2009 to 2017 and at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio since 2017.
Dr. Tsevat received a B.A. in Plan II from The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his M.D. from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Emory University-affiliated hospitals and a fellowship in clinical decision making and medical information sciences at Tufts Medical Center. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Dr. Tsevat was appointed to the Task Force due to his particular expertise in the critical evaluation of published research, with a focus on decision modeling, as well as his experience in clinical prevention and primary care, specifically around shared decision making and health communication. He joined the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in January 2023.
Dr. Tsevat is a past president of the international Society for Medical Decision Making. He is also a long-standing member of the Society of General Internal Medicine and the American College of Physicians. He served on the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences CTSA Steering Committee, where he co-led the Collaboration and Engagement Enterprise Committee, which focuses on community engagement, dissemination and implementation, and team science.
Dr. Tsevat’s research interests include patient-reported outcomes, decision modeling, cost-effectiveness analysis, shared decision making, and health communication. He has served as principal investigator on multiple federally funded grants from the NIH, Department of Veterans Affairs, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), including an AHRQ grant, “Incorporating Patient-Reported Outcomes Into Shared Decision Making With Patients With Osteoarthritis of the Knee.” He has been a principal investigator on CTSA grants at the University of Cincinnati from 2009 to 2017 and at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio since 2017.
Dr. Tsevat received a B.A. in Plan II from The University of Texas at Austin. He earned his M.D. from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio and M.P.H. from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He completed a residency in internal medicine at the Emory University-affiliated hospitals and a fellowship in clinical decision making and medical information sciences at Tufts Medical Center. He is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Award from The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.
Dr. Tsevat was appointed to the Task Force due to his particular expertise in the critical evaluation of published research, with a focus on decision modeling, as well as his experience in clinical prevention and primary care, specifically around shared decision making and health communication. He joined the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force in January 2023.