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Neal Kaufman, MD, MPH
Neal Kaufman, MD, MPH

    Dr. Neal Kaufman is professor of pediatrics and public health, UCLA Schools of Medicine and Public Health; co-founder, UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities; commissioner, First5 LA; and founder and chief executive officer, DPS Health. 

    After a 27 year career in academic medicine and public health, Dr. Kaufman founded DPS Healthto create technology solutions that enable clinicians to help their patients adopt and sustain health-promoting behaviors, with an approach grounded in patient self-management support theories, research-based protocols and the realities of real-world clinical practice. 

    Dr. Kaufman has extensive experience in a variety of aspects of health promotion, disease prevention and clinical care. As an academic practicing physician and public health professor for 27 years, he not only provided care to vulnerable populations, he also had responsibility to plan, implement, evaluate and evolve health and social services approaches at the individual, family, clinic, community and governmental level. This experience, coupled with his activities regarding provider and patient education, has given him the capacity to create effective clinically-linked programs that are based on how master clinicians provide care, can be linked into community resources and supports, and are enabled by sophisticated information technology support.

    His company,DPS Health, partners with healthcare organizations to improve outcomes of clinical behavior change and patient support programs by leveraging clinical and coaching know how, and our proprietary technologies and protocols. It has created a state-of-art internet-based platform that when coupled with research proven behavior change protocols create effective and scalable interventions, all designed to mimic the best approaches used by master clinicians/communicators. The approach allows web-based management and support for the patient, the coach (clinician), the administrator/quality assurance person and individuals supporting the patient (e.g. friends, family, co-workers).  It also allows a complete and time based behavioral intervention to be customized based on the individual's personal characteristics, performance over time and time on the intervention.

    Schedule29 Mar 2024