Arthur Wood, MD
Medical Director of Accountable Care – Government Payers.
Arthur leads our payer partnerships, design innovative programs, and engage internal and external stakeholders in key interventions for our Medicare and Medi-Cal populations. Both government and commercial plans continue to transition to risk sharing models, and we are now responsible for managing Medicare Advantage patients via Canopy.
Arthur is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anesthesia where he serves as Director for Anesthesia Pain Services at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG). During his tenure, he has sought to meet the complex pain care needs of San Francisco's publicly insured population by launching two services lines at ZSFG - a multidisciplinary pain clinic and a hospital-based consultation service. As Director, he works extensively with the San Francisco Department of Public Health to reduce wait times for specialty pain consultation, increase availability of telemedicine options, and address Health Effectiveness Data and Information Set (HEDIS) metrics related to opioid prescribing. To facilitate these efforts, he collaborated with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement in Boston, completing their Improvement Advisor Professional Development Program during his first year with UCSF.
Arthur's work has been recognized and supported through a UCSF Watson Faculty Scholars Award, a Strategic Use of Reserves Fund Award from the UCSF Clinical Practice Group at ZSFG, and through philanthropic donation. Arthur is also a coach in the UCSF School of Medicine’s Coaching Program. In this role, he provides career support to a cohort of medical students and acts as their faculty lead on a longitudinal quality improvement project. Prior to starting at UCSF, Arthur completed a value-based healthcare delivery design fellowship at Stanford’s Clinical Excellence Research Center. His work focused on reducing national health expenditure for spine pain through streamlining and automation of provider workflows. The design work has been published and is currently being implemented in a 3-year joint Stanford-Harvard cluster randomized trial.
Arthur received his bachelor’s degree in Biomedical and Electrical Engineering from Duke University and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. He completed Anesthesia Residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital followed by Pain Medicine Fellowship at Stanford. Outside of work, Arthur spends time with his wife Weilyn and their four children. He is an avid cyclist, birdwatcher, and Duke Basketball fan.