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The Director's Office
David M. Carlisle, M.D., Ph.D.
Director, Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development
David M. Carlisle, MD, PhD, has been the Director of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) since June 2000. As a practicing physician and an academic researcher, Dr. Carlisle brings more than two-decades of hands-on experience with California healthcare delivery to public service. He began serving OSHPD in 1991 as the Health Access representative on the Technical Advisory Committee, a committee that advises the Office on risk-adjusted outcomes studies.
Dr. Carlisle, a graduate from Brown University medical school with Masters and Doctorate degrees from the UCLA School of Public Health, is also a former Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholar, and is an Associate Professor of Medicine at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA in the Division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research.
Dr. Carlisle continues to be clinically active serving as a volunteer physician with the Venice Family Clinic in Southern California. An author of numerous articles and publications, Dr. Carlisle's work highlights his research interests in areas of access, quality, healthcare disparities, and medical education, with particular emphasis on vulnerable and underserved populations. In 2007 he was awarded the National Association of Health Data Organizations (NAHDO) Elliot Stone Award of Excellence in Health Data Leadership, which recognizes outstanding contributions to improvements in the collection, application, and dissemination of health data.
OSHPD was created in 1978 to provide the State with an enhanced understanding of the structure and function of its healthcare delivery systems. Since that time, its role has expanded to include direct delivery of various services designed to promote healthcare accessibility within California. OSHPD is now the leader in collecting data and disseminating information about California's healthcare infrastructure, promoting an equitably distributed healthcare workforce, and publishing valuable information about healthcare outcomes.
OSHPD also monitors the construction, renovation, and seismic safety of hospitals and skilled nursing facilities and provides loan insurance to facilitate the capital needs of California’s not-for-profit healthcare facilities. These programmatic functions are distributed across five divisions and one foundation, are advised by five boards and commissions, and are supported by the Office’s Administration Services Division.
The functions of the Director’s office include those of the Chief Deputy Director, the Assistant Director for Legislative and Public Affairs, the Legal Affairs Office, the Office of Information Security, and the Equal Employment Opportunity program. At present, OSHPD has approximately 450 staff operating out of locations in both Sacramento and Los Angeles.