CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SACRAMENTO : AIDS Scholar Wins State Health Post
Dr. David Werdegar, a prominent AIDS scholar and the former top health official in San Francisco, was named director of the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development on Friday. Werdegar, 60, of Ross will head the state agency that oversees a variety of health issues, from development of hospitals and other care facilities to health care financing. “As director, he will work to reassess the office’s role in identifying California’s health care needs and planning for how those needs can be met,” Gov. Pete Wilson said in a statement announcing the appointment. Werdegar has been a faculty member at the UC San Francisco School of Medicine since 1964. He serves as professor of family and community medicine at the Institute for Health Policy Studies.
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