Gabriel J. Escobar, MD, is a retired research scientist at the Kaiser Permanente Northern California Division of Research. He was director of the Division of Research Systems Research Initiative (a research program focusing on adult hospital processes and outcomes, informatics, and program evaluation); and Regional Director for Hospital Operations Research for Kaiser Permanente Northern California, in which capacity he worked to improve Kaiser Permanente’s internal reporting and quality measurement capabilities. Dr. Escobar received his medical degree from Yale University School of Medicine; completed his pediatrics residency at University of California, San Francisco; and was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine. He is board certified in Clinical Informatics.
Dr. Escobar’s research interests included risk adjustment, predictive modeling, severity-of-illness scoring, the use of comprehensive inpatient and outpatient electronic medical records for health services research, and the use of real-time decision support tools that are embedded in the electronic record. Between 1991 and 2001, Dr. Escobar developed a research program in neonatology for Kaiser Permanente Northern California. In 2009 he turned over the neonatology research program to Michael Kuzniewicz, MD, at the Division of Research so that he could focus on the work of the Systems Research Initiative. Dr. Escobar also worked as a pediatric hospitalist at the Kaiser Permanente Walnut Creek, Antioch, and Oakland Medical Centers between 1984 and 2016.
