About me
Ming Tai-Seale, PhD, MPH, is a Professor and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Family Medicine and the Department of Medicine (Bioinformatics) at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. Her research focuses on medical practice, patient-physician communication, and mental health economics. Dr. Tai-Seale pioneered the use of User Action Log in electronic health records to study physician practices and their impact on physician wellbeing. She was the first to utilize video and audio recordings of clinical encounters to analyze time allocation in medical practice. Dr. Tai-Seale is the lead author of two award-winning papers on physician time allocation and mental health services in primary care, which received the Paper-of-the-Year Award from AcademyHealth. As Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI, her research has received funding from agencies including the NIH, AHRQ, PCORI, HRSA, and the Department of Veterans Affairs. Her work has also been supported by private organizations.
Additionally, she serves as the Director for Outcomes Analysis and Scholarship and the Director for Research and Learning in the Population Health Services Organization at UC San Diego Health. She earned her PhD from UCLA Fielding School of Public Health.
