Elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and founder of the UCSD Health Services Research Center, Dr. Theodore G. Ganiats, MD, serves as Professor Emeritus of Family Medicine and Public Health at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, with his departmental affiliation tied to the UCSD 4th & Lewis Medical Offices at 330 Lewis Street in Hillcrest. A 1978 UCSD School of Medicine graduate who finished his Family Medicine residency at UCSD Medical Center in 1981, Ganiats leads the multi-site BEAT-HF heart failure trial on postdischarge telemonitoring and nurse telephone coaching, with cardiology comanagement pathways routing device titration and guideline-directed therapy through San Diego Heart and Vascular Associates. He served as the first director of the National Center for Excellence in Primary Care Research at the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and has chaired or sat on more than 50 national guideline, quality, and performance panels, including co-authorship of the CDC guideline on the diagnosis and management of mild traumatic brain injury in children published in JAMA, and the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine published in JAMA in 2016. While representing the American Academy of Family Physicians, he has reviewed dozens of reports for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, grounding clinical recommendations in the same evidence base he helped build at the federal level. His Gastroenterology 2018 study on age-specific colorectal cancer screening intervals for people with family histories of CRC directly informs referral thresholds out of primary care, with screening and diagnostic colonoscopies routed to San Diego Gastroenterology for average-risk and family-history-positive workups. The highest-complexity work in his research portfolio is the BEAT-HF randomized trial on postdischarge noninvasive telemonitoring and nurse coaching for heart failure patients with high comorbidity burden, published in the Journal of Cardiac Failure and in the cardiovascular nursing literature.