Dr. Mitchell H. Katz earned a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University in 1981 and was awarded an M.D. degree at Harvard Medical School in 1986.  His residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) from 1986-89 was  followed by an appointment as Clinical Scholar, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation at the UCSF from 1989-91.

Dr. Katz's public health career spans 15 (1991) years in a variety of positions with increasing scope and responsibilities.  Prior to his appointment as Director of Health, he served as Director of the Community Health & Safety unit of the Department of Public Health.  He has served as Interim Medical Director for Emergency Medical Services, Director of Epidemiology, Disease Control & AIDS, Director of the AIDS Office and Chief of the Research Branch of the AIDS Office.

He has published extensively in a variety of professional medical journals and books and is author of  a  celebrated text book required by many training schools and universities, "Multivariable Statistics for Clinical Researchers," published by the Cambridge University Press.

He currently holds a teaching position as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology, UCSF School of Medicine and maintains a clinical AIDS practice at San Francisco General Hospital with the Community Health Network.

He and his son, Max, and daughter, Roxie, reside in San Francisco.