Faz K. Bashi, MD, has a research background in Immunology and Virology from UCSF. He is the Chair of the Medical Device Screening Committee of Life Science Angels (LSA), and the Chair of the Angel Capital Association's Life Sciences Syndication group. He is also active in the LSA screening committee for Biotechnology & Pharmaceuticals. He is a member of the Berkeley Angel Network, and a founding member of HealthTech Capital where he served two years on the Board of Directors.
He has been active as a mentor with Pacific Community Ventures, which creates jobs and economic opportunity by increasing investment in local businesses. He served on the Board of Directors of Vascular Cures, serves as a volunteer instructor with the Peninsula Bridge educational program for under served kids in East Palo Alto. He is an adjunct Professor in the Integrative Health Studies program at California Institute of Integral Studies, and an active advisor to the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute. He recently completed several triathlons with Team-In-Training to raise funds for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, and competed in IronMan Couer d'Alene in 2012.
Previously he worked at San Mateo Medical Center to develop and implement special clinical projects to help the under served, including TeleDermatology, Diabetic Retinopathy Screening, and advancements in electronic medical records. He is an active consultant to Coleman Associates as a Deep Dive expert, and he coaches on workflow process improvement for public health clinics and safety net organizations across the US. He is passionate about novel technologies that improve the coordination and delivery of patient care through intelligent information brokering that enables true clinical collaboration, exemplified by his role on the Advisory Board of Tiatros.