Carly Zapata

Hospice & Palliative Care Culture Change Initiative Lead

Carly Zapata is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a specialist in internal medicine with a subspecialty in hospice and palliative medicine. At Amend Dr. Zapata focuses on educational development and training for medical professions and other corrections staff in the care or and advocacy for incarcerated individuals with serious illness and at the end of life. The aim of this work is to improve the quality of end of life care and clinician and staff self-efficacy around caring for seriously ill residents of correctional facilities.