Dr. Kuo is Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Family Medicine in the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Adjunct Professor of Epidemiology in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He is also Program Leader for the Population Health Program in the UCLA Clinical and Translational Science Institute. In 2016, he became a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians. In the County of Los Angeles, Department of Public Health, he serves as the Director of the Division of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention.

Dr. Kuo is an experienced public sector executive and physician researcher who has worked extensively in population health, including on programs and interventions that affect special populations (e.g., older adults, food insecure families). These and other work have included projects in tobacco control; cardiovascular health; clinical and preventive services, including the National Diabetes Prevention Program and the Diabetes Self-Management Education and Support program; nutrition and physical activity promotion; injury prevention; Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, and social conditions that affect health.