Leonard Finocchio

Leonard Finocchio is a Senior Program Officer, Public Financing and Policy, California HealthCare Foundation, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Health Education at San Francisco State University. Formerly, he was the Principal Policy Associate at Children Now, an advocacy group in Oakland, California. Prior to that, he was Associate Director for State Programs at the Center for the Health Professions at the University of California, San Francisco, and Staff Co-Director of the Pew Health Professions Commission and Staff Director of the Commission's Taskforce on Health Care Workforce Regulation.

Mr. Finocchio researches and writes about health professions regulation, the allied health workforce, community health workers, medical education, and state health workforce policy. He has consulted on workforce issues for the National Commission on Allied Health, the National Conference of State Legislatures, the states of Alabama, Maine, Washington, and Colorado, and many health professional schools. He completed his Master of Public Health degree at UCLA and is currently a doctoral student in health policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Mr Finocchio has been a certified emergency medical technician for more than 15 years.