Rafael Gonzalez-Amezcua MD

Dr. Rafael Amezcua is the Chief Medical Officer for Aetna Better Health of California. He is a Board-Certified Internist who has a passion for bringing team based innovative solutions to complex health care challenges. Dr. Amezcua has served in various leadership and management capacities from northern to southern California. He served as supervising physician at On Lok Senior Health in San Francisco, where he was also clinical faculty at UCSFs. He was the Medical Director at the UCSF Fresno General Internal Medicine Clinics. In Southern California he was the Regional Medical Director for Senior Services at AltaMed Health Care Services and then went on to serve as the founding Medical Director for Branden Centers for Senior Care, a PACE program for the Los Angeles Jewish Home. Prior to joining Aetna Dr. Amezcua was the Medicare Medical Director of the LA Care Health Plan where he oversaw all aspects of the Medi-Cal/Medicare dually eligible program Cal MediConnect. Throughout his career Dr. Amezcua has been an active participant in local and national events. For over ten years he served as medical commentator for San Francisco based Univision KTVU and hosted a live TV weekly medical segment. Dr. Amezcua was selected by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to co-chair the Council of Public Representatives, (COPR) and a national workshop on patient research participation. He also served in a national advisory group to the Robert Wood Johns Foundation. Dr. Amezcua has participated in multiple boards and has given numerous talks and presentations. He is a graduate of the California Health Care Foundation/ USCF Center for the Health Force Medical Leadership program. Dr. Amezcua is married and has three children who are all big soccer fans and players. He and his family enjoy reading and traveling and he particularly likes to cook creative dishes for his kids.