Wade Aubry is a San Francisco physician who has had a career as a clinician, administrator, health policy researcher, and health care consultant. He is a member of the core faculty of the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies at the University of California, San Francisco, a former chief medical officer for Blue Shield of California, and a former chief of staff for Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco. Dr. Aubry has served on numerous national health care advisory panels and has international health care experience. He is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of California, Los Angeles School of Medicine, and he has been a supporter and volunteer in varying capacities in the Episcopal Diocese of California over the last two decades, including service on the Board of Trustees of Grace Cathedral during the United Nations 50th Interfaith Service at Grace Cathedral in 1995, which provided a spark for the creation of URI.