Chief Information Officer

Joe is the enterprise chief information officer for UCSF and senior vice president of information technology (IT) for UCSF Health. He is also an associate vice chancellor for UCSF. His responsibilities include IT strategy and operations for UCSF Health; and IT research, education, and administrative systems; data and analytics; and infrastructure, customer support services and security for UCSF. He represents UCSF on IT initiatives at the University of California.

Before joining UCSF in 2011, Bengfort worked for 22 years at Perot Systems, where he held a broad range of senior leadership positions; his duties included managing client relationships and service delivery at Parkland Memorial Hospital, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford, Triad Hospitals and Stanford Health Care. He has a bachelor's degree in electronic engineering technology from Texas A&M University.