Dr. Joshua Weil is a practicing Emergency Physician at Kaiser Permanente Santa Rosa. He grew up in Northern California and completed his B.A. degree at the University of California, San Diego and received his medical degree from the University of Illinois, Chicago. He returned to California to complete his residency training in Emergency Medicine at UC Davis Medical Center and took a position at Kaiser Permanente in 1998. Dr. Weil served as Chief of the Emergency Department for over 11 years and as Chair of the Chiefs of Emergency Medicine for Northern California from 2007-2011. He was the Assistant Physician-in-Chief for Hospital Operations from 2011 to 2019.
A strong interest in volunteerism and disaster medicine has taken him to Sri Lanka following the tsunami, Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina, Haiti to respond to the earthquake, and the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan. Locally he has served on the Board of Directors for the American Red Cross Sonoma/Lake/Mendocino Chapter since 2011 and the Board of Directors for the Ceres Project since 2014 and is the Immediate Past President of the Ceres Board. Dr. Weil has been a regular volunteer at the Jewish Community Free Clinic for almost 15 years and in 2014 assumed the role of Medical Director. He has also served as “team physician” for the Santa Rosa Piner High School and Maria Carrillo High School football teams for over 2 decades.
Dr. Weil lives in Santa Rosa with his wife and many pets. He does his best to make time for San Francisco Giants games and his passion for golf. He has competed in endurance triathlon and enjoys lots of travel.