Scott Rasgon
MD
Board Member
Areas of Focus
Nephrology; Chronic kidney disease; Chronic disease care; ESRD network leadership
Education
- Bachelor’s Degree; University of California, Los Angeles
- Doctor of Medicine; University of Southern California
Scott Rasgon, an associate professor at the Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine, has been caring for patients with chronic kidney disease, hypertension, diabetes, obesity and high cholesterol for almost 40 years. Throughout his long medical career, Dr. Rasgon has served in multiple leadership positions and is a staff nephrologist at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center, where he was chief of nephrology from 2006 to 2019 and assistant chief of internal medicine from 2012 to 2019.
He served as the chair for the End Stage Renal Disease Network 18 medical review board from 2011 to 2018 and served as president of the ESRD Network 18 board of directors from 2010-2016 and 2018-2021.
Dr. Rasgon has made presentations locally, nationally and internationally on chronic disease care and has been the keynote speaker and chairman of multiple medical symposiums on chronic disease care. He has also been honored for programs he has initiated on patient education, evaluation and quality of care of patients with chronic illness.
He completed his undergraduate education at the University of California, Los Angeles and received his medical degree from the University of Southern California. He is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology.