The document provides brief profiles of several UCSF colleagues working in global health and HIV research. It includes their research interests, keywords and countries they have worked in. The profiles highlight a wide range of research areas including infectious diseases like HIV, TB and malaria, non-communicable diseases, diagnostics, epidemiology, implementation science and more. Countries of focus include Uganda, Kenya, South Africa, Tanzania and others. The purpose is to introduce colleagues with shared interests in global health and HIV research.

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2. Nisha Acharya- Associate Professor Proctor Foundation
Global Keywords: antibiotic; eye; uvelitis
Countries: India; Mozambique
Design and implementation of clinical trials to determine the optimal treatment for infectious and inflammatory eye diseases. Current projects include
clinical trials on infectious corneal ulcers, uveitis-related macular edema, and tuberculous uveitis.
Nadav Ahituv- Assistant Professor Bioengin & Therapeutic Sci
Global Keywords: molecular mechanism, gene expression, obesity,
Countries: Brazil Sweden, Canada, United Kingdom, Italy, France
Weiyun Ai - Associate Professor
Global Keywords: cancer; clinical trial; virus
Countries: China
Erin Amerson - Assistant Professor MED- Dermatology
Global Keywords: Kaposi’s sarcoma
Countries: Uganda
Emily Arnold- Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: HIV; adolescent; anti-retroviral; ART naïve; HARRT; poverty
Countries: Kenya; Uganda; Zambia
Tom Arnold- Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: Pediatric stroke and brain injury
Colette Auerswald - Associate Professor MED- Pediatrics
Global Keywords: homeless, adolescent,
Countries: Kenya
Jennifer Babik - Assistant Professor MED- Infectious Disease
Global Keywords: field, infectious disease, hepatitis, pregnancy,
Countries: Uganda
Specializes in clinical infectious diseases, with a focus on infections in immunocompromised hosts. Also interested in medical education, is the
Inpatient Site Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Moffitt-Long Hospital
Oliver Bacon - Associate Professor Med
Global Keywords: e-education; e-medicine; infectious disease; medical training
Countries: Brazil; Cote D'ivoire; France; Mexico
Urmila Bajpai - Assistant Professor
Fc Receptor Like-3 (FcRL3), a transmembrane receptor expressed on regulatory T cells.
Kirsten Balano - Assistant Professor
adherence to HIV antiretroviral therapy, drug interactions, and adverse effects
Kimberly Baltzell - Assistant Professor NURSE- Physiological Nursing
Global Keywords: field, bednet, breast cancer,
Countries: Malawi
Identify predictors of placental malaria among HIV-infected and –uninfected women in rural Uganda, and to assess correlations between four
methods of diagnosing placental malaria and low birth weight (LBW) among HIV-infected and –uninfected women. Assess the acceptability and
feasibility of serial HIV antibody testing among HIV-uninfected pregnant and breastfeeding women from the initiation of antenatal care until 24 weeks
postpartum in Tororo, Uganda. The Connie Wofsy Women’s HIV Study to investigate the natural history of HIV in women, with special attention to
the effect of HIV therapy on behavioral, medical, and gynecological conditions. International and Domestic Pediatric and Maternal HIV Studies
:framework for collection and evaluation of data and collection of repository specimens from HIV-infected pregnant and postpartum women and their
infants. Evaluating the Implementation of the CDC’s Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing. Novel Strategies to Prevent Malaria and Improve
HIV Outcomes in Africa

3. Paul Baum - not listed
Global Keywords: HIV; cellular mechanism; immunity; infectious disease
Countries: Uganda
Sanjiv Baxi - Resident
Global Keywords: burden of malaria in Eastern Africa, interventions to eradicate Malaria
Countries: Cuba Ecuador
Jessica Beard-Resident MED- Surgery education
Keyword: field, maternal health, obstetric fistula, maternal transmission,
Countries: Nairobi, Kenya
Vinona Bhatia - Assistant Professor
Keyword: cancer; Kaposi’s sarcoma
Countries: Ethiopia, Tanzania, Uganda
Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Associate Professor Medicine
Global Keywords: cardiac, disparities, epidemiology
Robert Blelloch - Associate Professor Urology
Global Keywords: HIV VCT and Linkage to Care in Uganda
Countries: Uganda
Dejana Braithwaite- Assistant Professor UCSF School of Medicine
Global Keywords: epidemiology; obesity; cancer; disparity
John Brown - Associate Professor Emergency Medicine
Global Keywords: First responders, capacity building
Countries: Ukraine, Haiti
Nancy Burke -Associate Professor MED cancer center
Global Keywords: hepatitis; cancer; capacity building
Countries: Viet Nam, Cuba, Israel
Trevor Burt Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: HIV; cardiac; genetic; neonate; pediatric
Countries: no
Lisa Butler-Assistant Professor MED- Epidemiology and Biostatistics/ Global Health
Global Keywords: HIV, pediatric, infectious disease
Countries: South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Ghana
Conor Caffrey other MED- Pathology
Global Keywords: schistosomiasis, drug development
Carol Camlin - Assistant Professor MED- CAPS
Global Keywords: reproductive rights,
Countries: South Africa
Adam Carrico - Assistant Professor Nursing Community Health Systems
Global Keywords: substance abuse,adherence
Kenya,Zimbabwe, Japan, South Africa
I am pursuing a program of community-engaged, clinical research to integrate behavioral and biomedical approaches to HIV prevention with
marginalized, underserved populations. My prior research examined the efficacy of psychological interventions for HIV-positive persons and
documented HIV-related health disparities among stimulant (i.e., cocaine, crack, and methamphetamine) users. Currently, I am developing and
testing psychological interventions that are designed to optimize the effectiveness of HIV treatment as prevention (TasP) with HIV-positive,
methamphetamine-using men who have sex with men (MSM). The ultimate goal of this program of research will be to determine whether
interventions targeting affect regulation can boost the effectiveness of TasP with this stimulant users.

4. Adithya Cattamanchi Assistant Professor MED- Pulmonary
Global Keywords: rapid diagnosis, resistance, TB, field, pneumonia,
Countries: Uganda
My research is focused on two thematic areas: 1) Development and evaluation of tuberculosis (TB) diagnostics and 2) Implementation and
dissemination of evidence-based preventative, diagnostic, and treatment interventions for TB. I have considerable experience with the evaluation of
TB diagnostics in low-income countries, including studying the impact of new diagnostics on patient- and public health-important outcomes. I have
served on several World Health Organization (WHO) Expert Group panels to develop new policies related to TB diagnostics and serve as a faculty
member for the Advanced Tuberculosis Diagnostics Research workshop sponsored by the WHO Stop TB Partnership. I have initiated a number of
collaborations with engineers in industry and academia to develop and evaluate new diagnostic platforms for TB including: 1) mobile phone-based
microscopy; 2) mobile phone-based molecular diagnostic platforms; and 3) single-particle aerosol mass spectrometry. We are currently evaluating
the mobile phone-based microscopy platform and health centers in Hanoi, Vietnam in a demonstration project funded by the TB REACH initiative. In
addition to research on TB diagnostics, I have developed an active research agenda related to implementation science. I helped establish a platform
for monitoring the quality of TB care at 6 rural health centers in Uganda. My current work, supported through an NIH/NIAID R21 in Implementation
and Dissemination Science, is focused on improving the quality of TB suspect evaluation at these health centers.
Marielle Cavrois – Assistant Professor Gladsone
Oscar Cervantes -Assistant Professor
Gabriel Chamie - Assistant Professor MED- Infectious Disease
Global Keywords: TB, field
Countries: Uganda
Academic focus: HIV/TB Co-infection; TB transmission dynamics in settings with generalized HIV epidemics; TB prevention in HIV-infected people;
intensified TB case-finding; community-based health campaigns in rural Uganda.
Jayshree Chander not in
fellow in environmental and occupational medicine at UCSF local
Andreadis Charalambos -Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: bone marrow; chemotherapy; drug; genetic; stem cell; transplant
Countries: Japan
Jyu-Lin Chen -Assistant Professor NURSE- Family Health
Global Keywords: obesity
Taiwan (Province Of China),
Charles Chiu - Assistant Professor MED- Laboratory Medicine
Global Keywords: gastroenteritis
Countries: Mexico
Dr. Charles Chiu is Director of UCSF-Abbott Viral Diagnostics and Discovery Center (VDDC) at China Basin and Associate Director of the UCSF
Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Charles is an expert in the emerging field of viral metagenomics. His research is focused on the development of
microarray and deep sequencing technologies for viral pathogen discovery and clinical diagnostics. He is PI on an NIH grant on blood bank
pathogen screening, California Discovery, UC-MEXUS, and National Research Fund for Tickborne Diseases (NRFTD) grants on the microbial
epidemiology of encephalitis, diarrhea, and Lyme disease, a QB3 Rogers Family Foundation Award in translational diagnostics, and a UCSF-Abbott
Viral Discovery Award. Charles has more than 30 patents and peer-reviewed publications in scientific journals and ongoing collaborations with
research groups and public health agencies worldwide.
Research Institute. Shweta Choudhry - -Associate Professor Urology
My research focuses on understanding the genetic basis of complex human diseases using population-based genetics approaches. Complex human
diseases involve multiple genes and environmental factors. My research work involves implementation of novel and state-of-the art genetic and
statistical methods and genotyping techniques such as those used for high-throughput sequencing, genome-wide association, admixture mapping,
pathway-based and gene-environment studies to identify susceptibility loci for complex diseases. Currently, I am developing a population-based
genetics research program to investigate underlying genetic factors that cause benign urologic disorders including hypospadias, urinary incontinence
and male infertility. The program focuses on identification of genetic and environmental factors that influence incidence and clinical outcomes of
urologic diseases with long term goal of improving our understanding of the pathogenesis of these diseases and eventually leading to improved
interventions for prevention and therapy

5. Katerina Christopoulos - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: hepatitis; HIV
Countries: Uganda
Academic Focus: Linkage and retention in HIV care; HIV testing in the emergency department and other acute medical care settings; acute HIV
infection; quality of HIV care delivery; implementation science
Sharon Chung - Assistant Professor UCSF School of Medicine
Keyword: arthritis
Jennifer Cocohoba - Associate Professor
Global Keywords: HIV; pharmacy; AIDS; anti-retroviral; clinical pharmacy
Countries: Guatemala
Dr. Cocohoba is a Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the UCSF School of Pharmacy. Dr.
Cocohoba specializes in HIV/AIDS Ambulatory Care Pharmacy. She serves as the clinical pharmacist responsible for the treatment adherence
program at the Ryan White funded UCSF Womens’ HIV Program (WHP). She also serves as a faculty and research advisor for the student-run free
clinic, Mabuhay Health Center. Dr. Cocohoba conducts research on antiretroviral therapy concordance with national treatment guidelines, sex-
related HIV treatment disparities, pharmacy-based instruments and interventions to improve adherence to HIV antiretroviral medicines, and on the
health of Filipino and Filipino Americans.
Deborah Cohan -Associate Professor Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Science
Global Keywords: health policy; women's health; HIV testing; sex worker; stigma
Countries: Kenya; Uganda
Identify predictors of placental malaria among HIV-infected and –uninfected women in rural Uganda, and to assess correlations between four
methods of diagnosing placental malaria and low birth weight (LBW) among HIV-infected and –uninfected women. Assess the acceptability and
feasibility of serial HIV antibody testing among HIV-uninfected pregnant and breastfeeding women from the initiation of antenatal care until 24 weeks
postpartum in Tororo, Uganda. The Connie Wofsy Women’s HIV Study to investigate the natural history of HIV in women, with special attention to
the effect of HIV therapy on behavioral, medical, and gynecological conditions. International and Domestic Pediatric and Maternal HIV Studies
:framework for collection and evaluation of data and collection of repository specimens from HIV-infected pregnant and postpartum women and their
infants. Evaluating the Implementation of the CDC’s Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing. Novel Strategies to Prevent Malaria and Improve
HIV Outcomes in Africa
Stephanie Cohen - resident
Megan Comfort - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: behavior; HIV prevention; HIV risk; inmate *
Lynn Connolly Assistant (vol)
Pierre-Cedric Crouch - Nurse practitioner
Nurse Manager for the CTSI Clinical Research Service at the San Francisco VA Nursing PhD student in Health informatics. Studying the impact of
electronic personal health records on patient activation in HIV Major Fields: HIV/AIDS Primary Care, Clinical Research, Health Informatics,
mHealth, Patient Empowerment, Social Media Licensure/Certifications: Adult Nurse Practitioner Certification (ANCC) Registered Nurse DEA and
Furnishing (Schedule II-V) AIDS Certified Registered Nurse (ACRN) CPR (BCLS) IATA
Madhavi Dandu - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: human rights, education
Countries: Ghana Kenya
Madhavi Dandu completed her residency training in the Categorical Medicine Program at UCSF in 2003. She received a Masters in Public Health at
University of California, Berkeley with a focus on international health and health and human rights. Dr. Dandu spent two years at the University of
Michigan in the hospitalist group providing inpatient clinical care to patients and teaching residents and medical students. At UCSF, Dr. Dandu
spends time on the inpatient medicine wards and neurosurgical consult services supervising and teaching medical students and residents. Her main
nonclinical areas of focus are in global health education, curriculum development, and mentorship. She is Associate Director of the Pathways to
Discovery Program in Global Health, a cross-University program designed to prepare UCSF undergraduate and graduate trainees to be successful
in global health careers. She is Associate Director of the Masters of Science in Global Health. The MS in Global Health is a one-year, designed for
students or practitioners in a health science profession or related field who wish to achieve mastery and leadership skills in the field of global health.
Finally, she directs the Global Health Area of Distinction for the Internal Medicine Residency. In this capacity she coordinates international
experiences of residents, assists with their scholarly projects, and provides curriculum for those committed to careers in global health. Madhavi
continues to provide mentoring and occasional lectures at UC Berkeley School of Public Health in the one-year Interdisciplinary MPH program and to
pursue her research interests in human rights education and global public health.

6. Lynae Darbes - Associate Professor MED- CAPS
Global Keywords: HIV prevention, sero-discordant
Countries: South Africa
Moupali Das - Assistant Professor
Research Interests: Communicable Disease Prevention and Control, including HIV/AIDS and Chronic Hepatitis, Outbreak Investigation, Applied
Epidemiology and Enhanced Surveillance, such as Community Viral Load, to Evaluate Multi-level HIV Prevention Interventions, Implementation
Science and Operations Research, Syndemics, Data Systems Integration, Public Health Continuous Quality Improvement, Socio-structural
Determinants of Health, Structural and Systems Change, Public Health Leadership and Policy Advocacy, Behavioral and Pharmacologic Treatment
of Substance Use as HIV Prevention, HIV Medication Adherence, Engagement and Retention in Care, Health and Human Rights, Health Policy and
Legislative Advocacy, International Health and Tropical Medicine, and Community-Based Care of HIV and TB in Resource-Poor Settings.
Education and Training: - A.B. cum laude, Biochemical Sciences. Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, 1992-1996 - Resident, Department of Internal
Medicine. Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY, 2001-2004 - Fellow, Infectious Diseases, University of California, San Francisco,
2005-2007 - Fellow, CAPS UCSF, 2006-2007
Luke Davis - Assistant Professor Medicine
Global Keywords: epidemiology; HIV; co-infection; rapid diagnosis; tuberculosis
Countries: Uganda
My research focuses on improving diagnosis and treatment monitoring of tuberculosis (TB) in low- and high-income settings. We are working in a
variety of clinical research areas, including basic-translational studies aimed at discovery of novel TB biomarkers; clinical validation studies of new
diagnostic tests and strategies; systematic reviews for policy development; and health services and implementation research. My international
projects are based in Uganda, where I work with colleagues from Mulago Hospital, Makerere University (MU), and the Uganda National TB and
Leprosy Programme under the umbrella of the MU-UCSF Research Collaboration (www.muucsf.org). Our basic-translational studies are using M.
tuberculosis (M.tb) transcriptomics and human exosome biology to learn more about mycobacterial pathogenesis while identifying new targets for
novel diagnostic and prognostic assays. Our clinical-translational activities are currently evolving from validation and demonstration studies of smear
microscopy, TB culture, and nucleic acid amplification testing into implementation research on how these and other new diagnostic strategies can
best be introduced in Uganda and other high TB-burden countries. To understand what interventions work in routine practice, we have established
the Uganda TB Surveillance Project, a network of governmental, primary health-care clinics equipped with a novel electronic monitoring and
evaluation system (www.mu-ucsf.org/tb/). Finally, mentoring trainees in both Uganda and the U.S. is a core aspect of all of our research activities.
In the U.S., we have two implementation research projects studying how Xpert MTB/RIF, an automated nucleic acid amplification testing for TB,
could impact clinical and public health decision-making and patient-important outcomes in San Francisco if implemented following regulatory
approval. Along with colleagues from the San Francisco TB Control Program, the Department of Public Health Lab, and the San Francisco General
Hospital Clinical Lab, these studies are enrolling inpatients and outpatients to identify more efficient, patient-centered, and cost-effective strategies
for evaluating patients suspected of TB in low TB-incidence settings. Finally, through our research experiences, we’ve found frequent gaps in
translating evidence into clinical practice, especially in low-income settings. In response, we have recently founded an organization called Walimu
(www.walimu.org) which will develop and support adoption of evidence-based practices in pulmonary medicine and critical care in Uganda.
Christine Dehlendorf- Assistant Professor UCSF School of Medicine
Global Keywords: contraception; family planning; HIV; reproductive health
Donna Deng - Associate Professor Urology
Global Keywords: maternal health; obstetrics and gynecology; obstetric fistula; urology
China; Cuba; Kenya; Philippines
Rochelle Dicker - Associate Professor Surgery
Global Keywords: Surgery; resource constrained
Uganda
Lisa Dillabaugh- -resident MED- Pediatrics Immunology
Global Keywords: field, HIV testing, pediatric, rapid test,
Kenya, Costa Rica, Belize, Cuba, Mozambique, Guatemala, Ecuador, Uganda, Botswana

7. Tri Do - Assistant Professor MED- CAPS
Global Keywords: HIV disease, antiretroviral, HPV, sexuality, poverty,
Viet Nam
Daniel Dohan - Associate Professor
Global Keywords: cancer, disparity
Daniel Dohan, PhD is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Social Medicine in the Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies (IHPS), where
he is also Associate Director for Training and Development. Dan’s work focuses on the culture of medicine: how it ameliorates and perpetuates
societal inequalities; its relationship to science and discovery; and how training creates health professionals. His research combines qualitative and
quantitative approaches, and he is interested in the development of new methods for combining and depicting mixed approaches. Currently, he is PI
of a project examining how patients with advanced disease find out about and decide whether to participate in clinical trials of new cancer drugs, and
he is co-leading a UC-wide effort to develop harmonized and community-engaged approaches for biorepository research. Dan is active in health
policy and social science education through training activities with post-doctoral fellows, residents, and students, including as course director of
Qualitative Research Methods offered through the Training in Clinical Research program. He is also working with colleagues at IHPS and at the UC
Hastings College of Law to strengthen the relationship between the two schools and to develop a master's degree program in health policy and law.
Dan received his PhD in sociology from UC Berkeley. A book based on his dissertation, The Price of Poverty: Money, Work, and Culture in the
Mexican-American Barrio, was published by the University of California Press in 2003.
Gilad Doitsh - Postdoc
Grant Dorsey - Associate Professor MED- Infectious Disease SFGH
Global Keywords: malaria; maternal health; HIV prevention; sickle cell
Uganda
Gerald Dubowitz - Associate Professor MED- Anesthesia
Global Keywords: oxygen, altitude, surgery, resource constrained
Italy, United Kingdom, Uganda
Mi-Suk Kang-Dufour - Assistant Professor
Christopher Dvorak - Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Global Keywords: cancer; immunity; pediatric; sickle cell; transplant
Brazil; Hungary; Italy; Republic of Korea
My Research Interests are divided into 3 areas of focus: 1. Supportive Care (especially Invasive Fungal Infections) following Hematopoietic Stem
Cell Transplantation 2. Transplantation for Severe Combined Immunodeficiency 3. Transplantation for Rare Leukemias (JMML and APL)
Shari Dworkin - Associate Professor
Global Keywords: HIV; nursing; AIDS; HIV prevention; poverty
Maria Ekstrand - Associate Professor Medicine
Global Keywords: emergency medicine; health policy
Botswana; Brazil; Czech Republic; India; Philippines; Thailand; Zimbabwe
Brinda Emu - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: HIV; innate immunity; cellular mechanism; long term survivor
Brazil

8. Rani Eversley - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: breast cancer; access - behavior; disparity; ethnic identity; HIV risk *
Elizabeth Fair - Assistant Professor MED- Pulmonary
Global Keywords: TB,HIV, co-infection, laboratory, capacity building
Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, Mexico, India, Indonesia
Margaret Feeney - Associate Professor Medicine
Global Keywords: HIV; malaria; laboratory; long term survivor; maternal transmission
Tanzania; Uganda
Laura Fejerman - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: genetics, breast cancer
Darren Fiore - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: Inter-professional medical education and outreach
I am a clinical pediatric hospitalist with an expertise in caring for sick, hospitalized children and commitment towards improving care of hospitalized
patients. I co-developed and direct the Acute Care After-Hours Hospitalist Program at UCSF. I also established and direct a new fellowship
program in pediatric hospital medicine. I attend on a busy academic hospitalist service caring for complex, multi-subspeciality children. I attend on
the Sedation and Pain Service and the Transport Medicine Service where I have expertise in transport of critically ill infants and children. I also
practice at Valley Care Hospital, a smaller community affiliate of UCSF where I manage an small inpatient ward, a small NICU, attend deliveries and
consult in the ER. I am NRP and PALS certified and am an AHA-certified PALS instructor. I am interested in educational scholarship and leadership
and to this end I am a 2012 graduate of the Teaching Scholars Program, a selective one-year mini-fellowship in the scholarship of medical education
offered through the UCSF School of Medicine. I teach across levels: (1) undergraduate medical students in both formal coursework and in clinical
inpatient pediatrics (2) residents in both formal lectures as well as clinical bedside teaching, and (3) physician and nursing peers both at UCSF and
in the community via interprofessional simulation-based mock emergencies.
Shannon Fogh - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: treatment of CNS and pediatric malignancies
Michael Foster - Analyst
Diana Foster - Associate Professor Ob/Gyn & Reproductive Sciences
Global Keywords: contraception; family planning; ObGyn; abortion; pregnancy
Georgia; Mexico; South Africa
Diana Greene Foster, PhD, is a demographer who uses quantitative models and analyses to evaluate the effectiveness of family planning policies
and the effect of unintended pregnancy on women’s lives. Dr. Foster has worked on the evaluation of the California State family planning program,
Family PACT. This work demonstrated the effectiveness of the program in reducing the incidence of unintended pregnancy. Dr. Foster created a
new methodology for estimating pregnancies averted based on a Markov model and a microsimulation to identify the cost-effectiveness of advance
provision of emergency contraception. She is currently leading a nationwide longitudinal prospective study of the health and well-being of women
who seek abortion including both women who do and do not receive the abortion. Dr. Foster received her undergraduate degree in Political Economy
of Natural Resources from UC Berkeley, her MA in Public and International Affairs from Princeton University, and her PhD in Demography and
Public Policy from Princeton University.
Christine Fox - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: pediatric stroke
Jonathan Fuchs - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: blood supply, clinical trials, capacity building, vaccine, long distance learning *

9. Heather Fullerton - Associate Professor Neurology
Global Keywords: pediatric stroke
Dr. Heather Fullerton is pediatric vascular neurologist with an active clinical research program in childhood stroke. She is the Director of the UCSF
Pediatric Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease Center, which she established in 2006, and Director of the UCSF Stroke Sciences Group. After
graduating from Baylor College of Medicine in 1996, Dr. Fullerton joined the Child Neurology faculty in July 2002. She completed a vascular
neurology fellowship between 2002 and 2003, and a two-year Masters in Clinical Research at UCSF in 2005. In 2001, she collaborated with Dr.
Johnston at UCSF to describe the incidence and demographics of childhood stroke. She undertook a population-based study of childhood stroke
within Kaiser Permanente, then another retrospective Kaiser study on the role of infection in the pathogenesis of childhood stroke. She is PI on a
25-center international study, The Vascular effects of Infection in Pediatric Stroke (VIPS) exploring the association between common infections and a
focal cerebral arteriopathy that is commonly observed in previously healthy children presenting with an ischemic stroke. It will also provide data on
recurrence rates after a first childhood stroke. Her long-term goal is to develop clinical trials for primary and secondary stroke prevention in children.
Joshua Galanter - Associate Professor
Global Keywords: Genetics, tobacco, Vulnerable population
Monica Gandhi - Associate Professor Medicine
Global Keywords: adherence; rapid diagnosis
India; South Africa; Uganda
Monica Gandhi completed a fellowship in Infectious Diseases and a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, both at
UCSF. She also obtained a Masters in Public Health from Berkeley in 2001 with a focus on Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Dr. Gandhi’s clinical and
research career has been focused on HIV-infected women. Besides directing the AIDS Consult Service at San Francisco General Hospital and
attending on the Infectious Diseases consult service, she serves as an HIV and primary care provider in the Women’s HIV Clinic at the Positive
Health Practice. Her research efforts have focused on HIV/AIDS in U.S. women through the Women's Interagency HIV Study (WIHS), a large
multisite, prospective cohort study established in 1994 to study the natural history, clinical and laboratory findings of HIV in women. Her particular
research is on differences between men and women in terms of antiretroviral exposure and finding low-cost solutions to measuring antiretroviral
levels in resource-poor settings, such as determining drug levels in hair samples. Dr. Gandhi has also participated in research involving the impact
of HIV/AIDS in women in India. Dr. Gandhi has an interest in HIV education and mentorship. Dr. Gandhi co-directs the public health section of the
Immunity, Inflammation and Infection (I-3) course for the UCSF medical students, co-directs the “Communicable Diseases of Global Health
Importance” course in the Global Health Sciences Masters program, and serves as the Education Director of the HIV/AIDS Division. She is program
director of the UCSF Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) K12 scholarship which funds and nurtures early
career scientists in women's health research. She also serves as the principal investigator of an R24 mentoring grant from the NIH focused on
nurturing early career investigators of diversity in HIV research.
Bruce Gaynor - Assistant Professor MED- Opthamology
Global Keywords: trachoma, mass treatment, secondary effect
Sudan, Ethiopia, Nepal, China
Elvin Geng - Assistant Professor MED- Infectious Disease
Global Keywords: HIV disease, TB, HBV, clinical outcome
China; Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
I am currently Assistant Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF). I trained in infectious diseases (MD,
Columbia 2002) and epidemiology (MPH, Columbia 2002). My research seeks to apply perspectives from implementation and dissemination
sciences to understand the effectiveness of global antiretroviral treatment (ART) programs for HIV-infected patients. Currently, the Global Fund, US
President’s Emergency Fund for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and national governments have invested billions of dollars for AIDS programs and started
five million persons on ART in resource limited settings. Yet the best strategies for engagement in care and treatment with life-long, complicated and
potentially toxic medications include many unanswered questions. For patients who present to care, failure to initiate ART is underappreciated and a
major barrier that is poorly understood. Once on ART, early mortality – likely to due to unascertained opportunistic infections – is high and the
causes incompletely understood. Among patients who stabilize on ART, loss to follow-up is ubiquitous in African ART programs. To address these
problems I am involved in a number of studies including (1) assembly of a cohort of HIV-infected patients in southwestern Uganda as part of an NIH
funded consortium in East Africa; (2) a nested case control study to identify causes of early mortality in Uganda; (3) extending novel methods into the
cohort setting to study engagement in care and (4) and using causal methods to understand longitudinal treatment effects in data collected in these
settings. Overall, I hope to bring clinical contextual knowledge to bear on analysis of data from “real world” settings to improve the effectiveness of
global ART implementation. Furthermore, I hope this research can yield generalizable lessons for science of implementation in health care that may
be of use in other settings and other disease conditions.
David Gordon - Associate Professor Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology
Global Keywords: International medical education/residency and operational research/quality improvement
Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Turkmenistan

10. Roly Gosling - Associate Professor Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Global Keywords: Malaria Elimination, epidemiology
Gambia, Tanzania
The malaria elimination initiative is focussed on supporting countries to succeed in elimination of both falciparum and vivax malaria. We have a
broad range of activities from desk based research producing advocacy and summary materials to highlight the substantial progress of malaria
control and elimination world wide, to field based research exploring active surveillance strategies, efficacy of drug based transmission interventions,
costing studies of elimination programs and more qualitative research such as case studies. The program also supports countries by supporting
regional networks of countries to eliminate malaria (the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network, APMEN and the Eliminating 8, E8 in southern
Africa). We do have opportunities to send students to support field research studies.
Jessica Gosnell -Assistant Professor Surgery
Global Keywords: surgery; clinical trial; endocrine; gastroenteritis
Uganda
Prasanthi Govindarajan - Assistant Professor UCSF School of Medicine
Global Keywords: emergency medicine Stroke Telemedicine
Meredith Greene – Fellow Geriatrics
Bryan Greenhouse - Assistant Professor MED- Infectious Disease SFGH
Global Keywords: malaria, molecular, epidemiology, global health, pediatric,
Uganda, China Zanzibar (Tanzania)
My research program is focused on understanding the interactions between malaria parasites and the human host at individual and population
levels, applying laboratory and analytical methods to study malaria in Africa. Specifically, my current projects focus on understanding the
development of naturally acquired immunity, creating novel serologic tools to measure malaria exposure and immunologic protection, and using
parasite population genetics and spatial data to understand parasite transmission and evolution.
Ryan Greysen - Assistant Professor UCSF School of Medicine
Global Keywords: Vulnerable populations, Medical education, Social media and professionalism
Togo, Mexico, Tanzania
My primary focus is on transitions of care for hospitalized older adults and interventions to improve post-discharge continuity of care including novel
uses of social media. I have secondary research interests in medical education (especially GME) and global health (especially capacity-building).
Lea Grinberg - Assistant Professor Neurology
Global Keywords: ageing; brain; memory Brazil
Cristina Gruta -Specialist Pharm
Reena Gupta -Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: Medical education and delivery, implementation science
India, Tanzania
Judith Hahn -Associate Professor MED- Infectious Disease SFGH /EPI CTR
Global Keywords: alcohol, HIV transmission, TB, adherence
Uganda
My current work consists of epidemiology at the intersection of substance use and infectious diseases. My research team is currently conducting a
NIH-funded R01 study to examine changes in alcohol consumption in the course of HIV care in Uganda. We are using novel biomarkers of alcohol
consumption to gain objective measurements of alcohol consumption, as well as in-depth interviews to examine reasons for changes in alcohol
consumption. We are additionally launching a 5-year U01 study to examine the effect of alcohol consumption on HIV disease progression prior to
starting antiretroviral therapy in Uganda. I am also conducting work to examine alcohol consumption in young IDU, as a long-standing co-
investigator in the UFO study.
Margaret Handley -Associate Professor MED Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Global Keywords: epidemiology, globalization, disparity,
Mexico

11. Cynthia Harper -Associate Professor MED- OB/ GYN & Repro Sci
Keyword: STD, health policy, behavior, abortion, maternal health,
Zimbabwe, South Africa
Cynthia C. Harper, PhD, Associate Professor in the Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, is a faculty member of the
Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. She is a Demographer and her research focuses on contraception as well as HIV/STI prevention
among women.
Jamal Harris - Associate Physician MED- Pediatrics / MED-CAPS
Global Keywords: Implementation science: quality improvement research, malaria & HIV
South Africa, Uganda
Dennis Hartigan-Oconnor – Assistant Professor’ Division of Experimental Medicine
Global Keywords: tolerance mechanisms that modulate immune responses to chronic viral infections.
Wendy Hartogensis - staff
Hiroyu Hatano - Assistant Professor Medicine
Global Keywords: HIV; cellular mechanism; long term survivor; virus *
Research interests: HIV persistence, HIV eradication, HIV-infected “elite controllers”
Jillian Henderson - MED- OB/ GYN & Repro Sci
Global Keywords: maternal health; obstetrics and gynecology; reproductive health
Nepal,Nicaragua
Adam Hersh - Assistant Professor Pediatrics
Global Keywords: pediatric pnumonia
Nancy Hills - Assistant Professor Neurology
Global Keywords: biostatistics; epidemiology; neurology; pediatric; stroke
Viet Nam
Heidi Hopkins – Assistant Professor MED- ADMIN
Global Keywords: malaria, field, rapid test, vector control,
Uganda
Robin Horak - Resident
Global Keywords: medical and community education.
Bolivia, Botswana, Kenya
Renee Hsia - Assistant Professor MED- Emergency
Global Keywords: medical systems, urgent care, resource constrained,
Senegal, Rwanda, Belgium, South Africa, Hong Kong, China, Guatemala, Eritrea,
Renee Y. Hsia, received her residency training at Stanford University and obtained a Masters of Science in health policy, planning, and financing
from the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. She is board-certified in Emergency Medicine. Dr.
Hsia speaks Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, and French, and provides emergency care to patients with a variety of backgrounds as an attending
physician at San Francisco General Hospital, the only county hospital and trauma center for San Francisco, California. Dr. Hsia’s broad research
interests are in health services issues related to increasing access to emergency care and regionalization of care. She is funded by several private
foundation grants, the National Institutes of Health, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to study population access to emergency departments
and trauma centers in the U.S; the distribution of emergency care across income areas; factors associated with closure of emergency services (both
emergency departments and trauma centers); how these closures affect patient outcomes, specifically focusing on patients with acute myocardial
infarction, stroke, asthma/COPD, sepsis, and trauma; and the variation of costs and charges in the healthcare system. Her research program also
focuses on healthcare costs and financing issues with regard to emergency care. She is also the site PI for several multi-site studies validating
trauma triage criteria for different age groups as well as their ability to predict high-risk patients. She has published on these issues in a broad range
of journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association, Health Affairs, American Journal of Public Health, Annals of Emergency
Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, Journal of Trauma, Archives of Internal Medicine, and Medical Care. Her research has been widely
publicized in print media, including the New York Times, the Associated Press, Reuters, USA Today, as well as national network news and radio.
Dr. Hsia hopes that this work will help to inform policymakers on the monitoring and oversight of the equitable provision of critical services to patients
across the country, and overall improvement of the system's ability to deliver healthcare.

12. Michelle Hsiang - Assistant Professor Global Health
Global Keywords: epidemiology; malaria; global health; pediatric
China; Swaziland; Tanzania
Dr. Michelle Hsiang is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital. In addition to seeing patients on the inpatient
and outpatient pediatric infectious diseases services, she is a researcher in global and public health with the Malaria Elimination Initiative at the
UCSF Global Health Group. In the past she has studied Staphylococcus aureus in children as well as schistosomiasis in children in Sichuan
Province, China. Currently, her research focuses on diagnostics and surveillance for malaria elimination in southern Africa and the Asia-Pacific. She
is a member of the Malaria Elimination Group (MEG) and helped found the Asia Pacific Malaria Elimination Network (APMEN). Dr. Hsiang obtained
her undergraduate degree at Stanford University. She earned her medical degree at Baylor College of Medicine and trained in pediatrics and
pediatric infectious diseases at UCSF.
Megan Huchko - Assistant Professor MED- CAPS/ ObGyn. & RS-SFGH Div.
Global Keywords: Neoplasia
Kenya
Peter Hunt - Assistant Professor med ID
Keyword: HIV,TB, co-infection
Uganda, South Africa
Peter Hunt is Vice Chair of the ACTG Inflammation and End Organ Disease Transformative Science Group. His primary research focus is on the
inflammatory consequences of HIV infection. His clinic-based translational research program seeks to understand the determinants of persistent
immune activation both in the presence and the absence of antiretroviral therapy, and to assess the impact of immune activation on clinical
outcomes. He collaborates extensively with a multi-disciplinary team of investigators to assess the impact of persistent immune activation despite
viral suppression on mortality and chronic diseases associated with aging (i.e., cardiovascular disease) and conducts pilot clinical trials of novel
immune-based interventions designed to decrease immune activation. Dr. Hunt also leads a translational research program in Mbarara, Uganda,
focused on the determinants of immune recovery during suppressive antiretroviral therapy in that setting. Dr. Hunt has also helped develop a large
mucosal immunology program at San Francisco General Hospital focused on the impact of HIV on gut-associated lymphoid tissue and the
determinants of microbial translocation in HIV infection.
Amanda Hutton - Assistant Professor
Evan Jacobs - postdoc
Prasanna Jagannathan - Assistant Professor MED- Internal Medicine SFGH
Keyword: HIV,TB, epidemiology
Uganda
Academic Focus/Research Interests: Naturally acquired cellular immunity to malaria; Immune consequences of antimalarial chemoprevention in
Ugandan children; HIV/malaria co-infection
Vivek Jain - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: epidemiology; acute HIV
Uganda
Julia James - postdoc
Sara Jeevanjee - Assistant Professor
I completed my residency in Primary Care Internal Medicine (UCPC) at UCSF in June 2012, after which I joined the faculty in the Division of Hospital
Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital as a hospitalist on the Faculty Inpatient Service (FIS). I am interested in HIV prevention, diagnosis, and
linkage to care, as well as care for vulnerable populations, and implementation science. Education: • M.D: Temple University • B.S.: Haverford
College Training: • UC Primary Care Internal Medicine, UCSF (internship and residency) Certification: • License, Medical Board of California •
DEA • Internal Medicine Board eligible Memberships & Affiliations: • Society for General Internal Medicine

13. Sheila Jenkins - Assistant Professor Neurology
Honduras
Dr. Sheila Jenkins is a pediatric neurologist whose clinical interests span the full breadth of general child neurology. Jenkins has specific interests in
the diagnosis and management of seizures, headaches, concussions and movement disorders. Jenkins received her medical degree at the
University of South Alabama. At UCSF, she completed a residency in pediatrics, followed by residency and fellowship in neurology and child
neurology. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society. Jenkins is board certified in Neurology and
Psychiatry, with special certification in Child Neurology. Her quality of patient care has been recognized in multiple regional and national publications.
Jenkins is also interested in International Health. She is co-founder of the Roatan Volunteer Pediatric Clinic in Roatan, Honduras, and is a member
of the Board of Directors of the non-profit Global Healing. She is an assistant clinical professor of neurology at UCSF.
Pheroze Joshi – Associate Professor
Sunitha Kaiser - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: Neonatal sepsis, Medical education
India
Bittoo Kanwar - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: HIV; gastroenteritis; immunity; nutrition; pediatric *
Mitul Kapadia - Assistant Professor
Global Keywords: pediatrics, rehabilitation
India Nepal, Botswana, Ecuador Haiti
Herbert Kasler - postdoc
Midori Kato-Maeda - Assistant Professor Medicine
Keyword: Global Keywords: epidemiology; molecular mechanism; tuberculosis
Mexico; Tanzania Zimbabwe
Research Interests Dr. Kato-Maeda’s research activities focus on the study of the diversity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and its impact on the
varying outcomes of tuberculosis transmission and pathogenesis, as well as its transmission dynamics. Her research group has demonstrated that
the classification of MTB based on lineages and sublineages has a biological meaning, as some sublineages of MTB strains are more likely to cause
secondary cases. She has collaborations with the San Francisco Department of Public Health Division of Tuberculosis, CDC, and other academic
institutions in United States and abroad including Tanzania, Zimbabwe, and Panama. Dr. Kato-Maeda participates in teaching activities related to
the molecular epidemiology of tuberculosis as well as research management involving laboratory components. She also facilitates laboratory
meetings for the tuberculosis research community at SFGH/UCSF. Dr. Kato-Maeda also serves as a consultant for laboratory aspects of the
Tuberculosis Control Program, and is a consultant to numerous research projects related to tuberculosis.
Jeremy Keenan - Assistant Professor Proctor Foundation
Global Keywords: trachoma, antibiotic, telemed,
Ethiopia, Thailand, Niger, Viet Nam South Africa
Chris Keh - Fellow
Michelle Khan - Fellow OBGYN
Global Keywords: HIV prevention, behavior
India, Mexico, Croatia, Uganda
Anthony Kim - Assistant Professor MED- Nuerology
Global Keywords: Pediatric stroke, e-education
Dr. Kim iis Medical Director of the UCSF Stroke Center... He completed fellowship training in Vascular Neurology (stroke) at UCSF and he received
a Master's Degree in Clinical Research from the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. He sees patients on the inpatient
Neurovascular Service and the outpatient Stroke Clinic and leads quality improvement and accreditation efforts for UCSF Stroke Center. His
research interests are focused on developing strategies to improve the diagnosis and cost-effective management of stroke and transient ischemic
attack (TIA) and reducing the global impact of stroke. He is the recipient of a American Heart Association Award to develop clinical prediction rules
for assessing the risk of stroke in Emergency Department patients who present with dizziness and vertigo symptoms. He is also principal investigator
for the National Stroke Association-sponsored WebTIA project (http://tia.ucsf.edu/), an innovative web-based study that is designed to develop and
validate a patient-centered tool for assessing self-reported symptoms of possible TIA. Finally, he is co-investigator for the NIH-sponsored Insulin
Resistance Intervention after Stroke (IRIS) Trial (http://www.iristrial.org), a randomized clinical trial for the secondary prevention of stroke.

14. Peter Kuebler - Resident
Hye-Sook Kwon - staff at Gladstone
Global Keywords: genetics, lupus, psoriasis, narcolepsy, cardiac
Israel
Andrew Lai, Associate Professor, Medicine
Global Keywords: HIV and Infectious Diseases, Critical Care Medicine, Cost-effectiveness
India
Andrew Lai i….After graduating from Brown University with degrees in Urban Studies and Human Biology in 2001, he received his MD from Brown
Medical School and a MPH with a focus on quantitative methods from the Harvard School of Public Health in 2006. During medical school, he
provided clinical care and worked on HIV-related projects in Chennai, India and Eldoret, Kenya. He completed internal medicine residency in the
primary care track at UCSF before joining the Division of Hospital Medicine in 2009. Andrew attends on the medical wards at Parnassus and Mount
Zion, Hospitalist Procedures Service, and Neurosurgery Comanagement Service. He currently co-directs the Hospitalist Procedures Service, directs
the Division's Case Review Committee, and is a member of the Division's High-Value Care Committee, Quality Improvement Committee, Global
Health Committee, and Medical Center's Code Blue debriefing committee. He is a CHEF (Committee on Housestaff Education and Feedback)
advisor for several internal medicine residents. His academic interests include bedside procedural education, high-value healthcare, transitions of
care, global & public health, and HIV & infectious diseases. Andrew has also provided volunteer clinical care in Port-au-Prince with Project
Medishare for Haiti.
Tim Lane - Assistant Professor, CAPS
Global Keywords: MSM, sex practices, behavior,
South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
Phuoc Le - Associate Professor, Med / Hospitalist
Global Keywords: capacity building; education; HIV education; medical training
Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, Haiti, Tibet, China
Phuoc Le graduated from Dartmouth in 2000 with a double major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Asian and Middle Eastern Languages
and Literatures. He earned his MD at Stanford, and obtained a Master's of Public Health from UC Berkeley with a focus on global health. He
completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Global Health Equity at Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital and
Massachusetts General Hospital. During residency he has worked with the NGO Partners in Health (PIH) to provide equitable health care in
Rwanda, Lesotho, Malawi, and most recently, post-earthquake Haiti. He has participated in both quantitative and qualitative public/community health,
and anthropological research in Tibet, Shanghai, and Qinghai, PRC, and Geneva, Switzerland. Currently, Phuoc is an Assistant Clinical Professor of
Medicine and Pediatrics at UCSF, where he is a hospitalist splitting his time between both departments. He co-directs the Global Health-Hospital
Medicine Fellowship at UCSF, directs the Global Health Pathway for the Pediatric Residency, and is director of international rotations for the Internal
Medicine Residency. He is also a visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Public Health, where he directs the
Interdisciplinary Masters of Public Health Program. He continues to work with PIH for several months a year.
Grace Lee - Assistant Professor Endocrinology
Jocelyn Lehrer - Postdoc, MED- Medicine
Global Keywords: risk behaviors, HIV
Chile, Uganda,
Wilson Liao, Assistant Professor, Dermatology
My laboratory studies the genetic basis for psoriasis, a common autoimmune skin disease. We have enrolled a large number of psoriasis patients
into our biobank, which is used for ongoing research projects.
Teri Liegler - Associate Professor, MED- AIDS SFGH
Global Keywords: HIV; data management; HPV; interferon; laboratory; rapid diagnosis;
Brazil; Peru; Uganda
Royce Lin - Associate Professor, Medicine
Global Keywords: capacity building; education; HIV education; medical training
Tanzania
Jue Lin - Postdoctoral Fellow, Biochemistry & Biophysics

15. Krysia Lindan - Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Global Keywords: HIV epidemiology; MSM; serodiscordant; sex worker; sex practices
Cambodia; India; Thailand; Uganda; Viet Nam
Michael Lipnick - Resident PhysII-VIII / Non Rep, Anesthesia
Global Keywords: Surgery, first responders, funding transparency, capacity building, technology in Global Health,
Uganda
Sheri Lippman - Assistant Professor, MED-CAMPUS-CAPS
Global Keywords: sex worker, HIV prevention, stigma
Brazil, South Africa
Lianxing Liu - Postdoc, McCunne lab
Global Keywords: reviewing CAF candidate proteins for HIV suppression.
China
Albert Liu Assistant Professor – SFGH/General Internal Medicine
Chunye Lu- Postdoc, Medicine / Rheumatology
Innate Immunity conferred by host restriction factors in HIV
Annie Luetkemeyer - Assistant Professor, MED- AIDS SFGH
Global Keywords: HIV, TB, HBV, coinfection, antiretroviral,
Paula Lum, Associate Professor, Medicine
Global Keywords: substance abuse, HepC, disparity, HIV prevention
Ngoc Ly, Associate Professor, Peds / Pulmonary
Global Keywords: genetics, allergy, asthma
My research has focused on the influences of heredity, as well as prenatal and infant environmental exposures (including environmental, microbial,
and nutritional influences) on immune responses and clinical symptoms of allergy and asthma. I have been actively involved and collaborated with
investigators on 4 large prospective birth cohort studies and a cross-sectional study relating to environmental and immunological determinants of
allergy and asthma. Clinically, I oversee and direct care for a large number of asthmatic children in the Pediatric Pulmonary Asthma Program at
UCSF that I established in 2009. The Asthma Program consists of an asthma care team that includes a nurse practitioner and respiratory therapist
certified in asthma education to facilitate asthma education and management for children less than 18 years of age. My other clinical interests
include bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), congenital lung abnormalities, interstitial lung diseases, chronic respiratory failure/insufficiency and
neuromuscular respiratory diseases, including assistive therapies such as oxygen, mechanical ventilation, airway clearance devices, or an artificial
airway.
Megan Mahon - Assistant Professor, Family & Community Medicine
Dr. Megan Mahoney received her bachelor’s degree in Immunology from University of California Berkeley in 1996, her medical degree from
University of California San Francisco School of Medicine in 2001, and completed her residency training in family medicine at the San Francisco
General Hospital in 2004. She is Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine, and has been part of the DFCM
faculty at UCSF since 2004. Her clinical and research interests relate to HIV and Hepatitis C medicine in vulnerable populations. She is medical
director of the Family HIV Clinic at the San Francisco General Hospital which provides HIV and Hepatitis C treatment services for San Francisco’s
indigent population. She is the principal investigator of an HIV prevention intervention targeting women partners of incarcerated men, called the
Health Access Program for Prevention, Empowerment and Networking (HAPPEN), funded by the Health and Human Services’ Office on Women’s
Health. As an HIV consultant for the National HIV/AIDS Clinicians’ Consultation Center (NCCC) since 2004, she provides consultation on HIV to
clinicians across the country. NCCC is funded by a federal grant from the Health Resources and Services Administration and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention Services. Through her work at NCCC, she served as a consultant for the Ethiopia Fitun Warmline. Dr. Mahoney
also served as an HIV and Hepatitis C consultant for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. Dr. Mahoney provided consultation
for the HIV and Hepatitis C care of 80-110 HIV-infected incarcerated women in the California Correctional Women’s Facility, provided services to
thousands of HIV-infected inmates throughout the state of California, and served as a HIV consultant for prison health care personnel. Dr.
Mahoney has authored several publications on HIV in minority communities.
Souhail Malave - Post Doc, Medicine / CAPS

16. Catherine Maternowska, Assistant Professor, not in faculty, MED- OB/ GYN & Repro Sci
Keyword: field, gender, violence, abortion, training
Kenya, Zimbabwe, Tanzania
Amir Matityahu, Associate Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Keyword: surgery; trauma; orthaeopedic
Germany, Israel, Kenya, Japan
Jeff McConnell, Project Director, Gladstone Institute of Virology
Oliver Medzihradsky, Assistant Professor, DOM
Keyword: HIV
Haiti, DRC, Mali
Oliver Medzihradsky is a fellowship-trained hospitalist trained in internal medicine and pediatrics who holds a longstanding interest in global health.
His clinical responsibilities in adult medicine lie on the general medicine teaching service at our Parnassus campus as well as the hospitalist service
at the Mt. Zion campus. Having previously worked in Mali, rural Haiti, and western DRC, at this point within his first year on the UCSF faculty Oliver
is initiating collaborations in eastern DRC in infant malnutrition, mother-to-child HIV transmission, sexual violence, and end-of-life care. He has a
partially related and insatiable interest in wilderness, sports, and high-altitude medicine.
Susan Meffert, Assistant Professor, MED- Psychiatry
Keyword: stress, health in conflict,
Sudan, India, Haiti, Egypt,
Susan M. Meffert M.D., M.P.H. is an Assistant Professor in the UCSF Department of Psychiatry, UCSF Global Health Sciences Faculty Burke
Scholar, UCSF Building Interdisciplinary Research Careers in Women’s Health (BIRCWH) K awardee scholar and a University of California Global
Health Institute Awardee. Dr. Meffert has been working in the field of global mental health since 1998. She began clinical research in 2004 during
psychiatric residency at UCSF, returning to East Africa to work with Darfur refugees. Dr. Meffert is interested in how violence and trauma replicate
across survivors’ lives, families and communities by creating emotional disorders that impact interpersonal relationships and put close contacts at
risk of mental health disorders. She completed a successful pilot RCT of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for depression and Posttraumatic Stress
(PTSD) symptoms among Darfur refugees in Cairo with treatment delivered by community members and an RCT of IPT in China with survivors of
the Sichuan earthquake in which treatment is delivered by local paraprofessionals. Through her research, Dr. Meffert became interested in the
strong associations between violence, trauma and HIV among women in low resource settings. Dr. Meffert is currently collaborating with the UCSF
Family AIDS Care and Education Services (FACES) PEPFAR funded program based in Kisumu, Kenya to assess mental health trauma care needs
among HIV+ women affected by Gender-Based Violence (GBV) and develop an adapted and sustainable intervention delivered by local providers to
address mental health care needs and associated adherence difficulties.
John Metcalfe, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Keyword: interferon,
Zimbabwe South Africa
My decision to become a doctor evolved out of volunteering at a hospice with AIDS patients in the pre-HAART era, and work in a rural, government
clinic in eastern Honduras. Because of my commitment to work with critically underserved populations, I have been attracted to global health projects
with programmatic relevance throughout my medical training. In Loreto, Peru, I worked on a project using molecular diagnostics and active case
finding to map unstable, seasonal malaria transmission. As a fourth year medical student ,I worked eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and
applied probability sampling methods to measure health clinic utilization and mortality in a rural region of over 360,000 people, and managed a World
Health Organization Roll Back Malaria field site enrolling 300 children in a prospective anti-malaria drug efficacy trial. During residency in Internal
Medicine at UCSF, I designed a case-control study for the Brazilian Ministry of Health to investigate a sharp increase in severe leptospirosis
associated with alveolar hemorrhage occurring in Brazilian slums. In 2003, I developed a clinical elective in Durban, South Africa, where I worked
with Enhancing Care Initiative and the Harvard AIDS Institute to train healthcare workers on the eve of the public sector rollout of antiretrovirals. In
my second year of fellowship training in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, I concurrently enrolled in the UC Berkeley doctoral program in
epidemiology (2008-present). Concurrent with fellowship training, I consulted for the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Program for
Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH), and USAID in national TB program evaluations in three countries and an operational plan for scale-up of
multidrug resistant tuberculosis management in Zimbabwe. I currently attend on the Pulmonary Consult Service and in the Intensive Care Unit at the
San Francisco General Hospital. My research interests focus on the diagnosis, management, and transmission of drug resistant tuberculosis,
domestically and in high HIV-burden settings. Further areas of specialization include diagnostic test evaluation, risk prediction, and causal inference.
With collaborators at the Biomedical Research and Training Institute (http://www.brti.co.zw/) and the University of Zimbabwe/UCSF Clinical Trials
Unit, we work to improve early detection of drug resistant TB, validate use of low cost, accelerated phenotypic assays, assess current international
clinical care standards for persons at risk for drug resistant TB, and estimate the contribution of microbial and human genomic factors on drug
resistant TB transmission in Harare, Zimbabwe.

17. Ana-Claire Meyer, Assistant Professor, MED- Neuro
Keyword: HIV disease, dementia, neuropathy, epilepsy,
Kenya, Haiti, Zambia
Ana-Claire L. Meyer, M.D., M.S.H.S. is a graduate of Amherst College (Magna Cum Laude) and Harvard Medical School. She trained in neurology at
the Partners Neurology Program of Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Massachusetts General Hospital. She was a Veterans Affairs/Robert
Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of California, Los Angeles before joining the faculty at UCSF in 2008. She received an American
Academy of Neurology Practice Research Training Fellowship in 2008 and the Fulbright Award in 2009. Her clinical interests are in infectious
diseases of the nervous system, particularly in the neurological complications of HIV infection and parasitic diseases. Her research focuses on
improving capacity for and access to neurological care for underserved populations both domestically and internationally. She currently divides her
time between San Francisco and Family AIDS Care and Education Services in western Kenya. Her upcoming studies include a longitudinal study of
HIV-associated cognitive impairment in Kenya, and a phase IIb clinical trial of oral therapies for early cryptococcal infection. Ongoing studies include
the global burden of disease due to epilepsy. To read more about her research at FACES-Kenya: www.faces-kenya.org/research/index.php
Jeffrey Milush, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Okeoma Mmeje - Clinical Instructor, WOS
Kenya
Dominic Montagu, Associate Professor, Global Health Sciences; Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Keyword: health policy, privatization, access, developing country,
Viet Nam, Lesotho, Rwanda, Botswana, Myanmar, Peru, Indonesia
Meghan Morris, Postdoc Epidemiology & Biostatistics
I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) with
graduate training in infectious disease and social-behavioral epidemiology. I have experience working with marginalized populations including
women, migrants, and substance users, globally. And have made it my academic and professional career to understand the biological, social, and
policy aspects that place such groups at greater risk for HIV, hepatitis C infection and other negative health outcomes. Prior to joining UCSF I
received a Bachelor’s of Science degree in Biochemistry & Cellular Biology from University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2003, a MPH in
epidemiology from San Diego State University (SDSU) in 2008, and PhD in Global Health with concentration in Epidemiology from UCSD/SDSU’s
Joint Doctoral Program in Public Health in 2011.
Saam Morshed, Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Keyword: surgery; capacity building; orthaeopedic
Cuba
Dr. Morshed completed his undergraduate education at Harvard University. He completed his medical education and residency in orthopaedic
surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. During his residency he was awarded the Orthopaedic Research and Education Society
Clinical Research Training Fellowship which funded his studies towards a Master of Public Health degree and eventual Doctor of Philosophy in
Epidemiology from the University of California, Berkeley. After residency, Dr. Morshed traveled to Seattle, Washington where he completed a clinical
fellowship in orthopaedic traumatology at Harborview Medical Center. In 2009, he joined the faculty of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the
University of California, San Francisco, (UCSF) as an attending surgeon at the San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). Dr. Morshed has published
multiple research manuscripts in peer-reviewed journals, textbook chapters and has been awarded numerous awards and grants for his work in
clinical outcomes research in orthopaedics and traumatology.
Janet Myers, Associate Professor, MED- CAPS
Keyword: vaccine, HIV prevention, HIV risk
Moldolva, Barbados, Antigua-Barbuda, St. Vincent-Grenadines, St. Kitts-Nevis, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda
Payam Nahid, Associate Professor, Medicine
Keyword: epidemiology; clinical trial; rapid diagnosis; tuberculosis
Viet Nam
The overarching goals of my research are to integrate basic scientific advances in the field of TB with clinical research methods to help improve the
care of patients with TB and HIV/TB worldwide. Given the devastating impact of TB on the developing world, I commit a major portion of my
academic activities to resource-limited settings, where I am involved in the conduct of programmatically relevant clinical trials of new and promising
TB diagnostics and therapeutics.

18. Anna Napoles, Associate Professor, Medicine
Keyword: cancer; education
Ian NcNicholl, Associate Professor; Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Department of Medicine
Torsten Neilands, Associate Professor, Medicine
Keyword: data management
Puerto Rico
Sara Newmann, Assistant Professor, MED Bixby
Keyword: family planning, contraceptive,
Kenya
Carl Nosek, Assistant Professor, Pediatrics
Keyword: Improving health care delivery in underdeveloped settings
Malawi
Megie Okumura, Assistant Adj Professor, Peds / Gen Peds
Keyword: evidence based strategies to improve chronic illness delivery no
My research is aimed at studying and formulating interventions that will address barriers and facilitators to chronic illness care for children with
special health care needs as they transition from the pediatric to adult health care setting……… my research has focused on epidemiologic studies
of health care utilization and health care needs. ……… studying barriers and facilitators to chronic illness management during the transitioning
period for YSHCN. Using the findings, my goal is to design interventions that will improve chronic illness management and continuity of care for
YSHCN. For example, I am evaluating the implementation of a health advocacy program targeted to improving care for transition aged adolescents
and adults with developmental disabilities through a community-agency partnership. I am planning a future R-01 that would integrate community-
based programming with health clinics to improve chronic disease management to YSHCN.
Gabe Ortiz, Assistant Professor, UCSF School of Medicine
While at UCSF, Dr. Ortiz has performed biomedical research focused on HIV immunology in the laboratory of Dr. Joseph M. McCune. His research
activities have aimed at understanding the importance of innate immune responses in HIV infection, with a focus on myeloid cell subsets. This work
has culminated in two submitted publications to the Journal of Infectious Diseases and Molecular and Cellular Proteomics. This work has also
extended into a new line of investigation focused on how the development of the immune system, particularly of myeloid cell subsets, may impact
childhood vaccine responses. …….
Sunil Parikh – Assistant Adj Prof-FY, S/P Department Clin P; Division of Infectious Diseases
Keyword: malaria, host genetics, co-infection, vaccine,
Uganda, Burkina Faso, Nigeria
Rushi Parikh-Resident, Medicine
Ina Park, Assistant Professor, Family & Community Medicine
Global Keywords: epidemiology; sexually transmitted; local global
Ludmila Pawlikowska, Assistant Professor, Anesthesia/Perioperative Care
Global Keywords: heart disease; HIV; AIDS; ageing; anesthesia; genetic; metabolism; stroke
My research focuses on genetics of common human disease, including stroke, cardiovascular disease and aging and longevity. In collaboration with
Drs. William Young and Helen Kim at the UCSF Center for Cerebrovascular Research, I study the genetics of brain arteriovenous malformation
(BAVM), an important cause of stroke in young adults, and other vascular malformations. A second focus of my research is on human aging and
longevity; I am part of the NIA-funded Longevity Consortium. A third area of interest is admixture mapping of cardiovascular disease traits associated
with metabolic syndrome.
Carmen Peralta, Assistant Professor , Medicine/Nephrology

19. …… Dr. Peralta’s research activities focus on three major areas: (1) Translational approaches to understanding mechanisms for racial/ethnic
disparities in kidney disease; (2) Hypertension, arterial stiffness and kidney disease; and (3) Novel biomarkers for detection, classification and risk
stratification for early kidney disease in diverse populations. Dr. Peralta has established translational collaborations with a multi-disciplinary team of
investigators in nephrology, general internal medicine, epidemiology, and human genetics both at UCSF and around the country. She is an active
member of the renal working groups in several major ongoing cohort studies that include The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), the
Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) and the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) Study. Dr. Peralta is also a member of
the national steering committee for research of the Kidney Early Evaluation Program (KEEP) from the National Kidney Foundation.
Susan Philip, Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases-SFGH
Ricardo Pietrobon, Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Keywords: ortho surgery
Christopher Pilcher - Associate Professor Medicine
Keyword: acute HIV; HIV testing; shedding
Brazil; Malawi
Satish Pillai, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Keyword: hepatitis, HIV, co-infection
Switzerland
Although the advent of Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy (HAART) has dramatically decreased the morbidity and mortality associated with HIV-1
infection, there is a pronounced demand for alternative clinical management strategies due to frequent evolution of antiretroviral resistance, toxicity,
and access constraints in resource-limited settings. My research is focused on identifying and characterizing novel host factors that act against HIV-
1, by investigating the molecular determinants underlying the anti-HIV-1 activity of the antiviral cytokine interferon-alpha (IFN-a) in vivo. These host
factors may serve as the foundations of future prophylactic, therapeutic and eradication strategies for HIV-1 infection. Induction of IFN-a expression
is a critical first step in the defense against a range of viral infections. The antiretroviral activity of the IFN-a cytokine was demonstrated in vitro
almost immediately after the discovery of HIV-1, and includes inhibition of HIV-1 reverse transcription, viral assembly and virion release. Several
clinical studies including our own report that IFN-a treatment acts against HIV-1 in vivo, and potently suppresses HIV-1 viremia in chronically-infected
individuals. The precise molecular mechanisms underlying this suppressive activity in vivo, however, remain to be elucidated. ….. For a concise
explanation of my latest research and its implications, please visit this new UCSF press release: http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2012/02/11598/fighting-
infections-old-drug-reveals-new-tricks In addition to the my principal research projects involving IFN-a and host restriction factors, I participate as a
bioinformaticist and phylogeneticist in a number of HIV/AIDS collaborations with researchers at the San Francisco VA Medical Center (SFVAMC),
San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) and the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology (GIVI).
Larissa Podust, Assistant, Professor Pathology
TB, parasite, molecular mechanism, neglected disease
Travis Porco, Associate Professor, Proctor Foundation
Keywords: epidemiology; HIV; tuberculosis; trachoma; uvelitis; resistant
Ethiopia; India; Thailand
Mary Premenko-Lanier, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Medicine
Oliver Radke, Assistant Professor, UCSF School of Medicine
Anesthesia
Greg Rebchook, Assistant Professor, Prevention Sciences Group
Keyword: HIV prevention, e-learning, MSM, science based
Philippines
Rotrease Regan, Fellow, CAPS

20. Adam Renslo, Associate Professor, Pharmaceutical Chemistry
Keyword: cellular mechanism; molecular mechanism; neglected disease; local global *
My research group is engaged at the interface of chemistry and biology. As medicinal chemists, we design and synthesize small molecules that
modulate disease pathology at the level of the enzyme, cell, and whole animal, with current projects in cancer, infectious disease, and
neurodegeneration. As chemical biologists, we employ novel small molecule probes to better understand biological pathways and the mechanisms
of small molecule therapeutics. Using such small molecule probes, we are exploring the mechanisms underlying the action of artemisinin and
related antimalarial drugs. Finally, we are inventing and employing new platform technologies in an effort to expand the realm of druggable target
space and drug-like chemical space. These technologies include new targeted approaches in cancer and infectious disease
Teri Reynolds, Assistant Professor, Emergency Med
Keyword: emergency medicine
Democratic Republic of the Congo; Rwanda; Tanzania
Nadia Roan, Assistant Professor, UCSF School of Medicine
Michael Rosenblum, Assistant Professor, Dermatology
Arup Roy-Burman, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Keyword: regional best practices
Honduras, Republic of Georgia
Roy-Burman is Medical Director of the Pediatric ICU and Director of Pediatric Transport, Access, and Outreach for UCSF Benioff Children’s
Hospital. He provides clinical service in both the Pediatric ICU and the Pediatric Cardiac ICU. He is interested in the promotion of both internal and
external collaborations between specialties and institutions, standardization of patient care delivery, optimization of outcomes, and the development
of regional best practices, access to care, with a focus on customer relationship management and telehealth. Roy-Burman is a fellow of the
American Academy of Pediatrics and a member of several professional organizations, including the Society of Critical Care Medicine and the
Medical Group Management Association. He led the re-establishment of the Northern California Pediatric Intensive Care Network and serves as its
Chair. Roy-Burman has a long history of involvement with international health. He is co-founder and former Director of the Roatan Volunteer
Pediatric Clinic in Roatan, Honduras, where he has also established one of the largest pediatric resident international health electives available to
US trainees. He is a member of the Board of the 501(c) 3 Global Healing. Roy-Burman has been recognized consistently in Best Doctors in
America and Who’s Who in America.
Sarah Royce, Assistant Professor, Global Health Sciences
Keyword: Implementation Science, HIV prevention
Theodore Ruel, Assistant Professor, MED- Pediatrics Infectious Diseases
Keyword: pediatric, infectious disease
Thailand, Peru, India, Kenya, Uganda, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tina Rutar, Associate Professor, Opthamology
Keyword: eye surgery misaligned eyes, cataracts, congenital malformations of the eye
Coleen Sabatini, Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery
Disparities
Parya Saberi - Assistant Professor, Medicine / CAPS
Keywords: HIV/AIDS, ART, adherence, sleep, Technology, disparities
Iran
Judy Sakanari, Research Parasitologist, Pathology
Keywords: Parasotiology, Chagas, Trymanosome, Leismania
Chas Salmen - Resident
Keyword: Capacity building, community education, innovation in outreach
Kenya

21. Amanda Sammann, Resident, Surgery, Education Office
Keywords: surgery capacity building
Andrew Saunders - Fellow, Pediatrics
Sandy Schwarcz, Associate Professor, Epi and Biostat
Keywords: HIV epidemiology
Kenya
Hyman Scott, Fellow, ID
Mark Seielstad, Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine
Keyword: diabetes; epidemiology; blood supply; genetic
Brazil
Research in my lab is at the interface of genetic epidemiology and population/anthropological genetics. The main goal is to identify human genetic
variation altering the risk of complex human diseases involving immunity and metabolism (e.g., type 2 diabetes). This puts an emphasis on genomic
technologies such as genome-wide SNP genotyping, and next-generation sequencing to reveal and characterize polymorphisms in whole exome
and whole genome data. Much of this work is carried out in geographically diverse human populations, which are also the subject of anthropological
investigations that seek to characterize the global distribution of genetic variation. A particular emphasis is placed on sequencing and coalescence
analysis of the Y chromosome and mtDNA, as well as cultural practices that alter demographic and selective regimes acting on the sex-specific
lineages of these two DNA molecules.
Devi SenGupta, ID Fellow, Department of Medicine – Division of Infectious Diseases
Robin Serrahn, Assistant Professor, Family and Community Medicine
Jae Sevelius, Assistant Professor, Medicine/CAPS
Keywords: HIV prevention, Transgender health
Peru
Affiliations: Center of Excellence for Transgender Health Center for AIDS Prevention Studies
Starley Shade, Assistant Professor, MED- Positive Health
Keywords: statistics,
Kenya, Mozambique, Senegal
Sriram Shamasunder, Assistant Professor /Hospitalists , Medicine
Keywords: healthcare delivery, resource constrained, TB, refugee
Burundi, India, Tanzania, Guatemala, Tibet,
Sriram Shamasunder is interested in the delivery of comprehensive health care in resource poor settings. In addition to his clinical work training
medical students and residents on the medical service at UCSF in San Francisco, he spends much of his time abroad. In 2009, Sri spent 5 months in
rural Burundi with the organization Village Health Works providing comprehensive primary and HIV care as well as designing innovative clinical
programs. Following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, he led a group of surgeons in Western Haiti. In 2010, he spent several months in rural Karnataka,
India providing comprehensive primary care and training health personnel. In 2011, he worked in a similar capacity in Rwanda with the Ministry of
Health and Partners in Health. He was awarded the Young Physician of the Year in 2010, by the Northern California Chapter of the American
College of Physicians and was named an Asia21 fellow in 2012. Sri is a Fulbright-Nehru scholar to India studying innovations of care among tribal
health organizations throughout rural India. At UCSF, he co-founded and is co-directing the first ever Global Health-Hospital Medicine Fellowship,
which aims to train the next cohort of leaders in Global Health delivery and implementation.
Nicolas Sheon, Assistant Professor, MED CAPS

22. Marwa Shoeb, Assistant Professor, Department of Medicine
Keyword: Medical education, Global Health
Marwa Shoeb is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She received an undergraduate degree in Neuroscience from Brown
University and her MD and Masters in Health Sciences from the Joint UC Berkeley-UC San Francisco Medical Program. She completed residency
training in the Categorical Medicine Track and participated in the Global Health and Hospital Medicine Pathways at the University of Washington in
2011. She finished the 1-year Academic Hospital Medicine Fellowship at UCSF in 2012. Marwa's academic interests include global and public
health, health and human rights, health systems strengthening, medical education, and transitions of care.
Claire Simeone, AssistantProf- Community Health Systems
Elizabeth Sinclair, Assistant Professor, Medicine
Keywords: HIV treatment
Annette Sohn, Assistant Professor, MED- Pediatrics Infectious Diseases
Keywords: pediatric, stigma, antiretroviral, health policy, field
Viet Nam
Ma Somsouk, Assistant Professor, UCSF School of Medicine
1. Gastrointestinal tract as a reservoir and site of HIV pathogenesis. We study the impact of HIV in the gut, answering questions related to viral
persistence, immune activation, epithelial barrier dysfunction, and their relationship to systemic inflammation, aging, and cancer using observational
studies and interventional trials. 2. Prevention of colorectal cancer. The SFGH population often presents with late-stage cancer, particularly among
Asians and blacks, with low rates of colorectal cancer screening and late utilization of health care services. We identify barriers to access healthcare
/ colorectal cancer screening in the safety-net population. In addition to cohort studies, we use mathematical simulation models to identify challenges
and best practices for colorectal cancer screening / surveillance. 2006-2008 Master's in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF 2005-2008
Gastroenterology Fellowship, UCSF 2002-2005 Residency in Internal Medicine, UCLA-Harbor 2000-2001 Paul Dudley White / Andrew Sellard
Fellowship, Beijing University 1997-2002 Harvard Medical School 1993-1997 Pomona College, Chemistry, Magna Cum Laude
Serena Spudich, Assistant Professor, SFGH
Padmini Srikantiah, Assistant Professor, ID
Wayne Steward, Assistant Professor, MED- CAPS
Keyword: stigma, behavior policy HIV prevention
Zimbabwe, Mexico
Chris Stewart, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Keyword: emergency med; trauma; global health; health in conflict; pediatric; provider training; violence
Guatemala; Nicaragua; Viet Nam
Cheryl Stoddart, Associate Professor, Medicine
HIV; drug development; stem cell
My research has focused on the use of the SCID-hu Thy/Liv mouse model for preclinical evaluation of antiviral compounds and immunomodulating
agents. The Thy/Liv model is constructed by implantation of organs supportive of human multilineage hematopoiesis and T-cell development (e.g.,
fetal liver and thymus) into the immunodeficient C.B-17 scid/scid mouse. Since 2000, I have been the Principal Investigator for a sole-sourced
contract from NIH/NIAID, Tissue-Based Small Animal Model for HIV Drug Discovery funded to carry out these drug evaluations. The model has also
been shown to be receptive to the surgical implantation of a number of other hematopoietic and nonhematopoietic human organ systems, including
lymph node, small and large intestine, lung, skin, pituitary, ovary, and placenta. Mice with such implanted organs represent potential models that
could be used to discover and evaluate stem cell populations normally resident within each of these organs.
Carolyn Sufrin, Clinical Instructor, ObGyn SFGH
Keywords: family planning, incarceration
Iran

23. Mary Sutphen, Assistant Professor, Social and Behavioral Science
Keyword: nursing education, ethics
John Takayama, Associate Professor, Pediatrics
Judy Tan – Postdoctoral Fellow, Med-CAPS
Dr. Judy Y. Tan is a behavioral scientist and social psychologist, currently a Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS)
in the Traineeship for AIDS Prevention Studies (TAPS) T-32 NIMH Post-Doctoral Fellowship. She received her doctorate in Social Psychology from
the University of Connecticut, where she also received certifications in Quantitative Research Methods and Health Psychology. Dr. Tan's research
focuses on HIV-related behaviors among gay men of color and, more broadly, on the impact of social inequality on health, evaluation of HIV/AIDS
prevention intervention efficacy, and ecological and sociostructural factors related to HIV/AIDS. Her work utilizes theory-building and advanced
quantitative methods that include daily process methods and multilevel analyses.
Kelly Taylor, Specialist, Institute for Global Health
Nigeria, Ghana, Senegal 9/26/10- 11/17/10 Mozambique
Lisa Thompson, Assistant Professor Family Health Care Nursing
Keyword: environmental health; nursing; family; neonate
Guatemala; Peru
My research focuses on environmental factors that contribute to low birth weight and adverse perinatal outcomes, such as neonatal morbidity and
mortality. My current research interests are to expand the evidence of an association between low birth weight and decreased anthropometric growth
(primarily stunting and wasting) among children who are heavily exposed to particulate matter and carbon monoxide from solid-fuel cook stoves in
lesser-developed countries. My long-term goal is to examine other social, economic and institutional forces that drive environmental health
disparities, both globally, and among Latino immigrant populations residing in urban California.
Tererai Trent, Postdoctoral Fellow, Med-CAPS
Reiko True, Assistant Professor Psychiatry
Hong-Ha Truong, Assistant Professor Grad, Molecular Epidemiology
Keyword: viral diversity, super-infection, antiretroviral, resistance,
Zimbabwe, Uganda, Viet Nam, Namibia
Janice Tsoh, Associate Professor, Psychiatry
Keyword: tobacco; cancer; behavior; clinical trial; depression; smoking; substance abuse
Stefanie Ueda, Assistant Professor – Gyn Oncology Division
Patrick Unemori, Resident, Dermatology
Snigdha Vallabhaneni, Fellow - Infect disease
Keyword: hepatitis, pregnancy, HIV prevention
India, Thailand
Katherine Van Loon - Specialist Gastrointestinal Cancer