Faculty

Primary Faculty

Paige Bracci, PhD, MPH, MS
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology


June Chan, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

June Chan, DSc
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • How diet, exercise, other lifestyle factors are associated with better outcomes in men with prostate cancer; testing if changes in behavior after diagnosis improve cancer survivorship; disseminating evidence-based recommendations and tools to help people with cancer adopt healthier lifestyle practices and improve survivorship


Iona Cheng, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Iona Cheng, PhD, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • The role of genetics, health behaviors, environmental exposures, and neighborhood factors on cancer incidence and prognosis


Scarlett Gomez, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Scarlett Gomez, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • The role of social determinants of health, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, immigration status, sociocultural factors, and neighborhood contextual characteristics, on health outcomes


Rebecca Graff, ScD
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Genetic Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • prostate cancer, kidney cancer, cancer risk factors, cancer survivorship, genetics, pleiotropy, metabolomics, molecular subtyping


Robert Hiatt

Robert A. Hiatt, MD, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  • Global Health
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Robert Hiatt is Associate Director for Population Science at Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. His research interests include: cancer epidemiology, especially breast cancer, cancer prevention & screening, health inequities, health services & outcomes research, social determinants of cancer, environmental health research, environmental exposures in early development related to cancer, mathematical modeling of cancer, global health science


Thomas Hoffmann

Thomas Hoffmann, PhD, MA
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Genetic Epidemiology
  • Machine Learning

Research Interests:
  • Biostatistics, Public health, Human genetics, Statistical genetics, High-dimensional data, Statistical computing, Machine learning, Image classification, Age-related hearing impairment, Cardiovascular disease, Cancer


Jeffrey Martin, professor at UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Jeffrey N. Martin, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Global Health
  • Infectious Disease
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Kaposi's sarcoma, Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, HIV infection, cervical cancer, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, International research, education in clinical and epidemiological research, mentoring junior faculty or trainees, public health, global health, Africa


Peggy Reynolds, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Peggy Reynolds, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • The role of physical/occupational environmental exposures and windows of susceptibility on cancer risk.


Kim Rhoads, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Kim Rhoads, MD, MPH, FACS
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology


Salma Shariff-Marco, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Salma Shariff-Marco, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Understanding the role of social determinants of health in shaping and perpetuating health disparities, how neighborhood characteristics (e.g., social, built, and physical environment attributes) and geographic variation may shape cancer-related health behaviors and outcomes across the cancer continuum


Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Understanding the impact of diagnostic testing on important patient outcomes and understanding the difference in access to different tests and variance in accuracy of these tests, the risk of cancer associated with incidental findings identified on ultrasound and CT imaging, and assessing patterns of radiation from diagnostic imaging


Erin Van Blarigan, ScD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Innovative study designs to optimize remotely delivered behavioral interventions (e.g., MOST framework, adaptive trials); digital health; cancer survivorship; nutrition; physical activity; nutritional epidemiology


Lydia Zablotska, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Lydia Zablotska, MD, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology
  • Global Health


Secondary Faculty

Rebecca Jackson, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods


Stacey Kenfield, DSc
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology


Karla Kerlikowski, professor at UCSF

Karla Kerlikowske, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods

Research Interests:
  • Breast cancer


Eleni Linos, MD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Cancer prevention, melanoma, basal and squamous cell skin cancer, geriatric dermatology


Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Implementation Science
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Health equity, patient safety, implementation science, digital health, social media, cancer survivorship, and health information technology


George Sawaya, professor at UCSF

George Sawaya, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Implementation Science

Research Interests:
  • cancer screening with particular interest in patient-centered and economic effects of various screening strategies


Judith Walsh-Cassidy, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Epidemiology of Aging


Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • healthcare disparities, outcomes research, prostate cancer, bladder cancer


Li Zhang, secondary faculty at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Li Zhang, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Cancer Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Clinical Trial for Cancer Research, Dose-Volume Histogram Analysis, T-cell Receptor Sequencing


Emeritus Faculty

Paul Volberding, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Global Health
  • Implementation Science
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • HIV/AIDS, HIV-related malignancies, antiretroviral therapy, oncology, global health, health disparities, health policy


John Wiencke, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Cancer Epidemiology
  • Genetic Epidemiology