Faculty

Secondary Faculty

Miriam Kuppermann, professor at UCSF

Miriam Kuppermann, PhD, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Patient-centered outcomes, focusing on patient preferences and informed decision making among racially/ethnically and socioeconomically diverse women, including prenatal genetic testing, adult genetic testing for Lynch syndrome, noncancerous uterine conditions, cervical cancer screening and post CIN 2+ treatment surveillance, contraception, and mode of delivery.


Courtney Lyles, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Implementation Science

Research Interests:
  • Dr. Lyles’ research strives to design, evaluate, and disseminate digital health solutions that work for all patients, particularly the most vulnerable. Her work investigates the most effective ways to improve digital health design and increase digital access and skills by leveraging implementation science and population health approaches. She leads the DEB Digital Health Initiative and is a co-PI of the UCSF Population Health Data Initiative.


Anobel Y. Odisho, MD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods

Research Interests:
  • development, implementation, and evaluation of digital health solutions and integrating these solutions into clinical workflows with decision support systems to improve patient care.


Meyeon Park, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders

Research Interests:
  • patient-oriented research about cardiovascular risk, genetic predisposition, and lifestyle factors in kidney disease


Emily Perito, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and biostatistics

Emily Perito, MD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods

Research Interests:
  • pediatric liver transplantation, long-term outcomes after liver transplantation, chronic pancreatitis, pancreatic insufficiency, metabolic liver disease, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, pediatric gastroenterology


Shabnam Peyvandi, MD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Neonatal health


Kathryn Phillips, professor at UCSF

Kathryn Phillips, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods

Research Interests:
  • Health services research, health economics, policy analysis, personalized/precision medicine


Anne Schafer, MD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods

Research Interests:
  • Osteoporosis and bone metabolism, the relationships between bone, fat, and glucose metabolism, including the effects of obesity and diabetes on bone, and the skeletal regulation of energy metabolism, effects of bariatric surgery (weight loss surgery) on calcium metabolism and skeletal health


Hilary Seligman, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods

Research Interests:
  • Food insecurity, hunger, health disparities, diabetes, obesity, nutrition, nutrition policy


Michael Shlipak, professor at UCSF

Michael Shlipak, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Epidemiology of Aging

Research Interests:
  • Causes and consequences of age-related kidney disease


Judith Walsh-Cassidy, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):

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


Samuel L. Washington III, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):

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

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


Mary Whooley, professor at UCSF

Mary Whooley, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Implementation Science

Research Interests:
  • Clinical informatics, Big Data, depression screening, cardiovascular outcomes, cardiac rehabilitation


Affiliate Faculty

Benjamin N. Breyer, MD, MAS
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods

Research Interests:
  • clinical epidemiology of urologic diseases and trauma


Emeritus Faculty

Steve Cummings, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Epidemiology of Aging

Research Interests:
  • genomics, proteomics and metabolomics of aging; cellular biology of loss of muscle function and mobility in aging; osteoporosis and prevention of fractures


James G. Kahn, professor emeritus at UCSF

James G. Kahn, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Global Health


Tom Newman, professor emeritus at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Thomas Newman, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Clinical problems in pediatrics, such as jaundice and infections in newborn babies, urinary tract infections and cholesterol screening

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