Secondary Faculty

Miriam Kuppermann, PhD, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- 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
- 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
- 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
- patient-oriented research about cardiovascular risk, genetic predisposition, and lifestyle factors in kidney disease

Emily Perito, MD
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- 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
- Neonatal health

Kathryn Phillips, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- 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
- 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
- Food insecurity, hunger, health disparities, diabetes, obesity, nutrition, nutrition policy

Michael Shlipak, MD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Aging
- 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
- healthcare disparities, outcomes research, prostate cancer, bladder cancer

Mary Whooley, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
- Implementation Science
- 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
- 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
- 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, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Global Health

Thomas Newman, MD, MPH
Professor
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Research Area(s):
- Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
- Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology
- Clinical problems in pediatrics, such as jaundice and infections in newborn babies, urinary tract infections and cholesterol screening