Faculty

Primary Faculty

Dennis Black

Dennis Black, PhD
Professor (recall)
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Lifecourse


Kala Mehta, associate professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Global Health
  • Lifecourse
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Health disparities, race/ethnicity, pathway programs, social entrepreneurship, global health


John Neuhaus, PhD
Professor (recall)
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology of Aging


Michael Nevitt, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Lifecourse


Mark Pletcher, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Mark J. Pletcher, MD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

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

Research Interests:
  • Early life causes of atherosclerosis, clinical decision-making regarding use of preventive medications (statins and anti-hypertensive medications), screening for subclinical cardiovascular disease, use of emerging technology and electronic health record systems to improve health, healthcare system embedded research, digital health, COVID-10


Ann Schwartz, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Ann V. Schwartz, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • Diabetes, osteoporosis, bone marrow adiposity, dual x-ray absorptiometry, body composition


Jacqueline Torres, assistant professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Jacqueline Torres, MPH, MS, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Global Health
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • Social and migration-related determinants of health and aging in the US and Latin America; health effects of immigration policy across the life-course; health disparities; family dynamics and health


Secondary Faculty

Deborah Barnes, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Deborah Barnes, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Implementation Science

Research Interests:
  • Older adults, persons with physical disability, persons with mental illness, cognitive impairment/dementia, cognitive function


Douglas Bauer, secondary faculty at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Douglas C. Bauer, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging

Research Interests:
  • The etiology, diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis and other skeletal disorders, clinical biomarkers, and thyroid dysfunction


John Boscardin, PhD, secondary faculty at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

John Boscardin, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology of Aging


Willa Brenowitz, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Lifecourse
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology
  • Social Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Alzheimer's disease and related dementias, role of sensory impairments and other chronic diseases in brain aging, social determinants of health, causal inference methods


Alison Huang, MD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging

Research Interests:
  • The impact of menopause and aging on women's health, strategies to prevent and treat health conditions that disproportionately affect older women


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


Rachel Whitmer, PhD
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging

Research Interests:
  • Aging, Epidemiology, Lifecourse, Dementia, Brain Health, Disparities, Diabetes Mellitus, Alzheimer's Disease, Cognition, Population Health, Electronic Medical Records, Cohort Studies, Traumatic Brain Injury, Minority Aging, Diverse Communities, Type 1 Diabetes, Glycemic Control, Metabolic Risk Factors, Field Research


Kristine Yaffe, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Lifecourse

Research Interests:
  • epidemiology of dementia and cognitive aging, modifiable risk factors for dementia, dementia prevention trials


Affiliate Faculty

Alan Go, MD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging


Emeritus Faculty

Dennis black, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Dennis Black, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Lifecourse


Steve Cummings, MD
Professor
[email protected]

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


John Neuhaus, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology of Aging


Eric Vittinghoff, PhD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology of Aging


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