Faculty

Primary Faculty

Alexis Beatty, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

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

Research Interests:
  • Cardiovascular disease, cardiac rehabilitation, health disparities, digital health, implementation science


Michael Kohn, professor in UCSF Dept. of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Michael A. Kohn, MD, MPP
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Machine Learning
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Diagnostic and prognostic testing for stroke, myocardial infarction, sepsis, and other emergency conditions; expert on database management for clinical research


Mark Pletcher, professor at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Mark J. Pletcher, MD, MPH
Professor
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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


Neil Risch, PhD
Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Genetic Epidemiology


Secondary Faculty

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


Hannah Glass, professor at UCSF

Hannah Glass, MD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Clinical Epidemiology and Methods
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Reproductive, Perinatal and Neonatal Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Neonatal seizures, neonatal neurocritical care, neuroprotection, environmental health, cerebral palsy, epilepsy


Nancy Hills, PhD
Associate Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders


Alka Kanaya, professor at UCSF

Alka Kanaya, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders

Research Interests:
  • diabetes, atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease epidemiology, health disparities among Asian Americans


Helen Kim, professor at UCSF

Helen Kim, PhD, MPH
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

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

Research Interests:
  • Risk factors that predispose younger individuals to stroke and cardiovascular disease


Jorge Kizer, MD
Professor
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders

Research Interests:
  • risk factors for heart disease and stroke, the interrelationship of glucose and lipid metabolism, bone and mineral disease, and cardiovascular disorders, particularly in the context of aging and HIV


Meyeon Park, MD, MAS
Associate Professor
[email protected]

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


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


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

Dhruv Kazi, MD, MS
Associate Professor
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Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Global Health

Research Interests:
  • Health economics, cost-effectiveness, m-health, global health, anticoagulation


Postdoc

Sarah Ackley, postdoctoral scholar at UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics

Sarah Ackley, PhD
Fellow
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Biostatistics
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Infectious Disease

Research Interests:
  • Mathematical modeling of tuberculosis with molecular data


Teresa Filshtein, PhD
Fellow
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Aging
  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders


Kendra D. Sims, PhD
Postdoc
[email protected]

Research Area(s):

  • Epidemiology of Cardiovascular and Neurological Disorders
  • Research Methods in Epidemiology

Research Interests:
  • Environmental determinants of older adult health disparities