General Aging
Jacqueline Torres, PhD, MA, MPH, Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; T32 Program Director (policies, families, and community social networks in shaping population health)
Paola Gilsanz, ScD, Research Scientist II, Kaiser Division of Research (healthy brain aging across the lifecourse)
Neil Risch, PhD, MS, Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Director, Institute of Human Genetics (human genetics, population genetics, statistical genetics, genetic epidemiology)
Joanne Spetz, PhD, Professor, Institute for Health Policy Studies; Director, Institute for Health Policy Studies (economics of the health care workforce, organization of health care services, and quality of health care)
Margaret Wallhagen, RN, PhD, FAAN, Professor, Physiological Nursing (chronic illnesses as well as changes that occur with age)
Biostatistics
Fei Jiang, PhD, MS, Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Mi-Ok Kim, PhD, MS, MA, Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Cancer
June Chan, DSc, Vice Chair of Education and Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Professor, Urology (how diet, exercise, other lifestyle factors and genetics contribute to prostate cancer, modifiable lifestyle risk factors)
Scarlett Gomez, PhD, MPH, Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; Co-Leader, Cancer Control Program of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center; Director, Greater Bay Area Cancer Registry (upstream structural and social drivers of health on cancer)
Rebecca Graff, ScD, Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Director, Designing and Conducting Research at the UCSF School of Medicine (population-based cancer epidemiology)
Peggy Reynolds, PhD, MPH, MA, Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Co-Investigator for UCSF's Environmental Research and Translation for Health (EaRTH) Center (environmental risk factors for cancer)
Erin Van Blarigan, ScD, Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics & Urology (prostate cancer, health behaviors and cancer survivorship)
Coronary Heart Disease, Kidney Disease
Mark Pletcher, MD, PhD, Chair and Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics (lifestyle, prevention); T32 Program Director
Neil Powe, MD, MPH, MBA, Professor, Medicine, Constance B. Wofsy Distinguished Professor (discovery, education, clinical practice and organizational effectiveness; enhancing scholarship and multidisciplinary collaboration, and developing future talent and leadership)
Epidemiology
Ali Mirzazadeh, PhD, MD, MPH, Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics (infectious disease)
Paul Wesson, PhD, Associate Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics (HIV, sampling hard-to-reach and hidden populations)
Geriatrics
Kenneth Covinsk, MD, MPH, Professor, Medicine; Edmund G. Brown, Sr., Distinguished Professor in Geriatrics (disability in older persons)
Richard Grant, MD, MPH, Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Research Scientist, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California; Regional Director, The Permanente Medical Group, Research and Evaluation for Complex Needs (type 2 diabetes and related chronic conditions, primary care redesign)
Ashwin Kotwal, MD, Associate Professor, Medicine; Co-Lead, Social Connections and Aging Lab (loneliness and social isolation among older adults)
Alexander Smith, MD, MPH, MS, Professor, Medicine; Co-founder of ePrognosis.org; Executive Editor, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society; Director, UCSF's NIA funded T32 program in aging research (improving quality of life and patient-physician communication for older adults)
Michael Steinman, MD, Professor, Medicine; Co-Principal Investigator, US Deprescribing Research Network (identifying and improving the quality of medication prescribing in clinically complex older adults)
Louise Walter, MD, Professor, Medicine; Helen Hoh Wu and Laurene Wu McClain Professor in Geriatric; Chief, UCSF Division of Geriatrics (real-world harms and benefits of cancer screening in older patients)
Musculoskeletal: Arthritis, Osteoporosis, Rheumatology
Peggy Cawthon, PhD, MPH, Associate Professor, Epidemiology and Biostatistics; T32 Program Director (mobility in old age; sarcopenia)
Steve Cummings, MD, Professor Emeritus, Medicine; Executive Director, San Francisco Coordinating Center; Senior Research Scientist, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute (observational studies and clinical trials in osteoporosis, human aging, and postmenopausal women’s health)
Jinoos Yazdan, MD, MPH, Professor, Medicine; Chief, Division of Rheumatology at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital; Alice Betts Endowed Chair in Arthritis; Robert L. Kroc Chair in Rheumatic and Connective Tissue Diseases; Executive Director, UCSF AI Monitoring in Clinical Care (AI in clinical workflows, chronic rheumatic diseases)
Neurology and Psychiatry
Deborah Barnes, PhD, Recall Faculty, Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences (epidemiology of brain health, cognitive decline, and dementia)
Bruce Miller, MD, Professor, Neurology; A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor in Neurology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences; Director, Global Brain Health Institute (neurocognitive disorders, dementia)
Adam Staffaroni, PhD, Associate Professor, Neurology, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences (neurodegenerative diseases, digital health technologies)
Katie Stone, PhD, Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics (interrelationships between sleep and health outcomes)
Carlie Tanner, MD, PhD, Professor, Neurology; Roger Evans and Aey Phanachet Endowed Professor in Parkinson's Disease, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences (Parkinson's disease)
Rachel Whitmer, PhD, Professor, UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Chief, Division of UCD Epidemiology, Director, Population Brain Health Lab; Co-director, UC Davis Alzheimer's Disease Center; Professor, Department of Public Health Sciences and Department of Neurology (Alzheimer’s disease and dementia)
Kristine Yaffe, MD, Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology, Psychiatry; Leon J. Epstein, M.D., Chair in Geriatric Psychiatry; Roy & Marie Scola Endowed Chair in Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences; Vice Chair of Research in Psychiatry (epidemiology of and modifiable risk factors for dementia and cognitive aging)