CTR Fellowship Potential Mentors
Mentors are listed by school: Dentistry Medicine Nursing Pharmacy
The faculty below have expressed interest in CTR Fellowship mentorship. You are not limited to those listed; expand your search for specific research expertise at UCSF Profiles.
Faculty member’s contact information can be found at the UCSF Directory. If not listed, email Kim Woodhouse.
| Mentor | Research Interests |
|---|---|
| SCHOOL OF DENTISTRY | |
| Diane L. Barber, PhD Professor and Vice-Chair, Cell and Tissue Biology |
Cell biology of processes driving tumor progression and metastasis ...Read more |
| Cynthia Lee Darling, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences |
Laser-tissue interactions, near-IR imaging of dental decay, polarization sensitive optical coherence tomography ...Read more |
| Stefan Habelitz, PhD Assistant Professor of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences |
Biomineralization, nanomechanical testing, biomimetics ...Read more |
| Janice S. Lee, DDS, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery |
Facial reconstruction, craniofacial congenital anomalies, tissue engineering and bone regeneration ...Read more |
| Daniel Ramos, DDS, PhD Associate Professor of Orofacial Sciences |
Cancer biology and integrin signaling ...Read more |
| Ling Zhan, DDS, PhD Assistant Professor of Preventive and Restorative Dental Sciences |
Dental caries research ...Read more |
| SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | |
| Nisha Acharya, MD, MS Assistant Professor, Director, Ocular Inflammatory Disease and Uveitis Clinic |
Clinical and translational research in the field of ocular infection and inflammation; epidemiologic studies, clinical trials, international research ...Read more |
| Nancy Adler, PhD Professor, Medical Psychology |
Health behaviors and impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on health ...Read more |
| Donna Albertson, PhD Professor, Cancer Research Institute |
Genomics and functional genomics of cancer; oral squamous cell carcinoma; carcinoma-stroma interactions ...Read more |
| Jennifer Alvidrez, PhD Associate Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry |
Mental health services research, access to care for underserved populations, ethnic disparities, mental health stigma ...Read more |
| Wendy Anderson, MD, MS Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Hospitalist) |
End of life and palliative care, doctor-patient communication ...Read more |
| Charalambos (Babis) Andreadis, MD, MSCE Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine (Hematology/Oncology) |
Hematologic malignancies (leukemia, lymphoma, bone marrow transplantation) ...Read more |
| Christian C. Apfel, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care |
Postoperative outcomes research, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), physiology of nausea, design and implementation of large randomized controlled multi-center trials, biostatistics, multivariable analysis, predictive models, biomedical devices ...Read more |
| Colette L. Auerswald, MD, MS Associate Professor of Pediatrics |
Adolescents, HIV, sexually transmitted diseases, qualitative research, social networks, poverty, homeless youth, social epidemiology, African American youth, young men who have sex with men (YMSM) ...Read more |
| Laurence Baskin, MD Professor of Urology and Pediatrics |
Sexual differentiation, hypospadias congenital anomalies ...Read more |
| Mary S. Beattie, MD, MAS Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of Clinical Research UCSF Cancer Risk Program |
Hereditary breast and ovarian cancer, genetic testing (BRCA gene) for cancer predisposition, breast cancer prevention and screening, breast MRI screening ...Read more |
| Harold S. Bernstein, MD, PhD Professor of Pediatrics (Cardiology) |
Myocardial regeneration, pediatric heart failure, biomarkers of heart failure ...Read more |
| Lisa Bero, PhD Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Health Policy |
Evidence-based health care, translating research into practice, influences on the quality and dissemination of research ...Read more |
| Philip Bickler, MD, PhD Professor of Anesthesia |
Neuroprotection, neural stem cells, human clinical trials of new pulse oximeters and cognitive assessment devices, high altitude physiology and medicine ...Read more |
| Jeffrey Bluestone, PhD A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor and Director, UCSF Diabetes Center |
Immune tolerance, autoimmunity, transplantation ...Read more |
| Michael D. Cabana, MD Professor of Pediatrics, Biostatistics and Epidemiology |
Primary prevention of asthma, pediatric health services research, childhood preventive care, quality improvement in asthma ...Read more |
| Aaron B. Caughey, MD, PhD Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Perinatal Research, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences |
Outcomes research in obstetrics, high-risk pregnancies, prenatal diagnosis, diabetes in pregnancy, outcomes related to mode of delivery, racial/ethnic disparities, patient preferences, decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, health economics ...Read more |
| Henry F. Chambers, MD Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) |
Antimicrobial resistance in Gram-positive bacteria, pathogenesis of staphylococcal disease, epidemiology of staphylococcal disease, pre-clinical and clinical development, including clinical trials, of antibiotics used to treat Staphylococcus aureus infections ...Read more |
| Edward Chang, MD Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery |
Neurobiology of speech and language, language disorders, neuro-prosthetics, and brain machine interface ...Read more |
| Farid Chehab, PhD Professor of Laboratory Medicine |
Diabetes and obesity, molecular diagnostics ...Read more |
| Mary-Margaret Chren, MD Professor of Dermatology |
Health services research ...Read more |
| Craig R. Cohen, MD, MPH Associate Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences |
Etiology and treatment of pelvic inflammatory disease and bacterial vaginosis, Prevention of sexually transmitted infections and HIV, microbicides, probiotics and mechanical barriers (e.g. diaphragm), immunopathogenesis of chlamydial infection, improvement of care to HIV infected persons living in resource poor settings, research training and infrastructure development in developing countries ...Read more |
| Grant Colfax, MD Director of HIV Prevention and Research, San Francisco Dept. of Public Health Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco |
HIV Prevention and Research....Read more |
| Michael S. Conte, MD Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery |
Vascular injury, vascular remodeling, vein graft disease, angioplasty restenosis ...Read more |
| Heike Daldrup-Link, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Radiology and Pediatrics |
Cellular imaging, contrast agent research ...Read more |
| Moupali Das, MD, MPH Assistant Clinical Professor, Divisions of Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS, SFGH Director of Research, HIV Prevention Section, San Francisco Dept. of Public Health |
Implementation science and operations ...Read more |
| Hans Dooms, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor of Pathology |
Immunologic memory, autoimmunity, type 1 diabetes, cytokines ...Read more |
| Grant Dorsey, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) |
Malaria and malaria/HIV co-infections ...Read more |
| Jacque Duncan, MD Associate Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology |
Inherited retinal degenerations, clinical trials for inherited retinal degenerations, novel imaging modalities for the retina ...Read more |
| Brian Feeley, MD Department of Orthopedic Surgery |
Knee ligament biomechanics, rotator cuff tears ...Read more |
| Margaret Feeney, MD Associate Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics |
Immunology of malaria and HIV infection in infants and children ...Read more |
| Donna M. Ferriero, MD Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics |
Neonatal neurology, hypoxic gene signaling in ischemia and traumatic brain injury in the young ...Read more |
| Lawrence Fisher, PhD, ABPP Professor & Director, Behavioral Diabetes Research Group |
Diabetes, behavior change, chronic disease, ethnicity ...Read more |
| Susan Fisher, PhD Professor of Obstetrics Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and Anatomy; Director, Human Embryonic Stem Cell Program; Faculty Director, Sandler-Moore Mass Spectrometry Core Facility Institute for Regeneration Medicine, Center for Reproductive Sciences |
Placental development in normal and abnormal pregnancies, the biology of human embryos and human embryonic stem cells, biological mass spectrometry ...Read more |
| Adam Gazzaley, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Neurology, Director of Neuroscience Imaging Center |
Perception, attention, memory, aging, Alzheimer’s disease, fMRI, EEG, TMS ...Read more |
| Stanton Glantz, PhD Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Director, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education |
Tobacco control, broadly construed ...Read more |
| Hannah Glass, MDCM Assistant Professor of Neurology |
Neonatal neurology ...Read more |
| Daphne Haas-Kogan, MD Professor of Radiation Oncology and Neurological Surgery |
Brain tumors, pediatric tumors, cellular responses to genotoxic agents, radiation, and novel therapies ...Read more |
| Judith A. Hahn, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor of Medicine (Infectious Diseases) | Alcohol consumption and HIV in Uganda, biomarkers of alcohol consumption, HCV in young injection drug users, HCV discordant injecting partners, mathematical modeling of infectious disease dynamics ...Read more |
| Steven Hamilton, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry |
Psychiatric genetics, pharmacogenetics ...Read more |
| Mardi Horowitz, MD Professor of Psychiatry |
Stress, grief, trauma, information processing, emotion ...Read more |
| Wen-Chi Hsueh, MPH, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine (Medical Genetics) |
Epidemiological and genetic studies of complex phenotypes, in particular aging- and metabolism-related traits in humans. ...Read more |
| Alison Huang, MD, MPhil Assistant Professor of Medicine (GIM) |
Female sexual function, menopausal symptoms, women’s health, urogenital health ...Read more |
| Laurence Huang, MD Professor of Medicine; Attending Physician, Department of Medicine, SFGH, HIV/AIDS Division, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Chief, HIV/AIDS Chest Clinic, SFGH |
HIV-associated pulmonary diseases – Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP), tuberculosis (TB), bacterial pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) ...Read more |
| Don L. Jewett, MD Professor Emeritus of Orthopaedic Surgery |
Recording brain electrical activity to rapid visual stimulation, modeling electrical current flows in the head using finite-element analysis, establishing new ways to communicate scientific knowledge using web-based "compendia" ...Read more |
| Bonnie N. Joe, MD, PhD Chief, Women’s Imaging Section, Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging |
Breast MRI, women’s imaging, contrast enhancement, magnetic resonance, volumetric, fetal MR, abdominal imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, MR perfusion ...Read more |
| Ella F. Jones, PhD Assistant Adjunct Professor of Radiology |
X-ray, optical, molecular imaging, cancer imaging, breast premalignancy, cancer malignancy and metastasis, nanomaterials ...Read more |
| Kerstin Kolodzie, MD Assistant Professor of Anesthesia and Perioperative Care |
Postoperative outcomes research, postoperative nausea and vomiting (PONV), physiology of nausea, airway management and malignant hyperthermia ...Read more |
| Miriam Kuppermann, PhD, MPH Professor, Departments of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences and Epidemiology & Biostatistics; Steering Committee member, Medical Effectiveness Research Center for Diverse Populations; Co-Director, CTSI Resident Research Program |
Patient preference measurement, informed patient decision-making and shared decision-making, creation and evaluation of decision aids, incorporating patient preferences into clinical guidelines, comparative effectiveness research in women’s health, with a focus on diverse populations. ...Read more |
| Margot Kushel, MD Associate Professor of Medicine (GIM) |
Homelessness, food insecurity, pain, prescription opioid misuse, health care utilization; parolee health ...Read more |
| Patricia A. Leake, PhD G.G. Sullivan Professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery; Research Director, Epstein Laboratory |
Effects of electrical stimulation (cochlear implants), neurotrophic agents (BDNF, JNK inhibitors) and plasticity in the deafened, developing auditory system of mammals ...Read more |
| Henry C. Lee, MD, MS Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology |
Quality improvement, perinatal / neonatal outcomes, health services ...Read more |
| Randall J. Lee, MD, PhD Professor of Medicine, Cardiovascular Research Institute |
Cardiac tissue engineering ...Read more |
| Xiaojuan Li, MS, PhD Assistant Professor of Radiology |
Radiology/Imaging ...Read more |
| Morton A. Lieberman, PhD Professor Emeritus of Psychology |
E health BUse of the Internet to deliver services to medically ill patients ...Read more |
| Bin Liu, PhD Associate Professor of Anesthesia |
Human antibodies targeting cancer stem cells ...Read more |
| Catherine Lomen-Hoerth, MD, PhD Director, ALS Center at UCSF; Associate Director, Office of Student Research |
ALS, neuroimaging, clinical neurophysiology, clinical trials ...Read more |
| Sharmila Majumdar, PhD Professor and Vice Chair, Department of Radiology; Director, Musculoskeletal and Quantitative Imaging Research (MQIR) Group |
Bioengineering, musculoskeletal magnetic resonance imaging, osteoarthritis ...Read more |
| Gregory M. Marcus, MD, MAS Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
Arrhythmias (abnormal heart rhythms), including etiologies of atrial fibrillation (genetic and proteomic studies), electrophysiology resulting from different diets and behaviors, novel therapies for atrial fibrillation, physician knowledge of arrhythmia guidelines, coagulation/stroke in lone atrial fibrillation ...Read more |
| Marta Margeta, MD PhD Assistant Professor of Pathology (Neuropathology) |
Neuroprotective signaling pathways; neurodegenerative disease pathogenesis ...Read more |
| Jeffrey N. Martin, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
Infectious diseases, epidemiology ...Read more |
| Kate Matthay, MD Professor of Pediatrics; Chief, Pediatric Hematology-Oncology; leader of the New Approaches to Neuroblastoma Therapy consortium |
Neuroblastoma, investigational therapeutics, targeted radiopharmaceuticals ...Read more |
| Carol A. Mathews, MD Associate Professor of Psychiatry |
Epidemiology, phenomonelogy, etiology, including genetics, of neuropsychiatric disorders ...Read more |
| Ana-Claire Meyer, MD, MSHS Clinical Instructor of Neurology, SFGH |
Neurology, infectious disease, hiv, global health, epidemiology ...Read more |
| Suellen Miller, CNM, PhD Associate Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences; Director, Safe Motherhood Program |
Maternal health ...Read more |
| Ricardo F. Muñoz, PhD Professor of Psychiatry |
Evidence-based Internet interventions for prevention and treatment of depression in Spanish and English ...Read more |
| Payam Nahid, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine (Pulmonary), Director of Chest & High Risk Asthma Clinics at SFGH |
Clinical and translational research in tuberculosis and non-tuberculosis mycobacteria. Projects in diagnostics and biomarkers within the context of -international tuberculosis clinical trials. Clinical research opportunities at Chest & High Risk Asthma Clinics at San Francisco General Hospital. ...Read more |
| Darin T. Okuda, MD Assistant Clinical Professor of Neurology |
Multiple sclerosis (MS), novel magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in MS, genetic risk factors in multiple sclerosis, cognition in demyelinating disease ...Read more |
| Nancy Padian, PhD Distinguished Fellow, Research Triangle Institute (RTI); Adjunct Professor, UC Berkeley School of Public Health, UCSF Center for AIDS Research |
HIV, reproductive epidemiology, STIs, prevention science ...Read more |
| Sunil Parikh, MD, MPH Assistant Professor of Medicine |
Translational studies of human genetic susceptibility to malaria, pharmacogenomics/pharmacokinetics of antimalarials, innate immunity to malaria ...Read more |
| Catherine Park, MD Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology |
Breast cancer associated stroma, clinical outcomes, genetics, microenvironment, radiation ...Read more |
| Marion Peters, MD Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology) |
Liver disease: viral hepatitis, autoimmune liver diseases and liver transplantation ...Read more |
| Russell O. Pieper, PhD Professor of Neurological Surgery |
Cell signaling as it relates to the development and treatment of brain tumors; particular interest in PTEN-mediated regulation of cell cycle progression and apoptosis ...Read more |
| Richard W. Price, MD Professor of Neurology; Chief, Neurology Service, SFGH |
HIV & CNS ...Read more |
| Judith (Jodi) Prochaska, PhD, MPH Assistant Professor of Psychiatry |
Health behavior change with a focus on treatment of tobacco use and dependence in smokers with co-occurring mental illness or addictive disorders ...Read more |
| David H. Rehkopf, ScD, MPH Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
Social epidemiology, health inequities, economic effects on health ...Read more |
| Michael C. Rowbotham, MD Adjunct Professor of Neurology and Anesthesia; Director, UCSF Pain Clinical Research Center; Senior Attending Neurologist, UCSF-Mount Zion Pain Management Center |
Chronic pain, especially neuropathic pain ...Read more |
| Fred Schaufele, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine, Diabetes Center |
Endocrine signaling pathways, particularly those involved in breast and prostate cancer; some more recent work in metabolic signaling systems as well, particularly insulin, thyroid hormone and PPAR signaling ...Read more |
| Mark A. Schumacher, PhD, MD Associate Professor of Anesthesia |
Pain, molecular biology of sensory transduction, transcriptional regulation of TRPV1 (capsaicin receptor), genomic predictors of chronic pain syndromes, transcriptional inhibition and the treatment of migraine headaches ...Read more |
| Saunak Sen, PhD Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics |
Statistical genetics, bioinformatics, systems biology, human genetics, biostatistics ...Read more |
| Robin Shaw, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) |
Cell biology of heart cells, cellular mechanisms of heart failure, cellular mechanisms of sudden cardiac death ...Read more |
| Martha Shumway, PhD Associate Professor of Psychiatry |
Clinical services research on mental health care for disadvantaged populations; racial/ethnic, cultural and social disparities; interface between mental health and medical care. ...Read more |
| Ida Sim, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Medicine (GIM) |
Medical informatics, decision support systems, evidence-based practice, new models of scientific publishing ...Read more |
| Paul C. Simpson, MD Professor of Medicine, Investigator of CVRI, Staff Cardiologist at VAMC |
Cardiovascular receptors ...Read more |
| Matthew L. Springer, PhD Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology) and Cardiovascular Research Institute |
Gene therapy, angiogenesis, cell therapy for myocardial infarction, endothelial progenitor cells and endothelial function, second hand cigarette smoke ...Read more |
| Philip Starr, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Neurosurgery |
Physiology of human motor control, studied while awake, neurosurgery for movement disorders ...Read more |
| Jay M. Stewart, MD Assistant Professor of Clinical Ophthalmology |
Myopia, biomechanics and permeability of ocular tissues (sclera, cornea) ...Read more |
| Janet Molzan Turan, PhD, MPH Assistant Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences |
Maternal health and mortality, developing countries, HIV/AIDS, stigma and discrimination, reproductive health, quality of care, community mobilization, male involvement, gender-based violence ...Read more |
| Girish N. Vyas, PhD Professor of Laboratory Medicine |
HIV vaccine development ...Read more |
| Emmanuelle Waubant, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Neurology |
Clinical research in multiple sclerosis (clinical trials and epidemiology) ...Read more |
| Ellen Weber, MD Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine |
Emergency department (ED) utilization and crowding, systems improvement, quality measures and adherence to guidelines, peer review and publication, resource utilization ...Read more |
| Lauren Weiss, PhD Staglin Family Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, Center for Neurobiology and Psychiatry, Institute for Human Genetics |
Autism genetics ...Read more |
| Mary Whooley, MD Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF; Staff Physician, San Francisco VA Medical Center |
Clinical research, cardiovascular disease, mental health in medicine ...Read more |
| Yvonne Wu, MD, MPH Associate Professor of Neurology and Pediatrics |
Newborn brain injury; cerebral palsy; perinatal stroke; birth asphyxia; epidemiology; clinical trials ...Read more |
| Benjamin M. Yeh, MD Associate Professor of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging |
Translational computed tomography research ...Read more |
| Edward Yelin, MD Professor of Medicine and Health Policy |
Disparities in health care and outcomes, employment outcomes of chronic diseases, cost of illness ...Read more |
| Sue S. Yom, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Radiation Oncology |
Head and neck, lung, and skin cancers, radiation therapy ...Read more |
| William L. Young, MD James P. Livingston Professor and Vice Chair, Anesthesia and Perioperative Care; Professor of Neurological Surgery and Neurology; Director, Center for Cerebrovascular Research |
Cerebrovascular disease, vascular malformations of the brain ...Read more |
| SCHOOL OF NURSING | |
| Bradley E. Aouizerat, MAS, PhD Associate Professor, Institute for Human Genetics; School of Nursing |
Symptoms in the setting of chronic disease (current models: cancer, HIV), including pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, anxiety, and depression; genetics of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease; genetics of dyslipidemia and cardiovascular disease ...Read more |
| Jyu-Lin Chen Associate Professor of Nursing |
Childhood obesity prevention and management; mHealth in health promotion in children ...Read more |
| Linda Franck Professor & Chair, Family Health Care Nursing |
Family stress and copying during child hospitalization; effects of sleep/pain/analgesia on vaccine response in infants; opioid withdrawal in critically ill children ...Read more |
| Kathryn Lee, RN, PhD, FAAN Professor of Family Health Care Nursing and James & Marjorie Livingston Chair in Nursing |
Sleep, circadian rhythms, women’s health ...Read more |
| Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD, FAAN Professor of Physiological Nursing and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs |
Symptom clusters in oncology patients (symptoms of interest include pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, depression, anxiety), intervention studies to improve cancer pain management, lymphedema, neuropathic pain after breast cancer surgery, patient outcomes including functional status and quality of life, genetics of symptoms ...Read more |
| SCHOOL OF PHARMACY | |
| Brian Alldredge, PharmD Professor of Clinical Pharmacy and Associate Dean |
Pharmacogenetics, epilepsy, medication safety ...Read more |
