Faculty Profile
Julianna Deardorff, PhD
Assistant Adjunct Professor, Division of Cancer Epidemiology
China Basin Landing
UCSF Box 0981
185 Berry Street, Lobby 2, Suite 6600
San Francisco, CA 94107-1762
Dr. Deardorff obtained her masters and doctorate in clinical psychology at Arizona State University and completed a one-year clinical internship at Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford Medical Center and the Children's Health Council in Palo Alto. Following internship, Dr. Deardorff was a postdoctoral scholar in the two-year NIH-funded "Psychology and Medicine" fellowship in the Health Psychology Program, Department of Psychiatry, at UCSF. Dr. Deardorff’s current research focuses on risk factors for early pubertal timing among females and subsequent poor outcomes, both in terms of short-term consequences in adolescence and long-term consequences in adulthood.
Principal Research Interests
- Risk factors and consequences for early pubertal timing among females
- Latinos' physical and mental health
- Behavioral medicine
- Cancer population science
Principal Teaching Activities
- Culture and Behavior small groups (UCSF School of Medicine)
- Community Psychology guest lecturer at UC Berkeley
- Introductory Statistics at SFSU
Selected University & Public Service
- Breast Cancer Outreach, Kaiser-UCSF
- Building Intellectual Community among Psychologists at UCSF
