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Dr. Andrew Avins is Assistant
Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics
and is the Director of Research for the Osher Center for Integrative
Medicine at UCSF. Among his research interests, focused primarily
in the areas of preventive medicine and alternative medicine, are
issues of particular relevance to the health and well-being of women.
He has published several papers on risk of HIV infection among alcohol-dependent
individuals, with particular emphasis on risk among women. He is
the principal investigator on NIH-funded grants examining cardiovascular
risk factors among both men and women and a clinical trial of saw
palmetto, and he was senior investigator on studies examining gender
bias in resident evaluations and sources of care for the spouses
of male veterans.
Dr. Brown is Associate
Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
and Epidemiology at UCSF. Dr. Brown is a national expert on the
prevalence of and risk factors associated with urinary incontinence.
She directs the UCSF Women's Continence Center, the UCSF Women's
Urologic Research Center and is Associate Director of the San
Francisco VA Women's Health Fellowship in Clinical Research. Dr.
Brown ins completing a 4-year Mentored Clinical Scientist Development
Award from the NIA. She is active in training and mentoring junior
faculty. In the last few years, two of her trainees received Mentored
Scientist Awards.
Dr. Cummings has led
many of the major multicenter studies and clinical trials in osteoporosis.
He is Associate Dean for Clinical Research and directs the UCSF
Coordinating Center that serves as the data management center
for many of the data bases that UCSF fellows and junior faculty
have used for their first research projects and publications.
Dr. Estes is Professor
of Sociology in the Institute for Health & Aging (where she was
first and founding director) and in the Department of Social &
Behavioral Sciences, School of Nursing, at the University of California,
San Francisco (UCSF). She is involved in contemporary policy debates
concerning Social Security, Medicare, and long term care reform,
recently writing and speaking on women's stake in these programs.
Dr. Estes is past president of the Gerontological Society of America,
the American Society of Aging and the Association for Gerontology
in Higher Education; she also served as national vice-president
of the Older Women's League. Dr. Estes is a member of the Institute
of Medicine, for which she chaired the IOM Committee to Evaluate
the Ombudsman Program in Long Term Care. She has authored and
co-authored 7 books on aging and long term care.
Dr. Grady is an internationally
recognized expert in women's health with particular expertise
in postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy. She directs the
UCSF General Internal Medicine and the San Francisco VA Ambulatory
Care and Women Veterans' Health Clinical Research Fellowships.
She has extensive experience in training fellows and mentoring
young faculty in women's health research.
Dr. Greenblatt is professor
of Clinical Medicine and Epidemiology at UCSF. She is an internationally
known expert on HIV, with a specific focus on women with HIV.
She is PI of the San Francisco clinical center of the Women's
Interagency HIV Study which will be made available to Scholars
interested in conducting research on women and AIDS.
Dr. Hulley is Professor
and Chair of the Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
in the School of Medicine. Dr. Hulley has directed fellowship
programs sponsored by the Mellon Foundation and by NIH for the
past two decades. He is the Director of the UCSF Clinical Research
Training Program, which is partially supported by a K-30 Clinical
Research Curriculum Award sponsored from NIH. He has devoted his
30-year career to clinical research primarily in cardiovascular
disease. He heads 2 large collaborative studies in women's health:
the Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study (HERS) and
the Medicine or Surgery (Ms) study.
Dr. Kerlikowske is
an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Director of the
San Francisco VA Women Veteran's Comprehensive Health Center.
She is an internationally-recognized expert in breast cancer screening
with particular expertise in screening mammography. She is PI
of the NIH-funded San Francisco Mammography Registry, Co-PI of
the Biostatistics and Informatics core of the UCSF Breast Cancer
SPORE, PI on a Breast Cancer Research Program grant to study epidemiologic
and clinical factors and histopathologic characteristics and molecular
markers associated with recurrent breast tumors in women with
DCIS. She has experience in training fellows and mentoring young
faculty in women's health research and has co-authored articles
with her trainees on the detection of endometrial cancer by transvaginal
ultrasound, risk of ovarian cancer among women who use hormone
replacement and incidence of abnormal Pap smears by age and screening
interval.
Dr. Miler is A.W. &
Mary-Margaret Clausen Distinguished Chair and Professor of Neurology
& Psychiatry. Dr. Miller is an expert on Alzheimers Disease and
the effect of sex hormones on dementia. He has served as the Scientific
Director for the John French Foundation for Alzheimer's Disease
Research since its inception in 1984 and organized and direct
a California-wide consortium designed to study the role of hormones
in dementia. With Victor Henderson from USC, Dr. Miller recently
completed a study on the acute efficacy of estrogens for Alzheimer's
disease. Dr. Miller has authored nearly 150 research articles,
40 chapters and has edited two books (one on Treatment of Alzheimer's
Disease the other on the Frontal Lobes). Under his leadership,
UCSF has received funding from the State of California and the
Koret Foundation to establish a large clinical and research program
for patients with Alzheimer's disease and other dementias. The
new dementia program incorporates outstanding clinical and basic
science resources at UCSF into the study of dementing conditions
and will provide Scholars an opportunity to join in the building
of research programs. These resources, including include programs
in neuroimaging, neuropsychology and transgenic mice models of
dementia, will be easily accessible to Scholars.
Joe V. Selby, MD, MPH, Director of the Division of Research (DOR) Kaiser
Permanente Northern California, since 1998, is a family physician and
clinical epidemiologist. Prior to becoming DOR Director, he served for 7
years as DOR's Assistant Director for Health Services Research. Dr. Selby
also serves as Lecturer in the Department of Epidemiology and
Biostatistics, University of California School of Medicine at San Francisco
and as a Consulting Professor, Health Research and Policy, Stanford
University School of Medicine. Additionally, Dr. Selby is currently a
member of the Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research study section for
Health Care Quality and Effectiveness. He was a commissioned officer in
the Public Health Service from 1976 to 1983 and received the Commissioned
Officer's Award in 1981.
Dr. Selby has authored or co-authored over 118 peer-reviewed
scientific publications, and has written numerous book chapters. His
publications cover a spectrum of topics from colon cancer screening
and diabetes complications to the delivery of primary care. Dr.
Selby's research interests include: epidemiology of diabetes,
cardiovascular disease, and cancer; evaluation of screening tests;
primary care enhancement, costs of care, and the impact of cost
sharing.
Dr. Tempero is Chief
of Medical Oncology and Deputy Director of the UCSF Cancer Center.
She represents the American Association for Cancer Research as
Co-Director of the annual Course "Methods in Clinical Cancer Research"
for trainees and junior faculty. She also organizes the Fellows
Program at the annual American Society of Clinical Oncology Meeting.
Until recently she was Distinguished Cancer Research Professor
endowed chair at the University of Nebraska and Interim Director
of the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center. In 1999, Dr. Tempero was named
in Good Housekeeping's "318 Top Cancer Specialists for Women"
list . Dr. Tempero is associate editor of the American Journal
of Gastroenterology and of Evidence Based Oncology. Dr. Tempero
is a nationally recognized expert in gastrointestinal cancer,
but is well suited to mentor faculty in academic careers that
involve womens health and oncology.
Dr. Weisner is an epidemiologist
and health services researcher and an internationally recognized
expert in the epidemiology and treatment of chemical dependency.
Dr. Weisner is jointly appointed and jointly funded by the DOR
(where she is a senior research scientist) and by UCSF (where
she is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry). She is a Member
of the World Health Organization's International Expert Advisory
Council on Drug Dependence and Alcohol Problems and the National
Advisory Council of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment,
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration. Her research
is funded by NIAAA, NIDA, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
and includes alcohol and drug problem epidemiology, substance
abuse treatment outcome, cost effectiveness of substance abuse
treatment, the course of alcohol and drug problems over time,
and the relationship of alcohol and drug disorders to other health
and social functioning. The research program has always had a
strong focus on gender.She has been the PI and Program Director
for an NIAAA-funded traineeship "Graduate Research Training on
Alcohol Problems" since 1992.
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