• Senior Mentor: Caroll Estes
• Resource faculty: Wendy Max, Patrick Fox, Anita Stewart , Seth Landefeld.
• Key resources: Institute for Health and Aging, UCSF Center of Excellence in Academic Geriatrics, Geriatric Research Resource Lab, Academic Geriatric Resource Center, UCSF Coordinating Center
• Databases and specimen banks: Hospitalized Elders Database. Program for All inclusive Care of Elderly (PACE), Health and Body Composition, SOF, HERS.
  

• Senior Mentor: Constance Weisner, PhD
• Resource faculty: Sharon Hall, Ivan Diamond, Kirk Wilhelmsen, Steven Sidney (Kaiser), Barbara Havassy, Dorothy Rice.
• Key resources: UCSF Substance Abuse Treatment Research Center, Gallo Center of Alcohol Studies, Kaiser Division of Research (treatment outcome, epidemiology, cost datasets)
• Databases and specimen banks: Databases from trials conducted aththe Substance Abuse Research Treatment Center, Course of Alcohol and Drug Problems in Treated and Untreated Problem Drinkers (Kaiser), UCSF Family Study (genetic determinants of alcoholism in sib pairs), Kaiser DOR datasets.

Alternative Medicine

• Senior Mentor: Andy Avins
• Resource faculty: Ellen Hughes, Bruce Ettinger, Debu Tripathy, Laura Esserman.
• Research resources: UCSF Osher Center on Complementary and Alternative Medicine, the UCSF Coordinating Center; Kaiser DOR
• Databases: Intervention with Clover Extract (ICE) trial, Lifestyle and Personal Support for Women with Breast Cancer Trial, Life after Cancer Epidemiology (LACE) study; the Longevity Treasure Trial.
  

Breast cancer

• Senior Mentor: Margaret Tempero
• Resource faculty: Virginia Ernster, Thea Tlsty, Laura Esserman, Joel Grey, Laurel Habel (Kaiser), Carol Somkin (Kaiser)
• Research resources: UCSF Breast Cancer SPORE; UCSF Cancer Center, Kaiser DOR, the UCSF Coordinating Center
• Databases and specimen banks: The San Francisco Mammography Registry; Kaiser Mammography data base, Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (SOF) database and stored serum and tissue; the Multiple Outcomes of Raloxifene Evaluations (MORE) Trial database and biological specimens; the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) database and specimen banks, Life after Cancer Epidemiology Study (LACE) database
  

Cardiovascular disease in women

• Senior Mentor: Stephen Hulley
• Resource faculty: Hal Barron (Genentech), Shaun Coughlin, Rita Redberg, Mary Malloy, Steven Sidney (Kaiser), William Grossman, Jonathan Zaroff
• Research resources: UCSF Coordinating Center, UCSF Cardiovascular Research Institute, Gladstone Institute
• Databases and specimen banks: Heart Estrogen-progestin Replacement Study (HERS), CARDIA, Raloxifene Utilization and the Heart (RUTH) trial, the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (SOF), National Registry of Myocardial Infarction (NERMI), Genetic Epidemiology of CHD Risk Factors in Women Twins (Kaiser).
  

• Senior Mentor: Joe Selby
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HIV in Women

• Senior Mentor: Ruth Greenblatt, MD
• Resource faculty: Thomas Coates, Margaret Chesney, Dennis Osmond
• Research resources: AIDS Research Institute (ARI), Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS), Gladstone Institute for Virology and Immunology
• Databases and specimen banks: Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WHIS), Kaiser HIV Registry

Neuropsychiatric disorders in women: dementia and depression

• Senior Mentor: Bruce Miller, MD
• Resource faculty: Kristine Yaffee, Mary Whooley, Catherine Schaefer (Kaiser)
• Research resources: UCSF Coordinating Center, UCSF California Alzheimer’s Disease Center; Department of Veterans Affairs Memory Disorders Clinic; Department of Veterans Affairs Sierra Pacific Veterans Integrated Services Network Mental Illness Research Education Clinical Core,
• Databases and specimen banks: Vascular Dementia Program Project Imaging Database, California Alzheimer’s Disease Database, HABC, SOF, MORE, WHI

• Senior Mentor: Bette Caan
• Resource faculty:
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Sex Hormones

• Senior Mentor: Deborah Grady, MD, MPH
• Resource faculty: Bruce Ettinger (Kaiser), Robert Jaffe, Peter Kushner, Bette Caan (Kaiser), Catherine Schaefer (Kaiser)
• Research resources: UCSF Coordinating Center, Kaiser DOR, Reproductive Endocrinology Center.
• Databases and specimen banks: HERS, MORE, WHI, SOF, HABC, ULTRA, Kaiser pharmacy database with linkage to the clinical and administrative databases.

Skeletal health in women: osteoporosis and osteoarthritis

• Senior Mentor: Steve Cummings
• Resource faculty: Nancy Lane, Mike Nevitt, Doug Bauer, Bruce Ettinger (Kaiser), Edward Yelin
• Research resources: UCSF Coordinating Center; the Arthritis Program; the Osteoporosis and Arthritis Research Group, Kaiser DOR
• Databases and specimen banks: SOF, SOF Osteoarthritis Study (SOF-OA), MORE, Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT), Health and Body Composition Study (HABC; contract with NIA), the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), the NHANES III osteoporosis data base, the multicenter PTH-Alendronate Trial (recently funded by NIAMS), and the Beijing Osteoarthritis (BOA) Study.

Urinary incontinence in women

• Senior Mentor: Jeanette Brown, MD
• Resource faculty: Leslee Subak, Tom Lui, Steven vanden Eden (Kaiser), Linda Mitness
• Research resources: UCSF Women’s Continence Center; UCSF Women’s Urologic Research Center
• Databases and specimen banks: SOF, HERS, MORE, the Ultra Low-dose Transdermal Estrogen Replacement Assessment (ULTRA) trial, HABC

• Senior Mentor: Karla Kerlikowske
• Resource faculty: Rebecca Smith-Bindman, Virginia Ernster, Harry Genant, Dennis Black
• Research resources: UCSF Breast Cancer SPORE, UCSF Coordinating Center, the Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis Research Group, Kaiser DOR
• Databases and banks of films and data from imaging studies: San Francisco Mammography Registry, Kaiser mammography database, SOF, FIT, MORE, HERS, WHI