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Marina Tolou-Shams, PhD

Professor
Kilroy Realty Endowed Professor In Psychiatry
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
behavioral health equity for systems-impacted youth and families

Jack Turban, MD, MHS

Assistant Professor
Impact of public policies on the mental health of transgender youth

Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS

Professor
The Steven A. Schroeder Distinguished Professor in Health and Health Care
Tobacco cessation and tobacco control policy

Sharad Wadhwani, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor
Pediatric liver transplantation, social determinants of health, and implementation science

Louise Walter, MD

Professor
Helen Hoh Wu and Laurene Wu McClain Professor in Geriatrics
Individualizing cancer screening & prevention in older adults

Elizabeth Wick, MD

Professor
surgical care and reducing variability, leveraging the electronic health record, improving patient-centeredness and optimizing high function perioperative teams

Lena Winestone, MD

Associate Professor
social determinants of health, health equity, health disparities, access to care, outcomes research, child health.

Tracey Woodruff, PhD, MPH

Professor
Alison S. Carlson Endowed Professor for PRHE
Environmental pollution exposures during pregnancy and effects on prenatal and child health

Charlie Wray, DO, MS

Associate Professor
Use of virtual care modalities among socially vulnerable populations

Kristine Yaffe, MD

Professor of Psychiatry, Neurology and Epidemiology
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 & prevention of dementia across the life course

Keith Yamamoto, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Director, UCSF Precision Medicine
Vice Chancellor for Science Policy and Strategy

Veronica Yank, MD

Associate Professor
Family caregivers; persons living with dementia, chronic conditions, disabilities

Jennifer Yarger, PhD

Assistant Professor
Access to care; sexual and reproductive health; adolescents and young adults

Jinoos Yazdany, MD, MPH

Professor
Alice Betts Endowed Chair in Arthritis
Robert L. Kroc Chair in Rheumatic and Connective Tissue Diseases I
Rheumatic diseases, health disparities, quality measures, registries

Ed Yelin, PhD

Professor Emeritus
Health impacts of new forms of employment such as “gig jobs”