School of Medicine: FG2C Mentors

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Mentor: Stacey J. Anderson: PhD (Psychology)
Title: Assistant Adjunct Professor Social and Behavioral Sciences
Practice/Research Interest:Tobacco control, social psychology, health decision making, public policy, post-Keynesian economics.
Fun Fact "I'm a first-gen university person; no one in my family had gone to college, much less to grad school. But I knew from age 13 that I would earn a PhD and I never looked back."

Mentor: Claire Brindis: Dr. PH
Title: Director, Philip R. Lee Institute for Health Policy Studies, Professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy in Department of Pediatrics, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Health Sciences.
Practice and Research Interest: Dr. Brindis conducts policy-relevant research on women’s, adolescents’ and child health, reproductive health services for low income men and women, policy coalitions in environmental health and asthma, and safety net providers, and school-based health services. Her work has two principal methodological thrusts: (1) conducting quantitative and qualitative program evaluations of state and federally funded health programs that are useful to policy makers and managers as they face increasingly more difficult resource allocation decisions, and (2) analyzing and synthesizing available research, testing available data sets, and creating policy-relevant documents that help to provide future directions in research and policy formation.
Fun Fact: " First generation immigrant from Argentia."

Mentor: Dan Ciccarone: MD, MPH
Title: Associate Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine
Practice and Research Interest:Public Health, HIV, Substance Abuse, Family Medicine
Fun Fact: "I took time off after med school to become a baker. I took time off after residency to race in triathlons."

Mentor: Diane Barber: PhD (Cell Biology)
Title: Professor and Interim Chair, Department of Cell and Tissue Biology.
Practice/Research Interest : Cell Biology, Signal Transduction, Cytoskeleton Dynamics, Cancer Cell Biology
Fun Fact: " I never thought I would be here."

Mentor:Jennifer Lucero: MD (Obstetric Anesthesia)
Title:Clinical Instructor
Practice/Research Interest: Women's Health Anesthesia/Pre-eclampsia research
Fun Fact: " I completed residency in both Ob-Gyn and Anesthesia at UCSF.

Mentor: Elise Riley: PhD (Infectious Disease Epidemiology)
Title: Associate Professor
Practice/Research Interest: Community-based research that focuses on co-morbidities, overall health status and HIV risk among homeless and unstably housed adults. The goal of this work is to inform health care delivery, social services and HIV prevention programs targeting low-income and vulnerable persons.
Fun Fact: 'Working as a research assistant during grad school, I once had to buy back my own umbrella from a study participant who took it during an interview and was selling it on a nearby street corner."

Mentor: Teri Melese: PhD
Title: Associate Professor, Medicine, Director of Research Technologies and Alliances
Practice/Research Interest: My research interests were in the area of model system genetics and protein transport. I am now researching and developing the growing area of industry/academic alliances and their ability to positively affect innovation in therapeutic discovery and development
Fun Fact: "I was a literature/science double major. My women's vball master's team just took the Gold at Huntsman. I am a harmonic students. :)

Mentor: Theodore Miclau:MD (Orthopaedic Surgery)
Title: Professor, Vice Chair Deptartment of Orthopaedics.
Practice/Research Interest: Fracture Repair
Fun Fact: "Grew Up in PR, Undergraduate/medical school at Yale University, Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Orthopaedic Trauma."

Mentor:Ralph Gonzales: MD/MSPH
Title: Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, Assoc. Chair for Ambulatory Care and Clinical Innovation
Practice/Research Interest: Health care innovations, quality improvement, patient-facing Information Technology
Fun Fact "Grew up in restaurant business. Secret trail access to Mt. Tam."

Mentor: Kimberly Topp: PT, PhD
Title: Professor and Chair
Practice/Research Interest: Peripheral neuropathy, Oncology rehabilitation
Fun Fact "Worked in retail for 7 years after high school before entering college. Absolutely LOVE my career."

Mentor:Carlos Solorzano: PhD (Pharmacology and Toxicology)
Title:Postdoctoral Fellow
Practice/Research "Studying the role of various lipids in the control of the inflammatory response and investigating novel mediators in pain transduction. I am interested in uncovering molecules important for regulating/causing chronic pain. In the Basbaum lab, investigating the cellular and molecular mechanisms, which lead to chronic pain."
Fun Fact: " I started our as an engineer, but changed career paths when I studied pharmacology for my doctorate."