Community Health Systems
Rosafel Adriano-Nogra, HS assistant clinical professor
Academic focus: binge drinking behavior and sexual violence among college students
In her own time: traveling and exploring places, spending time with my daughter, and biking
Sherri Borden, NP and associate clinical professor
Academic focus: psych/mental health
In her own time: vegan cooking and baking, enjoying beautiful gardens as well as long walks with Lily, the dog, and even longer tandem bicycle rides with my daughter
Cherry Leung, assistant professor
Academic focus: mental health, adolescent depression, gut microbiome
In her own time: hiking, baking, trying new recipes
Julia Isen, associate clinical professor
Academic focus: obesity and disease; chronic illness
In her own time: spending time with my family, boxing and yoga, hiking the trail of Marin county with my dog
Yoonmee Joo, HS assistant clinical professor
Academic focus: hearing loss among older adults, geriatrics
In her own time: hiking with my husband and two boys
Amanda Peacock, assistant clinical professor
Academic focus: homeless, low income, and Latino population health, culturally informed health care
In her own time: reading, hiking, running, board games, loving cats
Summer Thompson, assistant clinical professor
Academic focus: psych/mental health
Family Health Care Nursing
Ifeyinwa Asiodu, assistant professor
Academic focus: African Americans, health status disparities, health promotion, breast feeding, health knowledge/attitudes/practice
Emily Beck, assistant clinical professor
Academic focus: midwifery
Sharon Goldfarb, clinical instructor
Jana Kohler, assistant clinical professor
Andrea Kuster, assistant clinical professor
Jayme Mejia, assistant clinical professor
Lisa Mihaly, HS assistant clinical professor
Sarah Nathan, HS assistant clinical professor
Linda Stephan, assistant clinical professor
Michalle Ramirez-McLaughlin, assistant clinical professor
Institute for Health & Aging
Penny Brennan, adjunct professor
Academic focus: aging and health: course, predictors, and outcomes of late-life use of alcohol; social determinants of late-life pain; long-term care environments that optimize resident-centered care of older adults, e.g., implementation and outcomes of consistent staff assignment scheduling practices in nursing homes
Last Book Read: "Homegoing" by Yaa Gyasi
In Her Own Time: reading, gardening, long walks with my stalwart miniature schnauzer, Mr. Buddy Guy
Jason Flatt, assistant adjunct professor
Academic focus: aging, health disparities, LGBT, sexual and gender minorities, dementia risk and prevention
In his own time: running and exploring San Francisco, cocktail mixology, and spending time with my husband and two Boston terriers
Deborah Gordon, assistant adjunct professor
Academic focus: cultural studies of biomedicine, bioscience, and bioethics; interpretive phenomenological and comparative study – particularly between Italy and US – of practices around risk, prognosis, prevention and predication; lived narratives of health, illness, and death; health, work, and the injuries of class; the cultures of injury, recovery and rehabilitation of injured servicemen; medical anthropology
In her own time: making jewelry, enjoying Balkan music and folk dancing, attending National Theater Live performances on screen, and relishing in reading fiction
Jenny Liu, assistant professor of health economics
Academic focus: reproductive, maternal, neonatal, child, and adolescent health, community-based health service delivery, HIV/AIDS prevention, behavioral economics, global health, informal providers, community health workers, workforce labor markets
In her own time: exploring wine countries around the world, spending time with the urban family
Physiological Nursing
Kristina Fortes, assistant clinical professor
Cynthia Singh, assistant clinical professor
Dawn Troeger, assistant clinical professor
Academic focus: advanced assessment and complex management of the acutely ill and injured patients in the inpatient setting
In her own time: running, reading, cooking and enjoying good food and wine with friends
Carolyn Vancouwenberghe, clinical professor
Academic focus: pharmacology, pathophysiology, critical care
In her own time: teach/tutor math and history K - 12, travel, read books, work out
Social and Behavioral Sciences
Sara Ackerman, assistant adjunct professor
Academic focus: social and ethical dimensions of clinical genomics, implementation science, impact of information technologies on medical work
In her own time: gardening, reading, yoga, spending time with my favorite people, hiking, helping protect nature
Krista Sigurdson, assistant adjunct professor
Academic Focus: social construction and stratification of motherhood (infant feeding and neonatal intensive care), science and technology studies, qualitative Research and the sociology of reproduction
In her own time: seeing live music, playing violin, cooking, and hiking
Leslie Dubbin, assistant adjunct professor
Academic focus: intersections of race, culture, place and space on the reproduction of social and health inequalities, the nature of racism and its impact on the illness experiences of African Americans, and the dynamics of how social inequalities are transacted in patient-provider interactions
In her own time: reading historical biographies; hiking with my two French Bull Dogs, Herschel and Ira, traveling