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The San Francisco Injury Center for Research and Prevention is a collaboartive effort led by Drs. M. Margaret Knudson, Rochelle Dicker, and Mitchell Cohen. Our multidisciplinary team of investigators includes members of the Departments of Psychiatry, Surgery, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. We are proud to include among our staff the UCSF/NIH Shock Trauma Postdoctoral Research Fellow, as well as premedical student research assistants and numerous volunteers.
 M. Margaret Knudson, M.D., F.A.C.S. Professor of Surgery Interim Cheif, Department of Surgery, San Francisco General Hospital Principal Investigator, San Francisco Injury Center for Research and Prevention Campus Box 0807 Dr. Knudson is currently a Professor of Surgery at UCSF, and the Principal Investigator of the CDC funded San Francisco Injury Center. She also serves as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Trauma, a member of the Executive Committee of the American College of Surgeons Committee on Trauma, Board of Managers, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, on the editorial board of the Journal of Trauma, and as the Chair of the Western Trauma Association's Multi-center Trials Committee. |
 Dharma Sunjaya, BS Staff Research Associate Dharma Sunjaya graduated from UC Davis with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering in 2008 with an emphasis in biomedical device development. He continued his post-baccalaureate education at the University of California San Francisco, where he developed an interest in medicine. Currently, Dharma is working on acute care research focusing on glucose control, coagulation, and inflammation. He is also involved in research projects on intentional and unintentional injury prevention in the areas of violent, pedestrian, and bicyclist injuries. Dharma will start medical school at the University of California Irvine in the Fall of 2011. |
 Kimen Balhotra Volunteer Kimen is a fourth year student at UC Berkeley majoring in Public Health and minoring in Global Poverty and Practice. After she graduates, she plans to do Public Health research for a few years before applying to medical school. She wants to eventually earn a dual degree in Medicine and Public health so that she can focus the rest of her life on preventative medicine. She loves helping others and tries each day to bring a smile to as many people as possible! |
Alicia Boccellari, PhD Clinical Professor Director, Division of Psychosocial Medicine Alicia Boccellari, PhD is a Clinical Professor of Psychology at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine (UCSF) and is the Director of the Division of Psychosocial Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH). She administers and oversees 8 mental health programs at SFGH, serving more than 4000 public sector patients on an annual basis. Dr. Boccellari's primary research focus is investigating innovative clinical interventions in the public sector, to see if these interventions can reduce barriers to care and improve clinical outcomes in patients who have extensive and complex medical, psychiatric, substance abuse and psychosocial problems. She has conducted longitudinal research and randomized clinical trials on a variety of topics including: HIV-associated dementia, homelessness, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and psychosocial recovery after traumatic physical injury. |
 Kelley Bullard, MD Associate Professor, Surgery Division of UCSF-East Bay Surgery Kelley Bullard, MD a native North Carolinian, studied Fine and Applied Arts as an undergraduate and obtained a B.S. degree in Graphic Design from Appalachian State University. In the first few years after graduation, she worked as an Assistant Art Director and a freelance graphic designer in North Carolina's Research Triangle. During that time, she took pre-medical courses at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She remained in Chapel Hill for both medical school and a residency in General Surgery. During her residency she spent two years as an NIH Trauma Training Grant Fellow. During these basic science years, she studied the role of second messengers and apoptosis in acute lung injury. Following residency, she completed a fellowship in Surgical Critical Care at the University of California, San Francisco. She subsequently completed a fellowship year in Trauma Surgery at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Bullard is a member of the core staff of the San Francisco Injury Center and a board member for the California Transplant Donor Network. She is actively involved in teaching her clinical specialties of Surgery, Critical Care and Trauma. Her areas of research interest include transfusion medicine, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, the role of information technology in systems management, and the use of simulators for surgical education. |
 Shirley Chan Research Assistant and Empowerment Center Coordinator Shirley Chan is a research intern at the San Francisco Injury Center. She is currently an undergraduate at the University of California Berkeley, majoring in Molecular and Cell Biology with an emphasis in Physiology. Her research interests are in injury prevention in which she has done work in bicyclist and pedestrian injury. She is also interested in elderly fall prevention and implementing bike policy. Shirley is also involved with the Wraparound Project in which she acts as a mentor and tutor. In the future, Shirley hopes to enter medical school to become a physician in emergency medicine or surgery. In her spare time, Shirley enjoys volunteering and practicing wushu, a form of Chinese martial arts. |
 Mitchell J. Cohen, M.D., F.A.C.S. Asssociate Professor of Surgery Campus Box 0807
Dr. Cohen is is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery, UCSF School of Medicine based primarily at San Francisco General Hospital. Additionally, he is the Director of Acute Care for the SFIC. After completing his undergraduate studies at Bradeis University, he attended Mt Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He completed his residency at Rush University/Cook County Hospital in Chicago and then came to San Francisco where he completed the Surgical Critical Care and Trauma Fellowships. Dr. Cohen is actively engaged in research on hypoperfusion and perturbations in coagulation and inflammation in trauma. |
 Rochelle Dicker, M.D., F.A.C.S. Associate Professor in Residence Director, San Francisco injury Center for Research and Prevention Campus Box 0807 Dr. Dicker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Surgery and the Director of the San Francisco Injury Center for Research and Prevention. She is a recipient of the American Association for Surgery of Trauma Scholarship for her work in violence prevention and is the founder and director of the Wraparound Project. Her research interests include adult respiratory distress syndrome, violence prevention, ultrasound in trauma diagnosis, mental illness as a risk factor in unintentional injury, trauma resuscitation and injury prevention. |
 Dahianna Lopez. RN, MSN, MPH Prevention Director Dahianna Lopez, RN, MSN, MPH is the Prevention Director of the San Francisco Injury Center. She has almost a decade of combined research experience working in psychology, nursing, and psychophysiology laboratories throughout the UC System. She is interested in the link between transportation policies and injury outcomes. At SFIC, she has been involved in calculating the cost of pedestrian injury for San Francisco, identifying underreported bicycle injuries, and conducting a cost-benefit analysis of an engineering countermeasure versus injury treatment costs. She also provides data and analytical support for the Wraparound Project for Violence Prevention. She has served on the SF Board of Supervisor's Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee as Secretary and Vice Chair. Dahianna is also on the Board of Directors of WalkSF, a non-profit pedestrian safety advocacy organization. She earned a bachelor's degree in Psychology from UC Berkeley and dual Master's degrees in public health and nursing from UC Los Angeles. Dahianna will begin the PhD in Health Policy program at Harvard University in the fall of 2011. |
 Jennifer Mah Jennifer is a second-year medical student at University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She earned a bachelor's degree in Physiological Science and a minor in Language, Interaction and Culture from UCLA. As a project manager at the San Francisco Injury Center, she developed an interest in public health and prevention while investigating psychiatric disorders and unintentional injury. Jennifer will be returning to SFIC in Summer 2011 to study the indirect economic costs of pedestrian injury. |
 Wendy Max, PhD Professor in Residence, Health Economics Co-Director of the Institute for Health & Aging Wendy Max, PhD is a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF and Co-Director of the Institute on Health and Aging. Her undergraduate work was done at Stanford and she received her PhD at the University of Colorado, Boulder in economics. Recent research work has been based on the economic cost of tobacco-related disease in California. She has also worked on a project measuring the economic cost of breast cancer in California. Dr. Max was one on the authors of the federally funded Cost of Injury, a handbook for researchers on the economics of injury prevention. In the proposed Pedestrian Injury Research Project of the SFIC she will be the project's Co-Director and be responsible for the cost analyses on the pedestrian injury study. |
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Caitlin Robinson Volunteer Caitlin is a second year at UC Berkeley intending to major in Molecular Environmental Biology with an emphasis in Environment and Human Health. Apart from researching with the Injury Center she enjoys skiing, snowboarding, long boarding and playing volleyball. Currently, she is the woman's captain of the California Ski and Snowboard Team. She loves to travel and frequently accompany my uncle on research trips around the world. She aspires to get a Master's degree in Public Health after graduating from UC Berkeley and then go on to med school in order to become an orthopedic surgeon. |
Martha Shumway, PhD Associate Professor in Residence Department of Psychiatry Dr. Shumway conducts research on the effectiveness of mental health services. Her work focuses on measurement, research methodology and services for the underserved populations. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley in Quantitative Psychology. |
 Randi Smith, MD, MPH Surgery Resident Dr. Randi Smith is a categorical general surgery resident at the UCSF East Bay Program in Oakland. She completed her medical school education at UCSF. Prior to beginning her surgical residency, she completed a Master's Degree in Public Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. There, she focused her studies on health disparities and women and reproductive health. She was inducted into the Delta Omega Honor Society for outstanding academic achievements at that time. Her academic interests include trauma surgery, critical care, injury prevention, global surgery and the utilization of ultrasound for the diagnosis of injury in resource-limited settings. She will be working at the San Francisco Injury Center under the mentorship of Dr. Rochelle Dicker. Together, they will perform quantitative and qualitative evaluations of the WrapAround Project, the hospital-based recidivism reduction program at the San Francisco General Hospital. . Additionally, she will concurrently participate in the UCSF Global Health Clinical Scholars Program through which she will continue her work to improve trauma outcomes and injury prevention efforts abroad.
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