INVESTIGATORS |
Jennifer Alvidrez, PhD
Assist. Adjunct Professor
Dept of Psychiatry
alvid@itsa.ucsf.edu
Jennifer Alvidrez, PhD is an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, UCSF. She received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and completed a Fellowship at University of California, San Francisco. Her research has included a wide variety of projects dealing with mental health including: development and evaluation of a psychoeducational intervention for black adults; a study of disadvantaged crime victims access to mental health care; measurement of attitudes about antipsychotic medications by consumers; and research based on treatments for complex patients in new settings.
Peter Bacchetti, PhD
Professor of Biostatistics
Dept of Epidemiology & Biostatistics
peter@biostat.ucsf.edu
Peter Bacchetti, PhDis an Adjunct Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine. He directs the UCSF's Biostatistical Consulting Unit and serves as the primary biostatistician for the General Clinical Research Center at SFGH. As advisor to research fellows from a range of medical specialties and as faculty for UCSF's Advanced Training in Clinical Research course, he teaches beginning investigators to analyze and present their project data. On a national level, Dr. Bacchetti has collaborated with investigators at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and elsewhere on AIDS incidence data. His research interests include statistical methods for studying AIDS and infectious diseases, and in analyzing survival data. He has served on a Special Study Section to review statistical analyses in grants submitted for funding to the NIH and has also reviewed grants for the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Widely known for his many publications associated with AIDS research, Dr. Bacchetti has served as ad hoc referee or statistical referee for 13 professional journals. He is currently a member of the editorial board for Lifetime Data Analysis.
Alicia Boccellari, PhD
Clinical Professor
Dept of Psychiatry
alicia.boccellari@sfdph.org
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.
Col Mark Bowyer, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery
Uniformed Services University
Col Mark Bowyer, MDis a practicing trauma surgeon with many research interests. As the Director of Research at David Grant USAF Medical Center from 1991-1998, he was responsible for the oversight of multiple research fellows and numerous projects resulting in publication. Currently Dr. Bowyer is involved in ongoing trauma related research involving the use of blood substitutes as a bridge to definitive care, as well as exploration of novel approaches for delivering resuscitation, and preserving injured limbs. As the current surgical director of the National Capital Area Medical Simulation Center, Dr. Bowyer is conducting groundbreaking validation studies for incorporation of simulators into the medical curriculum. His team at the Sim Center is also on the leading edge of developing new and improving old virtual reality simulators for the training of medical personnel. The Sim Cen is currently undergoing an exciting expansion with plans to build the worlds largest Computer Aided Virtual Environment or a CAVE (think of this as a first generation Star Trek holodeck). Prior to and upon completion of the CAVE there will be several exciting research challenges in developing and utilizing content in this project. Dr. Bowyer is a co-investigator of the Simulation Project.
Kelley Bullard, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Dept of Surgery
bullard@surgery,ucsf.edu
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.
Dahianna Lopez. MSN, MPH
Prevention Director
lopezd@sfghsurg.ucsf.edu
Dahianna Lopez, MSN, MPH is the Prevention Director of the San Francisco Injury Center. She earned a bachelor's in Psychology from UC Berkeley, a Master's in Public Health, and a Master's of Science in Nursing from UCLA. She has almost a decade of combined research experience working in psychology, nursing, and psychophysiology laboratories at UC Berkeley and UCLA. . During graduate school, Dahianna received the Graduate Opportunity Fellowship in both Public Health and Nursing and also was inducted into Sigma Theta Tau, the International Honor Society in Nursing. Prior to becoming a nurse, Dahianna served as a Health Educator and Coordinator of the Patient Education Resource Center at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. In 2007, she received the Statewide Award for Excellence in Health Education by the American Cancer Society. Dahianna's strengths include coordination, data collection and analysis, experimental methods, literature reviews, scientific writing, and teaching. She strongly values professional growth, interdisciplinary collaboration, the upstream public health approach to solving healthcare challenges, and the compassionate nursing approach to providing care to individual patients and populations.
Wendy Max, PhD
Professor and Co-Director
Institute on 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.