Investigators

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.

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.

lopezd@sfghsurg.ucsf.edu

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.

wendy.max@ucsf.edu

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.

martha.shumway@ucsf.edu

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.

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.