History of Health Sciences Students

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  Joelynn Lee

  Ph.D. Student, M.A. and B.A. in History (Sonoma State University)
  

  My M.A. thesis focused on reproductive healthcare on the second-largest federal healthcare system: the military health system. Through the lens of active-duty women and military wives, my thesis examines the historical changes in the military health system prompted by social, political, and medical changes and demonstrates how these changes were both detrimental and beneficial to military families.

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  Geremy Lowe

  PhD Candidate, MSL - Law Studies, UC Law San Francisco; MPH - Population and Health Sciences, University of Michigan; BA - Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley; AA - Journalism, Laney College
  

  Geographic Areas of Study: United States and Metropolitan Areas

  Research Areas of Interest: History of science, technology, and society, history of population health, public health epistemology, youth health behaviors, health citizenship, boipolitics, biopower, and law enforcement public health.

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  Alexzandria Simon (pronouns: she/her/hers)

  Ph.D. Student, B.A and M.A. in History (California State University, Sacramento)
  

  How do you envision your research having a real-world impact that will promote health? The experiences and lives of the LGBTQ community are essential to understanding any history, and the medical experiences of LGBTQ individuals will only add to the growing queer narrative. I want to examine the connection between medicine, science, and the queer community. I want to understand how American medicine shaped and impacted queer lives, and the role science played in shaping gender and sexual identity. What are your future professional aspirations?

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History of Health Sciences Alumni

• Robert Bartz, M.D., Ph.D.

  Associate Professor, UCSF Department of Family & Community Medicine
  

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• Stephen Beitler, Ph.D.

  Independent Scholar
  

  Dissertation Title: A Disease Itself: The Transformation of Pain After 1945 

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• Elena Conis, Ph.D.

  Associate Professor, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and the Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society
  

  Calling the Shots: A Social History of Vaccination in the US, 1968-2008 (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/60b551qq)

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• Heather Dron, Ph.D.

  Postdoctoral Scholar in Biomedical Ethics at Stanford's Center for Biomedical Ethics
  

  Teratology Transformed: Uncertainty, Knowledge, and Conflict over Environmental Etiologies of Birth Defects in Midcentury America (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/0jk4g5mm)

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• Jethro Hernandez-Berrones, Ph.D.

  Assistant Professor, History Department, Southwestern University
  

  Revolutionary Medicine: Homeopathy and the Regulation of the Medical Profession in Mexico, 1853-1942 (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3ff3f2n3)

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  Hsinyi Hsieh, PhD

  Harvard Fairbank Center 2023-24 Hou Family Postdoctoral Fellow
  

  Dissertation: Pluralizing Postcoloniality from a Standpoint of Margins: A Historical Detour of Global Health and Imperial Regimes in Postwar Taiwan through the Traces of the Marginalized  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9ng7t2bz 

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  Aaron Jackson, Ph.D.

  M.A. in History (California State University, Sacramento) and B.A. in History (Metropolitan State University, Denver)
  

  Dissertation: Broken: A Disability History of Veterans' Healthcare https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7603x8fs

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  Antoine Johnson, Ph.D.

  African American Studies Department, UC Davis. Postdoctoral Fellow, Johns Hopkins University
  

  Dissertation: More than Pushing Pills: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area, 1981-1996  https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3492v6tx 

  Dr. Antoine Johnson's research at UCSF focused on the history of the Black community's experience of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the Bay Area. He was instrumental in helping found the REPAIR project and co-authored a syllabus, "A History of Anti-Black Racism in Medicine," highlihgting often overlooked social responses to health crises.

   

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• Rebecca Kaplan, Ph.D.

  Historian of Medicine and Public Health, Science History Institute
  

  Cows, Cattle Owners, and the USDA: Brucellosis, Populations, and Public Health Policy in Twentieth Century United States (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1244313t)

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• Erika Langer, Ph.D.

  Production Editor, Annual Reviews
  

  Molecular Ferment: The Rise and Proliferation of Yeast Model Organism Research (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2g51w0qk)

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• Aimee Medeiros, Ph.D.

  Associate Professor, Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, UCSF
  

  Heightened Expectations: The History of the Human Growth Hormone Industry in America (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5n8021rj)

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• Akhil Mehra, Ph.D.

  Practicing Psychiatrist in San Francisco
  

  "Shangri-Laboratory": Place and Psychiatric Public Health in Hawaii, 1939-1963 (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9w92r769)

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• Kevin Moos, Ph.D.

  UX Researcher, Meta
  

  Better Health is Purchasable: The History of Health Economies and Public Health, 1958-1975 https://escholarship.org/uc/item/6bd1r7gg()

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• Nikki Nibbe, M.A.

  
  

  Free and Community Clinics of the 1970s: The Origins of an Essential Component of California's Healthcare Safety Net

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• Cristina Nigro, Ph.D.

  Presidential Management Fellow and Health Science Policy Analyst at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Strokes (NINDS)
  

  The Brain Electric: A History of Neurscientific Ideas About How We Change (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3fw5n2rd)

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• Sara Rhiannon Robertson, Ph.D.

  Associate Advertiser and Account Manager, AppLift
  

  Unearthing Botanical Medicaments: A History of Plant-Derived Therapies in Modern America (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9s35m36k)

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• Wen T. Shen, M.D., M.A.

  Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, UCSF
  

  "Operating on Shadows": Evolving Perceptions of the Incidentally Discovered Adrenal Mass, 1982-2002

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• Lisa Stern, M.A.

  
  

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• Meg Vigil-Fowler, Ph.D.

  Independent Scholar
  

  "Two Strikes--a Lady and Colored:" Gender, Race, and the Making of the Modern Medical Profession, 1864-1941 (https://escholarship.org/uc/item/3jx8n0ck)

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