Faculty and Staff

Primary Faculty

Vincanne Adams, Ph.D.
Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Alissa Bernstein Sideman, PhD, MPH, MA
Assistant Professor
Institute for Health Policy Studies

Daniel Dohan, PhD
Professor
Institute for Health Policy Studies
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Brian Dolan, PhD
Professor, Chair
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Galen Joseph, PhD
Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Kelly Knight, PhD
Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Aimee Medeiros, PhD
Associate Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Dorothy Porter, PhD
Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences

Laura Schmidt, PhD, MPH
Professor
Institute for Health Policy Studies
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Laurel Waycott, PhD, MA
Assistant Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Ian Whitmarsh, PhD
Associate Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Affiliated Faculty

Sara Ackerman, PhD, MPH
Medical Sociology & Anthropology
Social Behavioral Sciences
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Nancy Adler, PhD
Health and Community Psychiatry
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Shelley Adler, PhD
Director of Osher Center
Family Community Medicine
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Louise Aronson, MD
Narrative Medicine
Department of Medicine
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Paul Blanc, MD, MSPH
Medical History
Department of Medicine
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Charles Briggs, PhD
Medical Anthropology
UC Berkeley

Nancy Burke Pulsipher, PhD
Medical Anthropology
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Daniel Ciccarone, MD, MPH
Medical Anthropology
Family Community Medicine
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Lawrence Cohen, PhD
Medical Anthropology
UC Berkeley

Elena Conis, PhD
Medical History / Journalism
UC Berkeley

Michael Duke
Director of Qualitative Research
Benioff Homeless and Housing Initiative, Center for Vulnerable Populations (UCSF)
[email protected]

Elizabeth Dzeng, PhD, MD, MPH
Associate Professor
Department of Medicine
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Nadia Gaber, PhD
Medical Anthropology
MSTP

Dana Greenfield, MD-PhD
Medical Anthropology
Pediatrics

Molly Hales, MD-PhD
Medical Anthropology
Humanities & Social Sciences

Cori Hayden, PhD
Medical Anthropology
UC Berkeley

Seth Holmes, MD-PhD
Medical Anthropology
UC Berkeley

Polina Ilieva, PhD
Medical History - Archives
University Archivist, UCSF
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Julene Johnson, PhD
Neuroscience and Musicology
Institute for Health & Aging
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Judith Justice, PhD
Professor
Institute for Health & Aging
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Barbara Koenig, PhD, RN
Bioethics
Institute for Health & Aging
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Ashley McMullen, MD
Medical Education
VA Medical Center, San Francisco
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Akhil Mehra
Medical History

Rachel Niehuus, MD-PhD
Medical Anthropology
Surgery, Emory University

Adeola Oni-Orisan, MD, PhD
Medical Anthropology
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Stefania Pandolfo, PhD
Medical Anthropology
UC Berkeley

Na'amah Razon, MD-PhD
Medical Anthropology
IHPS

George Rutherford III, MD
Medical History - Epidemiology
Epidemiology & Biostatistics
[email protected]

Naomi Schoenfeld, MS, PhD
Medical Anthropology
Family Health Care Nursing

Karen Scott, MD, MPH
Ethics and Critical Theory
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences
[email protected]

Wen Shen, MD, MA
Medical History
Department of Surgery
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Janet Shim, PhD
Medical Sociology
Social Behavioral Sciences
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Victoria Sweet, MD, MA
Medical History
Department of Medicine
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Diane Tober, PhD
Medical Anthropology - Documentaries
Institute for Health & Aging
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Elizabeth Watkins, PhD
Medical History
Provost
UC Riverside

Janet Wojcicki, PhD, MPH
Global Health - Pediatrics
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Emeriti Professors

Judith Barker, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Humanities & Social Sciences
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Sharon Kaufman, PhD
Emeritus Professor
Institute for Health & Aging
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Guenter Risse, MD-PhD
Emeritus Professor
Medical History

Nancy Sheper-Hughes
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, PhD
Emeritus Professor
UC Berkeley

Administration

Kathy Jackson
Academic Program Manager
Humanities & Social Sciences
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