Dr. Galen Joseph, Ph.D. is a Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. She is also a member of the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Affiliate Faculty with the Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health. Her research examines the socio-cultural and institutional dimensions of inequities in cancer care and translational genomics.
Dr. S. Andrew Josephson specializes in neurovascular and other neurologic disorders, caring for general neurology and stroke patients in the hospital as well as in clinic. He is the founder of UCSF's Neurohospitalist Program and specializes in difficult to diagnose inpatient neurologic conditions. He serves as Chair of the Department of Neurology and is the Carmen Castro Franceschi and Gladyne K. Mitchell Neurohospitalist Distinguished Professor.
Pramita Kuruvilla, MD, FAAFP, HEC-C, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at UCSF, where she works clinically with the Symptom Management Service at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and the inpatient Palliative Care Service.
Dr. Susanne Martin Herz is Professor and Transbay Medical Director in the Division of Developmental Medicine, Department Pediatrics at University of California San Francisco (UCSF), and Affiliate Faculty in the UCSF Institute for Global Health Sciences and the UCSF Program in Bioethics.
Sirisha Narayana cares for patients on the inpatient medicine direct care and teaching services at Moffitt-Long Hospital. Her academic interests rest in complex medical decision-making and uncertainty, ethics, and medical education. She is the Academy of Medical Educators Endowed Chair in Excellence in Foundational Teaching. She is the Director of the Diagnostic Reasoning block in the School of Medicine and the Associate Director of the Acting Internship in Medicine. She mentors medical students in these roles and residents in her role as a RAD advisor.
Dr Newman's long term research interests are the prevention and control of chronic disease, the use of information systems to improve quality of medical care, and collaboration with community organizations & public health.
His focus is on brain health and advance care planning - especially collaboration among primary care, geriatrics, and palliative care.