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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.

Ann Petru, MD is a Pediatric Infectious Diseases physician who has been working at Children’s Hospital Oakland since completing her residency there. She was involved in many clinical trials in the 1980s and 1990s, then started to focus more on HIV and AIDS as that epidemic started to affect children.

Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD, is Professor of Health Economics and Health Services Research in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at UCSF. A leader in the application of new technologies to improve healthcare, she is the Founding Director of the UCSF Center for Translational and Policy Research on Precision Medicine (TRANSPERS). She is a core faculty member in the UCSF Philip R.

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I’m a cognitive neuroscientist and neuroethicist. Currently, I’m a postdoctoral fellow in the Kavli Center for Ethics, Science, and the Public at UC Berkeley. Previously, I was a postdoc in the Lab of Edward Chang within the Department of Neurological Surgery at UCSF.

Areas of Interest: Sociology of health and illness; social inequalities in health; science, technology, and medicine studies; race, gender, and class; qualitative research methods.

Alissa Bernstein, PhD, MPH, MA is a medical anthropologist and health policy researcher focused on understanding and improving the assessment, diagnosis, and care of people with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias, with a specific focus on primary care. She also conducts research focused on care navigation to support people with dementia and their caregivers and building palliative care approaches in memory care settings. Dr.

Dr. Smith is a neurologist with training in Neurocritical Care and Vascular Neurology. He cares for patients with acute stroke and subarachnoid hemorrhage among all neurovascular conditions. His research interests are in developing methods to rapidly triage stroke patients to appropriate immediate care using biometrics, endovascular stroke therapy and cerebral concussion. He studies the HeadPulse- minute movements produced by the heart beat on the head. Alterations in the HeadPulse provide diagnostic tools for stroke, brain injury and other neurological conditions.