Samantha Schilf is the Executive Director for the UCSF Aging, Metabolism, and Emotion (AME) Center and the Sugar, Stress, Environment, and Weight (SSEW) Center. She joined the UCSF Center for Health and Community as a project manager in 2010, and has supported various research efforts that examine how the stress-disease link can be broken when individuals engage in regular restorative health behaviors (i.e., exercise, mindfulness meditation, mindful eating).
Brian Don is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to UCSF, he completed his PhD at Kent State University, a postdoctoral fellowship in Social Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was also an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at California Lutheran University. Brian's research focuses on close relationships, especially on how motivation, affect, and mindfulness influence the health and quality of key relational interactions.
