People

Samantha Schilf

Executive Director, AME Center

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).

Nancy Adler, PhD

Professor Emeritus

M_Psychiatry

Nancy E. Adler, Ph.D. is the Lisa and John Pritzker Professor of Psychology at the UCSF, and directs the Center for Health and Community.

Kirstin Aschbacher, PhD

ASSOC ADJ PROF-FY

M_MED-CORE-CARD

FOCUS: Dr. Kirstin Aschbacher is an Associate Professor and Data Scientist in the Division of Cardiology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Dr. Aschbacher is passionate about “digital lifestyle medicine” – i.e., using technology to help people prevent and manage disease through healthy lifestyle change.

Elizabeth Blackburn, PhD

Recall Professor

M_Biochemistry and Biophysics

Dr. Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Morris Herztein Professor of Biology and Physiology in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics at the University of California, San Francisco, is a leader in the area of telomere and telomerase research.