Dr. Fuentes-Afflick has been a UCSF faculty member since 1993. She is Vice Dean for the UCSF School of Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center and Professor of Pediatrics. Previously, she served as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs in the School of Medicine (2012-2022) and Chief of Pediatrics at Zuckerberg San Francisco General (2009-2022).
Dr. Garber is a Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Adolescent Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is a nutritionist, with a PhD in Human and Clinical Nutrition from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a Registered Dietitian (RD) from UCSF. She is the Chief Nutritionist for the UCSF Eating Disorders Program. Her NIH-funded research program focuses on eating disorders, with current studies on nutritional rehabilitation and body composition. In the community, Dr.
Dr. Grunfeld’s research involves two major areas. He studies how infection and inflammation affect metabolism and body composition, with a focus on ways those changes promote atherosclerosis. He also studies how disease and therapy affect kidney function with laboratory studies looking at novel markers in urine and blood.
Darwin A. Guevarra is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Before coming to UCSF, he completed a postdoc in the Clinical Science area at Michigan State University. He completed his Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Darwin is broadly interested in affect and affect regulation processes and their implications for health and well-being. His research questions revolve around what makes affect regulation difficult and how to make it easier.
Dr. Melissa Hagan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Science & Engineering at San Francisco State University and an Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Psychiatry Department at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Hagan earned an MPH in Epidemiology from Boston University School of Public Health and a PhD in Clinical Psychology from Arizona State University. She completed a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco Child Trauma Research Program in the Department of Psychiatry.
Elissa June Hamlat received her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Temple University in 2017. Her research focuses on the pubertal transition as a developmental period of risk for physical and mental health problems, particularly those associated with depression. At UCSF, she works primarily with Dr. Elissa Epel to better understand the biological processes underlying the relationships between puberty and health outcomes throughout the lifespan. She is interested in racial and ethnic differences in these relationships and how they may contribute to health disparities.
I am trained in Internal Medicine, with additional training in clinical research methods, biostatistics, and behavioral medicine. My research focus for many years was on HIV. I developed one of the largest cohorts in the world of persons followed from primary HIV (within 6 months of infection), the Options Project, in which we have examined clinical, behavioral, cardiovascular, and immunologic research questions. In 2002, I became Director of Research at the UCSF Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.
