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The Center faculty come from all four UCSF schools and conduct research and teaching in every aspect of tobacco control, from efforts by the tobacco industry to manipulate international politics to the molecular biology of nicotine addiction.

 

Susan Lee, MD

ASST ADJ PROF-FY

Dr. Susan M.Lee recently completed a trial investigating a smoking cessation program implemented preoperatively, through which she gained an understanding of the challenges of implementing a multidisciplinary program and techniques to overcome these challenges.  She has since successfully established strong ties with community agencies, such as the Smokers' Helpline, and collaborated with other researchers, culminating in a peer-reviewed publication and implementation of the program clinically.

Heather Leutwyler, RN, PhD, NP

Associate Professor
Physiological Nursing

Dr. Leutwyler has extensive research and clinical experiences working with adults with serious mental illness, and her research focuses on identifying factors associated with poor physical health among adults with schizophrenia and conducting interventions to promote physical health among adults with serious mental illness. Currently, Dr.

James Lightwood, PhD

ASSOC ADJ PROF-FY

Research program involves estimating the changes in direct healthcare costs due to changes in smoking behavior in large populations, and changes in exposure to passive smoking and health care cost and utilization attributable to adoption of smoke-free laws. Dr. Lightwood has done research in cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis of disease prevention and management programs, cost savings attributable to smoking cessation, and the economics of infectious disease control

Pamela Ling, MD, MPH

Professor

Dr. Ling studies tobacco industry marketing strategies targeting young adults, women, and other high risk population, and new smokeless and novel tobacco product marketing strategies.  She also studies how to use tobacco industry marketing strategies to improve tobacco control programs.

Karla Llanes, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar
Cardiovascular Research Inst

Karla Llanes, PhD, received her doctorate in Health Psychology at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). During her PhD training, she worked for A Smoke Free Paso del Norte, a west Texas, southern New Mexico, and Juarez, Mexico regional initiative targeting tobacco control in adolescents and adults. She has also taught several Statistics courses and Motivation and Emotion courses at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Divine Darlington Logo, PhD

Cardiovascular Research Inst

Divine Logo, PhD, received his doctorate in Public Health from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST). For his dissertation, he developed and evaluated a teacher-led intervention to prevent tobacco use among junior high school students in the Upper East Region of Ghana, a region identified as a priority for tobacco control efforts due to high prevalence rates.

Joanne Lyu, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Joanne Lyu, PhD, received her PhD in Communication from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Prior to joining CTCRE, she was an Assistant Professor at Macau University of Science and Technology, and most recently at The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. During her doctoral study, Joanne won a Top Student Paper award in the Public Relations (PR) Division at the 2012 annual conference of International Communication Association (ICA). In 2017, as a principal investigator, she was awarded a Hong Kong government research grant. Joanne is excited to be a member of CTCRE.

Ruth Malone, RN, PhD, FAAN

Professor

Research focuses on tobacco industry activities aimed at undermining public health, strategic positioning and messaging, marginalized populations, and emerging developments in the social construction of tobacco use. Dr. Malone is known nationally and internationally for her research on the tobacco industry’s strategic efforts to counter public health. Her work is funded by the National Cancer Institute, NIH, and by the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program. She has served as a consultant on tobacco industry activities for the U.S.

Jyothi Marbin, MD

Associate Professor
Pediatrics

Dr. Marbin is the Director of the UC Berkeley UCSF Joint Medical Program (JMP). She holds appointments as HS Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF and HS Clinical Professor at UC Berkeley. Dr. Marbin is a general pediatrician who practices at San Francisco General Hospital. Prior to her role at the JMP, Dr. Marbin served as the Associate Program Director (APD) for Recruitment and for Diversity Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for the Pediatrics residency program.

Gregory Marcus, MD, MAS

Professor
Medicine

CLINICAL
Dr. Gregory Marcus is a specialist in the treatment of arrhythmias, including mapping and catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation, supraventricular tachycardias and ventricular arrhythmias. He is also an expert in pacemaker, biventricular device and defibrillator implantation.

Ellicott Matthay, PhD

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Michael Matthay, MD

Director of the Critical Care Medicine Training
Associate Director of the Intensive Care Unit
Professor
Medicine

Dr. Matthay's overall focus is on improving clinical care of patients with acute respiratory failure from the acute respiratory distress syndrome and from sepsis. His research and clinical trials groups are very well funded by grants from the National Institute of Health. He also spends considerable time mentoring physicians and young faculty in career development and academic medicine.

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