Faculty

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.

Stacey Anderson, PhD

Assistant Professor
Social Behavioral Sciences

Public health policy and social cognition focusing on investigating marketing strategies that tap implicit constructs of self and perceptions of others, pair brand identities with personal identities, and encourage consumption of products detrimental to individual and public health.

Dorie Apollonio, PhD, MPP

Professor
Clinical Pharmacy

Health policy and tobacco control, particularly the ways that clinical research is translated into policy interventions and public knowledge.

Mehrdad Arjomandi, MD

Professor
Medicine

Physiologic and inflammatory mechanisms of airway remodeling in various exposure-response models such as ozone-induced oxidative injury, allergic airway inflammation, and wood or tobacco smoke-induced airway injury.

Neal Benowitz, MD

Professor Emeritus
Medicine

Human pharmacology of nicotine in relation to addiction and the pathogenesis of and individual differences in vulnerability to tobacco-related disease, and the use of pharmacologic data as a basis for public health policies to prevent and reduce such disease.

Stella Bialous, RN, DrPH, FAAN

Associate Professor
Social Behavioral Sciences

WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, tobacco industry monitoring and building nurses’ capacity for tobacco control nationally and internationally.

Paul Blanc, MD, MSPH

Professor
Medicine

Toxic exposures and illness with focus on the role of environmental factors and disease prevention if factors were eliminated.

Esteban G. Burchard, MD, MPH

Professor
Bioengineering

Identify and characterize genetic, environmental and social factors that predispose to asthma and modify drug response with special interest in how racially-specific genetic differences that modify disease and response to treatment.

Nicholas Butowski, MD

PROF OF CLIN-HCOMP
Neurological Surgery

Amy Byers, PhD, MPH

Professor In Residence
Psychiatry

Dr. Byers is an epidemiologist with a background in aging research, methods, and biostatistics. Her research focuses on the epidemiology of late-life mental health and employs advanced epidemiological and biostatistical techniques to determine the prevalence, risk factors, and outcomes of late-life mental health disorders with the objective of reducing the burden of these disorders by informing long-term clinical care. As a clinical epidemiologist studying geropsychiatry with an expertise in mathematical epidemiology, Dr. Byers has been heavily involved in research to determine nationally representative estimates of psychiatric disorders and health care utilization among older community-dwelling adults.  
 

Carolyn Calfee, MD

Professor
Medicine

Effects of active and passive smoking on susceptibility to acute lung injury, a major cause of respiratory failure in critically ill patients.

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