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.

Kevin Delucchi, PhD

Professor
Psychiatry

Statistical methods for analysis of quantitative data including clinical trials of treatments for smoking cessation.

Jennifer Fung, PhD

Professor In Residence
Ob/Gyn, Reproductive Sciences

Stuart Gansky, MS, DrPH

Professor
Preventive & Restor Dent Sci

Oral health research, health disparities research, applied statistical analyses and related methodological issues.

Peter Ganz, MD

Professor in Residence
Medicine

Cardiovascular effects and potential harms of conventional, new and emerging tobacco products.

Warren Gold, MD

Professor Emeritus
Medicine

Long-term effects of second hand cigarette smoke on flight attendants.

Scarlett Gomez, PhD, MPH

Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics

The role of social determinants of health, including race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, immigration status, sociocultural factors, and neighborhood contextual characteristics, on health outcomes.

Jeffrey Gotts, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor
Medicine

Effects of cigarette smoke and e-cigarette aerosols on susceptibility to acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), a major cause of respiratory failure in critically ill patients.

Jennifer Grandis, MD

Professor, Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Associate Vice Chancellor, Clinical and Translational Science Institute
Otolaryngology

Signal transduction in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (tobacco-caused cancers) development and progression with the ultimate goal of targeting key pathways for therapeutic benefit.

Lawrence Green, DrPH, MPH

Adjunct Professor
Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Health promotion, including tobacco control, with particular emphasis on knowledge dissemination, transfer, program planning and implementation strategies in making practice more evidence-based by making evidence more practice-based.

Valerie Gribben, MD

HS Assoc Clinical Professor
Pediatrics

Valerie Gribben, MD, FAAP is an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF.  Research interests include: reducing primary and secondhand vaping, cigarette, and marijuana exposure in children and teens; vaping patterns of teenagers during the COVID-19 pandemic; the intersection between digital usage and vaping; social media interventions to assist in vaping cessation; and health disparities in tobacco use and exposure. 

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