Program Faculty
US Faculty: UCSF
Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, MSc, MAS, MBA, MLS
Professor and Associate Dean SFVAHCS
Neurology
Program Co-Director
Professor and Vice Chair
Psychiatry
Gennatas Sthathis, MBBS, AICMS, PhD
Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Research areas: neuroscience, neurology, neuroimaging, machine learning, artificial intelligence, health data science, bioinformatics, clinical informatics, precision health, software development
US Faculty: Non-UCSF
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
Research areas: Cardiovascular disease epidemiology, cardio-metabolic disease epidemiology, cardiovascular disease outcome disparities
Gretchen Birbeck, MD, MPH, DTMH, FANA
Professor, Department of Neurology, Epilepsy
University of Rochester Medical Center
Research areas: Clinical research including neuroepidemiology, health services research and clinical trials to study malaria, neuro-HIV and aging and seizures in tropical settings.
Bernadette Boden-Albala, MPH, DrPH
Professor, Department of Health, Society, & Behavior, Program of Public Health, and Neurology
University of California, Irvine
Research areas: Social epidemiology, social determinants of disease, stroke and cardiovasular disease prevention and mortality, health disparities, global health, social support, social networks
Professor, Biostatistics
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Research areas: Stroke, prevention, risk factors, biostatistics, epidemiology, cohort studies, and randomized clinical trials
Professor of Neurology
Keck School of Medicine of USC
Founding Director of the Southern California Healthcare Delivery Science Center
Professor, Departments of Neurology and Global Health
University of Washington
Research areas: CNS infections, Peru, research training
International Faculty
Associate Professor and Chair of Neurology
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana
Research areas: Stroke research, Parkinsons disease, HIV and Infectious diseases
Professor, Department of Microbiology
University Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru
Research areas: Parasitic disease of the nervous system, Cysticercosis and neurocysticercosis as pathogens affecting the nervous system, Cystic Echinococcosis
Marcio Soto-Añari, PhD
Professor of Psychology
Universidad Católica de San Pablo, Arequipa, Peru
Mashina Chomba, MBChB, MMed
Consultant Neurologist, Internal Medicine
University Teaching Hospital, Lukasa, Zambia
Associate Professor of Neurology
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (based in Zambia)
Research area: Global neurology, stroke, multiple sclerosis, neuro-HIV, neuroepidemiology