Program Faculty 

US Faculty: UCSF 

Bruce Ovbiagele, MD, MSc, MAS, MBA, MLS

Professor and Associate Dean SFVAHCS

Neurology

Program Co-Director

Felicia Chow, MD 

Associate Professor 

Neurology

Program Co-Director


Riley Bove, MD

Associate Professor

Neurology

https://bovelab.ucsf.edu/

 

Maria Glymour, ScD, MS

Professor

Epidemiology & Biostatistics

 

Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS

Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty

Psychiatry

 https://integration.ucsf.edu/premium-collaborative 

 

 

Gennatas Sthathis, MBBS, AICMS, PhD

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics

https://www.lambdamd.org/

Research areas: neuroscience, neurology, neuroimaging, machine learning, artificial intelligence, health data science, bioinformatics, clinical informatics, precision health, software development

 

US Faculty: Non-UCSF

 

Chizobam Ani, MD, MPH, PhD

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

 

George Howard, DrPH

Professor, Biostatistics

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Research areas: Stroke, prevention, risk factors, biostatistics, epidemiology, cohort studies, and randomized clinical trials

 

 

Walter Royal, III, MD

Professor and Chair, Department of Neurology

Morehouse School of Medicine

 

Amytis Towfighi, MD

Professor of Neurology

Keck School of Medicine of USC

Founding Director of the Southern California Healthcare Delivery Science Center

 

Joseph Zunt, MD, MPH

Professor, Departments of Neurology and Global Health

University of Washington

Research areas: CNS infections, Peru, research training

www.fogartyfellows.org

International Faculty

 

Fred Sarfo, MD, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair of Neurology 

Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana

Research areas: Stroke research, Parkinsons disease, HIV and Infectious diseases

 

Hector Garcia, MD, PhD

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

Deanna Saylor, MD, MHS

Associate Professor of Neurology

Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (based in Zambia)

Research area: Global neurology, stroke, multiple sclerosis, neuro-HIV, neuroepidemiology