Nancy Berglas, MHS joined IHPS in 2000. She currently directs evaluation studies for California’s TeenSMART Outreach and Family PACT programs. Her areas of interest/expertise include:  reproductive health, adolescent health and well-being, and state health policy.

Antonia Biggs, PhD, earned her PhD at Boston University. She joined IHPS in 1998 and is a project director for several adolescent health programs. Areas of interest/expertise include:  adolescent health, reproductive health, access to care among Latino populations.

JongSerl Chun, PhD, is a Postdoctoral Fellow and her mentor is Dr. Joseph Guydish.   Dr. Chun received her doctoral degree from the University of Texas at Austin.

Areas of interest/expertise include: substance abuse among adolescents and smoking cessation.

Mitzi Dean, MS, MHA, has been a Project Director at IHPS since 1998. She earned her MS degree in Occupational Therapy from the Medical College of Virginia and her MHA degree from the University of Southern California.

Research Focus: Health care process and outcomes: measure development, risk adjustment; health disparities

Diana Greene Foster, PhD, earned her Ph.D. in Demography and Public Policy from Princeton University in 1998. She joined UCSF in 1998 and is a Demographer at IHPS and Director of Research of the ANSIRH Program in the UCSF Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences.

Areas of research include evaluation of family planning programs, the cost effectiveness of contraceptive methods and the consequences of unintended pregnancy.

Patricia Eleanor Franks, BA
Senior Research Associate

Earned her BA degree (English Literature) at the University of Pittsburgh in 1968

Major areas of interest: chocolate, penne pasta in pesto sauce, asparagus, red raspberries, reading almost any kind of book, almost any kind of music, looking out her window at the San Francisco Bay, taking pictures, playing with her adopted nephew Eli 2 ½ years, Crissy Field, Armstrong Redwoods State Park, and beagles

Future plans: Retire July 1, 2007 and travel the country chasing Spring from South to North and West to East—next year, that is—stop off at places and join with others who are planting trees and help them, take the official name of Eleanor Elm (my middle name and the tree that I grew up with), and leave UCSF far behind me.

Sara Peterson Geierstanger, MPH, received her MPH at UC Berkeley and joined IHPS in 1994. Since then, she has worked on numerous evaluation projects related to adolescent health, school health programs, and community health center policy advocacy.

Lauren (Liz) Goldman, MD, MCR, is Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine. She earned her MD at Yale University in 2000. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF in 2003 and a general medicine fellowship and Masters in Clinical Research from the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics in 2006. In July, 2006, she joined the UCSF faculty as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Hospitalist group.

Areas of interest/expertise include:  quality of care measurement, public reporting, pay-for-performance, health care disparities.

Martha (Marty) Jessup, RN, PhD, CNS, earned her PhD at UCSF School if Nursing. She is an Associate Adjunct Professor in the Department of Family Health Care Nursing at UCSF and Co-Investigator on a study of a juvenile adolescent drug court for high risk recidivist girls with Dr. Joe Guydish. 

Areas of interest include: health services research, substance abuse treatment services research, perinatal and women's health, qualitative research. Marty is also a member of the Women's Health Council, Office of Women's Health, California Department of Health Services.

Galen Joseph, PhD, is a research scientist and project director at the IHPS and the Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her research examines health disparities in cancer care and prevention focusing in particular on clinical trials enrollment, quality of care and prevention outreach and education. Her background is in cultural anthropology (Ph.D. 1999 UC Santa Cruz) with postdoctoral training in Migration, Globalization and Citizenship at the Institute for International and Area Studies at Yale University. She has been a member of the UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center since 2004, and joined IHPS in 2006.

Areas of expertise include: health disparities, clinical trials, lay health workers, cancer outreach and education, ethnographic and qualitative methods.

Leah Maddock, MPH works on the evaluation of California’s Teen Pregnancy Prevention Programs and is project director for the evaluation of an after-school collaborative at McClymonds High School in Oakland.  She received her Masters in Public Health from UC Los Angeles and joined UCSF in 2005. Her work focuses on youth development and teen pregnancy prevention

Elliot Marseille, DrPH, MPP, received his academic training at UC Berkeley and has eight years of experience in public health program management and research in South Asia. He joined IHPS in 1993 and is a principal research associate. For the past 13 years his research focus has been resource allocation and the cost-effectiveness of HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention programs in developing countries.

Samira Soleimanpour joined IHPS in 2000 and is currently directing the evaluations of several adolescent health programs. Samira received her Masters of Public Health with a focus in maternal and child health from the George Washington University. Areas of interest/expertise include: adolescent health and development, reproductive health, school health programs, and youth-led research and evaluation.