Collaboration across disciplines is required to address the complexities of obesity. COAST brings together UCSF's leading clinical and translational researchers from the Departments of Psychiatry, Medicine, Family and Community Medicine, Pediatric Medicine, Adolescent Medicine, Physiological Nursing, Family Health Care Nursing, Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the Biomedical Sciences (BMS) Graduate Program, and the Neuroscience Graduate Program.
Leadership
Elissa Epel, PhD
Co-Director
Nancy Adler, PhD
Co-Director
Barbara Laraia, PhD, MPH, RD Affiliate Director of Nutrition Research
Researchers
Robert Baron, MD, MS
Jennifer Daubenmier, PhD
Frederick Hecht, MD
Cindy Leung, ScD, MPH
Aric Prather, PhD
Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS
Christian Vaisse, MD, PhD
Nicki Bush, PhD
Elena Fuentes-Afflick, MD, MPH
Melvin Heyman, MD, MPH
Robert Lustig, MD
Eli Puterman, PhD
Naomi Stotland, MD
Janet Wojcicki, PhD, MPH
Jyu-Lin Chen, FAAN
Andrea Garber, PhD
Alka Kanaya, MD
Kristine Madsen, MD, MPH
David Rehkopf, ScD, MPH
Laurence Tecott, MD, PhD
Allison Xu, PhD
Mary Dallman
Carl Grunfeld, MD, PhD
Suneil Koliwad, MD, PhD
Laurel Mellin, PhD
Laura Schmidt, PhD
Jeanne Tschann, PhD
Irene Yen, PhD, MPH
Staff
Samantha Schilf
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Alison Hartman
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Samantha Schleicher
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Robbie Richler
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