Our Team
Center Leadership and Administrative Team
The UCSF Osher Center team is led by
Susan Folkman, PhD,
Director.
The Osher Center is the premiere place where integrative medicine comes together on three important levels: research, education, and patient care. These three teams are comprised as follows:
Our core administrative team is listed below:
| Administration |
Finance |
Human Resources |
Development and Planning |
Susan Folkman, PhD
Director |
Liana Hartanto
Finance & Grants Manager |
Rita Zakhem
Human Resources Manager |
Maureen Smith
Director of Development and Planning |
Leslie Murchy
Office Manager |
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Christina Bernard
Communications Manager |
Advisory Board
Chair: Igor Grant, MD
Professor and Executive Vice Chair of Psychiatry, University of
California, San Diego; Director, San Diego HIV Neurobehavioral
Research Center; Director, California NeuroAIDS Tissue Network
Nancy Adler, PhD
Professor and Vice Chair of Psychiatry, UCSF; Director, Center
for Health and Community, UCSF; Network Chair, John D. and Catherine
T. MacArthur Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health
Harriet Beinfield, LAc, OMD
Chinese Medicine Works Co-author, Between Heaven and Earth, A
Guide to Chinese Medicine
Brian M. Berman, MD
Professor and Director, Center for Integrative Medicine School
of Medicine, University of Maryland; Cochrane Collaboration Field
Coordinator for Complementary Medicine; Chair, Consortium of Academic
Health Centers for Integrative Medicine Institute of Medicine,
Committee on Complementary and Alternative Medicine
Thomas J. Coates, PhD
Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases David Geffen School
of Medicine University of California, Los Angeles
Kathleen Dracup, RN, FNP, DNSc, FAAN
Dean and Professor, School of Nursing, UCSF
Harley Goldberg, DO
Director, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, The Permanente
Medical Group, Inc., Oakland
John Greenspan, PhD
Dean for Research and Professor, School of Dentistry, UCSF
David Irby, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Vice Dean of Education, School of Medicine,
UCSF
Jeffrey Pearl, MD
Associate Dean, UCSF at Mt. Zion; Clinical Professor of Surgery,
UCSF
Rachel Naomi Remen, MD
Clinical Professor of Family and Community Medicine, UCSF; Co-founder
and Medical Director of the Commonweal Cancer Help Program; Founder
and Director of The Institute for the Study of Health and Illness
James Sandler
The Sandler Family Supporting Foundation
Joelle Steefel
Jewish Community Federation, Executive Council; Mt. Zion Health
Fund, Board Member; Chapman Fund, President; National Foundation
for Jewish Arts and Culture
Will Weinstein
Principal, Jackson Square Partners, LP San Francisco

Scientific Advisory
Committee
Steven Cole, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Department of Hematology and
Oncology, UCLA
Mary Dallman, PhD
Professor of Physiology, UCSF
Robert F. Francoeur, MS, MFT
Private Practice, San Francisco, CA
Diane Havlir, MD
Professor of Medicine, Positive Health Program; Chief, HIV/AIDS
Division at SFGH, UCSF
Susan Kegeles, PhD
Professor of Medicine, Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, UCSF
Robert W. Levenson, PhD
Professor of Psychology, UC – Berkeley
Robert M. Sapolsky, PhD
Professor, Department of Biological Sciences & Department
of Neurology and Neurological Sciences, Stanford University
Owen Wolkowitz, MD
Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF
Leadership
Board
A volunteer Leadership Board supports the Osher Center for Integrative
Medicine to develop and grow a funding base for its key programmatic
initiatives.
Bernard Osher, Chair
Leslie Barrett
Sally Carlson
Wayne Feinstein
Bob Friend
Melodie Johnson
Ellen Klutznick
Peter Maier
Lisa Stone Pritzker
Varda Rabin
Betty Schaefer
Joelle Steefel
Ruth Stein
Alexsis de Raadt St. James
Carol Traeger
