• Executive Committee
• Administration
• Advisory Board
• Scientific Advisory Committee
• Leadership Board

Executive Committee

Susan Folkman, PhD
Director

Frederick (Rick) Hecht, MD
Director, Research

Ellen Hughes, MD
Director, Education Programs

Donald I. Abrams, MD
Director, Clinical Programs

Administration

Donald I. Abrams , MD
Director, Clinical Programs
415-353-7720
dabrams@php.ucsf.edu

Yvette Coulter
Manager, Education Programs
415-353-7991
coultery@ocim.ucsf.edu

Tara DeMarco, MA
Clinical Practice Manager
415-353-7211
demarcot@ocim.ucsf.edu

Susan Folkman, PhD
Director
415-353-7719
folkman@ocim.ucsf.edu

Liana Hartanto
Finance & Grants Manager
415-353-7715
hartanto@ocim.ucsf.edu

Frederick (Rick) Hecht, MD
Director, Research
415-353-9743
rhecht@php.ucsf.edu

Ellen Hughes, MD, PhD
Director, Education Programs
415-353-7702
ehughes@medicine.ucsf.edu

Stephanie Maurer, MA
Clinical Research Coordinator
415-353-7795
maurers@ocim.ucsf.edu

Leslie Murchy
Media Coordinator
415-353-7753
murchyl@ocim.ucsf.edu

Maureen Smith
Development Director
415-353-7882
msmith@support.ucsf.edu

Rita Zakhem
Human Resources Manager
415-353-7460
zakhemr@ocim.ucsf.edu

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

Lee Goldman, MD, MPH
Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine, UCSF

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

Craig Van Dyke, MD
Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry, UCSF

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