Assistant Professor, Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF Associate Director, Health Care Effectiveness at the Division of Research, Kaiser Permanente Northern California

Andrew Avins, MD, MPH is an assistant professor in the departments of medicine and epidemiology & biostatistics at the University of California San Francisco. He received his MD from UC Irvine and his MPH from Harvard University. He completed a fellowship in primary care internal medicine and clinical epidemiology at UCSF and has developed a strong research program in preventive medicine.

His current research interests include cardiovascular epidemiology, preventive cardiology, research methods in complementary and alternative medicine, the ethics of clinical research, and the efficacy of botanical therapies.

In addition to his research work, he sees patients in a primary care internal medicine practice at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

He is also the associate director of the UCSF Annual Symposium on the Design and Method of Clinical Trials, and regularly teaches research study design and analysis principles to faculty and fellows at UCSF.
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