UCSF Neurosciences Initiative Leadership Council

UCSF Neurosciences Initiative
Leadership Council
UCSF Neurosciences Initiative Leadership Council
Co-Chairs
Katherine Feinstein
Judith Hellman, MD
Members
William K. Bowes Jr.
Ronald Conway
Kristina Lessing Homer
R. Todd Bradley
David A. Coulter
Allison Speer
Steven Chen
Susan Weeks Coulter
Cynthia Testa-McCullagh
Matthew Cohler
Cinthia Coletti Haan
Danielle Walker
Stephen L. Hauser, MD
Stephen G. Lisberger, PhD
Wade S. Smith, MD, PhD
Stanley B. Prusiner, MD
Bruce L. Miller, MD
Allison J. Doupe, MD, PhD
Faculty
Katherine Feinstein
Co-Chair, UCSF Neurosciences Initiative Leadership Council
Katherine Feinstein serves as assistant presiding judge for the San Francisco
Superior Court. Judge Feinstein has focused her professional and volunteer
efforts on the provision of mental health and social services for those involved
in the juvenile justice system.
Prior to taking the bench, Judge Feinstein worked as a deputy district
attorney and assistant district attorney. She also directed the Mayor’s Office
of Criminal Justice and served as a member of the San Francisco Police
Commission.
Judge Feinstein earned her JD from UC Hastings College of the Law and is a
Phi Beta Kappa graduate of UC Berkeley.
Judge Feinstein previously sat on the UCSF Mount Zion Health Systems
Board of Directors.
Judith Hellman, MD
Co-Chair, UCSF Neurosciences Initiative Leadership Council
Judith Hellman, MD, is an associate professor in the Department of
Anesthesia and Perioperative Care at UCSF. Her clinical specialty is intensive
care medicine.
The National Institutes of Health recently awarded Dr. Hellman a grant
to examine the effects of the protein Toll-like receptor 2 on endothelial
dysfunction, blood clotting disturbances and vascular leakage.
Receiving a BA in microbiology and an MD from Columbia University, Dr.
Hellman completed her internship and first residency in internal medicine at
Oregon Health Sciences University. She also did a residency in anesthesia
and a fellowship in critical care medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Hellman is a director of the Hellman Family Foundation, which helped
establish the Hellman Center for Memory and Aging and the Hellman Family
Awards for Young Investigators at UCSF.
William K. Bowes Jr.
William K. Bowes Jr. is a founding partner of US Venture Partners, a venture
capital firm where he has led investments in companies such as Applied
Biosystems, Sun Microsystems and Glycomed.
Amgen’s first chairman and treasurer, Mr. Bowes is affiliated with numerous
San Francisco-based boards and medical community advisory committees.
He holds a BA in economics from Stanford University and an MBA from
Harvard University. He served in the U.S. Army Infantry during and after World
War II.
In 2009, Mr. Bowes received the UCSF Medal for his outstanding personal
contributions to the university. Mr. Bowes currently sits on the UCSF
Foundation Board of Directors and the California Institute for Quantitative
Biosciences (QB3) Advisory Board.
R. Todd Bradley
R. Todd Bradley is executive vice president of Hewlett-Packard’s (HP’s)
Personal Systems Group, which includes personal computers, mobile
devices, technical workstations, personal storage solutions and Internet
services. He also is a member of HP’s Executive Council.
During his 29-year management career, Mr. Bradley has held senior roles at
GE Capital, Dun & Bradstreet and FedEx. Prior to joining HP, he was chief
executive officer of Palm and executive vice president of global operations
for Gateway.
Mr. Bradley earned a BS in business administration from Towson University,
where he is currently a member of the board of visitors. He also serves as a
director of LiveOps and as a trustee of the American Film Institute.
Steven Chen
Steven Chen co-founded YouTube, a premier entertainment destination and
one of the most popular websites on the Internet, in 2005. As the company’s
key technologist, Mr. Chen is credited with developing the company’s
data centers. He was instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video
phenomenon and helped lead the company through its acquisition by Google
for $1.65 billion less than a year after launching the site.
Mr. Chen has received several prestigious honors and acknowledgements
from the business and entertainment communities, including Business 2.0’s
“50 Most Influential People,” GQ’s “Men of the Year” and Fortune’s “Most
Powerful People in Business.” He also was prominently featured in Time
magazine’s “Person of the Year” issue.
Mr. Chen studied computer science at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign.
Matthew Cohler
Matthew Cohler is a general partner at Benchmark Capital. Prior to joining
Benchmark, Mr. Cohler was vice president of product management at
Facebook, where he began as one of the company’s first five employees. He
is currently a special advisor to Facebook.
Mr. Cohler also was a founding member, vice president and general manager
of LinkedIn. He previously consulted with McKinsey & Co. in Silicon Valley and
worked for AsiaInfo in Beijing.
Mr. Cohler received a BA with honors and distinction from Yale University.
In the community, Mr. Cohler is a member of the board of governors at the
San Francisco Symphony.
Ronald Conway
Ronald Conway is a special partner at SV Angel LLC, a venture capital firm.
Mr. Conway was an early investor in Google, Facebook, PayPal, Twitter and
Zappos, among other companies. He also served as president and CEO of
Personal Training Systems and was co-founder and CEO of Altos Computer
Systems.
Among his community affiliations, Mr. Conway is on the board of the Tiger
Woods Foundation.
Mr. Conway is vice chair of the UCSF Foundation and a member of the
foundation’s Government Relations, Marketing and Nominations Committees.
He is a member of the Chancellor’s Fundraising Advisory Committee,
California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) and the UCSF Medical
Center Campaign Cabinet for the Children’s, Women’s Specialty and Cancer
Hospitals at Mission Bay.
David A. Coulter
David A. Coulter is a managing director, senior advisor and co-head of
the financial institutions group at Warburg Pincus. Prior to joining Warburg
Pincus, Mr. Coulter held a series of positions at JPMorgan Chase and was a
member of the office of the chairman. He also acted as chairman and CEO of
BankAmerica Corp.
Mr. Coulter is a director of Webster Financial Corp., Strayer Education, The
Irvine Co., MBIA and Aeolus Re. In addition, he sits on the board of a number
of national and international organizations.
Mr. Coulter graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with a BS and MS.
His previous memberships include the UCSF Foundation and its Investment
and Membership Development Committees.
Susan Weeks Coulter
Susan Weeks Coulter is a founder and chairwoman of the Global Film
Initiative, a nonprofit organization that promotes cross-cultural understanding
through film. She travels extensively throughout the world to support narrative
film development from underrepresented countries.
Prior to founding the Global Film Initiative, Mrs. Coulter was a corporate
marketing executive, public educator and community organizer. She is the
former executive director of Queen’s Bench Foundation, a criminal justice
education foundation, and was a member of the board for the Exploratorium
and Asian Art Museum in San Francisco and for the Music Center in Los
Angeles.
Mrs. Coulter graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder and also
served as a United States Peace Corps volunteer in India.
Cinthia Coletti Haan
Cinthia Coletti Haan is the co-founder and chair of The Haan Foundation for
Children, overseeing executive management and all daily operations. The
foundation supports research in neuroscience and educational programs that
promote and enhance learning.
Additionally, Ms. Haan is the CEO of Syndacon Corp. She was a founding
team member in Southern Pacific Railroad’s launch of Sprint, director of
Starnet Division-Ford Aerospace, and has executed a number of mergers and
acquisitions in the telecommunications industry.
Ms. Haan sits on several boards, including Strategic Education Research
Partnership; California Business Roundtable Education Excellence; Harvard’s
Program in Education, Afterschool and Resiliency; and International Dyslexia
Association.
Kristina Lessing Homer
Kristina Lessing Homer is president of the Homer Family Foundation. The
foundation, established in 2000, supports elementary and higher education
and human services. Mrs. Homer is also co-chair of the current campaign for
The Sacred Heart Schools. The campaign aims to raise $95 million.
In 2007, Mrs. Homer and colleagues of her late husband, Mike Homer,
spearheaded the UCSF “Fight for Mike” fundraising initiative to provide
research support for Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Allison Speer
Allison Speer is principal of Allison Speer Public Relations, a special events
and public relations firm that has introduced luxury brands, products and
boutiques to Northern California consumers since 2000. Previously she
headed public relations and special events for I. Magnin and served as west
coast director of public relations and special events for Giorgio Armani and
Emporio Armani.
Ms. Speer’s community involvements include the California College of the
Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the San Francisco Fall
Antiques Show benefiting Enterprise for High School Students.
Ms. Speer has served on the UCSF Friends of Langley Porter Psychiatric
Institute Board.
Cynthia Testa-McCullagh
Cynthia Testa-McCullagh is the director of public affairs for the
Shorenstein Co.
Ms. Testa-McCullagh’s activities include the planning and organization of
high-profile events, presidential inaugurations and Democratic National
Conventions. In 2008, she also served as a California Delegate to the national
convention.
A public-private partnership organized by Ms. Testa-McCullagh to rebuild
the Broadmoor neighborhood in New Orleans post-Hurricane Katrina is now
a model for the city of San Francisco’s disaster recovery program. She also
works closely with President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative.
Ms. Testa-McCullagh’s board affiliations include ODC Dance Theatre, SF
Connect, Council of Friends of the Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley and
Jewish Vocational Services of SF.
Danielle Walker
Danielle Walker is the founder and former CEO of the California Culinary
Academy in San Francisco.
Mrs. Walker’s past board memberships include the San Francisco Symphony,
Stern Grove Festival, Leakey Foundation, Northern California Chapter of
Achievement Awards for College Scientists and UCSF Foundation.
During her tenure with the UCSF Foundation, Mrs. Walker was on the
foundation’s Membership Committee and Foundation Relations Committee.
She is the founder of the Cardiology Council and a current member of the
UCSF Wellness Lecture Committee.
Stephen L. Hauser, MD
Stephen L. Hauser, MD, is the Robert A. Fishman Distinguished Professor
and Department of Neurology chair at UCSF. A neuroimmunologist, Dr.
Hauser’s research has advanced understanding of multiple sclerosis and its
treatment.
Among his numerous awards and honors, Dr. Hauser has received the Jacob
Javits Neuroscience Investigator Award and the John Dystel Prize for Multiple
Sclerosis Research.
Dr. Hauser is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the
American Academy of Physicians, and a member of the Institute of Medicine.
He is an editor of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine and editor-in-chief
of Annals of Neurology. He was recently appointed by President Obama to
the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues.
Following graduation from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Phi
Beta Kappa) and Harvard Medical School (magna cum laude), Dr. Hauser
trained in internal medicine at the New York Hospital–Cornell Medical Center,
in neurology at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and in immunology at
Harvard Medical School and the Institute Pasteur.
Stanley B. Prusiner, MD
Stanley B. Prusiner, MD, is a professor of neurology and director of the
Institute for Neurodegenerative Diseases at UCSF. While at the university, Dr.
Prusiner discovered an unprecedented class of pathogens that he named
prions. Prions are infectious proteins that cause neurodegenerative diseases
in animals and humans.
Dr. Prusiner’s contributions to scientific research have been internationally
recognized with numerous prizes including the Richard Lounsbery Award, the
Albert Lasker Award and the Nobel Prize.
Editor of 12 books and more than 350 research articles, Dr. Prusiner holds
50 issued or allowed United States patents, all of which are assigned to the
University of California.
He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the Institute of
Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American
Philosophical Society, and is a foreign member of the Royal Society.
Dr. Prusiner received his undergraduate and medical training at the University
of Pennsylvania and his postgraduate clinical training at UCSF.
Stephen G. Lisberger, PhD
Stephen G. Lisberger, PhD, is a professor of physiology. Dr. Lisberger directs
the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience at UCSF and
co-directs the Sloan-Swartz Center for Theoretical Neurobiology at UCSF.
Dr. Lisberger’s research involves studying specific eye movements and
reflexes to better understand the basic organization of motor circuits, the
decoding of visual responses for control of movement and the neural basis of
motor learning.
In addition to his role as an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute, Dr. Lisberger is a member of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the
Society of Neuroscience.
Dr. Lisberger received a BA in mathematics from Cornell University and a PhD
in physiology from the University of Washington.
Bruce L. Miller, MD
Bruce L. Miller, MD, is a professor of neurology and psychiatry and the A.W.
& Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor at UCSF. A behavioral
neurologist, Dr. Miller serves as clinical director of the UCSF Memory and
Aging Center, which treats patients with diseases that cause dementia.
Dr. Miller also helps direct UCSF’s Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
and runs two consortiums designed to find a treatment for frontotemporal
dementia. For 30 years he has been the medical director of The John Douglas
French Alzheimer’s Foundation.
In addition to The Human Frontal Lobes and The Behavioral Neurology of
Dementia, Dr. Miller has published more than 400 research papers in the
neurological literature. He was recently awarded the Potamkin Prize for his
research in frontotemporal dementia.
Dr. Miller received an MD from the University of British Columbia. He
completed a residency in internal medicine at Vancouver General Hospital,
a residency in neurology at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and a fellowship in
behavioral neurology at UCLA.
Wade S. Smith, MD, PhD
Wade S. Smith, MD, PhD, is a professor of neurology, the Daryl R. Gress
Endowed Chair of Neurocritical Care and Stroke and director of the
UCSF Neurovascular Service. Dr. Smith’s research interests include CT;
CT angiography and CT perfusion imaging of the brain; and reperfusion
techniques in ischemic stroke, including thrombectomy.
Dr. Smith is a neurointensivist, a neurologist trained in both critical care and
neurology. He directs the UCSF Neurological Intensive Care unit, a 29-bed
ICU dedicated to the care and resuscitation of patients with neurological
injury, including stroke and subarachnoid hemorrhage (brain aneurysms). Dr.
Smith is an expert in stroke and sees patients in the outpatient clinic as well.
Dr. Smith received an MD and PhD in neurophysiology from the University of
Washington. Dr. Smith completed his residency training in neurology and a
fellowship in critical care medicine at UCSF.
Allison J. Doupe, MD, PhD
Allison J. Doupe, MD, PhD, is a professor of psychiatry and physiology at
the W.M. Keck Foundation Center for Integrative Neuroscience at UCSF. Dr.
Doupe is interested in how the nervous system mediates behavior, especially
complex behaviors that must be learned, and in what limits learning both in
normal aging and in disease.
Her achievements include a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and
Engineers, a Seale Scholarship, a NARSAD Distinguished Investigator Award
and membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Dr. Doupe is a diplomat of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology
and a director of the McKnight Endowment Fund for Neuroscience. She
serves on the editorial board of several leading journals, including the Journal
of Neurophysiology.
Dr. Doupe received an MD and PhD in physiology from Harvard University.
She completed her medical internship at Massachusetts General Hospital
and a residency in psychiatry at UCLA, and was a postdoctoral fellow at the
California Institute of Technology.
UCSF Neurosciences Initiative
For more information on
the UCSF Neurosciences Initiative,
please contact:
Carol L. Moss
Vice Chancellor
Phone: 415/502-0528
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.ucsf.edu/support/
Mailing address:
UCSF Box 0248
San Francisco, CA 94143-0248