Dr. Neeta Thakur is a pulmonary and critical care physician at UCSF who examines the role of social and environmental stressors on asthma and COPD in historically marginalized communities. Better definitions of the mechanism of how social and environmental stressors impact asthma and COPD will allow for the development of targeted interventions and therapies to improve related outcomes in historically marginalized communities. Dr.
EDUCATION
College: Stanford University, BS
Medical School: McGill University Faculty of Medicine, MDCM
Other graduate training: University of California, San Francisco, MAS
Internal Medicine residency: University of California, San Francisco
Nephrology fellowship: University of California, San Francisco
Mary Whooley MD FACP FAHA FACC FAMIA is a primary care physician, implementation scientist, Professor of Medicine, Epidemiology & Biostatistics, and Director of the Center for Healthcare Improvement and Medical Effectiveness (CHIME) at the San Francisco VA and UCSF. Her work focuses on applying health services research methods (including data science, implementation science, and program evaluation) to accelerate the adoption of evidence-based practices within the VA's national learning healthcare system.
Josué Zapata is the Associate Chief of Staff for Quality, Safety, and Value and Associate Chief of the Medical Service at the San Francisco VA Health System as well as an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. He is also a medical educator for students and residents and serves as a coach within the Bridges curriculum at the UCSF School of Medicine and helps direct the UCSF/Kaiser Undergraduate Research Internship.
