JMP Leadership Team, Faculty and Staff
Leadership Team
John R. Balmes MD
Director
Dr. John Balmes is the director of the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. He leads the ongoing evolution of our curriculum while collaboratively managing the complex everyday process of ensuring a rich and innovative learning environment for our learners and educators. He currently teaches and mentors JMP students in the master’s curriculum. He received his MD from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1976. After internal medicine training at Mount Sinai and pulmonary subspecialty, occupational medicine, and research training at Yale, he joined the faculty of USC in 1982. He joined the faculty at UCSF in 1986 and the UC Berkeley School of Public Health in 2002. He is currently professor of environmental health sciences at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health and professor of occupational and environmental medicine at San Francisco General Hospital. His major academic activities include his research laboratory, several collaborative epidemiological research projects, various advisory and editorial committees, and direction of the clinical occupational/environmental medicine division at SFGH.
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Amy B. Garlin MD
Head of Patient Care & Clinical Systems (PCCS)
Dr. Garlin is Head of the Clinical Skills and Patient Care Curriculum. Under her leadership, JMP faculty and clinical partners have pioneered innovative participatory and immersive formats for learning and practicing what doctors do. After completing medical school at UCSF, she trained in Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of New Mexico. She then completed a Fellowship in Infectious Disease at the Massachusetts General Hospital, with a year as HIV/AIDS Fellow at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Disease, and in HIV/AIDS, Dr. Garlin is an active and dedicated clinician, providing primary and specialty care in the largest HIV practice in the East Bay.
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Coco Auerswald MD, MS
Director of Research Training and Master’s Program
Dr. Auerswald is the Director of the JMP Master’s Program and research curriculum, a uniquely creative inter-disciplinary program at the crossroads of individual and public health. She holds academic positions at both the Berkeley and San Francisco campuses of the University of California. A recipient of many teaching awards, she has been deeply involved in teaching both undergraduate medical students and residents for many years. Since joining the JMP in 2005, Dr. Auerswald has excelled in her teaching, mentoring, administrative, service, and research roles. Her research has consistently focused on the effects of poverty and of social/cultural context on the health of our society’s most disadvantaged youth. She has conducted research regarding marginalized youth populations in San Francisco, including low-income youth of color (African American and Latino), HIV-positive youth, homeless youth, and, most recently, transgender youth. Her current collaborative projects include Kenya and San Francisco-based research at the intersection of social epidemiology, medical anthropology and adolescent health.
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Sara Hartley MD
Interim Head of Student Assessment
Aisha Mays MD
Faculty Lead for Outreach and Engagement
Shelene Stine MD
Faculty Lead for Student Assessment
Gustavo Valbuena MD, PhD
Head of Foundational Medical Sciences
Faculty
Master’s Faculty

Colette (Coco) Auerswald MD, MS
Associate Professor, Community Health Sciences

John Balmes MD
Professor, Environmental Health Sciences

Ronald E. Dahl MD
Professor, Community Health Sciences/Joint Medical Program

Jodi Halpern MD, PhD
Professor, Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Susan Ivey MD, MHSA
Adjunct Professor, UCB/UCSF Joint Medical Program

Douglas P. Jutte MD, MPH
Associate Adjunct Professor, Community Health and Human Development

Osagie K. Obasogie
Professor of Bioethics, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program, Community Health Sciences

Karen Sokal-Gutierrez MD, MPH
Clinical Professor, Co-Director, Interdisciplinary MPH Program
Medical Curriculum Faculty

Amin Azzam MD, MA
Clinical Professor, Joint Medical Program

Jennifer Breckler PhD
Lecturer, Community Health Sciences

Ronald E. Dahl MD
Professor, Community Health Sciences/Joint Medical Program

Hana Dan-Cohen PhD
Lecturer, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Carey Eberle MD, MPH
Lecturer, Joint Medical Program

Amy Garlin MD
Associate Clinical Professor

Sara Hartley MD
Lecturer, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Susan Ivey MD, MHSA
Adjunct Professor, UCB/UCSF Joint Medical Program

Claudia Landau
Associate Clinical Professor, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Aisha Mays MD
Lecturer, School of Public Health

Kent R. Olson MD
Recall Clinical Professor, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Joanna Mandell MD, MS
Lecturer , Joint Medical Program

Richard Quint MD, MPH
Lecturer, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

Karen Sokal-Gutierrez MD, MPH
Clinical Professor, Co-Director, Interdisciplinary MPH Program

Ann Stevens MD, FACP
Clinical Professor Emerita, UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program

John Swartzberg MD, FACP
Clinical Professor Emeritus, Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology

Gustavo Valbuena MD, PhD
Clinical Associate Professor, Joint Medical Program