Dr. Gelberg is a family physician, health services researcher, and professor in UCLA’s Department of Family Medicine and Fielding School of Public Health and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and associate director of the UCLA Primary Care Research Fellowship. Her current research focuses on clinical trials to reduce risky drug use and promote healthy lifestyle change in low income populations using leading behavior change methodologies. Over the past 2 decades, Dr.
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Education
- MD, Preventive and Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
- MSPH, Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
- BA, Psychobiology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- Family Medicine Residency, Montefiore Hospital, Bronx, NY
Dr. William McCarthy has devoted most of his 30+ year career to intervention studies designed to encourage members of special populations to adhere to federal nutrition and physical activity guidelines (African American adult women, low-income middle school students, low-income patients of community health centers) and to be smoke-free (WIC participants, aerospace workers, Korean and South Asian immigrants, residents of homeless shelters).
Center Affiliations
Education
- PhD, Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT
- MA, Psychology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Dr. Ron Andersen is the Wasserman Professor Emeritus in the UCLA Departments of Health Policy and Management.
