Dr. Patricia Ganz was elected as a fellow of the American Association for Cancer Research Academy.
Dr. Jose Escarce was elected to the Council of the National Academy of Medicine.
Dr. Daniel Eisenberg was named mental health program director at FSPH’s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Dr. Kristen Choi was named a 2021 Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing.
Dr. Arturo Vargas Bustamante was named a senior fellow at FSPH’s UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.
Kevin Baldwin named a fellow of the American Medical Informatics Association for 2020.
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. Samuel Sessions is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and at the Department Health Policy and Management in the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. He has interests in health policy, with a focus on health care finance, public health, and the economics of health care and public health services. Before entering medical school, Dr. Sessions practiced tax law in a large law firm in New York City. He later served as Chief Tax Counsel to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and then as Deputy Assistant (Tax Policy) of the U.S.
Vickie Mays is a Professor in the Department of Psychology in the College of Letters and Sciences, as well as a Professor in the Department of Health Services. Professor Mays is also the Director of the UCLA Center on Research, Education, Training and Strategic Communication on Minority Health Disparities (www.MinorityHealthDisparities.org).
Education
- PhD, Clinical Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
- MSPH, Health Services, University of California, Los Angeles Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA
Anthony Hunter Schiff, JD, MPH, is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, teaching the Legal Environment of Health Services Management course in the EMPH Program.
Education
- MPH, Health Services and Hospital Administration, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
- JD, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX
- BS, Political Science, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR