NCIRE Investigators

Carolyn Gibson
PhD, MPH, MSCP
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry, UCSF
Women’s Mental Health Psychologist, SFVAHCS
Dr. Gibson is a psychologist and health services researcher based at the San Francisco VA Health Care System. Her research focuses on women’s physical and mental health related to menopause and aging. Her current work examines women Veterans’ health and health care, mental health in the menopause transition, the impact of interpersonal trauma on menopause- and aging-related health, and cannabis use among midlife and older women.

Christine L. Hsieh
PhD
Research Biologist, SFVAHCS
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, UCSF
Dr. Hsieh's laboratory investigates mechanisms of innate immunity that impact disease outcomes and seeks to identify targets and therapeutics to modulate immunity to ameliorate disease. A primary focus of Dr. Hsieh's lab is to understand macrophage and microglia responses during neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration using an experimental model of traumatic brain injury (TBI). Through collaborations, Dr. Hsieh also investigates frontotemporal dementia (FTD), cardiac injury, and stroke.

Daniel Bikle
MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and Dermatology, UCSF
There are two major areas of research in Dr. Bikle's lab. The first is the study of vitamin D and calcium in regulating keratinocyte differentiation, skin cancer, wound healing. The second is the study of IGF1 regulation of skeletal development, fractures, response to mechanical load and osteoarthritis.

Daniel Calabrese
MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF; Staff Physician, SFVAHCS
Dr. Calabrese is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and a Staff Physician at the San Francisco VA Health Care System (SFVAHCS). He received his undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis and completed his MD at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine.
He serves as an attending physician in the intensive care unit, pulmonary consult service and outpatient pulmonary clinic at the SFVAHCS. He is also an attending physician for the Advanced Lung Disease Service at UCSF Parnassus where he evaluates patients in the lung transplant clinics. He is active in the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation.
His research focuses on the mechanisms for innate immune inflammation in lung transplant outcomes. This research uses mouse models of human lung disease and human tissue samples to understand primary graft dysfunction, antibody-mediated rejection and chronic lung allograft dysfunction. The goal of this work is to improve outcomes following lung transplantation.

Daniel H Mathalon
MD, PhD
Staff Physician, Mental Health Service, SFVAHCS
Professor in Residence of Psychiatry and Biomedical Sciences, UCSF
Dr. Mathalon's laboratory studies brain dysfunction in schizophrenia using various brain imaging techniques including EEG, event-related brain potentials, and functional magnetic resonance imaging. He is particularly interested in whether functional brain abnormalities, as assessed with these methods, can be used as markers in individuals at high risk for schizophrenia to improve our ability to predict who will go on to convert to psychosis.