Dr. Jarvis's research program is focused on investigating questions of innate immunity in three experimental systems: (1) studying innate immune responses to gonococcal and chlamydial infection, (2) examining questions of the structure and function of endotoxin, and (3) looking at endotoxin as a potential therapeutic for acute traumatic brain injury.

Dr. Hsu is the Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Program Director in the at UCSF. He grew up in Edmonton, Canada and the San Francisco Bay Area. After completing his medical and graduate degree in Biochemistry at Duke University and residency at Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Dr. Hsu made his way back to the Bay Area for fellowship in medical oncology at UCSF. Dr. Hsu practices at the San Francisco VA Medical Center with a particular interest in hematologic malignancies. He has been involved with curriculum development and educational initiatives at the medical school and post-graduate level at UCSF and is a member of the UCSF Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators.

Dr. Kim was the first researcher to report an association between fractures of the knee joint and a form of programmed cell death known as apoptosis. A second research front in Dr. Kim's lab is of critical importance to Veterans: repairing nerve damage from bullet and bomb wounds, which frequently cause long-term functional damage to injured limbs when damaged nerve segments grow back improperly or not at all. This research could result in repair methods that are superior to current conventional techniques.

Irina Strigo, Ph.D. is Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF and Research Biologist at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. She received her research training from Columbia University (Radiology), Barrow Neurological Institute (Neurosurgery) and UC San Diego (Psychiatry). She received her Ph.D. and B.Sc. in Physiology from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.

Our group investigates brain networks that process pain and emotion in individuals with depressive, anxiety disorders, chronic pain and traumatic brain injury. In addition, we seek to understand how individual differences in pain response relate to pain chronification. This research has been funded by the National Alliance for Research in Schizophrenia and Depression (NARSAD), National Institute of Health (NIH), the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and Painless Research Foundation.

James C. Iannuzzi, MD, MPH is a vascular surgeon in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at UCSF and at the SFVAMC. Dr. Iannuzzi earned his MD at Icahn School of Medicine Mount Sinai, and thereafter completed a general surgery residency at University of Rochester Medical Center where he also earned an MPH. His thesis was on the pleiotropic effects of statins on perioperative outcomes. Dr. Iannuzzi was the inaugural research fellow at the Surgical Health Outcomes and Research Enterprise at University of Rochester. In 2018, Dr. Iannuzzi completed a clinical and research fellowship in vascular and endovascular surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School.

Since joining faculty at UCSF and SFVAMC, Dr. Iannuzzi has focused his research on vulnerable populations and healthcare policy. His work has described the burden of cognitive impairment among older adults with peripheral arterial disease and identified living in a food desert as an important risk factor for wound complications after vascular surgery.  He has been awarded the Michael Zinner Surgical Outcome Research Fellowship, and was an NIA sponsored REC scholar through the UCSF Pepper Center OAIC in 2020-2021. He founded and now co-directs the UCSF Collaborative for Surgical Health Outcomes and Research in Equity.