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NCIRE Investigators

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Janet Chiang

MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, UCSF; Staff Physician, SFVAHCS

Dr. Chiang is Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Staff Physician at San Francisco VA Health Care System and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialty of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Her research interest is in bone metabolism and thyroid cancers. She also enjoys teaching activities that range from the School of Medicine and UCSF Residents and Fellows.

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Jeffrey Zimmet

MD, PhD

Professor, School of Medicine, UCSF

Staff Physician, Medical Service, SFVAHCS

Dr. Jeffrey M. Zimmet is a cardiologist in San Francisco, California and is affiliated with multiple hospitals in the area, including UCSF Health-UCSF Medical Center and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System. He received his medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine and has been in practice for more than 20 years.

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Jennifer Manuel

PhD

Associate Professor, Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

Acting Psychology Director and Staff Psychologist, SFVAHCS

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Jialing Liu

PhD

Research Career Scientist, Surgery Service, SFVAHCS

Professor of Neurological Surgery, UCSF

Dr. Liu's research endeavors to improve the recovery of function after ischemic stroke and brain injuries, in the context of neural regeneration and vascular remodeling. The Liu lab employs multidisciplinary approaches to dissect the mechanisms underlying the poor stroke outcome and impaired neural regeneration of mice with metabolic syndrome, including optical coherence tomography imaging, Multiphoton Laser Scanning Microscopy imaging, transcriptome profiling, electrophysiology and connectome.

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Jorge Kizer

MD, MSc

Chief of the Division of Cardiology for the San Francisco VA Health Care System

Dr. Kizer’s research program seeks to advance understanding of risk factors for heart disease and stroke in order to improve prevention, risk stratification, and treatment of these disorders. These investigations leverage molecular epidemiology and cardiovascular imaging to identify biochemical markers and endophenotypes involved in the initiation, development and progression of cardiovascular diseases.

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