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Deborah Dean, MD, MPH

Professor
Pediatrics

Professor Dean’s research involves in vitro and bioinformatic approaches along with studies of human populations to address host-pathogen interactions, including bacterial genomics, host immune responses and microbiota/microbiome/metabolome associations with disease protection and pathogenesis related to the obligate intracellular bacterium Chlamydia trachomatis. Her group was the first to identify genomic recombination in this human pathogen. The Dean lab also studies the evolution of zoonotic chlamydial species.

Erin Dela Cruz, MD, PhD

Clinical Fellow
Medicine

Pamela Den Besten, DDS

Professor
Orofacial Sciences

Miqdad Dhariwala, PhD

Postdoc
Dermatology

Nadia Diamond-Smith, PhD, MS

Assistant Professor, Epidemiology & Biostatistics
Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Nadia Diamond-Smith is an Associate Professor in the Epidemiology and Biostatistics Department and Institute for Global Health Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Her expertise is in maternal and reproductive health in the developing world, with a focus on gender inequality/women's empowerment, family planning and abortion, nutrition, and the preconception, pregnancy and postpartum periods.

Kristin Dolan, PhD

Assistant Director, Operations and Strategy
Medicine

Dr. Kristin Dolan is the Assistant Director for the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine (BCMM), where she oversees operations, strategy, and all program development for a community of over 130 researchers and annual budget of $5M. Previously, Kristin served as a Program Manager in the UCSF Research Development Office where she supported campus wide strategic initiatives and provided proposal strategy input, project management, technical writing/consulting, and template language for large, multi-investigator grant proposals.

Darren Dumlao, PhD

Assistant Director, Quantitative Metabolite Analysis Center

Najwa El-Nachef, MD

Associate Professor
Medicine

Domenique Escobar, MD

RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
Urology

Valerie Flaherman, MD, MPH

Professor in Residence
Pediatrics

Shannon Fogh, MD

Assoc Prof of Clinical-HCOMP
Radiation Oncology

Gabriela Fragiadakis, PhD

Assistant Professor
Medicine

I lead a computational immunology lab studying states of the human immune system across disease contexts using single-cell methods and data integration. We work with a variety of data types, including bulk- and single-cell sequencing and CyTOF. My research program is built from a foundation of collaborations as Director of the Data Science CoLab. Through CoLabs I have established partnerships to study systems-level immunity in viral infection, cancer, autoimmunity, and steady-state.

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