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Dr Alissa Peterson is a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco. She is a graduate of UCSF Medical School and Psychiatry Residency Training Program. In 2009, she joined the clinical faculty at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital (ZSFG) as an attending physician on the inpatient psychiatry service. She is currently the Site Director at ZSFG and an Associate Program Director for the UCSF Psychiatry Residency Training Program.

Dean Schillinger MD is an internationally recognized health communication scientist and expert in chronic disease prevention and control. At UCSF, he is the Andrew B Bindman Professor in Primary Care and Health Policy and directs the UCSF Health Communications Research Program, serves as co-director for an NIDDK Center for Diabetes Translational Research (DREAMS-CDTR), and is Principal Investigator for CDC and NIH funded projects in diabetes-related policy, as well as a NIH project to develop measures of health literacy using computational linguistics and machine learning.

Research Interests:
- Structural and Social Determinants of Health
- Chronic Disease Risk, Accelerated Aging, Cognitive Decline, Mental Illness, and Mortality
- Social Policy, Educational Attainment, and Causal Inference

EDUCATION
College: Stanford University, BS
Medical School: McGill University Faculty of Medicine, MDCM
Other graduate training: University of California, San Francisco, MAS
Internal Medicine residency: University of California, San Francisco
Nephrology fellowship: University of California, San Francisco