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Michael Fanselow, PhD

Dr. Fanselow has held academic appointments at Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute and Dartmouth College before coming to UCLA in 1987. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington, where he received the Edwin B Newman Award for Excellence in Research. He has also received the Early Career Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association and the Troland Award from the National Academy of Science for his analysis of basic mechanisms of motivational systems.…Read More
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Fawzy Fawzy, MD

Affiliated with UCLA since 1973, Dr. Fawzy's main area of research is the interface of psychiatry and medicine, specifically psycho-oncology. Dr. Fawzy has authored 109 published manuscripts, articles and chapters, including "A structured psychiatric intervention for cancer patients: I. Changes over time in methods of coping and affective disturbance," "A structured psychiatric intervention for cancer patients: II.…Read More
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Leah FitzGerald, RN, FNP-C, PhD

Leah FitzGerald, RN, FNP-C, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Nursing at the UCLA School of Nursing. Dr. FitzGerald is board certified by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP). Dr. FitzGerald has 23 years of clinical research experience. She completed post-doctoral training at the UCLA Norman Cousins Center in psychoneuroimmunology, providing a strong foundation for Biobehavioral Nursing research, recognizing the benefits and risks of preventive health behaviors and the complexity underlying behavioral change.…Read More

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Terri Getzug, MD

Dr. Getzug is the director of the Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF) Clinic which is the only clinic of its kind in the United States and a major referral center for this under-recognized and very treatable condition. More than 700 patients have been registered at the FMF clinic since its inception in the early 1960's. Dr. Getzug graduated from the University of California at Davis with a major in Nutritional Sciences.…Read More
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Michael Goldstein, PhD

Michael S. Goldstein, PhD, is a professor of public health (community health sciences) and sociology, and UCLA's associate vice-provost in charge of the Healthy Campus Initiative. He has also served the campus as interim vice provost for graduate education and dean of the graduate division.A faculty associate at the Center, Goldstein was co-principal investigator and program director of CHIS-CAM, an NCI-funded follow-up study to the 2001 California Health Interview Survey that examines use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) among California adults, particularly those with cancer and other chronic illnesses.…Read More
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Arpana Gupta, PhD

Arpana Gupta is an Assistant Professor and Director of the Neuroimaging Core at the UCLA G. Oppenheimer Center of Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR); where she specializes in research that investigates the interactions between environmental and biological factors in shaping neurobiological phenotypes associated with stress-based diseases such as obesity and metabolic syndrome. Her current program of research, broadly defined, is based on developing a model that aims to understand the bidirectional interaction of the brain with those in the periphery (immune cells, gut microbiota-related metabolites), and the modification of these interactions by vulnerability or protective factors (adverse life events, sex, race, socioeconomic status [SES], resilience, diet) related to obesity and ingestive behaviors.…Read More

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Christina Ha, MD

Dr. Christina Ha graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University and earned her medical degree from Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed both her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. Following GI fellowship, she spent a year as the Present-Levison Inflammatory Bowel Disease Fellow at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York.…Read More
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Ronald Harper, PhD

Dr. Harper received his doctorate from McMaster University (Ontario, Canada) in 1968, and was later a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Anatomy at UCLA. He is currently a Professor in the Department of Neurobiology, UCLA and a member of the UCLA Brain Research Institute. The primary objective of his research program is to determine the neural mechanisms that underlie the control of breathing and cardiovascular action during sleep.…Read More
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Margaret Heitkemper, PhD

I am a Professor at the UW School of Nursing and an Adjunct Professor in the Division of Gastroenterology at the UW School of Medicine. My research program has focused on elucidating the mechanisms associated with abdominal pain in women with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), a common gastrointestinal (GI) function and pain condition. In addition, I led a subcontract for the study of IBS in children NR013497 and am currently a collaborator on a recently funded clinical study of FODMAPS and behavioral interventions for parents of children with IBS (Shulman, PI).…Read More
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Marion Ho, MD

Dr. Ho graduated from the University of Hawaii Burns School of Medicine in 1990. She works in Woodland Hills, CA and 1 other locations and specializes in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism, Internal Medicine. Dr. Ho is affiliated with Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and West Hills Hospital & Medical Center. She speaks Arabic, English and Spanish.Read More
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Wendy Ho, MD

Dr. Wendy Ho received her undergraduate degree from Harvard University and earned her medical degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. She completed both her internal medicine residency and gastroenterology fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School. During fellowship training, she also received a Masters of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health.…Read More
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Daniel Holschneider, MD

The Laboratory of Vertebrate Functional Brain Mapping has over a decade of experience in imaging of the rodent brain, with expertise in behaviors in rodent models of pain, anxiety, brain injury, and anxiety, as well as in physiologic monitoring (ECG, EMG, EEG, cardiovascular function). The lab uses a variety of techniques in the analyses of the three-dimensional autoradiographic data sets of the rat and mouse brains, including region-of-interest analysis, statistical parametric mapping, as well as functional connectivity.…Read More
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Elaine Hsiao, PhD

Dr. Elaine Y. Hsiao is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Biology & Physiology at UCLA, where she leads a laboratory studying fundamental interactions between the microbiome, brain and behavior, and their applications to neurological disorders. Her studies on the relationships between the microbiota, immune system and nervous system led her to discover that the microbiota can regulate behavioral, metabolic and gastrointestinal abnormalities relevant to autism spectrum disorder (ASD).…Read More

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Eunok Im, PhD

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Jonathan Jacobs, MD, PhD

Dr. Jacobs’ research program focuses on characterizing host-microbiome interactions in patients with gastrointestinal, metabolic, and inflammatory disorders using a combination of human association studies and animal models, including humanized gnotobiotic mice. This evolved initially from several translational microbiome studies he performed investigating the mucosal microbiome and metabolome of inflammatory bowel disease patients compared to healthy family members or unrelated controls, stratified by genetic traits.…Read More
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Johanna Jarcho, PhD

My research program bridges the areas of clinical, development, and social affective neuroscience. We study brain function and social-cognitive processes (i.e., interacting with others) that evolve during adolescence.  I build on concepts from mental health research by examining the boundaries between normal and abnormal behavior, to determine how such processes manifest when people are feeling rejected or accepted by others. …Read More
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Zhiguo Jiang, PhD

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Swapna Joshi, PhD

Dr. Joshi is an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the G Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR) at UCLA. She has worked with Dr. Chang (co-director of grant) on pathophysiologic mechanisms of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) for the past 8 years. Her research focuses on bioinformatic analysis to study brain-gut-microbiome axis in IBS. Her research aims at understanding molecular mechanisms that mediate environmental effects on disease phenotype.…Read More

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Iordanis Karagiannidis, PhD

Dr. Karagiannides received his Bachelor's degree in Biology at Plymouth State University and his Master's degree in Genetics at University of New Hampshire. He went on to study in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Boston University School of Medicine. During his graduate work, he researched the intrinsic changes in fat cell differentiation with aging and accomplished demonstrating changes in the expression of numerous factors involved in adipocyte differentiation with increasing age in the field of fat tissue physiology.…Read More
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Sahib Khalsa, MD, PhD

Dr. Khalsa received a B.S. in Psychology from SUNY Stony Brook in 2002. He graduated from the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Iowa, receiving M.D. and Ph.D. (neuroscience) degrees in 2009. He completed his residency training in Psychiatry at UCLA in 2013, serving as the program Chief Resident and Chief Resident in the UCLA Anxiety Disorders Clinic.…Read More