Team Profiles

JoAnn Trejo, PhD, MBA

Senior ​As​sistant Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences Faculty Affairs
Professor of Pharmacology
joanntrejo@ucsd.edu
 

Dr. Trejo is the Senior Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs and Professor of Pharmacology. Her research focuses on cell signaling in the context of vascular inflammation and cancer. Dr. Trejo is responsible for developing and implementing strategies, initiatives, and programs that enhance the success, recruitment, and retention of faculty within Health Sciences. This includes the oversight​, strategic direction, and implementation of comprehensive faculty development programs within Health Sciences.

Adriana Tremoulet, MD, MAS

Assistant Vice Chancellor, Health Sciences Faculty Affairs
Professor of Pediatrics
atremoulet@ucsd.edu

Dr. Tremoulet is the Assistant Vice Chancellor for Health Sciences Faculty Affairs and is a Professor of Pediatrics. As a pediatric clinical trialist and clin​ical pharmacologist, her research focuses on developing diagnostic tools and repurposing therapeutics in Phase I through III trials for Kawasaki disease. Dr. Tremoulet is responsible for developing and implementing programs that enhance the training and retention of faculty that can succeed in academic medicine.

Vivian Reznik, MD, MPH

Faculty Director
Professor of Pediatrics, School of Medicine
Professor of Public Health, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health
vreznik@ucsd.edu

Dr. Reznik is Faculty Director and Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health. She has a longstanding interest in faculty development and mentoring in academic medicine. She is the Founding Director of the UC San Diego National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine (NCLAM) program.

Deborah Wingard, PhD

Faculty Director
Professor of Public Health, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health
dwingard@ucsd.edu

Dr. Wingard is Faculty Director for OFA Program Evaluation, and Professor of Epidemiology.  She is the co-founding director of the UC San Diego National Center of Leadership in Academic Medicine (NCLAM) program.  Dr. Wingard’s research focuses on the interaction of behaviors and biology on health, particularly in relation to heart disease and diabetes.  She oversees the quantitative data collection and analysis of all OFA programs and climate surveys.

Danielle Fettes, PhD

Faculty Director, Evaluation and Research
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
dfettes@health.ucsd.edu

Dr. Fettes is an Assistant Professor in the Department of​ Psychiatry at the University of California, San Diego and Scientific Investigator with the Child & Adolescent Services Research Center. Dr. Fettes' research focuses on emotional and behavioral health, early childhood trauma, health services disparities, and the implementation of evidence-based approaches into human service systems. Her research is guided by a comprehensive knowledge of advanced methodological design. Dr. Fettes oversees quantitative and mixed-method data collection and analysis for the OFA programs.​​​​

Mariana Cherner, PhD

Faculty Co-Director, Faculty Mentor Training Program
Professor of Psychiatry
mcherner@ucsd.edu

Dr. Cherner is Faculty Co-Director of the Faculty Mentor Training Program alongside Dr. Risbrough. She is a Professor of Psychiatry and former Chair her department's Mentoring Committee.  She is also a faculty member in the SDSU-UCSD Joint Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology and a mentor in several research training programs. She conducts research on central nervous system outcomes at the intersection of HIV and substance use at the UCSD HIV Neurobehavioral Research Program, where she also directs the Interdisciplinary Research Fellowship in NeuroHIV.​

Victoria Risbrough, PhD

Faculty Co-Director, Faculty Mentor Training Program
Professor of Psychiatry
vrisbrough@ucsd.edu

Dr. Risbrough is a ​Professor and Vice Chair of Academic Affairs for Psychiatry at the University of California San Diego and Co-Director of Neuroscience Research for the Center of Excellence for Stress and Mental Health for Veterans Affairs. Her research is centered on identifying novel treatments and mechanisms of risk and resilience for trauma-related disorders including post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. Dr. Risbrough oversees the Faculty Mentor Training Program (FMTP) with Dr. Cherner and runs the Graduate Mentor Training Workshop for the Neuroscience Graduate Program. Dr. Risbrough has a long standing interest in supporting career development and mentor training for faculty that bridges UC San Diego health sciences and campus.

Andrea LaCroix, PhD

Faculty Director, Grant Writing Course
Professor of Epidemiology, Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health
alacroix@ucsd.edu

Dr. LaCroix is Distinguished Pro​fessor of Public Health in the Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science (HWSPH) at the University of California, San Diego. She is the Director of the Healthy Aging and Human Longevity Research Program within HWSPH and the Faculty Director for the Grant Writing Course (GWC) in the UC San Diego Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs.  She is an expert in healthy aging and women’s health who has provided leadership to numerous large women’s health and aging research programs.

D. Yvette LaCoursiere, MD, MPH

Faculty Director, Clinical Faculty Programs
Clinical Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences
dlacoursiere@ucsd.edu

Dr. LaCoursiere is a Faculty Director in the Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs. She is also Vice Chair of Clinical Affairs and Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences. She completed the Women’s Reproductive Health Research Program focusing her clinical and research work on maternal obesity. Currently she conducts transdisciplinary research aimed to better understand bladder health in women. Dr. LaCoursiere will be responsible for developing clinical faculty development programs, including mid-career initiatives.

R. Christopher Searles, MD

Faculty Director, Clinical Faculty Programs
Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry
rsearles@ucsd.edu

Dr. Searles is a Faculty Director in the Health Sciences Office of Faculty Affairs and Clinical Professor of Family Medicine and Psychiatry. In addition to being a double-boarded family physician and psychiatrist, he directs professional development and leadership programs for physicians nationally, developing programs that impact every campus across the UC System. He also designs and directs healthcare leadership programs with support from the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Searles focuses on leadership development in academic medicine and supporting faculty to build engaging teaching and training environments.

Virginia (Ginger) Hazen, PhD

Director
ginger@ucsd.edu

Mariko Poupard, MA

Supervisor and Program Manager
mpoupard@ucsd.edu

Yelda Serin, PhD, MA

Supervisor, Data Analyst, and Program Manager
yserin@ucsd.edu

Morgan Mouchka, PhD

Education Coordinator and Program Manager
mmouchka@ucsd.edu

Ben Ethier, MS

Program & Evaluation Analyst
bethier@health.ucsd.edu

Ren Cabales

Program Manager
rcabales@ucsd.edu

Sophie Staschus, PhD

Program Manager
s2staschus@ucsd.edu

Asmaa Khatib

Program Manager
askhatib@ucsd.edu

Myra Lerma, MA

Program Coordinator
mylerma@ucsd.edu

Tracy Sinclair

Administrative Coordinator
tksinclair@ucsd.edu

A. Krystal Lira, PhD

Kelsey Ma

Elizabeth Wang

Huiying Yu