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Erin Gibson
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Sleep Medicine)
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsGlia make up more than half of the cells in the human brain, but we are just beginning to understand the complex and multifactorial role glia play in health and disease. Glia are decidedly dynamic in form and function. Understanding the mechanisms underlying this dynamic nature of glia is imperative to developing novel therapeutic strategies for diseases of the nervous system that involve aberrant gliogenesis, especially related to changes in myelination.
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Rona Giffard
Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine, Emerita
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsAstrocytes, microglia and neurons interact, and have unique vulnerabilities to injury based on their patterns of gene expression and their functional roles. We focus on the cellular and molecular basis of brain cell injury in stroke. We study the effects of altering miRNA expression, altering levels of heat shock and cell death regulatory proteins. Our goal is to improve outcome by improving mitochondrial function and brain cell survival, and reducing oxidative stress and inflammation.
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Rachel Gilgoff
Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor, Pediatrics - Allergy and Clinical Immunology
BioAs a board-certified general pediatrician, child abuse pediatrician, and integrative medicine specialist, Dr. Gilgoff brings a multidisciplinary, whole-family approach to ACEs, toxic stress, healing, and well-being. She is currently an advisor with the California Aces Aware Initiative, UCLA-UCSF ACEs Aware Family Resilience Network (UCAAN), and the Center for Youth Wellness, a program of Safe and Sound, as well as an Adjunct Clinical Associate Professor at Stanford University School of Medicine. She is the co-founder of the National Committee on Asthma and Toxic Stress and co-PI on “Systems-based, Multidisciplinary Assessment of Adversity and Toxic Stress for Individualized Care (The SYSTEMAATIC Project),” an ACEs and Precision Medicine research project through the California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine (CIAPM). She co-created the “Stress Busters: Clinical Strategies for Preventing and Mitigating Toxic Stress,” a free, on-line course to help clinicians develop their clinical response to childhood adversity and toxic stress. In tandem, she led the development of the ACEs Aware Stress Busters Resource Webpage, sharing tools and resources to prevent and heal toxic stress for all of us. Dr. Gilgoff is dedicated to conducting translational research and promoting patient-centered, individualized, multidisciplinary clinical care to address health issues resulting from child abuse and toxic stress.
Board Certification:
American Board of Physician Specialties, Integrative Medicine (2022)
American Board of Pediatrics, Child Abuse Pediatrics (2011)
American Board of Pediatrics, General Pediatrics (2004)
Professional Education
Fellowship:
Integrative Psychiatry Institute, Integrative Psychiatry (2023)
Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine (2022)
Stanford University Medical Center, Pediatric Integrative Medicine (2021)
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland and UC Davis, Child Abuse Pediatrics (2007)
Residency:
UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital and Research Center at Oakland (2004)
Medical Education:
Keck School of Medicine, USC (2001)
Selected Publications
Gilgoff R, Marshall J, Kotz K, Ismail S, Harsamizadeh Tehrani S,…; ACEs Aware Patient Advisors; ACEs Aware Community Partner Council. (2025) “Stress Busters Toolkit for Community Based Organizations: Strategies to help clients prevent and heal from toxic stress.” California ACEs Aware Initiative, Office of the California Surgeon General, and the California Department of Health Care Services. https://www.acesaware.org/managestress/cbotoolkit/
Gilgoff, R., Mengelkoch, S,, Elbers, J., Kotz, K., Radin, A., Pasumarthi, I., Murthy, R., Sindher, S., Burke Harris, N., Slavich, G.E. (2024) The Stress Phenotyping Framework: A Multidisciplinary Biobehavioral Approach for Assessing and Therapeutically Targeting Maladaptive Stress Physiology. Stress. 27 (1).
Gilgoff R, Schwartz T, Owen M, Bhushan D, Burke Harris N. (2023) Opportunities to Treat Toxic Stress. Pediatrics. Jan 1;151(1):e2021055591.
Jeung, J., Hessler Jones, D., Frame, L., Gilgoff, R., Long, D., Thakur, N., Koita, K., Bucci, M., Burke Harris, N. (2022) A Caregiver-Child Intervention for Mitigating Toxic Stress (“The Resiliency Clinic”): A Pilot Study. Matern Child Health J.
Bhushan D, Kotz K, McCall J, Wirtz S, Gilgoff R, Dube SR, Powers C, Olson-Morgan J, Galeste M, Patterson K, Harris L, Mills A, Bethell C, Burke Harris N. (2020) Office of the California Surgeon General. Roadmap for Resilience: The California Surgeon General’s Report on Adverse Childhood Experiences, Toxic Stress, and Health. Office of the California Surgeon General.
Gilgoff R, Singh L, Koita K, Gentile B, Marques SS. (2020) Adverse Childhood Experiences, Outcomes, and Interventions. Pediatr Clin North Am. Apr;67(2):259-273. -
Harcharan Gill
Kathryn Simmons Stamey Professor, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsBenign Prostatic Hyperplasia- Evaluation and development of new minimally invasive techniques
Endourology: developing, designing and evaluating new instruments
Bladder cancer: outcomes of treatment
BPH: cryotherapy and HIFU -
Lisa Giocomo
Professor of Neurobiology
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsMy laboratory studies the cellular and molecular mechanisms underlying the organization of cortical circuits important for spatial navigation and memory. We are particularly focused on medial entorhinal cortex, where many neurons fire in spatially specific patterns and thus offer a measurable output for molecular manipulations. We combine electrophysiology, genetic approaches and behavioral paradigms to unravel the mechanisms and behavioral relevance of non-sensory cortical organization. Our first line of research is focused on determining the cellular and molecular components crucial to the neural representation of external space by functionally defined cell types in entorhinal cortex (grid, border and head direction cells). We plan to use specific targeting of ion channels, combined with in vivo tetrode recordings, to determine how channel dynamics influence the neural representation of space in the behaving animal. A second, parallel line of research, utilizes a combination of in vivo and in vitro methods to further parse out ionic expression patterns in entorhinal cortices and determine how gradients in ion channels develop. Ultimately, our work aims to understand the ontogenesis and relevance of medial entorhinal cortical topography in spatial memory and navigation.
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Nicholas Giori MD, PhD
Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
Current Research and Scholarly InterestsOsteoarthritis
Medical Device Development
