S. Andrew Josephson specializes in neurovascular and other neurologic disorders, caring for general neurology and stroke patients in the hospital as well as in clinic. He is the founder of UCSF's Neurohospitalist Program and specializes in difficult to diagnose inpatient neurologic conditions. He serves as Dean for the School of Medicine and Vice Chancellor for Clinical Affairs and is the Carmen Castro Franceschi and Gladyne K. Mitchell Neurohospitalist Distinguished Professor in the Department of Neurology.
After graduating from Stanford University, Dean Josephson earned his medical degree at Washington University in Saint Louis. He completed an internship in internal medicine and a residency in neurology at UCSF, where he was chief resident. He also completed fellowships in neurovascular neurology (stroke) and behavioral neurology at UCSF and is board certified in both vascular neurology and neurocritical care.
Dean Josephson is known nationally for his pioneering work launching the neurohospitalist model of care and his leadership of its society. His research interests include improving models of inpatient neurologic care delivery, quality and safety in hospitalized patients, neurologic education, delirium, and the contribution of stroke to dementia. He serves as the Editor-In-Chief of JAMA Neurology, a leading journal in the field.
Dean Josephson has won numerous teaching awards from medical students and residents at UCSF including being selected to present the keynote address for the School of Medicine Commencement; the Henry J. Kaiser Award for Excellence in Teaching; the Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching Award, and the Robert Layzer Golden Toe Award for resident teaching.
UCSF School of Medicine Dean's Council
Joshua Adler, MD is Vice Dean for UCSF Health. He has a direct relationship to the clinical department chairs to ensure the alignment of the clinical, research and education missions of UCSF and physician involvement in operational decision making. Dr. Adler is executive vice president for physician services at UCSF Health, a practicing internist and a professor of clinical medicine. Prior to his current position, he served as chief medical officer at UCSF Medical Center and medical director of ambulatory care at UCSF.
Dr. Adler earned a medical degree at UC San Diego Medical School and completed a residency in internal medicine at UCSF, followed by a chief resident year at the San Francisco Veteran Affairs Medical Center.
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José M. Barral Sánchez, MD, PhD, is the Vice Dean for the UCSF Regional Campus at Fresno, supporting UCSF Fresno’s expansion as a regional campus. Dr. Barral Sánchez oversees medical education, faculty development, and research growth, including our expanding partnership with UC Merced.
Before joining UCSF, Dr. Barral Sánchez served as inaugural Chair of Biomedical Science and founding Co-Director of the MD-PhD Program with Caltech at Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine since 2018. He previously held leadership roles at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, including Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Vice Chair of Neuroscience, Cell Biology & Anatomy.
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Maye Chrisman, MBA, is Vice dean for Administration and Finance. She directs the financial, administrative and clinical business affairs of the school, overseeing business operations, personnel management and strategic planning.
Prior to joining the Dean’s Office, Ms. Chrisman served as chief financial officer, and then associate chair for finance and administration, in the Department of Medicine. She previously worked in strategy consulting and educational technology. Ms. Chrisman earned an MBA from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and graduated with an AB in economics from Harvard College. She received the 2014 UCSF Chancellor Award for Exceptional University Management.
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Dr. Jeffrey Critchfield is the Vice Dean of the UCSF School of Medicine at ZSFG and Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the Division of Hospital Medicine at ZSFG, where he serves as Chief Medical Experience Officer and Medical Director of Risk Management. After an early focus on basic science at NIH and UCSF, Dr. Critchfield’s diverse roles with trainees, faculty, and SFDPH staff have centered on improving the care of hospitalized patients across the care continuum and into the community. In addition to his faculty roles, Dr. Critchfield’s prior leadership roles include ZSFG Chief of Staff (2006-2008), founding Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine at the General (2008), and Chair of the UCSF Committee on Academic Personnel (2018-2019). Additionally, he served as a SFDPH HICS Commander at the COVID Command Center and collaborated with city department heads to coordinate San Francisco’s pandemic response (2020).
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Patrick Ha, MD is Vice Dean for Clinical Affairs and Partnerships, a Professor, and the Chief of Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) at the University of California, San Francisco. He also holds the Irwin Mark Jacobs and Joan Klein Jacobs Distinguished Professorship in Head and Neck Surgery. After graduating magna cum laude from Harvard University, he received his medical degree from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Dr. Ha completed his one-year internship at The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, and he also completed an otolaryngology residency from the same institution, followed by advanced training in head and neck surgery at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In addition to his clinical and research work, he serves as the Medical Director for the UCSF Mission Bay Adult Services.
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Karen Hauer, MD, PhD, is Vice Dean for Education and Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is an active researcher in medical education and a research mentor for fellows, residents and students, with a focus on competency-based medical education, learner assessment, coaching and remediation. In 2015, she completed a PhD in Medical Education through a joint program with UCSF and the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands. She earned her undergraduate degree at Stanford University, and completed medical school and internal medicine residency and chief residency at UCSF. She is a practicing general internist in primary care.
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Olivia Herbert, MBA, is Vice Dean and Chief of Staff in the Dean's Office. She works directly with Dean Talmadge E. King, Jr., MD, and senior leaders across the School of Medicine to help develop key strategies and provide oversight and guidance to high-priority initiatives. She coordinates Dean King’s activities and joins and represents Dean King in meetings and on committees. Olivia leads the core team in the Dean’s Management Unit.
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Christina Mangurian, MD, MAS, is Vice Dean for Academic Affairs. She is responsible for overseeing all academic affairs in the School of Medicine, including the recruitment, development and advancement of a diversified academic workforce. She is also responsible for overseeing innovative programs for faculty orientation, career development, and leadership training.
Dr. Mangurian is also the Lynne and Marc Benioff Professor of Psychiatry at UCSF School of Medicine. Dr. Mangurian founded and directs the UCSF Program of Research on Mental health Integration among Underserved and Minority populations (PReMIUM), based at the Center for Vulnerable Populations, with focus on improving health care delivery for diverse populations with serious mental illnesses (e.g., schizophrenia, bipolar disorder). Dr. Mangurian is also nationally recognized for her research to promote gender equity in academic medicine.
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As Vice Dean for Research, David Morgan, PhD, serves as the dean’s primary liaison to the school’s discovery community and its diverse research programs. He oversees internal funding programs as well as the school’s research training programs for graduate students and postdoctoral scholars. In addition to his role as vice dean, he is professor in the Department of Physiology, with an active research program in a laboratory on the Mission Bay campus.