Faculty & Staff

Melissa Afterman, MS-HFE, CPE

Instructor, Consultant

Melissa is a board Certified Professional Ergonomist and an EH&S specialist for the Department of Occupational Medicine at UCSF. Working with the University of California's Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (COEH), she is also the director of the Online Ergonomics...Read more about Melissa Afterman, MS-HFE, CPE

Robert Atwill, DVM, MPVM, PhD

Investigator

Rahmat Balogun, DO, MPH

Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF

Occupational & Environmental Medicine

Clinical preceptor and staff physician, Associate Director of Occupational Health Services UCSF Mount Zion , UC Berkeley, member, RAC. Role of osteopathic manipulation in employee health clinical practicesRead more about Rahmat Balogun, DO, MPH

Alan Barr, MS

Senior engineer on staff at the UCB/UCSF Ergonomics Graduate Training Program

Alan has degrees in biomechanics and biomedical engineering. He is the senior engineer on staff at the UCB/UCSF Ergonomics Graduate Training Program. He spent the last 13 years collaborating on research related to health and safety issues surrounding the use of hand-operated drills used in...Read more about Alan Barr, MS

Michael Bates, PhD

Adjunct Professor and Researcher, Emeritus Epidemiology and Environmental Health Sciences

Timothy Beatty

Professor Agricultural and Resource Economics at the University of California, Davis

Deborah Bennett, PhD

Professor, Public Health Sciences, UC Davis Medical School

Paul Blanc, MD, MSPH

Professor of Medicine, Division of OEM, UCSF Chief, Division of OEM

Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH

Retired special assistant to Cal/OSHA Chief

Garrett Brown is a Certified Industrial Hygienist who has a Master in Public Health for UC Berkeley’s School of Public Health. For more than 20 years, Brown worked for the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) as a field compliance officer and later as Special...Read more about Garrett Brown, MPH, CIH

Nicole Collman, RN, ANP-BC, CNS

Assistant Clinical Professor

Occupational & Environmental Health Nursing

Assistant Clinical Professor, has practiced in OH for over 13 years, and currently practices as an OH NP at Pixar (computer animation co.) and Adult Nurse Practitioner at UCSF’s Screening and Acute Care Clinic. She is an expert in the prevention and treatment of work-related injuries and...Read more about Nicole Collman, RN, ANP-BC, CNS

Kathryn Conlon, PhD, MPH

Assistant professor, jointly appointed in the UC Davis School of Medicine Department of Public Health Sciences and School of Veterinary Medicine Department of Medicine and Epidemiology

Sadie Costello, PhD, MPH

COEH Associate Director | Targeted Research Training Program Director | STEER Co-Director

Mark Cullen, MD, MPH

Professor Medicine and Public Health, Director, Stanford Center for Population Health Sciences

Sandra Domeracki, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, COHN-S, FAAOHN

Associate Clinical Professor

Occupational & Environmental Health Nursing

Associate Clinical Professor with a focus on OH in healthcare settings including medical surveillance programs, injured worker care, and case management, infectious disease prevention and management of exposures, immunizations, and bloodborne pathogen exposures. She also practices as a NP...Read more about Sandra Domeracki, RN, MSN, FNP-BC, COHN-S, FAAOHN

Ellen Eisen, ScD

Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Program Director

Fadi Fathallah, PhD

Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis Professor

Professor Fadi Fathallah, PhD, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering at UC Davis, provides lectures in the Ergonomics course at UC Berkeley. His expertise in spine biomechanics (with Professor Krause’s expertise in low back pain) helps to fill a previously...Read more about Fadi Fathallah, PhD

Ken Goldberg, MS, PhD

Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research Professor

Professor Ken Goldberg, MS, PhD, joined the university five years ago and is responsible for teaching human factors courses in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research at UC Berkeley. He lectures on human factors issues in the Ergonomics course (PH269C...Read more about Ken Goldberg, MS, PhD

Samuel Goldman, MD, MPH

Professor of Clinical Medicine at UCSF

Jay Graham, PhD, MBA, MPH

Program Director Master of Public Health Program

Carisa Harris, PhD, CPE

Director of COEH | Director of UCSF/UCB Ergonomics Graduate Training Program | STEER Co-Director

Associate Professor and Director Carisa Harris Adamson, PhD, CPE is the primary graduate advisor for M.S., MPH and Ph.D...Read more about Carisa Harris, PhD, CPE

Robert Harrison, MD, MPH

Sr. Physician Diplomate at UCSF

Karen Hill, Ph.D., ANP-C, MSN, RN

Associate Clinical Professor

Occupational & Environmental Health Nursing

Associate Clinical Professor, teaches OH and Diverse Worker Populations (N273A) and is responsible for the clinical training in the MS Program of 2nd-year students (N415.28B) and for the development and revision of the MS curriculum. Her areas of interest include OEHN, primary care,...Read more about Karen Hill, Ph.D., ANP-C, MSN, RN

Meg Honan, MS, CPE, PT

Instructor, Consultant

Meg is an EH&S specialist for the Department of Occupational Medicine at UCSF. She also serves and an instructor and development team member working with the University of California Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (...Read more about Meg Honan, MS, CPE, PT

Oisaeng Hong, RN, PhD, FAAN

Professor, OEHN Program Director

Farzaneh Khorsandi, PhD

Assistant Professor of Cooperative Extension - Biological and Agricultural Engineering

Robert Kosnik, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF; Chief Occupational Health Services, UCSF

Dr. Niklas Krause, MD, MPH, PhD

Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF

Dr. Niklas Krause, MD, MPH, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF with expertise in the epidemiology of low back pain related to work and psychosocial and work organizational factors. Professor Krause lectures in PH269C and PH269D and advises students conducting...Read more about Dr. Niklas Krause, MD, MPH, PhD

Soo-Jeong Lee, RN, PhD, ANP

Associate Professor at UC San Francisco

Occupational & Environmental Health Nursing

Associate Professor, has been a core faculty member of the program since 2010. She received her PhD from UCSF in 2007 and post-doctoral training in public health and epidemiology at NIOSH through the CDC’s Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) program. Dr. Lee has 19 years of research...Read more about Soo-Jeong Lee, RN, PhD, ANP

Dr. Stephen McCurdy, MD, MPH

Professor Emeritus

Mark Nicas, PhD, MPH, CIH

Emeritus, Adjunct Professor - Environmental Health Sciences

Elizabeth Noth, PhD, CIH

Director of the Industrial Hygiene Program

As Director of the Industrial Hygiene program in the Northern California NIOSH Education and Research Center at the Northern California Center of Occupational and Environmental Health, I provide leadership in mentoring, teaching and research opportunities to student trainees in our program...Read more about Elizabeth Noth, PhD, CIH

Grace O’Connell

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Associate Dean for Inclusive Excellence, College of Engineering

Research Description:

Biomechanics of cartilage and intervertebral disc; tissue engineering; continuum modeling of soft tissues; intervertebral disc function, degeneration, and regenerationRead more about Grace O’Connell

Ajay Pilarisetti MPH, PhD

Faculty Director | Assistant Professor | Steer Mentor

Industrial Hygiene

Kent Pinkerton, PhD

Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety Director

Dr. Jim Potvin, PhD, CCPE

Professor Emeritus, McMaster University

Jim received a B.H.K. in Kinesiology from the University of Windsor (1986) and a M.Sc. (1988) and Ph.D. (1992) in biomechanics from the University of Waterloo. He was a professor for 23 years at the University of Guelph, University of Windsor and McMaster University, where is he now a...Read more about Dr. Jim Potvin, PhD, CCPE

Justin Remais, PhD, MS

Chair, Environmental Health Sciences Division

David Rempel, MD, MPH

Professor Emeritus

Professor Emeritus David Rempel MD, MPH, started the UC Ergonomics Program in 1991. He has been teaching, doing research, and consulting in the field of ergonomics for 20 years and is a Certified Professional Ergonomist. He continues his research part-time through...Read more about David Rempel, MD, MPH

Dr. Michelle Robertson, PhD, CPE

Adjunct Professor, Northwestern University, Director, Office Ergonomics Research Committee.

Michelle is a Board Certified Professional Ergonomist (CPE) and holds a Ph.D. in Instructional Technology, M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California and a B.A. in Human Factors/Ergonomics from the University of California Santa Barbara. She is a Fellow of the...Read more about Dr. Michelle Robertson, PhD, CPE