The work of CURA relies on the contributions of an interdisciplinary collective of investigators from across UCSF, including the Departments of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Neurology, Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences.
UCSF Faculty Collaborators
Brian Anderson, MD, MSc
Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, and Division of Palliative Medicine, UCSF
Investigator, UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
Meredith Meacham, PhD, MPH
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, UCSF
Nicky Mehtani, MD MPH
Assistant Professor, UCSF-ZSFG Division of General Internal Medicine
Staff Physician, SFDPH Maria X. Martinez Health Resource Center
Jennifer Mitchell, PhD
Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development, SFVAMC
Professor, Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, UCSF
Juan Carlos Montoy, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Emergency Medicine, UCSF
Ralph Wang, MD, MAS
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine, UCSF
Lorenzo Paquini, PhD
Assistant Professor, Neurology
UCSF Weill Institute for Neuroscience
LaMisha Hill, PhD
Associate Professor & Vice Chair for Opportunity & Structural Change, Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences, UCSF
Sanjay Reddy, MD
Professor, Medicine
Jessi Humphreys, MD
Attending Physician, Medicine
UCSF Staff:
Allison Coker, PhD
Research & Regulatory Analyst, Department of Neurology, UCSF
Program Manager, Community Uses of Psychedelics and Safety Study
Zoe Lopez-Meraz, B.S.
Clinical Research Coordinator, Psychiatry
McKenna Leighton, B.S.
Clinical Research Associate, UCSF
Mayra Allen, PhD
Psychologist, UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
Ali Haas, LMFT
Dir. of Navgtn and Care Coord., Psychiatry
Affiliates and Partners:
Maha N. Mian, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Suffolk University
Aidan Seale-Feldman, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Notre Dame
CURA benefits greatly from partnerships with other research initiatives in the University of California system, specifically UCSF Neuroscape, UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics, and the UCLA Ecological Medicine and Psychedelic Therapies Initiative.
Our community-engaged science would not be possible without the efforts of our partners outside of the University of California, including Scottsdale Research Institute, Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines, the Graduate Theological Union, the HIV Long-term Survivor Community, and academic collaborators across Latin America.
