Leadership

Drs. Adams, Schillinger, Schmittdiel, and Karter collaboratively direct and oversee DREAMS-CDTR and serve as core faculty. Between them, they have many decades’ experience studying diabetes disparities and developing clinical and policy solutions to address them. Drs. Adams, Schillinger, Schmittdiel, and Karter also serve as DREAMS-CDTR core faculty.

Alyce S. Adams, PhD

Co-Director

Stanford Medicine Innovation Professor

Professor of Epidemiology and Population Health & of Health Policy, Stanford Medicine

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Dean Schillinger, MD

Co-Director

Professor of Medicine in Residence, UCSF

Director, UCSF Health Communications Research Program

Division of General Internal Medicine and Center for Vulnerable Populations, San Francisco General Hospital

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Julie A. Schmittdiel, PhD

Co-Director

Associate Director, Health Care Delivery and Policy, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research

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Andrew J Karter, PhD

Associate Director

Research Scientist III, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research

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