The goal of Berkeley Bioengineering’s Medical Advisory Board is to help us focus on urgent and compelling medical challenges. Involving medical doctors early in the innovation process helps to foster research collaborations between faculty and clinicians, identify “moonshot” medical challenges, bridge interdisciplinary cultures, and avoid pitfalls on the road to clinical implementation.
Current MAB members
| Tim Guertin | PhD Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, UC Berkeley CEO Emeritus, Varian Medical Systems Initial donor and kickstarter of the Medical Advisory Board |
| Danielle Brandman, MD | Associate Professor of Medicine, Transplant Hepatology University of California, San Francisco |
| Jonathan Carter, MD | Associate Professor of Clincal Surgery University of California, San Francisco |
| Mark D’Esposito, MD | Professor of Neuroscience and Psychology Director, Henry H. Wheeler, Jr. Brain Imaging Center University of California, Berkeley |
| Larry Fong, MD | Efim Guzik Distinguished Professor in Cancer Biology University of California, San Francisco |
| Bob Hu, MD | Director, Cardiac MRI Palo Alto Medical Foundation |
| Stefanie Jeffrey, MD | John and Marva Warnock Professor Chief of Surgical Oncology Research Stanford University School of Medicine |
| Tanya Mamantov, MD, MPH | Emergency Medicine Physician Eden Medical Center |
| Payam Nahid, MD, MPH | Associate Director of Clinical Trials Operations, Office of Research Medical Director, CTSA Trials Innovation Network Hub Professor of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of California, San Francisco |
| Rita Ng, MD | Physician in Chief, Cardiology Kaiser Permanente East Bay |
| Janice Schwartz, MD | Geriatrician, Cardiologist, Clinical Pharmacologist Professor of Medicine University of California, San Francisco |
| Shreyas Vasanawala, MD, PhD | Professor of Pediatric Radiology Stanford University School of Medicine |
| Khai Vu, MD, PhD | Associate Professor of Radiology University of California, San Francisco |
| Mark Walters, MD | Director, Blood and Marrow Transplant UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland |
| Alan Wu, PhD | Chief of Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology laboratories, San Francisco General Hospital Professor, Laboratory Medicine, University of California, San Francisco |