• Senior Mentors: Steven R. Cummings, MD, FACP; Joe W. Gray, PhD.
• Resource faculty: Mary Beattie, MD; Chris Benz, MD; Laura Esserman, MD; Laurel Habel, PhD (Kaiser): Robert Hiatt, MD, PhD; Shelley Hwang, MD; Carol Somkin, PhD (Kaiser), Jeff Tice, MD; Thea Tlsty, PhD; Zena Werb, PhD; Dee West, PhD; Elad Ziv, MD.
• Research resources: Bay Area Breast Cancer and the Environment Research Center; Breast Cancer Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE); Breast Oncology Program; Comprehensive Cancer Center; Coordinating Center; California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) Research Institute; Northern California Kaiser Permanente Division of Research (DOR); Northern California Cancer Center (NCCC).
• Databases and specimen banks: Breast Health Cohort database and stored specimen banks (NIH, CPMC); Breast Cancer SPORE Tissue and Outcomes Core (NIH); Ductal Carcinoma In Situ Cohort (DCIS, NIH); Kaiser Mammography Database; Multiple Outcomes of Raloxifene Evaluations (MORE, Eli Lilly); Life after Cancer Epidemiology Study, Kaiser (LACE, NIH); San Francisco Mammography Registry (SFMR, NIH); Study of Osteoporotic Fractures (SOF, NIH); Women’s Health Initiative (WHI, NIH).

• Senior Mentors: Stephen Hulley, MD, MPH; Mary Malloy, MD
• Resource faculty: Hal Barron, MD (Genentech); Kirsten Fleischmann, MD, MPH; Rita Redberg, MD, MSc; Michael Shlipak, MD, MPH; Stephen Sidney, MD, MPH (Kaiser); Ethan J. Weiss, MD; Jonathan G. Zaroff, MD.
• Research resources: Coordinating Center; Cardiovascular Research Institute (CVRI); Gladstone Institute for Cardiovascular Research.
• Databases and specimen banks: Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS, NIH); CHD
  Risk Factors in Young Adults, Kaiser (CARDIA, NIH); Genetic Epidemiology of CHD Risk Factors in Women Twins, Kaiser (NIH); Genomic Resource in Arteriosclerosis; Health Aging and Body Composition Study (Health ABC); Heart and Estrogen-Progestin Replacement Study (HERS, Wyeth); Heart and Soul (VA, NIH); Heart Failure Cohort (FAMRI Foundation); National Registry of Myocardial Infarction (NRMI, Genentech); Raloxifene Use for the Heart (RUTH, Eli Lilly); SOF.
  

Complementary and Alternative Medicine

• Senior Mentors: Susan Folkman, PhD; Owen Wolkowitz, MD
• Resource faculty: Andy Avins, MD; Stephen Bent, MD; Elissa S. Epel, PhD; Laura Esserman, MD, MBA; Bruce Ettinger, MD (Kaiser); Frederick Hecht, MD; Ellen F. Hughes, MD, PhD; Bradly Jacobs, MD, MPH; Lawrence H. Kushi, ScD (Kaiser); Dale Leitman, MD, PhD; Judith Moskowitz, PhD, MPH; Judith Wrubel, PhD.
• Research resources: Complementary and Alternative Medicine Research Group, Northern California Kaiser Permanente; Coordinating Center; General Clinical Research Center (GCRC); Kaiser DOR; Osher Center for Integrative Medicine.
• Databases and specimen banks: Chemotherapy Regimen and Fatigue: Touch Therapy, Kaiser (CRAFT, NIH); HERS; Isoflavone Clover Extract (ICE) Menopause Study; Life After Cancer Epidemiology (LACE, NIH); Lifestyle and Personal Support for Women with Breast Cancer Trial (NIH); Longevity Treasure Trial (Enwei Pharmaceuticals); Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction in HIV (NIH); MORE; Randomized Trial of Kava and Valerian; Ultra Low-dose Transdermal Estrogen Replacement Assessment (ULTRA, Berlex).
  

Dementia and Cognitive Function

• Senior Mentors: Kristine Yaffe, MD; Lennart Mucke, MD
• Resource faculty: Joel H. Kramer, PsyD; Bruce Miller, MD; Catherine Schaefer. PhD (Kaiser); Michael Weiner, MD.
• Research resources: Alzheimer’s Disease Program; Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centers of California (ARCC); Coordinating Center; Mental Illness Research Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC, VA); Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative (ADNI, NIH).
• Databases and specimen banks: Health ABC; HERS; MORE; National Alzheimer’s Coordinating Center Minimum Dataset (NACC, NIH); SOF; ULTRA; Vascular Dementia Program Project Imaging Database.

HIV and Women

• Senior Mentors: Ruth Greenblatt, MD; Karen Smith-McCune, MD, PhD.
• Resource faculty: Susan Buchbinder, MD; Cynthia Gomez, PhD; Stephen Morin, PhD; Laura Napolitano, MD; Nancy Padian, PhD; Robert Taylor, MD, PhD; Phyllis Tien, MD.
• Research resources: AIDS Research Institute (ARI, NIH and others), Center for AIDS Prevention Studies (CAPS, NIH and others), Center for AIDS Research (CFAR, NIH); Gladstone Institute for Virology and Immunology (GIVI); Positive Health Program.
• Databases and specimen banks: AIDS Specimen Bank; AIDS and Cancer Specimen Resource (ACSR); California AIDS Research Center (CARC); Gender Effects in HIV Biology (NIH); HIV Net (NIH); HIV Registry (Kaiser); Women’s Interagency HIV Study (WIHS, NIH).
  

• Senior Mentors: Deborah Grady, MD, MPH; Dale Leitman, MD, PhD.
• Resource faculty: Marcelle Cedars, MD; Steven R. Cummings, MD, FACP; Bruce Ettinger, MD (Kaiser).
• Research resources: Coordinating Center; Kaiser Division of Research; National Center of Excellence in Women’s Health (COE, DHHS); Reproductive Endocrinology Center (REC); Women’s Health Clinical Research Center (WHCRC).
• Databases and specimen banks: Chinese Herbs in Menopausal Symptoms (CHIMES, Bionovo); Flushes and Sertraline Trial (FAST, Pfizer); Health ABC; HERS; Kaiser pharmacy database with linkage to the clinical and administrative databases; MORE; SOF; ULTRA; WHI.

Obesity

• Senior Mentors: Nancy Adler, PhD; Laurence Tecott, MD, PhD.
• Resource faculty: Guilherme Campos, MD; Mary Dallman, PhD; Elissa S. Epel, PhD; Ira Goldfine, MD; Wen-Chi Hsueh, MPH, PhD; Alka Kanaya, MD; Morris Schambelan, MD; Joe Selby, MD, MPH; Anita Stewart, PhD; Christian Vaisse, PhD.
• Research resources: Bariatric Surgery Center; Center on Obesity Assessment, Study and Treatment (COAST); Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health Clinic (WATCH); WHCRC.
• Databases and specimen banks: Health ABC; Gastric Bypass Cohort; HERS; Program to Reduce Incontinence by Diet and Exercise (PRIDE, NIH).

Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis

• Senior Mentors: Daniel D. Bikle, MD, PhD; Dennis Black, PhD.
• Resource faculty: Douglas C. Bauer, MD; Steven R. Cummings, MD, FACP; Bruce Ettinger, MD (Kaiser); Mary C. Nakamura, MD; Michael C. Nevitt, PhD; Robert A. Nissenson, PhD; Deborah E. Sellmeyer, MD; Dolores Shoback, MD, PhD.
• Research resources: Arthritis and Joint Replacement Center; CC; DOR.
• Databases and specimen banks: Beijing Osteoarthritis Study (BOA, NIH); Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT, Merck); HABC; HERS; Livial in Fracture Prevention (LIFT, Organon); Men’s Osteoporosis Study (Mr. OS, NIH); MORE; Multicenter Osteoarthritis Study (MOST); Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI, NIH); PTH and Alendronate Study (NIH NIAMS); SOF; SOF Osteoarthritis Study (SOF-OA, NIH); VA Research Enhancement Award Program for Osteoporosis (VA); WHI Osteoporosis Outcomes (NIH); Yearly Zolendronate Multicenter International Trial (Novartis)

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• Senior Mentors: Nola Hylton, PhD; Karla Kerlikowske, MD, MS.
• Resource faculty: Dennis Black, PhD; Vickie A. Feldstein, MD; Bruce H. Hasegawa, PhD; Sharmila Majumdar, PhD; John Shepherd, PhD; Edward A. Sickles, MD, Rebecca Smith-Bindman, MD; Mark Wilson, MD
• Research resources: California Institute for Quantitative Biomedical Research (QB3); Center for Molecular and Functional Imaging (CMFI); Coordinating Center; Kaiser DOR; San Francisco Mammography Registry (SFMR); Breast Cancer SPORE.
• Databases and banks of films and data from imaging studies: California Pacific Medical Center Breast Cohort Study database and stored specimen banks (CPMC, NIH); FIT; HERS; Mammography database (Kaiser); MORE; SFMR; SOF; ULTRA; WHI.

Urinary Incontinence

• Senior Mentors: Jeanette Brown, MD; Tom Lue, MD.
• Resource faculty: Leslee Subak, MD; David Thom, MD, PhD; Stephen van den Eden, PhD (Kaiser).
• Research resources: Women’s Continence Center (WCC); Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) on Lower Urinary Tract Function in Women.
• Databases and specimen banks: Diagnostic Aspects of Urinary Incontinence Study (DAISY, Yamanouchi); Health ABC; HERS, Lower Urinary Tract Function in Diabetic Women (NIH); MORE; Reproductive Risk Factors for Urinary Incontinence at Kaiser (RRISK, NIH); SOF; ULTRA.