Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS

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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, M.D., PhD., M.A.S.

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (Task Force) announced the appointment of Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD., M.D., M.A.S., SF BUILD multiple PI, as chair of the Task Force and Susan J. Curry, PhD., as vice chair of the Task Force. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo and Dr. Curry were appointed to these positions by the director of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo will assume the role of chair from Albert L. Siu, M.D., M.S.P.H., who will now serve as the immediate past chair.

Dr. Bibbins-Domingo has served as a member of the Task Force since July 2010 and was previously appointed vice chair in March 2014. She is the Lee Goldman, M.D., endowed chair in medicine and professor of medicine and of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF ). Dr. Bibbins-Domingo is a general internist, attending physician, and director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She is also the director of the UCSF Clinical and Translational Science Institute's training programs. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo's research has focused on the epidemiology of cardiovascular disease; racial, ethnic, and income disparities in heath; and clinical and public health interventions aimed at chronic disease prevention. Dr. Bibbins-Domingo is SF BUILD Principal Investigator at UCSF.

Dr. Bibbins-Domingo replaces Dr. Siu as chair of the Task Force and will serve a 1-year term. 

Read more here: http://www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/Announcements/News/Item/announcement-of-new-us-preventive-services-task-force-chair-and-vice-chair



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