Initiative Leadership & Staff

Key Leadership

Wendelin Slusser, M.D., M.S.

Associate Vice Provost for the

Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA

Louise Ino

Finance, Operations & Administration Manager for the

Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA

Semel HCI Staff

Mark Biedlingmaier

Special Projects Coordinator

Catie Imbery, M.P.H.

Website & Special Projects Coordinator

Meagan Wang, M.U.R.P.

Research and Communications Coordinator

Pod Leaders

Robert M. Bilder, Ph.D, ABPP-CN

MindWell Pod Co-Leader

Renee Fortier, M.A./M.S.

BEWell Pod Co-Leader

Richard Joseph Jackson, M.D., M.P.H., FAAP, Hon ASLA, Hon AIA

BEWell Pod Co-Leader

Erinn McMahan

EngageWell Pod Co-Leader

Michael Ong, M.D., Ph.D.

BreatheWell Pod Leader, ResearchWell Co-Pod Leader

Amy Rowat, Ph.D.

EatWell Pod Co-Leader

Pete Angelis

EatWell Pod Co-Leader

Ted Robles

EngageWell Pod Co-Leader

Chris Dunkel Schetter

EngageWell Pod Co-Leader

Nicole Green, Ph.D., Ed.M

MindWell Pod Co-Leader

Kristen McKinney

ResearchWell Pod Co-Leader

Lee Cooper

ResearchWell Pod Co-Leader

Past Leadership

Associate Vice Provost of the Healthy Campus Initiative

2012-2014: Dr. Michael Goldstein, Professor Emeritus, Fielding School of Public Health

EatWell

2012-2014: Dr. Wendy Slusser, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the David Geffen School of Medicine and Fielding School of Public Health; Medical Director of the UCLA Fit for Healthy Weight Program
2014-2015: Julie Kwan, Associate Director of the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library and the Science and Engineering Library

MoveWell

2012-2013: Dr. Antronette Yancey*, Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Fielding School of Public Health; Co-Director of the UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity
2012-2016: Michael Deluca, Assistant Vice Chancellor, Campus Life at UCLA
2016-2017: Wendy Windsor, former Director of UCLA Recreation
2013-2019: Angelia Leung, Professor Emerita, World Arts and Cultures/Dance

BreatheWell

2012-2015: Dr. Linda Sarna, Dean, UCLA School of Nursing

ResearchWell

2016– 2017: Dr. Warner Hudson, Medical Director of Occupational and Employee Health for UCLA Health System
2016– 2017: Dr. Roshan Bastani, Professor of Health Policy and Management

Food Studies Undergraduate Minor

2014- 2018: Joseph Nagy, Professor Emeritus, English

*Deceased