Leadership & Staff
Founders & Visionaries
Semel HCI Center Leadership & Staff
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Wendelin Slusser, MD, MS
Associate Vice Provost
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Louise Ino
Finance, Operations & Administration Manager
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Tabia Richardson, PhD, MPH
Director of Research & Operations
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Catie Imbery
Operations & Community Relations Coordinator | Eudaimonia Sociey Member
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Jade Takahashi, MA
Communications Manager
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James Meledandri
Communications Coordinator
Pod Leaders
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Pete Angelis
EatWell Pod Co-Leader; Assistant Vice Chancellor, Housing & Hospitality Services
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Robert M. Bilder, PhD, ABPP-CN
MindWell Pod Co-Leader; Distinguished Professor, Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences; Chief of Psychology, David Geffen School of Medicine
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Burton Cowgill, PhD
ResearchWell Pod Co-Leader; Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Public Health
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Dana Cuff, PhD
BEWell Pod Co-Leader; Professor, Architecture & Urban Planning; Founding Director, city LAB
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Nicole Presley, PhD, EdM
MindWell Pod Co-Leader; Senior Executive Director, UCLA Student Resilience and Mental Health Services
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Richard Jackson MD, MPH, FAAP, HON ASLA, HON AIA
BEWell Pod Co-Leader; Professor Emeritus, Fielding School of Public Health
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David Karwaski
BEWell Pod Co-Leader; Senior Director, UCLA Transportation
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Erinn McMahan
EngageWell Pod Co-Leader; Executive Director, UCLA Recreation
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Michael Ong, MD, PhD
BreatheWell Pod Leader, ResearchWell Pod Co-Leader; Professor in Residence, Medicine and Health Policy and Management; Associate Chief of Staff for Research and Development, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
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Theodore Robles, PhD
EngageWell Pod Co-Leader; Professor, Psychology
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Amy Rowat, PhD
EatWell Pod Co-Leader; Professor, Integrative Biology & Physiology
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Janet Tomiyama, PhD
ResearchWell Pod Co-Leader; Professor, Psychology
Pod Support Staff
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Yang Yang, PhD
BEWell Pod Project Coordinator; Co-Director of cityLAB-UCLA
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Sarahjeet Dosanjh
EatWell Pod Support Staff
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Sydney Kong
MindWell Support Staff
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Yuan Xin Goh
ResearchWell Grant Coordinator; Semel HCI Center Undergraduate Staff Coordinator
Student Staff & Fellows
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Valeria Sanchez Garcia
Garden Coordinator
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Ashley Te
Garden Coordinator
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Grace Gallego
Garden Coordinator
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Katie Chang
Garden Coordinator
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Callista O’Connor
Garden Coordinator, Global Food Initiative Fellow
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Cooper Bowen
Garden Coordinator, Global Food Initiative Fellow
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Jessica Fay
Graduate Student Researcher
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Yuan Xin Goh
ResearchWell Grant Coordinator; Semel HCI Center Undergraduate Staff Coordinator
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Katrina Iguban
Social Media Coordinator, Graphic Designer, Website Coordinator
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Hannah Yip
Social Media Coordinator, Graphic Designer, Website Coordinator
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Sebastian Garibay
Undergraduate Student Researcher
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Kayla Hernandez
Undergraduate Student Researcher
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Maia Bowman
Undergraduate Student Researcher
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Jessica Nguyen
Undergraduate Student Researcher
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
As a land grant institution, the Semel Healthy Campus Initiative Center at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands).