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Dr. Winston Chiong is a Professor in the UCSF Department of Neurology Memory and Aging Center, principal investigator of the UCSF Decision Lab (https://decisionlab.ucsf.edu), Director of UCSF Bioethics (https://bioethics.ucsf.edu), and Mary Oakley Professor of Neuroethics at UCSF. His clinical practice focuses on Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia and other cognitive disorders of aging.

Research areas include historical perspectives on the development of modern clinical practices and medical epistemology; the ethcis and values of medical technologies, such as information management systems and telemedicine.

Dr. Dzeng is a sociologist and hospitalist physician conducting research at the nexus of sociology, medical ethics, palliative care, health disparities, and human-centered design. She is an Associate Professor "In Residence" at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the Division of Hospital Medicine and holds a secondary appointment in the Division of Geriatrics. She is also an Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Philip R.

I am a clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCSF, co-coordinator for medical student education and co-director of the Consultation Liaison Service at ZSFG. I also head the hospital's Physician Well-Being Committee, am an active member of the hospital's ethics committee, and serve as a physician sponsor for Schwartz Rounds. My areas of interest include education and pedagogy, critical thinking, ethics and the medical humanities.

My work has drawn on critical religious studies, postcolonial theory, and theories of the psyche to examine trajectories of science and medicine from the Caribbean to North America and back. I am the Director of the Medical Anthropology PhD Program.