Dr. Nancy Adler Lectureship Program.

THE DEPARTMENT OF PSYCHIATRY AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES CENTER FOR HEALTH AND COMMUNITY WELCOMES YOU TO

The Annual Dr.Nancy Adler Lecture

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine and Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics Editor in Chief of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network

& Speaker Panel

October 25, 2024 10am-12pm Lecture and Speaker Panel Lunch to Follow on the Terrace

Pritzker Building 675 18th Street San Francisco

10:00-10:20 a.m.

Welcome by Matthew State, MD, PhD, Oberndorf Family Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Director, Langley Porter Psychiatric Institute Weill Institute for Neurosciences, UCSF Remembrance by Claire Brindis, DrPH, Distinguished Emerita Professor (Recall) of Pediatrics and Health Policy, UCSF

10:20-10:25 a.m.

Introduction by Aric Prather, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Pritzker Family Fund Endowed Chair in Health and Community and Director Center for Health and Community, UCSF

10:25-11:10 a.m.

Lecture by Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS, Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Professor of Medicine, Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, UCSF and Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and the JAMA Network

11:10-11:50 a.m.

Panel discussion with prior Dr. Nancy Adler mentees Nicki Bush, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics, Lisa and John Pritzker Distinguished Professor of Developmental and Behavioral Health and Director, Division of Developmental Pediatrics, UCSF Elissa Epel, PhD, Professor and Sarlo-Ekman Endowed Chair in the Study of Human Emotion, Vice Chair for Psychology Research and Diversity, Health Equity and Community, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Associate Director, Center for Health and Community, UCSF Amani Nuru-Jeter, PhD, MPH, Professor, Community Health Sciences and Epidemiology, Chair, UC Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, UC Berkeley and Director, Evidence for Action, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Elizabeth Ozer, PhD, MA, Professor of Pediatrics and Associate Vice Provost, Faculty Equity, UCSF Matthew Pantell, MD, MS, Associate Professor, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, UCSF

11:50 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

12:00-1:20 p.m.

Announcement of Nancy Adler Seed Grant winners by Julia Adler-Milstein, PhD, Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Clinical Informatics Digital Transformation, UCSF Lunch and Reception 4th floor Terrace

Honoring the Legacy of

Nancy E. Adler, PhD

Dr. Nancy Adler was a distinguished Lisa and John Pritzker Professor and Vice Chair of Psychology in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and Pediatrics and Founder and Director of the Center for Health and Community at UCSF. Through her decades-long academic and public service career, she raised the status of social and behavioral sciences in medicine. One of her many accomplishments was leading research that led to seminal papers showing that the social determinants of health are the most robust predictors of physical and mental health. She was a fierce advocate for women’s health and improving the lives of those facing socioeconomic disadvantages. Throughout her career, she inspired and supported many generations of young population health researchers.

To honor Dr. Adler’s legacy, the Center for Health and Community in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences has established the Nancy Adler Endowed Lectureship Award, held annually, which features an outstanding scholar who is illuminating the field of social and health disparities and effective social interventions. To learn more about this lectureship and to contribute, use this link.

The Center for Health and Community in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences dedicates this lectureship to the continued remembrance and legacy of our founder and north star, Nancy E. Adler, PhD.

When Great Trees Fall

by Maya Angelou

When great trees fall, rocks on distant hills shudder, lions hunker down in tall grasses, and even elephants lumber after safety.

When great trees fall in forests, small things recoil into silence, their senses eroded beyond fear.

When great souls die, the air around us becomes light, rare, sterile.

We breathe, briefly.

Our eyes, briefly, see with a hurtful clarity.

Our memory, suddenly sharpened, examines, gnaws on kind words unsaid, promised walks never taken.

Great souls die and our reality, bound to them, takes leave of us.

Our souls, dependent upon their nurture, now shrink, wizened.

Our minds, formed and informed by their radiance, fall away.

We are not so much maddened as reduced to the unutterable ignorance of dark, cold caves.

And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration.

Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us.

They existed. They existed.

We can be. Be and be better. For they existed.