School of Medicine

Dr. Neal Halfon

• Received an M.D. from UC Davis, and a Master's in public health from UC Berkeley
• Director of the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities
• Director of the Child and Family Health Program in the UCLA School of Public Health, and the federally funded Maternal and Child Health Bureau's National Center for Infancy and Early Childhood Health Policy Research
• Professor of Pediatrics in the UCLA School of Medicine and Professor of Community Health Sciences in the UCLA School of Public Health
• Professor of Policy Studies in the School of Public Policy and Social Research
• Consultant in the Health Program at the RAND Corporation

Laurie Owen, Ph.D.

• Trained as a cancer immunologist, receiving a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center, and a postdoctoral fellowship from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Areas of interest, translational medicine, the role of entrepreneurship in building university/corporate partnerships, and biomedical education as a platform for driving regional economies
• Assistant and Associate Professor of Immunology at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
• Professor of Biomedical Sciences at UC Riverside, joint appointment as a Professor of Immunology, City of Hope/Beckman Research Institute
• Holds three patents in cancer therapeutics and has published more than 65 peer-reviewed manuscripts on cancer immunology, gene therapy, and apoptosis
• Work has been profiled in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek, on NPR and BBC radio, and CNN