Samantha Schilf is the Executive Director for the UCSF Aging, Metabolism, and Emotion (AME) Center and the Sugar, Stress, Environment, and Weight (SSEW) Center. She joined the UCSF Center for Health and Community as a project manager in 2010, and has supported various research efforts that examine how the stress-disease link can be broken when individuals engage in regular restorative health behaviors (i.e., exercise, mindfulness meditation, mindful eating).
Brian Don is a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to UCSF, he completed his PhD at Kent State University, a postdoctoral fellowship in Social Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and was also an Assistant Professor in the Psychology Department at California Lutheran University. Brian's research focuses on close relationships, especially on how motivation, affect, and mindfulness influence the health and quality of key relational interactions.
Darwin A. Guevarra is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Before coming to UCSF, he completed a postdoc in the Clinical Science area at Michigan State University. He completed his Ph.D. in social psychology at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Darwin is broadly interested in affect and affect regulation processes and their implications for health and well-being. His research questions revolve around what makes affect regulation difficult and how to make it easier.
