Staff

Serena is a Bay Area native and holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Saint Mary’s College of California and a Master’s degree in Health Care Administration from California State University, East Bay. She has worked in the Department of Medicine since 2014, holding roles in the Divisions of Infectious Diseases and General Internal Medicine and bringing several years of administrative and financial experience. Serena is excited to continue her work with the Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine.

Lucia currently serves as the Program Coordinator for the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Residency Program at UCSF, where she has been part of UCSF Medicine since 2014. Her responsibilities include residency program coordination and reporting. Prior to joining UCSF, she worked for three years as an Administrative Specialist for the Pediatric Dengue Program at UC Berkeley, an experience that sparked her interest in health and occupational medicine.

Jason Nghe serves as the Division Analyst for the Division of Occupational, Environmental, and Climate Medicine at UCSF. He joined UCSF in 2017 with Facilities Services and previously served as the Division Analyst for the Divisions of Endocrinology and Rheumatology from 2021 to 2023.

Jason’s experience in administration began during his undergraduate studies at UC Santa Cruz, where he worked as a peer advisor. Since then, he has continued to build his administrative and operational expertise at UCSF.

James Earl Schier Nolan, MPH, is the Associate Director of the Western States Pediatric Environmental Health Specialty Unit (WS PEHSU). Mr. Nolan graduated from Seattle University, double majoring in Sociology and Gender Studies, and UC Berkeley with a Masters of Public Health. He focuses on bridging gaps between health professionals and community members in addressing environmental exposures within a structural determinants of health framework. Emphasizing capacity building for the next generation of health leaders, he managed community based participatory research (CBPR) projects including the COSECHA Study on pesticides, the LUCIR Study on carcinogens in cleaning products, the Richmond Youth Air Quality Initiative on air pollution, and the AIM Study on indoor air pollution from gas stoves. He has led organizational partnerships, advisory boards, trainings, presentations, return of results and large-scale communications campaigns. At the WS PEHSU his work includes patient education material development and electronic medical system integration projects, undergraduate courses, health professional trainings and continuing medical education modules. Mr. Nolan holds a dual role as Managing Director of Community Engagement at the Environmental Research and Translation for Health (EaRTH) Center, where he runs environmental health fellowships and a multiweek course for medical students, as well as a stakeholder engagement training program for multidisciplinary clinician, community member and public health teams.

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