Dr. Rebecca Sudore, MD is a geriatrician, palliative medicine physician, clinical research scientist at UCSF, and founder and director of the PREPARE programs. She has dedicated her career to empowering people with information to make informed medical decisions. Starting with her medical training at UCSF, she has partnered with patients, caregivers, and the community to co-develop the easy-to-use PREPARE programs. She sees patients at the San Francisco VA hospital and has a research program funded by the NIH, PCORI, foundations, and philanthropy to develop and test the PREPARE programs. She is grateful for her team; her research collaborators; her funders; and the patients, caregivers, and content experts who continue to help design and refine the PREPARE programs.

Jana Powell, BS is the PREPARE Program manager. Jana has over 5 years of experience coordinating PREPARE development efforts, coordinating with research collaborators and consultants, liaising with foundations and other funders, and working with researchers, health systems, community-based organizations, and health plans to license the PREPARE content.

David Farrell, MPH is founder and president of People Designs, a health communications research and development firm located in Durham, North Carolina. He has content and methodological expertise in health communications, technical expertise in software design and development, and experience commercializing and disseminating health interventions. He has served as an investigator and consultant to a variety of technology-based public health interventions and research projects over the past 25 years, including as PI on multiple NIH-funded research grants.

Sarah Hooper, JD is the Executive Director of the UCSF/UC Law SF Consortium on Law, Science & Health Policy and Lecturer in Law at UC Law SF. She also serves as Co-Director of the Master of Science in Health Policy & Law Degree (HPL) and the Policy Director of the Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors clinic. She is an expert in legal issues in aging and dementia and has a special interest in addressing barriers to health for marginalized populations. Professor Hooper and her team of law students and fellows have provided expertise and consultation on advance directive law to the PREPARE team for over a decade. They have helped develop language on the PREPARE website and advance directive forms for all fifty states as well as partnered on research projects. Professor Hooper is also the creator of Clarity, an online program designed to help prepare individuals and families for financial and legal aspects of care planning.

The PREPARE Team: It takes a village and the PREPARE programs continue to be supported by a myriad of amazing interdisciplinary research staff, PREPARE development staff, research collaborators, consultants, students and trainees, patients, caregivers, community advisors, and volunteers.

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UCSF Offices Supporting PREPARE

UCSF Office of Technology Management

Paul Rafael is the Assistant Director of Development for the Division of Geriatrics. Paul works with our friends, funders, and supporters in navigating and securing philanthropic support for our program. Please contact Paul at (415) 680-0258 or paul.rafael@ucsf.edu.

National Institutes of Health, National Institute on Aging

Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI)

The Veterans Administration

Foundations:

• American Cancer Society
• California Healthcare Foundation
• Donaghue Foundation
• Gordon and Betty More Foundation
• Greenwall Foundation
• Ho Chiang Foundation
• John and Wauna Harman Foundation
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• S.D. Bechtel, Jr. Foundation
• Stupski Foundation

Since 2013, we continue to have input from leaders in the advance care planning, palliative care, geriatrics, health communication, medical decision making, behavior change, and health literacy fields and from patients, caregivers, and providers.

Current Advisory Board Members: