Research Staff
Janice Schwartz, M.D.
A graduate of Tulane Medical School, Dr. Schwartz is a board-certified internal medicine specialist and cardiologist. She has been on the faculty of Stanford Medical School, Baylor College of Medicine, UCSF Schools of Medicine, Nursing and Pharmacy, and Northwestern University Medical School. She is currently clinical professor of Medicine, Bioengineering, and Therapeutic Science, University of California, San Francisco.
Dr. Schwartz’s career has spanned laboratory and clinical research, with over 130 publications covering scientific articles, reviews, and book chapters. She has been named one of the best doctors in the U.S. for geriatric medicine. She belongs to numerous professional societies, including the American College of Cardiology, American Geriatrics Society, American Heart Association, American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics. She has served as associate editor of the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and has been on National Institutes of Health research review panels for many years. She is currently serving on the Aging Systems and Geriatrics (ASG) Study Section.
Edward Goetzl, M.D.
Dr. Goetzl graduated from Harvard Medical School and served on the Harvard faculty until he was recruited to UCSF as Professor of Medicine and Microbiology-Immunology and subsequently named the Robert L. Kroc Professor of Medicine. Board certified in Internal Medicine, Rheumatology, and Allergy and Immunology, he was Director, Immunology & Allergy Research, UCSF, from 1996-2011.
A Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, he has served on the editorial boards of the Journal of Biological Chemistry and the FASEB Journal, and on NIH review panels. He was funded by the NIH for over 27 years to study normal immunity and autoimmunity in animal models.
In 2011, Dr. Goetzl became Professor Emeritus, UCSF and joined the Jewish Home to devote his time to translating laboratory findings into therapies to correct the age-related deficits in immune function in older people.
Kelly Moore, Ph.D.
Armed with her master’s and Ph.D. from the Division of Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley (during the course of which she received multiple honors for her scholarship) Dr. Moore joined the Jewish Home in 2010 as a research statistician.
Dr. Moore’s current work focuses on identifying common co-morbid conditions and co-administered medications in older people and nursing home residents, with a goal of identifying ways to reduce drug burden and unwanted effects of medications.
