Meet Our Team

Bill Seeley, MD

Professor

Dr. Seeley attended medical school at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine, where he first encountered patients with frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in 1999, during a research elective with Dr. Bruce Miller. He completed a neurology residency at Harvard Medical School, training at the Massachusetts General and Brigham & Women's Hospitals. Returning to UCSF for a Behavioral Neurology fellowship, Dr.

Marni Shabash

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Marni graduated from the University of Florida with a BS degree in Psychology – Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience and a minor in Zoology. At UF, she was a Research Assistant for a Neurocognitive Lab studying addiction. She also coded qualitative data on the impact of COVID-19 on college students, created a scientific poster for an international conference and wrote a manuscript that is currently under review for publication. Marni was Clinic Manager at a Neuropsychology Clinic where she gained experience scoring and administering neuropsychological tests.

Ranjani Shankar, BS

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Ranjani graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in cognitive science specializing in Clinical Aspects of Cognition. She is extremely interested in and passionate about neurodegenerative disease research, especially Alzheimer’s disease. She now works at the Memory and Aging Center in Dr. Rabinovici’s In Vivo Molecular Neuroimaging Lab.

Ida Shibiru, BS

Assistant Clinical Research Coordinator

Alexander Shumonov

Full Stack Developer

Julian M. Siebert, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar

Dr. Siebert is a quantitative researcher interested in linguistically equitable measurement in education and its influence on multilingual students’ educational trajectories. He is a Postdoctoral Scholar with UCSF’s Multitudes Project where he works on building a linguistically fair reading screener for Californian public schools. 

He completed his PhD degree in Developmental and Psychological Sciences and Education Data Science at the Stanford Graduate School of Education, under the supervision of Guillermo Solano-Flores.

Rain Simons

Senior Software Engineer

Daniel Sirkis, PhD

Staff Scientist

Nick Slater, MPA, BA

Clinical Research Supervisor

Nick Slater is a Clinical Research Supervisor at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center where he he oversees studies related to the NIH-funded program project grant on frontotemporal dementia (the FTD PPG), ensuring compliance and operational efficiency while contributing to innovative research initiatives and fostering collaborative environments.

Amber Smith

Amber Smith, BS

Research Project Manager

Amber is a Research Project Manager in the Boxer Lab.

Andrew Smith, BS

Staff Research Associate

Karen Smith, BS

Clinical Research Supervisor

Ms. Smith is the clinical research supervisor working directly with the Rabinovici Lab and the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center. She works closely with both faculty and staff in monitoring operational issues, regulatory compliance and project development. Ms. Smith brings many years of experience in clinical and non-clinical trials across a variety of funding mechanisms and disciplines. Prior to coming to the Memory and Aging Center in April 2019, Ms.

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