Shirley Chen

Shirley was born in Guangzhou, China, and grew up in Los Angeles, California. She attended the University of California, Santa Barbara, and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacology. During her undergraduate studies, she worked as a Certified Pharmacy Technician and gained patient care experience as an Emergency Department volunteer and Surgical Nursing volunteer in the hospital.

At the UCSF Memory and Aging Center, Shirley works as a Clinical Research Coordinator for the NACC UDS 4.0 (ENHANCE) project and helps run visits for Cantonese, Mandarin, and English-speaking Chinese participants for the UCSF Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and the MULTIVERSE study.