Jeff Belkora, PhD (TSP 2006-2007) is an Assistant Adjunct Professor of Surgery and Director of Decision Services at UCSF. Dr. Belkora earned an Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University. His graduate training at Stanford University included an M.Sc. in Statistics and culminated with a Ph.D in Engineering. Dr. Belkora studies leadership, teamwork, and decision making, and maintains a website on these topics at www.guidesmith.org. He has created and evaluated patient education, participation, and decision support programs that have been implemented at UCSF and elsewhere. He is involved with national and international initiatives promoting patient-centered care as a part of quality improvement in medicine. Recently, Dr. Belkora has been funded by the California Breast Cancer Research Program to study decision support interventions for diverse, rural, underserved patients in Northern California. He is also beginning a 3-year, NIH-supported Career Development Award, Building Interdisciplinary Careers in Women's Health (BIRCWH: PI, Deborah Grady), during which he will develop a training curriculum targeted at improving the shared decision skills of breast cancer surgeons and oncologists.