Each member of our press team oversees a number of specialties, serving as the first point of contact for reporters seeking experts and faculty and staff seeking public relations advice. For areas outside of these specialties, please use the contact information to the right.
Beat List
Jackie Carr
Assistant Executive Director of Communications and Media Relations
jcarr@ucsd.edu
858-249-0420
Beat Areas
- Clinical Radiology
- Crisis Communications Issues Management
- Emergency Preparedness and Response
- Hepatology
- Hospital Affiliations and Sponsorships
- Infectious Diseases
- Jacobs Medical Center
- Labor Relations
- Nephrology
- Regulatory Affairs
- Surgery (general and abdominal transplant)
- Weight Management and Weight Loss Surgery
- Volunteer Services
Scott LaFee
Director of Media Relations
slafee@ucsd.edu
858-249-0431
Beat Areas
- Alzheimer’s
- Altman Clinical and Translational Research Institute (ACTRI)
- Autism (Autism Center of Excellence)
- HIV/AIDS (Owen Clinic, AIDS Research Institute, AntiViral Research Center, Center for AIDS Research, HIV Neurobehavioral Research Program)
- Neurosciences
- Ophthalmology (Shiley Eye Institute)
- Psychiatry
- Sanford Stem Cell Clinical Center
- Shiley-Marcos Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center
- Stein Institute for Research on Aging
Heather Buschman, PhD
Senior Public Information Officer
hbuschman@ucsd.edu
858-249-0417
Beat Areas
- Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
- Biomedical Informatics
- CARTA (Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny)
- Cellular and Molecular Medicine
- Center of Excellence in Nanomedicine
- Center for Microbiome Innovation
- Drug Discovery Institute
- Genomics
- Glycobiology Research and Training Center
- Institute for Genomic Medicine
- Ludwig Cancer Research
- Medical Genetics
- Orthopedic Surgery
- Pathology
- Pharmacology
- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
- Sports Medicine
Yadira Galindo
Public Information Officer
ygalindo@ucsd.edu
858-249-0423
Beat Areas
- Bone Marrow Transplantation
- CLL Research Consortium
- Dermatology
- Diabetes and Endocrinology
- Hematology-Oncology
- Metabolic Diseases
- Moores Cancer Center
- Neurology (Cancer)
- Radiation Oncology
- Surgery (Cancer)
- Urology
Michelle Brubaker
Senior Public Information Officer
mmbrubaker@ucsd.edu
858-249-0416
Beat Areas
- Cardiovascular and heart surgery (includes transplant and endovascular surgery)
- Eating Disorders
- Emergency Medicine
- Family and Preventive Medicine
- Gastroenterology
- Neurology (Stroke)
- Pediatrics
- Poison Control
- Primary Care
- Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- Trauma and Burn Unit
- Women and Infants