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Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an associate professor of medicine and of epidemiology and biostatistics at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and is co-director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations at San Francisco General Hospital. 

A general internist at San Francisco General Hospital and faculty member in the division of general internal medicine, Dr. Bibbins-Domingo is a cardiovascular epidemiologist who has published extensively on the development of heart disease in young adults and race/ethnic and income differences in manifestations of heart disease. Her numerous publications include two studies in the New England Journal of Medicine regarding the impact of current adolescent obesity on future adult heart disease and the high rates of heart failure among young and middle-aged African American men and women linked to obesity and blood pressure elevations in young adulthood.

Her current work focuses on understanding the interaction between social, behavioral, and biological factors that place vulnerable groups at risk for cardiovascular disease early in life and population-wide policy level interventions that may prevent disease in these groups. She has received funding from the NHLBI, the NIDDK, the American Heart Association, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.