California Initiative to Advance Precision Medicine Making the Unseen Seen Trial of Depression (MUST-D): Scrutinizing social determinants of depression to advance precision and equitable care (2024-2027)

Dr. Hong is currently a Professor at the UCSD Schools of Public Health and Medicine and the Director of the UCSD Integrative Health and Mind-Body Biomarker Core. Dr. Hong’s research interests include neuroendocrine and immune cell activation, exercise and immune system activation and adaptation, and inflammation and its cognitive and psychosocial impact. Her National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded studies have been focusing on immune cell activation and inflammation under sympathoadrenal activation among individuals living with chronic inflammatory conditions and their implications for cardiovascular, neuropsychiatric, and cognitive outcomes. Her recent research projects also include investigations of multi-system risk factors for cognitive outcomes in older adults and depression among individuals living in socially under-resourced settings. She earned her PhD in psychoneuroimmunology and exercise immunology from the University of Georgia, then completed her post-doctoral training in psychoneuroimmunology and behavioral medicine research in the UCSD Department of Psychiatry.

Dr. Emily (Ema) Troyer is an Associate Clinical Professor, Director of the Community Psychiatry Research Center, and Community Psychiatry Track Director for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship, in the UCSD Department of Psychiatry. Under her direction, the Community Psychiatry Research Center is focused on understanding social drivers of health for individuals living with mental illness who receive care in publicly funded systems of care. She is passionate about building and maintaining strong academic-community partnerships between the UCSD Community Psychiatry Program, local Federally Qualified Health Centers, and San Diego County specialty mental health programs, as well as mentoring trainees in these settings, to develop the future workforce of clinician-scholars in community-based, public-sector systems of care. Dr. Troyer earned her M.D. at the University of Toledo in Ohio, followed by general psychiatry residency training at the University of Illinois at Chicago, child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at UCSD, and a NIMH T32 post-doctoral fellowship at UCSD.

Dr. Godino leads pragmatic quality improvement research efforts within the primary care setting. These efforts are designed to enhance patient care and population health outcomes by integrating evidence-based practices and innovative technologies into everyday clinical workflows. His projects often involve close collaboration with operational leaders, health care providers and patients to ensure that the interventions are effective and sustainable in real-world settings. By focusing on pragmatic research, Dr. Godino aims to bridge the gap between research findings and actual clinical practice, ultimately improving the quality of care delivered to patients. He earned his Ph.D. in epidemiology from the University of Cambridge and completed postdoctoral training in epidemiology and the biostatistics of aging at Johns Hopkins University.

Myra Buby, LCSW leads FHCSD’s behavioral health strategy and the integration of mental health services within primary care. A bilingual (Spanish–English) licensed clinical social worker, she has worked at FHCSD for more than two decades, previously serving as Director of Mental Health and Associate Director of Mental Health. In her leadership role, she has helped expand behavioral health services across FHCSD clinics and supported system-level initiatives to integrate behavioral health into patient-centered medical homes, including achieving NCQA recognition for Behavioral Health Integration. Myra completed her undergraduate education at the University of California, Berkely and holds a master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan.

Dr. Gould is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Director of the Community Psychiatry Research Center, and Co-Director of Clinical and Policy Partnerships for UCSD-Imperial County Behavioral Health Services. She is a licensed clinical psychologist who practices and conducts research in community settings, providing general mental health care to children, adolescents, and adults. She completed her graduate and postdoctoral training at University of California Los Angeles, University of Hawaii at Manoa, and UCSD.

Dr. Kohn is a Project Scientist with broad training as a neuroscientist and over a decade of experience in mental health research. His research expertise centers on the identification of biomarkers, predictors, and modifiable factors associated with neuropsychiatric illness, particularly depressive disorders and dementia. Dr. Kohn obtained his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Emory University and completed a post-doctoral fellowship at UCSD.

Dr. Moore is a digital health scientist, licensed Clinical Neuropsychologist, and entrepreneur. As a Professor of Psychiatry at UCSD and Director of UCSD’s Mental Health Technology Center (MHTech), she leads research utilizing digital phenotyping methods to improve the sensitivity of cognitive assessments for disease progression and clinical trials outcomes, particularly in aging and psychiatric populations. She is also a co-founder of NeuroUX, the private sector partner for this study. Dr. Moore obtained a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Alliant International University and completed postdoctoral fellowships in Geriatric Mental Health and neuroAIDS at UCSD.

Dr. Rabin is a Professor and Founding Faculty at the UC San Diego Herbert Wertheim School of Public Health and Human Longevity Science, the Co-Director of the UC San Diego Dissemination and Implementation Science Center (DISC), and an Implementation Science (IS) expert and MPI on a number of large National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Veterans Affairs (VA) Center grants and research projects.. Dr. Rabin obtained a Ph.D. in Public Health Studies and an M.P.H. in Epidemiology from Saint Louis University and a Pharm.D. from Semmelweis University in Budapest.

Dr. Rodas is a clinical psychologist at FHCSD and a clinician scientist within the Laura Rodriguez Research Institute. Her work centers on developing and evaluating interventions that improve access to mental health services and strengthen integrated behavioral health within primary care settings serving medically underserved populations. Dr. Rodas collaborates with clinicians, community partners, and academic investigators to design studies that translate evidence into practical improvements in care delivery across FHCSD’s network of community health centers. Dr. Rodas earned her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and completed a postdoctoral training in psychology at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.

Mr. Sanchez serves as the Vice President of Operations for the San Diego American Indian Health Center. He previously worked at Family Health Centers of San Diego as the Director of Managed Care & Social Services. Mr. Sanchez obtained a Master of Health Administration from The George Washington University.

Dr. Tu’s research covers a wide range of areas such as causal inference, semiparametric models, U-statistics, longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis with interval censoring and truncation, and pooled testing, and their applications to HIV/AIDS, mental health, and psychosocial research. He is a Professor of Biostatistics , Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics. With over 30 years of experience and over 300 publications in peer-reviewed journals, he has been making significant and important contributions to the fields of statistical methodological, biomedical and psysocial research. Dr. Tu obtained a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Statistics from Duke University and was a faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania and University of Rochester prior to joining UCSD in 2016