Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo
Alma mater
Scientific career
Institutions

Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo is an American epidemiologist, and Lee Goldman, MD Endowed Chair in Medicine at University of California, San Francisco.[1] She was appointed vice dean for Population Health and Health Equity.[2] She is an alumni trustee at Princeton University.[3][4]

Early life and college

Kristen Bibbins-Domingo was born in Stuttgart, Germany[5] while he family was stationed in the country. During her childhood, Bibbins-Domingo lived in various countries like Panama and Nigeria.[5] After moving to Maryland, Bibbins-Domingo attended a public science tech high school.[5]

She graduated from Princeton University in 1987,[3] and University of California, San Francisco. She studied chemistry[2] at the University of Ibadan.[2]

Career

In 2013, Bibbins-Domingo started a stroke prevention project tasked at lowering strokes in African Americans and young people.[6]

In 2016, she was named chair of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force[7] six years after she became a member of the task force.[2] Bibbins-Domingo is currently a professor at University of California, San Francisco[8]

In 2017, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force and Bibbins-Domingo dropped their opposition to PSA testing for prostate cancer.[9] Bibbins-Domingo appeared on PBS in 2017 to cement her and her task force's reversal on the test.[10] Bibbins-Domingo also publicly advocated for sales taxes to be put on sweetened beverages and sodas.[11][12]

Personal life

Bibbins-Domingo's son, Stephen played College Basketball for Georgetown[13] and played professional basketball in the Dutch Basketball League.[14] Kristen Bibbins-Domingo is currently married to Patrick Domingo.[13]

Works

  • Disease Prevention, An Issue of Medical Clinics of North America, The Clinics Internal Medicine series, co-authored with Michael P. Pignone MD, Elsevier, 2017, ISBN 978-0323531382

References

  1. ↑ "Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo | UCSF Profiles". profiles.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD, MAS Appointed as Chair of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and Inaugural Vice Dean for Population Health and Health Equity | UCSF School of Medicine". medschool.ucsf.edu. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  3. 1 2 "Six elected to Princeton Board of Trustees". Princeton University. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  4. ↑ "Six new trustees, including Jemison '18, elected to Board". The Princetonian. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  5. 1 2 3 "Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo". SF Build (San Francisco State University). San Francisco State University. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  6. ↑ "High blood pressure among blacks and young adults is focus of $11 million stroke prevention project". Eureka Alert. Eureka Alert. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  7. ↑ "Biography - US Preventive Services Task Force". www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org. Retrieved 2018-08-09.
  8. ↑ "Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo Appointed Chair of U.S. Preventive Services Task Force". UCSF Edu. UCSF Edu. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  9. ↑ "The federal panel that opposed prostate cancer screening just changed its mind". Washington Post. Washington Post. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  10. ↑ "Why this prostate cancer screening guideline just got reversed". PBS. PBS. Retrieved 9 August 2018.
  11. ↑ "Taxes trimmed Mexican soda consumption for two years - Business Insider". Business Insider. Business Insider. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  12. ↑ "Soda tax could save thousands of lives and $1 billion in Mexico". Reuters. Reuters. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  13. 1 2 "Stephen Domingo". GU Hoyas. GU Hoyas. Retrieved 6 October 2018.
  14. ↑ "Donar legt de Amerikaan Stephen Domingo voor een seizoen vast" (in Dutch). Donar.nl. 19 July 2017.
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