Staff

Jim Kiriakis
Interim Director

Telephone: 415-353-4452
Email: jim.kiriakis@ucsf.edu

Jim Kiriakis is a business generalist with operational experience in the healthcare, education, investment management, and information technology industries. He currently serves as Manager of the ICD, and supports Hematology /Oncology, the UCSF Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center and Radiology in diverse matters, including business development and contracting associated with clinical trials, sponsored research, material transfers and other collaborations with industry sponsors. Jim’s experience in business development, contracting, management, sales, and customer service makes him a key contributor to the organization. Mr. Kiriakis earned his degree in Economics from UC Davis.

Irene Shin, J.D.
Manager

Telephone: 415-514-8920
Email: irene.shin@ucsf.edu

Irene Shin came to UCSF with over fifteen years of contract negotiating experience as an attorney in the SF Bay Area. Before joining ICD, she directed contracting on behalf of United Behavioral Health, a subsidiary of United Health Group, a Fortune 100, health care company. In addition, Irene’s prior experience includes serving as the General Counsel and Vice-President of Operations for YellowPages.Com (later acquired by Bell South and AT&T), Director of Operations and Finance at the Women’s’ Technology Cluster, a non-profit business incubator for women-led technology, biotechnology and social entrepreneurial organizations, and as a real estate finance attorney with the law firm of Goldfarb & Lipman. Irene’s community activities include providing pro bono legal services and serving as a board member for the Asian American Theater Company, Destination Foundation, and Smiley Dog Rescue. Irene received her J.D. from King Hall, at UC Davis, and her B.A. in Philosophy from UC Santa Cruz.

Jill Lezama
Office Manager and Assistant to the Director

Telephone: 415-353-4446
Email: jill.lezama@ucsf.edu

Jill Lezama serves as the Office Manager and Assistant to the Director of the ICD. Erik Lium. She has been with the ICD since September of 1996 and with UCSF for 28 years. During her time at UCSF, she has worked in several departments including the Development Office, School of Medicine Alumni Office and Medical Center Design and Construction.

Kent Iwamiya
Officer

Telephone: 415-353-4445
Email: kent.iwamiya@ucsf.edu

Kent Iwamiya joined the ICD in 2003 as an MTA Officer and then became an Industry Contracts Officer in 2005. He has a wide range of experience working in industry from working at a start-up company, working on private and public financings and on corporate securities filings. Prior to joinging UCSF, Kent worked at a software company where he negotiated marketing and software licensing agreements, and at a biotech company where he managed and negotated material transfer agreements, confidentiality agreements and clinical trial agreements. Kent has a B.A. in Sociology from UC Los Angeles.

Mora Mattingly
Officer

Telephone: 415-353-4695
Email: mora.mattingly@ucsf.edu

Mora came to the ICD from the University of California Office of Technology Transfer (OTT), where she held several analyst positions in biotech, pharmaceutical and agricultural licensing. Before working at OTT, she served as a patent administrator in the legal departments of several biotech companies, and worked in the technology transfer office at teh America Red Cross. Mora's research experience includes molecular biology studies carried out at the Red Cross and Rhone Poulenc Rorer, and contract expression in E. coli at Genex Corporation, as well as molecular biology and biochemistry studies at Cornell, New York Medical College and the University of Pennsylvania. Mora holds a B.A. in Biology from Swarthmore College and is a Patent Agent registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.

Thierry Musy-Verdel, J.D.
Associate Officer

Telephone: 415-514-8226
Email: thierry.musyverdel@ucsf.edu

Thierry joined the ICD in June of 2007 as an Associate Industry Contracts Officer. He manages the contracts of all industry-sponsored activities for the Departments of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, Medicine at SFGH, and Pediatrics, as well as the School of Dentistry. In this role, Thierry reviews, drafts and negotiates a variety of contracts including clinical trial agreements, sponsored research agreements, material transfer agreements, and confidentiality agreements. He also manages ICD’s numerous master agreements with industry partners and plays an active role in providing training and guidance to ICD’s interns. Previously, Thierry worked as a licensing intern at the University of Utah from January 2006 through May 2007. Thierry holds a J.D. from California Western School of Law and earned a B.S. in Biology from the University of Utah.

Theresa O'Brien, Ph.D.
Associate Officer

Telephone: 415-514-8074
Email: theresa.obrien@ucsf.edu

Theresa joined the ICD in April of 2008 as an Associate Industry Contracts Officer. She earned her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from UCSF, studying in the laboratory of James H. McKerrow. Her graduate work involved studying the function of cysteine proteases in Trypanosoma brucei, the parasite that causes African Sleeping Sickness. During graduate school, Theresa served as the President of the Graduate Student’s Association at UCSF for two years and participated in The National Academies Christine Mirzayan Science & Technology Policy Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C. She received her B.A. in Biology with a concentration in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from Williams College.

Susan Shih, Ph.D.
Associate Officer

Telephone: 415-514-8985
Email: susan.shih@ucsf.edu

Susan joined ICD in June of 2007 as an Associate Industry Contracts Officer. She is responsible for reviewing, drafting and negotiating a variety of contracts including clinical trial agreements, sponsored research agreements, material transfer agreements, and confidentiality agreements. Susan plays an active role in managing relationships with UCSF’s industry partners, particularly in the Departments of Neurology, Surgery and the School of Pharmacy. Susan earned her B.S. from UC Los Angeles and her Ph.D. from Northwestern University in Biochemistry, Molecular Biology and Cell Biology where she defined and characterized the molecular mechanism of ubiquitin-dependent endocytic pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisae. Susan completed her postdoctoral training at UCSF in the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, studying the mechanism of chromatin remodeling complexes.

Evleen Anderson
Industry Contracts Analyst

Telephone: 415-514-8989
Email: evelyne.anderson@ucsf.edu

Evleen Anderson joined the ICD as a contractor in May of 2007, and became a full-time UCSF employee in August of 2008. Evleen manages the intake process for new and amended industry-sponsored proposals, and also backs up Tiffany Dao with awarding of agreements executed by the ICD. Evleen’s diverse work history includes administrative and IT positions held at financial firms such as Merrill Lynch and Charles Schwab, as well as careers in real estate (as an agent and photographer) and the tourism industry (as tour guide).

Tiffany Dao
Industry Contracts Analyst

Telephone: 415-353-4891
Email: tiffany.dao@ucsf.edu

Tiffany Dao is an Industry Contracts Analyst. She is responsible for managing material transfer agreement (MTA) proposal intake, documentation and proposal set-up in the ICD electronic system and the Research Administration System (RAS) (PeopleSoft-based). She also manages the entry of data and creation of an award summary document within RAS and the notification of campus personnel that the proposal has been awarded. She earned her degree in Business-Office System at San Francisco State University.

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