Experts Guide
Adjunct Professor
Marissa Floro, PhD (she/her) is an adjunct faculty member in the counseling psychology department. Dr. Floro attempts to connect her research in intersections of identities, her clinical work primarily serving QTBIPoC, and her teaching under the ultimate goal of dismantling systems of oppression for the liberation of all.
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Professor of Legal Writing and Lawyering Skills and Director, Keta Taylor Colby Death Penalty Project
Amy Flynn joined USF Law in 2007. From 2004 to 2007, Flynn served as the Assistant Public Defender in Contra Costa County. She is co-author of California Criminal Law: Cases and Problems, 4th Ed. As Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Flynn oversees the law school’s academic programs and is responsible for curricular program development and implementation, including the Academic and Bar Exam Success Program. As a member of the faculty, she has taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and…
Faculty Emeritus
Expertise: Dispute Resolution,
Mediation,
Family Business,
Family Law
Professor Emeritus H. Jay Folberg has authored many articles and books on dispute resolution, mediation, negotiation, and family law. Folberg was the dean of the USF School of Law from 1989 to 1999. He has served as chairman of the Association of American Law Schools Alternative Dispute Resolution Section, president of the Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, chairman of the Oregon State Bar Family Law Section, and president of the Academy of Family Mediators. In 1998, Folberg was…
Adjunct Professor
Kate Folk is the author of Out There (Random House '22), a finalist for the California Book Award in First Fiction. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, One Story, McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, and Zyzzyva, among others. A 2019-2021 Wallace Stegner Fellow in Fiction at Stanford University, she's also received support from MacDowell, Willapa Bay AiR, the Headlands Center for the Arts, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She…
Associate Professor
Harney Science Center G28
I am excited about using high-precision control of light to create and control extremely brief pulses of electrons! My main tools are ultrafast lasers and field emission tips. Much of my earlier graduate work concentrated on improving the exquisite control of light fields achieved by the optical clock and ultrafast laser communities.
With undergraduate research students at USF, we investigate the ultrafast field emission process. Students have designed, built, and characterized femtosecond…
Assistant Professor
Expertise: Nurse-led models of care,
Innovation ,
Partnership development
Dr. Kelly Fox DNP, MN, RN holds a Doctoral Degree in Nursing from Yale University with an emphasis in Leadership and Health Policy and a Master’s degree in Nursing Education from the University of Washington. She is an Assistant Professor and the University of San Francisco's Program Director for the Doctor of Nursing Practice Program. Over the past 20 years she has focused on the design and implementation of nurse-led models of care. She assisted in developing Corporate Health NW, a nurse…
Professor
Harney Science Center 116
Expertise: Motor Control and Learning
Karen L. Francis, PhD, is a Professor and Co-chair in the Kinesiology Department at the University of San Francisco. She teaches courses in Motor Control and Motor Learning and Neuroscience. Dr. Francis's research interests are focused on how we control and coordinate movement and how aging and disease affects our ability to control movements. Dr. Francis is currently the President of the American Kinesiology Association. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Big City Mountaineers; a…
Faculty Emeritus
Expertise: Data analytics and machine learning: R, Python, SQL scripting,
Bioinformatics: genomics, microbiome, proteomics,
Electronic Health Records,
Software Development: Java, C++
Patricia’s expertise is informed by roles ranging from Director of Data Analytics and Research at Digbi Health to Software Engineer at Ebates.com to Assistant/Associate Professor at USF. Her students are co-authors of her peer-reviewed journal articles, with work presented at conferences and published as web and mobile apps.
She and her students are working on an NIH project to identify actionable genomic factors influencing racial disparity in cancer outcomes. Their outside collaborations…
Adjunct Professor
Aaron Frank's areas of interest include Environmental Law, Environmental Ethics, and Wildlife Policy. He is the Founder and President of the California Wildlife Center and sits on the Board of the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies. In 2013, Aaron won a USF Distinguished Teaching Award.