Staff Members

Registered Nurses

Registered Nurses A Registered Nurse is pictured Joan Hauser, RN, MPH

Specialty Clinic Nurse Manager

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers

Joan Hauser joined UHS in 2015, assumed the role of RN Collaborative Care Manager in 2017, and transitioned into the Specialty Nurse Manager position in 2019. She received her BSN from Samuel Merritt University (2008) and her MPH from the...

Meet the CAPS Staff

Counseling Staff

The UHS Counseling staff is a multicultural group of professional counselors and psychiatrists. Counselors include psychologists, social workers, and advanced-level trainees. We try to accommodate students’ preferences regarding counseling gender, ethnicity, and sexual orientation.

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Meet the Specialty Staff

Specialists Ronald Adler, MD American Board of Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology Ron Adler, MD, is a Bay Area native who received his undergraduate degree at Harvard University and medical degree at Stanford. Dr. Adler completed his internship and residency in medicine at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston (Harvard Medical School) and his gastroenterology fellowship at UCSF. He worked on research and...

Meet the Medical Staff

Physicians Howard Backer

Howard Backer, MD, MPH

Dr. Howard Backer joined UHS in 2000 as a clinician in Urgent Care. He received his MD from UC San Francisco (1975) and completed an internship at Highland Hospital in Alameda County followed by an Emergency Medicine fellowship and residency at San Francisco General Hospital.

Many years later, Dr. Backer returned to UC San Francisco for a residency in...

Nurse Practitioners

Nurse Practitioners A Nurse Practitioner is Pictured Livier Bejinez, NP

Livier is board-certified by the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners.

Rosemarie Bersabe Rosemarie Bersabe, FNP

Rosemarie Bersabe joined...

Medical Assistants

Medical Assistants Jeisi Ayala Jeisi Ayala

MA II - Urgent Care

Additional Languages: Spanish

Shelly Bachhuber Shelly Bachhuber

MA III - Specialty Clinic

Shelly decided to re-enter the workforce and return to...

Meet the Staff

Meet the Staff

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Meet the Registered Dietitians

Registered Dietitians The UHS Registered Dietitians provide medical nutrition therapy and nutrition counseling for any UC Berkeley student with nutrition-related health concerns. Sarah Minkow, MS, RD Sarah Minkow, MPH, RD Sarah Minkow joined UHS in 2017 as a clinical dietitian. She completed her BA in Psychology with a minor in Exercise and Health Science at UC Santa Barbara and her MS in...