Dr. John Greenspan
John Greenspan, BSC, BDS, PhD, FRCPath, ScD [hc], FDSRCS [Eng], will step down as director of the Orofacial Sciences Parnassus Campus Biospecimen Bank, effective July 1, 2016.
This facility incorporates the UCSF AIDS Specimen Bank (ASB) that Dr. Greenspan founded in December 1982. The OFS Biospecimen Bank, located in new facilities on the Parnassus campus, provides biospecimen processing and repository services to numerous AIDS and non-AIDS research groups such as CFAR, the ARI, Clinical Pharmacy, Rheumatology, Ophthalmology, Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences and the Osher Center, as well as the nine-country Sjogren’s International Clinical Collaborative Alliance (SICCA).
Dr. Greenspan led the biospecimen bank for more than three decades. His service to UCSF includes the Oral AIDS Center (founder and director 1985-2003), the AIDS Clinical Research Center (director 1992-2005) and the AIDS Research Institute (2003-2012), as well as in SICCA, which he established with Dr. Troy Daniels in 2003.
Richard Jordan, DDS, PhD, FRCPath, will succeed Dr. Greenspan as the bank's director. He is a professor of oral pathology, pathology and radiation oncology at UCSF and currently serves as director of the nationwide NRG Oncology Biospecimen Bank. A recognized national leader in biospecimen banking, Dr. Jordan is a member and current vice chair of the NCI-Group Banking Committee. He brings to the bank more than two decades of biobanking expertise that will lead to further operational enhancements for the program. Yvonne De Souza will continue as co-director, and Dr. Greenspan will be a consultant to the biospecimen bank.
For information on the bank and how to access its services, visit cfar.ucsf.edu/cores/aids-specimen-bank or contact DeSouza at yvonne.desouza@ucsf.edu or 415.476.2513.