Gina Shuler

Gina Shuler, PhD '13, MS, RN, serves as Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs at the UCSF School of Nursing and Vice President of the UCSF Health Office of Population Health and Accountable Care. With a career spanning over three decades since joining UCSF in 1990, she focuses on designing programs to enhance patient care and population health outcomes.

• Education:
  • PhD, University of California, San Francisco (2013)
  • Master of Science (MS)
  • Nursing licensure (RN)

Her research interests center on healthcare innovation, health policy development, and preventive care strategies. Notably, she pioneered a hospital-based smoking cessation program after observing post-acute relapse in patients, emphasizing systemic solutions over individual blame.

Shuler's work extends to activism, where she leverages her nursing expertise to influence corporate health policies. As a member of Nightingales Nurses, she successfully advocated for Walt Disney Company to ban smoking imagery in youth-oriented films, demonstrating her commitment to public health advocacy.