Elad Ziv, MD

Yale University, New Haven, CT, BS, 1991, Magna cum Lauda, Biology
University of California, San Francisco, CA, MD, 1996, Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, CA, Intern, 1996-1997, Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, CA, Resident, 1997-1999, Medicine
University of California, San Francisco, CA, 1999-2001, Fellow, General Internal Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology

• 2001-2003
  Assistant Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• 2003-2007
  Assistant Professor in Residence, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• 2007-present
  Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
• 2007-present
  Associate Professor in Residence, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco

• 1988-1991
  IBM Thomas J. Watson Scholarship
• 1991
  Distinction in Biology, Yale University
• 1991
  Magna cum Laude, Yale University
• 2001-2003
  UCSF Women's Health Research Scholar
• 2002-2004
  Clinical Research Training Grant Award, American Cancer Society
• 2003
  Best Breast Cancer Clinical Investigation, UCSF Breast Oncology Program Retreat
• 2004-2007
  National Cancer Institute Career Transition Award
• 2005
  Robert Crede Award for Clinical Research, UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine

• Ziv E, J Cauley, P Morin, R Saiz, WS Browner. An association between the T29->C polymorphism in the transforming growth factor beta1 gene and breast cancer in elderly white women: the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures. JAMA, 2001; 285:2859-2863.
• Risch, N, E Gonzalez-Burchard, E Ziv, H Tang. Classification of Humans in Biomedical Research: Genes Race and Disease. Genome Biology 2002;3(7):COMMENT2007.
• Ziv, E, A Kahn, J Cauley, P Morin, R Saiz, WS Browner. The L10P polymorphism of TGF-beta is not associated with osteoporosis among white women. American Journal of Medicine, 2003; 114: 227-31.
• Ziv E, J Shepherd, R Smith-Bindman, K Kerlikowske. Mammographic breast density is a predictor of family history of breast cancer. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 2003; 95: 556-8.
• Burchard E*, E Ziv*, N Coyle, S Lin Gomez, H. Tang, AJ Karter, JL Mountain, EJ Perez-Stable, D Sheppard, N Risch. The importance of race and ethnicity in biomedical research and clinical practice. New England Journal of Medicine, 2003; 345: 1170-5. *Contributed equally to the manuscript
• Ziv E, E Burchard. Human population structure and genetic association studies. Pharmacogenomics 2003; 4: 431-41.
• Ziv, E, J Tice, J Shepherd, R Smith-Bindman, S Cummings, K Kerlikowske. Mammographic breast density predicts both ER-positive and ER-negative breast cancers. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 2004; 13: 2090-2095.
• Kerlikowske, K., J. Shepherd, J. Creasman, J. Tice, E. Ziv, S. Cummings. Are breast density and bone mineral density different independent risk factors for breast cancer? Journal of the National Cancer Institute 2005;97:368-74.
• K Salari*, S Choudhry*, H Tang, D Lind, SL Clark, N Ung, W Rodrigues-Cintron, M Shriver, P-Y Kwok, D Sheppard, N Risch, E Burchard#, E Ziv#. Asthma severity and genetic ancestry in Latino American Populations. Genetic Epidemiology 2005;29:76-86. * # Contributed equally to the manuscript
• A Reiner*, Ziv E*, D Lind, C Nievergelt, N Schork, E Burchard, , S Cummings, B Psaty, PY Kwok. Population structure, admixture and aging related phenotypes among African Americans: The Cardiovascular Health Study. American Journal of Human Genetics 2005;76:463-77. *Contributed equally to the manuscript
• F Modugno, J Zmuda, D Potter, C Cai, E Ziv, S Cummings, K Stone, P Morin, D Greene, and J Cauley. The Association of Estrogen Receptor Polymorphisms with Breast Cancer Risk in Older White Women. International Journal of Cancer 2005;116:984-91.
• F Modugno, J Zmuda, D Potter, C Cai, E Ziv, S Cummings, K Stone, P Morin, D Greene, and J Cauley. Estrogen Metabolizing Polymorphisms and Breast Cancer Risk among Older White Women. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 2005; 93: 261-70.
• Gonzalez Burchard, E, Borrell, LN, Choudhry, S, Naqvi, M, Tsai, HJ, Rodriguez-Santana, JR, Chapela, R, Rogers, SD, Mei, R, Rodriguez-Cintron, W, Arena, JF, Kittles, R, Perez-Stable, EJ, Ziv, E and Risch N. Latino Populations: A unique contribution to the study of Race, Genetics and Social Environment in Epidemiologic Research. Am Jo Public Health 2005; 95: 2161-8.
• HJ Tsai, S Choudhry, M Navi, E Burchard, E Ziv. A comparison of methods to estimate genetic ancestry and control for population stratification in admixed populations. Human Genetics, 2005, 118: 424-33.
• S Choudhry, N Coyle, D Lind, H Tang, K Salari, SL Clark, N Ung, H Matallana, PC Avila, S Nazario, J Casal, A Torres, M Toscano, R Castro, W Rodriguez-Cintron, M Shriver, P-Y Kwok, D Sheppard, N Risch, E Ziv, and E Burchard. Confounding in Genetic Association Studies of Puerto Rican and Mexican Asthmatic Subjects from the Genetics of Asthma in Latino Americans (GALA) Study. Human Genetics, 2005; 118: 652-64.
• J Tice, S Cummings, E Ziv, K Kerlikowske. Mammographic density and Gail score as predictors of breast cancer. Breast Cancer Research and Treatment, 2005; 94: 115-22.
• Ziv, E, E John, J Kho, S Choudhry, W Lorizio, E Perez-Stable, E Burchard. Breast cancer risk factors and genetic ancestry among Latinas in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers and Prevention 2006;15(10):1878-85.
• Reich, D, N Patterson, J Ramesh, PL De Jager, GJ McDonald, A Tandon, E Choy, D Hu, B Tamraz, L Pawlikowska, C. Wassel-Fyr, S Huntsman, A Waliszewska, E Rossin, R Li, M Garcia, A Reiner, R Ferrell, S Cummings, PY. Kwok, T Harris, J Zmuda, and E Ziv. Admixture mapping of an allele affecting soluble IL6 receptor and IL6 levels. American Journal of Human Genetics, 2007; 80: 716-26.
• Wassel-Fyr, C, A Kanaya, S Cummings, D Reich, WC Hsueh, A Reiner, T Harris, S Moffett, R Li, J Ding, I Mijkovic-Gacic, E Ziv. Genetic admixture, adipoctokines and adiposity in Black Americans, the Health ABC Study. Human Genetics, 2007; 121: 615-24.
• Reiner, AP, Carlson, CS, Ziv E, Iribarren, C, Janquish, CE, Nickerson, DA. Genetic ancestry, population sub-structure, and cardiovascular disease-related traits among African-American participants in the CARDIA study. Hum Genetics, 2007; 121: 565-75.
• Paschou, P, E Ziv, E Burchard, M Mahoney, P Derineas. PCA-correlated SNPs for substructure identification. PLOS Genetics, 2007; 3:1672-86.
• Nalls, M, J Wilson, N Patterson, A Tandon, J Zmuda, S Huntsman, M Garcia, D Hu, R Li, B Beamer, K Patel, E Akylbekova, J Files, .C Hardy, S Buxbaum, H Taylor, D Reich, T Harris, and E Ziv. Admixture mapping of white cell count: genetic locus responsible for higher white blood cell count in European Americans than African Americans in the Health, Aging and Body Composition Study and the Jackson Heart Study. Am J Hum Genet. 2008 Jan;82(1):81-7.
• Choudhry, S, M Taub, R Mei, J Rodriguez-Santana, W Rodriguez-Cintron, MD Shriver, E Ziv, NJ Risch, EG Burchard. Genome-wide screen for asthma in Puerto Ricans: evidence for association with 5q23 region. Hum Genet, 2008;123(5):455-68
• P Paschou, P Detrias, J Lewis, C Nievergelt, D Nickerson, J Smith, P Ridker, D Chasman, R Krauss, E Ziv. Tracing sub-structure in the European American population with PCA-informative markers. PLOS Genetics, 4(7): e1000114
• V Grann, E Ziv, C Joseph, A Neugut, Y Wei, J Jacobson, M Horwitz, N Bowman, K Beckmann, D Hershmann. Duffy (Fy), DARC, and neutropenia among women from the United States, Europe and the Carribean. Br J Haematol, 2008;143: 288-93.
• L Fejerman, E John, W Lorizio, K Beckman, E Burchard, E Ziv. Admixture and breast cancer risk among Latinas in the San Francisco Bay Area. Cancer Research, 2008; 68: 9723-8.