Congratulations to Jana Powell on her promotion to PREPARE Program Manager!

Please join us in congratulating Jana Powell on her promotion to PREPARE Program Manager!  Jana joined our team in 2016 as a Project Coordinator to support Dr. Rebecca Sudore’s research on advance care planning.  Jana graduated from Cornell University with a B.S. in Biological Sciences.  She also completed a Post-Baccalaureate Health Professions Program at UC Berkeley.  Prior to coming to UCSF, Jana worked for five years under the Office of U.S. Congressman Brian Higgins as a Legislative Correspondent before being promoted to Senior Legislative Assistant.  Some of her wealth of experience include: advising the Congressman on reproductive health, environment, nutrition, agriculture, education, energy, and other federal policy issues; and working with stakeholder groups, House and Senate offices and committees, and state and federal agencies to develop initiatives, and build bipartisan coalitions to advance the Congressman’s priorities.  Before joining our team, Jana worked at the Department of Pathology at UCSF as a Program Assistant where she managed the day-to-day Graduate Medical Sciences Unit (GMU) operations, maintained their websites and oversaw their admissions process.

As a Project Coordinator in Geriatrics, Jana has gained a deep knowledge of the PREPARE program, it’s operations, and the advance care planning landscape.  In addition to coordinating the day-to-day program operations, Jana also independently manages the marketing and dissemination of the PREPARE website: PREPAREforYourCare.org.  It is also worth mentioning that Jana impressively led the creation of 50 state-specific advance directive legal forms (funded by the Moore Foundation Grant), which are free to the public – the initial plan was to create up to five!  Jana very deservingly won the Department of Medicine STAR SPOT Award for this remarkable undertaking.  As Dr. Sudore’s PREPARE Program Manager, Jana will continue to work closely with Dr. Sudore and her team in policy and program planning, administration, management and implementation, as well as the development of a licensing and sustainability model for PREPARE.  Jana will also manage our newly-hired Program Assistant Clarissa Ferguson, who started on Monday.  Congratulations Jana!