Blake Gurfein, Ph.D.

Dr. Gurfein is the Chief Scientific Officer for Tivic Health, a Bay Area company that develops bioelectronic device therapies. Dr. Gurfein also holds an appointment as an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco and received an Sc.B. in Neuroscience from Brown University, a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. In Dr. Gurfein’s academic and industry research, he has focused on developing therapies for patients with unmet treatment needs. Dr. Gurfein started volunteering with HomeRise in 2016.