Elissa Epel

Elissa S. Epel, PhD, is an American health psychologist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She directs UCSF's Aging, Metabolism, and Emotion Center and is associate director of the Center for Health and Community. Epel is internationally recognized for her research on stress, aging, and obesity, and co-authored the New York Times bestseller "The Telomere Effect" with Nobel laureate Elizabeth Blackburn.