Dr. Pamela Ling is Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education at the University of California San Francisco. Her research focuses on tobacco, media, social marketing, and young adults. The work includes analyses of thousands of previously secret tobacco industry documents detailing industry marketing strategies. Dr. Ling has special interest in the marketing of novel tobacco products including e-cigarettes, the global proliferation of U.S. tobacco marketing strategies, and using market research strategies to inform innovative clinical and public health interventions. She has contributed to four Surgeon General’s Reports on Tobacco and has been member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation since 2016. Dr. Ling has an active clinical practice in General Internal Medicine.   

Fun facts: Pam Ling was on MTV’s The Real World San Francisco in 1994 while a 3rd year med student, where she met her husband, cartoonist Judd Winick. They live in Noe Valley with 2 teenage kids and 2 cats. She loves choral singing, nerd pop culture, and creative baking.

Judd Winick is a cartoonist and creator of the award-winning, New York Times bestselling Hilo series. Judd grew up on Long Island with a healthy diet of doodling, X-Men comics, the newspaper strip Bloom County, and Looney Tunes. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan, and today lives in San Francisco with his wife, Pam Ling; their two kids; their cats, Troy and Abed; and far too many action figures and vinyl toys for a normal adult. Judd has written and produced animation for television and film, created the Cartoon Network series Juniper Lee; has written superhero comics, including Batman, Green Lantern, and Green Arrow; and, along with his wife Pam, was a cast member of MTV’s The Real World: San Francisco. Judd is also the author of the highly acclaimed graphic novel Pedro and Me, about his Real World roommate and friend, AIDS activist Pedro Zamora.