Bruce is a Senior Investigator at the Gladstone Institute and a Professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Conklin received an A.B. degree in public health from UC Berkeley in 1982. He completed an MD degree at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland in 1988. From 1995 to 2001, Dr. Conklin was the Associate Director of the General Clinical Research Center at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Conklin was the co-chair of the UCSF public science project in 1994, and is co-chair of the UCSF-California Academy of Sciences Affiliation Task Force.