A clinical social worker, Danielle is Executive Director of the Stein Institute for Research on Aging and Center for Healthy Aging at UCSD, overseeing operations, strategic planning, organizational development, community outreach, training, philanthropy, communications, and marketing. She has been a member of the UCSD Division of Geriatric Psychiatry since 2001, teaching, mentoring, and publishing extensively in mental health, aging, and nutrition. Danielle also serves as a trainer and supervisor for Columbia University’s Center for Prolonged Grief.

She maintains a private practice focusing on grief, prolonged grief disorder, and suicide bereavement. She holds a BS in nutrition from the University of Massachusetts and an MS in Social Work from San Diego State University.