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Dr. Bauer is a general internist, translational epidemiologist, and clinician investigator with a primary care practice based at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center (SFVAMC). His academic focus is to understand the mechanisms underlying urologic aging and to define clinical phenotypes and biomarkers for older adults with debilitating urologic conditions. Dr. Bauer's areas of research expertise include geriatric urology, lifestyle and age-related risk factors, and longitudinal assessment of biomarkers, functional outcomes, and quality of life.

Kaiwei Lu, MS is a research statistician at NCIRE. Kaiwei earned his master's degree in Statistics from San Diego State University and bachelor's degree in Mathematical Statistics from Purdue University. He is passionate about working with observational study data and electronic medical record data, and using statistical analyses to answer research questions. He is interested in different statistical methodologies and their applications in healthcare research.