Dr. Chater is a University of California Visiting Professor at the Institute for Health & Aging and the Department of Community Health Systems. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of California, San Francisco, respectively, both in Nursing. Her PhD is from the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley. 

From 1993 until February 1997, Dr. Chater served as United States Commissioner of the Social Security Administration. Prior to that appointment, she was President of Texas Woman’s University. For seventeen years she held joint faculty appointments at the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Berkeley. For five years she served as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs at University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Chater lectures on public policy and economic and social issues concerning the aging population in the United States.

  Send E-Mail to:  Shirley.Chater@ucsf.edu