Mel Neri is a Research Associate in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. She is the Director of Curriculum Development for the College of Personal Assistance and Caregiving (CPAC), managing and co-authoring online training courses. She has been working in the disability and health services research field for over two decades. Before coming to UCSF in 2007, she worked at the Oregon Office on Disability & Health at the Oregon Health & Science University, the Center for Health and Disability Research at the National Rehabilitation Hospital, and the Center for Disability Policy and Research at the University of Washington.