Benefits
What We Do
Benefits is the division of Human Resources with responsibility for health and retirement benefits.
This unit provides faculty and staff with support on the full scope of university-sponsored health, welfare, and retirement benefit plans by:
- Maintaining an effective benefits communication program
- Providing one-on-one counseling and assistance over the phone, in person, and via e-mail
- Offering new employee benefit orientations to inform eligible faculty and staff about the University’s benefit plans in a small-classroom setting
- Training departmental representatives and supervisory personnel who assist employees in their respective departments with benefits-related issues and/or materials
Vice Chancellor and Area Assignments
Elaine Garrido
- Vice Chancellor - Academic Affairs
- Arts & Humanities
- Colleges
- Extension
- School of Global Policy & Strategy
- Graduate Division
- Libraries
- Office of the EVC
- The Preuss School
- Social Sciences
- Vice Chancellor - Marine Sciences
Blanca Reyes
- Vice Chancellor - Academic Affairs
- Academic Senate
- Biological Sciences
- Jacobs School of Engineering
- Physical Sciences
- Qualcomm Institute
- Rady School of Management
- San Diego Super Computer Center
- Vice Chancellor - Resource Management & Planning
- Facilities Management
Stacy Smith
- Office of the Chancellor
- Vice Chancellor - Advancement
- Vice Chancellor - Research Affairs
- Vice Chancellor - Resource Management & Planning
Noelle Zouari
- Vice Chancellor - Chief Financial Officer (VC-CFO)
- Vice Chancellor - Equity, Diversity & Inclusion
- Vice Chancellor - Student Affairs
About Us
Campus Benefits Office
E-mail: benefits@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 534-2816
Mailing address
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0926
Street address
Torrey Pines Center South
10280 N. Torrey Pines Road
Suite 230
La Jolla, CA 92037
Contact Information
Melissa Williams
Interim Director, Benefits
(858) 534-6743
melissawilliams@ucsd.edu
Noelle Zouari
Benefits Operations Manager
(858) 822-4514
nzouari@ucsd.edu
Elaine Garrido
Senior Benefits Analyst
(858) 822-6593
egarrido@ucsd.edu
Almira Henson
Administrative Assistant
(858) 534-2816
ahenson@ucsd.edu
Ronisha Martin
Health Care Facilitator Program Assistant
(858) 534-9686
hcfhelp@ucsd.edu
Blanca Reyes
Senior Benefits Analyst
(858) 534-5244
b1reyes@ucsd.edu
Stacy Smith
Senior Benefits Analyst
(858) 534-8313
sas003@ucsd.edu
Debra Wells
Health Care Facilitator
(858) 822-2197
hcfhelp@ucsd.edu