Lianne Gensler, MD

Professor

Dr. Lianne Gensler is a rheumatologist and serves as director of the UCSF Spondyloarthritis Research Program & Clinic, which is dedicated to care for this inflammatory disease.

Dr. Gensler's primary research interest is the disease progression of axial spondyloarthritis (a category that includes ankylosing spondylitis) and comorbidities.

Dr. Gensler earned her medical degree at the University of California, Irvine. She completed an internal medicine residency, chief residency and rheumatology fellowship at UCSF, and subsequently joined the faculty in the department of Medicine and division of rheumatology .

Education

2019 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California

Certificate, 2008 - Medicine (Advance Training in Clinical Research), University of California, San Francisco

2008 - Rheumatology Fellowship, University of California, San Francisco

2005 - Chief Resident, University of California, San Francisco

2004 - Residency, Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

M.D., 2001 - School of Medicine, University of California Irvine

B.S., 1995 - Microbiology & Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles

Honors and Awards

The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, University of California, San Francisco, 2025 GME Award for Excellence and Innovation, University of California, San Francisco, 2024 Master Clinician, University of California, San Francisco, 2020 Ira M. Goldstein Teaching award in Rheumatology, University of California, San Francisco, 2015 Research Mentoring Award, University of California, San Francisco, 2015 Spondylitis Association Young Investigator Award, Spondylitis Association of America, 2012

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