Coaching Program
The School of Medicine Coaching Program is designed to provide academic guidance for students and support their professional and personal development throughout their medical school curriculum. By providing longitudinal coaching for all medical students and robust faculty development for our coaches, we aim to create successful learning communities that support and respond to the needs of our students, coaches, and the patients we serve.
Overview of the Coaching Program:
Coaches are clinician educators who provide advice, assistance, and encouragement in all aspects of our students’ education and professional development. The coaches are a diverse group of faculty from multiple specialties and teaching sites. They are each assigned a small number of students to foster personal and individualized teaching and mentoring relationships.
The coaching program provides:
- Longitudinal coaching for students
- Coaches take on 6 first-year students every other year and follow them until they graduate. The goal is to have all students connected with a coach for the duration of their medical school career.
- Individualized support
- Coaches regularly review their students’ progress and competency development with them, and guide students in individual learning planning.
- Coaches meet with their students individually and in small groups.
- Coaches refer students to the range of learning and career development resources available at UCSF as needed.
- Formal instruction in clinical skills, including quality improvement and patient safety
- Coaches are site faculty members in the Clinical Microsystems Clerkship (CMC), teaching clinical skills and overseeing students’ systems improvement learning at clinical sites during the Foundations 1 portion of the Bridges Curriculum.
To be eligible to become a coach, you must be a full-time faculty member at one of our UCSF, SFVAHC, or ZSFG clinical sites and be available to teach during specific days. For more information regarding the coaching program, email [email protected]. UCSF does not use race, gender, sex, or other protected categories or proxies for protected categories in the selection process.
Our Coaches:
University of Rochester School of Medicine
Yale-New Haven Primary Care Medicine Residency and Chief Residency
UCSF School of Medicine Teaching Scholars Program
UCSF Institute for Physician Leadership
Hospitalist, Moffitt-Long Medicine Service and Goldman Medical Service
CMC (Clinical Microsystems Clerkship) Faculty Site Director, UCSF Health (Division of Hospital Medicine)
Medication safety, medication reconciliation, care of the hospitalized older adult, acute care for the elderly, shared decision making/communication, faculty development
Cycling, soccer, and singing (in the car, much to the chagrin of my children)
Be patient, listen, and work in teams.
Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA.
UCSF General Surgery Residency, San Francisco, CA.
UCSF Abdominal Organ Transplant Fellowship, San Francisco, CA.
QEHB Senior International Fellowship, Liver Transplant ad MultiOrgan Procurement, Birmingham, UK.
Transplant surgery and general surgery in patients with end organ disease, UCSF.
Vice Chair, Transplant Quality Improvement Committee.
Transplant 160 elective course director.
Surgery 110 Transplant Surgery Course Director.
Liver, kidney and pancreas transplant
The treatment of liver cancer
Organ preservation and organ utilization
Living organ donation
Family, cycling, and doing absolutely nothing at all. Generally, minimizing my impact in most circumstances.
Presume your initial thoughts and reactions about any topic could be wrong, then take a moment to figure out what is correct, and why.
Urology
Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine
Washington University in Saint Louis School of Medicine Residency in Urology
UCSF Fellowship in Andrology
UC Davis Masters of Advanced Studies in Clinical Research
Associate Professor of Urology, UCSF
Staff Physician, Department of Urology, ZSGH
Committee on Admissions, UCSF School of Medicine
Medical education, sexual wellness, men reproductive health, chronic pelvic pain syndromes, voiding dysfunction
Cooking, spending time with my kids, travel, non-fiction reading
Two main lessons stand out: the first is that a professional does what they do every day as if they love it, no matter how they feel. The second is that it is essential to take responsibility when things go wrong; don’t try to pass the buck, even when it’s not your fault . . . just focus on making it better.
University of Tennessee: Medical School
Georgetown University: Preliminary Medicine Internship
Medical College of Georgia: Dermatology Residency
Attending: adult and pediatric county clinics
Attending: VA clinic and hospital coverage
Attending: Family Health Care Network telehealth clinics and Inspire Health clinic
GME and UME education
Bullous disorders
Three kids’ sports and music
Hiking, skiing, gardening, fishing
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is today. (Unknown citation both Chinese and Hebrew origin)
Pediatrics
University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Medical School
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Pediatric Residency
UCSF Child Neurology Residency and Chief Residency
UCSF Epilepsy Fellowship
Pediatric epileptologist, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Pediatric epilepsy, pediatric epilepsy surgery, medical education
Entertaining my kids, yoga, running, hiking, travel
Listen with intention, have compassion, and work in teams.
UCSF Health
Harvard Medical School
UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency
UCSF Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
Attending Physician, Inpatient Psychiatry, ZSFG
Attending Physician, Outpatient Geriatric Psychiatry, UCSF Health
Geriatric psychiatry, HIV psychiatry, LGBTQ+ health, neurocognitive disorders, medical education, mentorship
Yoga, road biking, hiking, weightlifting and fitness, wine tasting, spending time with my dog and partner, and exploring the food and bakery scene in San Francisco.
Always give your best but allow your best to be good enough.
Harvard Medical School
UCSF Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency
Tele-Primary Care Physician, Clinical Resource Hub, SFVA
In-patient wards attending, SFVA
Director of Same-Day Virtual Primary Care, Clinical Resource Hub, SFVA
Lead for virtual primary care training rotations, Clinical Resource Hub, SFVA
Clinical reasoning, social justice and equity, curriculum development, humanities in medicine, telehealth
Hiking, visual art, dancing, meaningful conversations, reading, wordle
When you’re working on something, don’t think about the outcome. Just fully devote yourself to the process.
University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine
Cedars Sinai Medical Center Internal Medicine Residency
UCSF Nephrology Fellowship
UCSF Fellowship in Polycystic Kidney Disease
UCSF Health Professions Education Pathway
Nephrology Consult Service at UCSF and ZSFG
Nephrology Clinic at UCSF Parnassus
Dialysis rounds at Satellite Healthcare and Fresenius Kidney Care
Polycystic kidney disease, CKD-related bone mineral disorders, medical education, mentoring, San Joaquin Valley
Traveling, playing violin, baking, watching plays/musicals, trying new restaurants, bingeing on Netflix shows, jetskiing, learning calligraphy, yoga
From Maya Angelou: “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
UCSF Health
Stanford University, BA in Human Biology (area of concentration: Spirituality, Healing, and the Body)
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Emergency medicine residency, UCSF-SFGH
Pediatric emergency medicine fellowship, Dell Children’s Hospital at UT Austin
I work clinically in the emergency departments at San Francisco General Hospital, where I see adults and children, and Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco.
My main areas of interest are bioethics, improving access to health and healthcare for all, medical education, and pediatric traumatic injury, and serve locally and nationally on committees related to these topics. I serve as the co-medical director of pediatric emergency medicine at SFGH, as well as the SFGH Opportunity & Community site lead. I am not only a CMC Bridges coach, but also a career advising specialist within the school of medicine.
I love to read, swim, bike, run, and practice yoga, and love caring for my jungle of houseplants. I also love listening to live music, and often attend concerts and music festivals.
Be humble. A good listener believes that everyone has something important to impart, and it’s on the listener to find it. As clinicians, educators, colleagues, and friends, approaching every interaction with openness and humility allows us to earn trust and establish deep, genuine connections.
Harvard Medical School – Medical Doctorate
Harvard Medical School – Brigham and Women’s Anesthesiology Residency
Stanford University Medical Center – Clinical Pain Medicine Fellowship
Stanford University Medical Center – Clinical Excellence Research Center Fellowship
Institute for Healthcare Improvement – Improvement Advisor Professional Development Program
Associate Clinical Professor
Director, Anesthesia Pain Services, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Attending, Anesthesiology, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Healthcare economics, entrepreneurship, digital health, organizational leadership
Cycling, birdwatching, international politics, Neapolitan pizza
In any organization relationships are everything. Nurturing them will help you reach your goals and leads to great personal fulfillment.
