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Bridges Faculty

Bridges Curriculum faculty are comprised of educators for Foundations 1 Leadership, Foundations 2 Leadership, and Coaches. If you are a UCSF faculty member interested in becoming involved in other teaching roles within the Bridges Curriculum, please visit the Teaching Opportunities in the Bridges Curriculum webpage.

 

Foundations 1 Leadership

 

ElementElement Leaders
Foundations 1 DirectorJustin Sewell, MD, PhD, MPH
CMC (Clinical Microsystems Clerkship)

Interim Faculty Director:  Mary (Mimi) Margaretten, MD (Dr. Anna Chang is Associate Dean for Curriculum)

Co-Directors, Direct Patient Care: Susannah Cornes, MD and Mary (Mimi) Margaretten, MD

Co-Directors, Health Systems Improvement: Catherine Lau, MD and Lei Choi, MD

Co-Director, Clinical Preceptorships: Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd

Site Directors:

SFVAHCS: James Frank, MD

UCSF Health: Stephanie Rennke, MD

ZSFG: Christopher (Toff) Peabody, MD, MPH

Foundational Science Blocks

Ground School

Director: Marieke Kruidering, PhD

Director: Raga Ramachandran, MD, PhD

Assistant Director: Madhu Rao, MD


ABC (Airways, Blood, and Circulation)

Director: Dana Rohde, PhD

Director: Binh An Phan, MD

Assistant Director: Sam Brondfield, MD, MAEd


JAM (Justice & Advocacy in Medicine)

Director: Aimee Medeiros, PhD

Co-Director: Aaron Baugh, MD

Co-Director: Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH

Co-Director: Yalda Shahram, MD


REGN (REGulatioN)

Director: Dana Larsen, MD

Director: Tracy Fulton, PhD

Assistant Director: Sarah Kim, MD

Assistant Director: Justin Sewell, MD, PhD, MPH 


PhD (Pathogens and Host Defenses)

Director: Luis Rubio, MD, MHS

Director: Manjiree Karandikar, MD

Assistant Director: Ari Molofsky, MD, PhD


Life Stages

Director: Naomi Stotland, MD

Co-Director: Mansi Desai, MD

Assistant Director: Kathryn Eubank, MD


BMB (Brain, Mind, and Behavior)

Director: Andy Josephson, MD

Director: Descartes Li, MD

Assistant Director: Carmen Kilpatrick, MD

Assistant Director: Nailyn Rasool, MD


DR (Diagnostic Reasoning)

Director: Sirisha Narayana, MD

Associate Director: Katherine Brooks, MD

Inquiry Program

Program Director: Rita Redberg, MD, MS

Director, Core Inquiry Curriculum: John Turnbull, MD

Director, Core Inquiry Curriculum: Colin Feuille, MD

Director, Inquiry Immersion: Nilika Singhal, MD

Physician Identity (PI) Weeks

Co-Directors: Noriko Anderson, MD, MPH & Margaret Lin-Martore, MD

Professional Identity Formation (PIF) Director: Tim Dyster, MD

Foundations 2/Career Launch Leadership

DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM

 

COURSE TYPE

 

COORDINATORDIRECTOR
Foundations 2/Career Launch DirectorN/AN/ASanziana Roman, MD
Anesthesia3rd, 4th

Vasilis Tabakis (3rd Year, Anes 110)

TBD (4th Year)


Kristine Breyer, MD

 

Clinical Immersive Experiences (CIEx)3rdCatherine ChadwickMelissa Coleman, MD
Coda (IDS 115)4thJeremy WongBrad Monash, MD
CPX3rdManaswini AvvariAbbi Phillips, MD
Deep Explore4thNathan JewRita Redberg, MD
Dermatology3rd, 4thLaura HarrisonJoanna Tu, MD
Designing and Conducting Research (DCR; IDS 120)4thInquiry CoordinatorRebecca Graff, ScD
Emergency MedicineSFGH/ParnSandra Lieu

Aaron Harries, MD

Nancy Anaya, MD

HighlandIdella WattsCaitlin Bailey, MD
Family & Community Medicine3rd, 4thIrina Worthey

Erica Brode, MD

Mary Turocy, MD 

Foundational Sciences in Foundations 2 (FS in F2; IDS 113)3rdKelly O'Brien

 

Igor Mitrovic, MD

Daniel Minter, MD

Fresno Programsall coursesKasan JonesKenny Banh, MD (Dean of UME at Fresno)
IDS 140.60Expanding WikiProjectBrian PandeAmin Azzam, MD
IDS 196Teaching Please contact the Director of the course you'd like to teach:
Foundations 1 Courses
Introduction to Career Launch (ICL; IDS 119)4thJeremy WongBrad Monash, MD
KLIC-East Bay3rdJovante Aaron

Tali Ziv, MD

Catherine Chiu, MD

KLIC-SF3rdVandana Prasad

Jessica Tashjian, MD

Blanca Rocio Cendejas, MD

Lab Medicine140.01Andy Yeh Zane Amenhotep, MD
140.07Reid RosehillScott Kogan, MD
140.08Courtney WongBarbara Haller, MD
LIFE (Longitudinal Integrated Fresno Experience)3rdMarie Martinez

Loren Alving, MD

Lin Li, MD

MedicineMed 110 (3rd year)Amy ZhenCindy Lai, MD
MedicineMed 140.01 (Acting Internship, 4th year)Amy Zhen

Lynnea Mills, MD

Sirisha Narayana, MD

4th year electives (not Sub-Is)My-Ha NguyenDavid Sears, MD
Model SFGH3rd 

Katherine Brooks, MD

Camila Mateo, MD

Neurology3rdKarl KannerMegan Richie, MD
4thMonica Gee
Neurological Surgery2-week SubspecialtyTeresa PanManish Aghi, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology3rd, 4th

Kristin Olson

Steph Tillery

Jeannette Lager, MD, MPH
Ophthalmology4thMichelle (Shelle) LibbertonNeeti Parikh, MD
Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS) Jenna PhamBrian Bast, DMD, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery4thWilliam DunbarNikki Schroeder (All OSURG courses)
Otolaryngology (ENT)4thDaniella SilvaChase Heaton, MD
Pathology4thThongdam PathoumthongStephanie Siegmund, MD
Pediatrics3rd, 4thDoris MasferrerErica Lawson, MD
Physician Identity (PI) Weeks3rd, 4thManaswini AvvariCo-Directors: Noriko Anderson, MD, MPH & Margaret Lin-Martore, MD
PISCES3rdKelly O'Brien

Kendra Moore, MD

Maria Wamsley, MD

Psychiatry3rdTina Tai

Director: Kewchang Lee, MD

Associate Director:
Erik Levinsohn, MD

4thSabrina AhmadDescartes Li, MD
Radiation Oncology4thHarish VasudevanPatricia Sneed, MD
Radiology4thSamira ZebarjadianEmily Webb, MD
San Joaquin Valley PRIME (SJV PRIME) Program- FresnoF2Grace Carlson

Loren Alving, MD

Lin Li, MD

Specialty Practice Ambulatory sub-iNternship (SPAN; IDS 125)4thJeremy WongKate Lupton, MD
Surgery3rdFrenni EnriquezJessica Gosnell, MD
4th

Frenni Enriquez

Amber Cobbett

Carmen Vargas (Fresno)

Urology4thKaren Tabayoyong
Katherine Jung		Lindsay Hampson, MD, MAS
VALOR3rdN/ACalvin Chou, MD
Coaches

 

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
    • Each coach is assigned a group of about 6 first-year medical students to oversee throughout their medical school curriculum. As we begin this new program, coaches are also assigned 6-7 third-year medical students to provide additional support as those students complete medical school.
  • 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.

Recruitments for funded positions are managed centrally through the Office of Medical Education. UCSF does not use race, gender, sex, or other protected categories or proxies for protected categories in the selection process for these roles.