Celebration of New Members
Our Annual Celebration of New Members honors the incoming Academy Class and recognizes the contributions of health professions education staff and "front-line" teachers, educators, and mentors who impact our learners and faculty peers on a regular basis to make UCSF such an outstanding healthcare institution. This event was open to the UCSF Community.
2023 Celebration of New Members
Wednesday, September 13, 2023, 2:00 - 5:00 pm
Pritzker Auditorium, Nancy Friend Pritzker Psychiatry Building
Mission Bay Campus and Zoom
Congratulations to the Academy Class of 2023
Induction of school-wide faculty to AME: these inductees demonstrate excellence in direct teaching learners and/or faculty development for teachers/educators. New members also demonstrate outstanding accomplishments in one or more additional areas of health professions education activity: mentoring and advising; curriculum development, instructional design, and technology; educational leadership; and learner assessment.
Academy Class of 2023
- Noriko Tei Boyd Anderson, MD, MPH, Department of Neurology
- Sam Brondfield MD MAEd, Department of Medicine
- Kelly M. Cordoro, MD, Departments of Dermatology and Pediatrics
- Nicole M. Cresalia, MD, Department of Pediatrics
- Anthony Ding, MD, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Tammy Duong, MD, Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences
- Martha J. Elster MD, Department of Pediatrics
- Sabrina Fernandez, MD, Department of Pediatrics
- Robin S. Goldman, MD, MPH, Department of Medicine
- Aaron Harries, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Kenzo Hirose, MD, Department of Surgery
- Lily Hitchner, MD, Department of Emergency Medicine
- Marianne Hultgren, DNP, RN, CNE, Department of Family Health Care Nursing
- Corina Iacopetti, MD, MA, Department of Pediatrics
- Erica Lawson, MD, Department of Pediatrics
- Andrea Long, MD, Department of Surgery
- Lisa Mihaly, RN, MS, FNP, Departments of Family Health Care Nursing and Pediatrics
- Lisa Ochoa-Frongia, MD, Department of Medicine
- Iris M. Otani, MD, Department of Medicine
- Nailyn Rasool, MD, Department of Ophthalmology
- Ashkon Shaahinfar, MD, MPH, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics
- Yalda Shahram, MD, Department of Medicine
- Peter Ureste, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
- Mia Williams, MD, MS, Department of Medicine
Other Awards and Honors Presented:
- Faculty Awards: These include recipients of the AME Excellence in Teaching Award, AME/Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education Excellence in Interprofessional Teaching Award, and AME Excellence in Mentoring Award List of Faculty Award Recipients 2023
- Staff Awards: We also celebrate staff recipients for the Boyden Staff Award (campus) and the Award for Exceptional Service in Medical Education (for OME staff)
Keynote

Disrupting and Transforming Our Medical Workforce: Towards Overcoming Inequities in Academic Medicine
Dr. Albert is Associate Dean of Admissions in the UCSF School of Medicine, Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology, and Director of the Center for the Study of Adversity and Cardiovascular Disease.
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