Bridges Faculty

Bridges Curriculum faculty are comprised of educators for Foundations 1 Leadership, Foundations 2 Leadership, and Coaches.

Foundations 1 Leadership

Element	Element Leaders
Foundations 1 Director	Justin Sewell, MD, PhD, MPH
CMC (Clinical Microsystems Clerkship)	Director: Anna Chang, MD Co-Director, Direct Patient Care: Susannah Cornes, 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: Eric Isaacs, MD
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 Assistant Director: Aaron Baugh, MD Assistant Director: Kala Mehta, DSc, MPH Assistant Director: Yalda Shahram, MD REGN (REGulatioN) Director: Tracy Fulton, PhD Director: Justin Sewell, MD, PhD, MPH Assistant Director: Sarah Kim, MD Assistant Director: Dana Larsen, MD 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 PIF Director: TBD

Foundations 2/Career Launch Leadership

DEPARTMENT/PROGRAM	COURSE TYPE	COORDINATOR	DIRECTOR
Foundations 2/Career Launch Director	N/A	N/A	Sanziana Roman, MD
Anesthesia	3rd, 4th	Vasilis Tabakis (3rd Year, Anes 110) TBD (4th Year)	Kristine Breyer, MD
Clinical Immersive Experiences (CIEx)	3rd	Catherine Chadwick	Melissa Coleman, MD
Coda (IDS 115)	4th	Career Launch Coordinator	Brad Monash, MD
CPX	3rd	Manaswini Avvari	Abbi Phillips, MD
Deep Explore	4th	Nathan Jew	Rita Redberg, MD
Dermatology	3rd, 4th	Laura Harrison	Joanna Tu, MD
Designing and Conducting Research (DCR; IDS 120)	4th	Inquiry Coordinator	Rebecca Graff, ScD
Emergency Medicine	SFGH/Parn	Sandra Lieu	Aaron Harries, MD Marianne Juarez, MD
	Highland	Idella Watts	Caitlin Bailey, MD
Family & Community Medicine	3rd, 4th	Roy Johnston Irina Worthey	Erica Brode, MD Betsy Wan, MD
Foundational Sciences in Foundations 2 (FS in F2; IDS 113)	3rd	Kelly O'Brien	Dana Larsen, MD Daniel Minter, MD
Fresno Programs	all courses	Kasan Jones	Kenny Banh, MD (Dean of UME at Fresno)
IDS 140.60	Expanding WikiProject	Brian Pande	Amin Azzam, MD
IDS 196	Teaching		Please contact the Director of the course you'd like to teach: Foundations 1 Courses
Introduction to Career Launch (ICL; IDS 119)	4th	Career Launch Coordinator	Brad Monash, MD
KLIC-East Bay	3rd	Jovante Aaron	Tali Ziv, MD Catherine Chiu, MD
KLIC-SF	3rd	Vandana Prasad	Brian Lin, MD Jessica Tashjian, MD
Lab Medicine	140.01	Andy Yeh	Zane Amenhotep, MD
	140.07	Reid Rosehill	Scott Kogan, MD
	140.08	Andy Yeh	Barbara Haller, MD
LIFE (Longitudinal Integrated Fresno Experience)	3rd	Marie Martinez	Loren Alving, MD Lin Li, MD
Medicine	Med 110 (3rd year)	Amy Zhen	Cindy Lai, MD
Medicine	Med 140.01 (Acting Internship, 4th year)	Amy Zhen	Lynnea Mills, MD Sirisha Narayana, MD
	4th year electives (not Sub-Is)	My-Ha Nguyen	David Sears, MD
Model SFGH	3rd		Alex Logan, MD Katherine Brooks, MD
Neurology	3rd	Karl Kanner	Megan Richie, MD
	4th	Monica Gee
Neurological Surgery	2-week Subspecialty	Teresa Pan	Manish Aghi, MD
Obstetrics & Gynecology	3rd, 4th	Kristin Olson Steph Tillery	Jeannette Lager, MD, MPH
Ophthalmology	4th	Michelle (Shelle) Libberton	Neeti Parikh, MD
Oral Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS)		Jenna Pham	Brian Bast, DMD, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery	4th	William Dunbar	Nikki Schroeder (All OSURG courses)
Otolaryngology (ENT)	4th	Jacqueline Myron	Chase Heaton, MD
Pathology	4th	Dana Balitzer	Raga Ramachandran, MD, PhD
Pediatrics	3rd, 4th	Doris Masferrer	Erica Lawson, MD
Physician Identity (PI) Weeks/ARCH	3rd, 4th	Manaswini Avvari	Co-Directors: Noriko Anderson, MD, MPH & Margaret Lin-Martore, MD
PISCES	3rd	Kelly O'Brien	Joseph Sullivan, MD Maria Wamsley, MD
Psychiatry	3rd	Tina Tai	Director: Kewchang Lee, MD Associate Director: Erik Levinsohn, MD
	4th	Sabrina Ahmad	Descartes Li, MD
Radiation Oncology	4th	Harish Vasudevan	Patricia Sneed, MD
Radiology	4th	Samira Zebarjadian	Emily Webb, MD
San Joaquin Valley PRIME (SJV PRIME) Program- Fresno	F2	Grace Carlson	Loren Alving, MD Lin Li, MD
Specialty Practice Ambulatory sub-iNternship (SPAN; IDS 125)	4th	Career Launch Coordinator	Kate Lupton, MD
Surgery	3rd	Frenni Enriquez	Matthew Lin, MD
	4th	Carmen Vargas
Urology	4th	Karen Tabayoyong Katherine Jung	Lindsay Hampson, MD, MAS
VALOR	3rd	N/A	Calvin 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.