Teaching Scholars Program Welcomes New Class for 2025 - 2026 Academic Year

The leadership of the UCSF Teaching Scholars Program (TSP) is pleased to announce the 2025 - 2026 cohort of Teaching Scholars, a group that represents diverse departments, programs, specialties, and identities. We are thrilled to engage in learning with them!

TSP Cohort for 2025 - 2026:

•     Ivan Arriaga, DPT, Physical Therapy
•     Allyson Chapman, MD, FACS, Medicine
•     Arthur Chyan, DO, Anesthesia
•     Claire Gibson, MD, Pediatrics
•     Shwesha Govil, DO, MPH, Family and Community Medicine
•     Akshay Govind, DMD, MD, MPH, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
•     Stacy Han, MD, Geriatrics
•     Rohini Jain, MD, Pediatrics
•     Kamesh Krishnamurthy, MD, PhD, Neurology
•     Andrew Lui, PT, DPT, Physical Therapy
•     Caroline Nguyen, MD, Medicine
•     Leigh Ann O’Banion, MD, Surgery
•     Chris Ortiz, MD, PhD, Anesthesia
•     Lara Senekjian, MD, MSci, MAT, Surgery

The Teaching Scholars Program cultivates a community of educators committed to taking a scholarly approach to education, contributing to education scholarship, and advancing equity and justice in health professions education. Faculty from all UCSF professional schools can apply and are selected through a competitive application process. Scholars engage in a year-long seminar-style program, developing an educational research project which they present at the end of the program in September. TSP graduates enrich their learning environments with their knowledge and experience and are linked to a long UCSF tradition of valuing educators and education scholarship.

Bridget O’Brien, PhD
TSP Co-Director

Tracy B. Fulton, PhD
TSP Co-Director