Program Alumni

Anna Ayala

Medical School: Oregon Health & Science University 

PLUS Project: Centering Teen Voices: Investigating the Perception of Healthcare and Community through Adolescent Patient Experiences in a Federally Qualified Health Center
 

Earl Chism 

Medical School: University of Illinois 

PLUS Project: Keep Dreaming: Developing a Curriculum Supporting Black Youth Interested in Healthcare
 

Joseph Fong 

Medical School: University of Illinois 
PLUS Project: Centering Teen Voices: Investigating the Perception of Healthcare and Community through Adolescent Patient Experiences in a Federally Qualified Health Center
 

Vida Sandoval 

Medical School: University of California, Davis 

PLUS Project: Creating La Comunidad En Medicina: A Cross-Specialty Framework for Celebrating Cultura and Promoting Well-Being Among Latine Trainees
 

Isabel Sunshine 

Medical School: Keck, University of Southern CA 
PLUS Project: Centering Teen Voices: Investigating the Perception of Healthcare and Community through Adolescent Patient Experiences in a Federally Qualified Health Center

Hanna Garza

 
Medical School: University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine
PLUS Project: Improving literacy and connection to reproductive and sexual health for young women.
 

Esme Lopez

 
Medical School: Washington State University Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine
PLUS Project: Encuentro youth retreat.  Exploring STEM pathways and health literacy with the Oaxacan community

Sowmya Jasti

 
Medical School: Drexel
PLUS Project: Portability of healthcare for justice-involved youth in the community

Brenna Mendoza

 
Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine
PLUS Project: Portability of healthcare for justice involved youth in the community

Dominique Forestier

 
Medical School: University of Florida College of Medicine
​​​​​​PLUS Project: Inside (and) Out with Mission High School: Using Art to Foster Relationships and Process with Teens
 

Dina Abdo

Medical School: Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine
​​​​​​PLUS Project: Words That Heal: Building a More Inclusive Pediatric Clinic for Arabic-Speaking Families
 

Saba Ali

 
Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
PLUS Project:  Mental Health & Resilience in Migrant Children: A School-Based Intervention 
 

Emilee Tu

Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
​​​​​​PLUS Project: Inside (and) Out with Mission High School: Using Art to Foster Relationships and Process with Teens
 

Lawren Wooten

Medical school: Georgetown University School of Medicine 
​​​​​​PLUS Project: Race Concordant Care for Bay Area Black Kids: Honeycomb Clinic and Center and Care Study
 

Daniel Park 

 
Medical School: Rush Medical College  
PLUS Project: Cultivating wellness through play. Co-develop a mental health program for immigrant and refugee high school students with Soccer Without Borders  
 

Teresa Skelly 

Medical School: Rowan University 
PLUS Project: Improving Behavioral and Mental Health connection through pathways. Creating flow diagrams for several mental health diagnoses, EHR tools, and training for residents   
 

David Avila 

Medical School: University of California, Irvine
PLUS Project: Resource Mapping for Resident Engagement

Robert "Robi" Bucayu 

Medical School: University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 
PLUS Project: Resource Mapping for Resident Engagement

Mauricio Franco

Medical School: Michigan State University College of Human Medicine
PLUS Project: Resource Mapping for Resident Engagement
 

Amber Gautam

Medical School: East Carolina University
PLUS Project: Resource Mapping for Resident Engagement
 

Ursula Griffiths-Randolph

Medical School: Eastern Virginia Medical School 
​​​​​​PLUS Project: Resource Mapping for Resident Engagement; HUGS: A Pediatric Resource for Black Bay Area Families
 

Alicia Callejo-Black 

 
Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine 
PLUS Project: Using Social Media as a Tool for Peer-to-Peer Mental Health Education
 

Nassim Durali 

 
Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine 
PLUS Project: Using Social Media as a Tool for Peer-to-Peer Mental Health Education

Caitlin Jackson 

Medical School: Michigan State University 
PLUS Project: Using Social Media as a Tool for Peer-to-Peer Mental Health Education
 

Sarah Bourne 

Medical School: Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown 
​​​​​​PLUS Project: Addressing Health Equity Through After-School Programs

Morgan Kelly 

Medical School: UCSF 
PLUS Project: Addressing Health Equity Through After-School Programs
 

Radhika Rajan

Medical School: Brown 
PLUS Project: Mental Health and Resilience in Migrant school-aged children through School-Based Interventions

Tiana Woolridge

Medical School: UCSF 
​​​​​​PLUS Project: Embrace the Mind: Empowering Youth as Changemakers in the Pediatric Mental Health Crisis 
 

Wilson Mourad

Medical School: Florida International University Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine 
​​​​​​PLUS Project: Addressing Mental Health and Resilience in Migrant school-aged children through School Based Interventions

Anh Vo

Medical School: University of Tennessee 
​​​​​​PLUS Project: Development of a resident curriculum on food justice with the local Rooftop Farm

Sonia Subudhi

Medical School: Eastern Virginia Medical School
​​​​​​PLUS Project:  Development of a resident curriculum on food justice with the local Rooftop Farm

Omar Salman 

Medical School: Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine 
PLUS Project: Re-Imagining Pediatric Cancer Survivorship to Improve Outcomes & Eliminate Disparities
 

Raechelle G. Ocampo 

Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine 
PLUS Project: The GLIDE Resilience Project: Examining the Role of Pediatricians in Afterschool Program  
 

Santiago Rozo  

 
Medical School: University of Nebraska Medical Center 
PLUS Project: Opportunities to Bridge Mental Health Disparities Through Socio-Emotional Learning Programs
 

Denise Powell 

Medical School: University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC) 
PLUS Project: Health Collaborations through the Lens of Media and Restorative Justice 
 

Katherine Minaya 

Medical School: The Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell 
PLUS Project: Being Ahistorical in Our Work With CBOs: Examining how we can more judiciously engage with communities we aim to serve and lessons learned
 

Payal Desai 

 
Medical School: University of California, San Diego 
PLUS Project:  Implementing a Pediatric Resident Curriculum on ACEs, Toxic Stress, and Resilience
 

Amrit Dosanjh 

 
Medical School: USC Keck School of Medicine 
PLUS Project: Intersectional disparities in HIV rates and PrEP utilization in teen clinic
 

Alexis Fogel 

Medical School: Columbia University 
PLUS Project: Power mapping institutional funding and support of DEI, anti-racism, anti-policing, and other related initiatives

Daniela Brissett

Medical School: UCSF
PLUS Project: Centering Community Wisdom: Reimagining the relationship between Medical Institutions & the Communities they ‘serve’

Daniel Woolridge

Medical School: UC San Diego School of Medicine
PLUS Project: Parallel Tracks: Deciphering Powers of Data and Narrative

Livy Low

Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
PLUS Project: From Margin to Center: Moving Towards a More Just Learning Environment in Health Institution

Priya Shankar

Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
PLUS Project: Girls Health Champions - training adolescent girls globally as peer health educators

Zarah Iqbal

Medical School: Stanford School of Medicine
PLUS Project: Identifying Barriers to Health Screenings for Foster Children

Jennifer Menjivar

Medical School: David Geffen School of Medicine
PLUS Project: Legislative Advocacy for Asthma Preventative Services

Jean Junior

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
PLUS Project: Pathways to Policy: state-wide coalition created resource to catalyze youth engagement in advocacy for policy change 

Christina Herrera

Medical School: Columbia
PLUS Project: Resources to Prevent the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC)

Abimbola Dairo

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
PLUS Project:  Alternative Payment Models for Medicaid-Eligible Children

Emma Anselin

Medical School: Brown University
PLUS Project: Treasure Island Let's Eat (TILE): develop and distribute a community survey on barriers to food access and proposed solutions

Camila Cribb Fabersunne

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
PLUS Project: Exclusionary School Discipline and School Achievement for Middle and High School Students, by Race and Ethnicity

Dannielle McBride

Medical School: John Hopkins
PLUS Project: School to Prison Pipeline: Proposed teaching sessions with educators on the effects of trauma, bias, and racism, how these affect the interpretation of behavior, and provided education on alternative methods for traditional discipline measures

Emma Steinberg

Medical School: Johns Hopkins
PLUS Project:  Food as Medicine: Nutrition's Impact on the Health of the Bay Area.  Assess the use of and efficacy of school-based food pantries. Started culinary medicine curriculum pilot for USCF SOM.

Emily Frank

Medical School: Tufts University School of Medicine/Main track
PLUS Project: Youth Based Participatory Action Research & Career Exploration in Oakland Unified School District

Peter Cooch, MD

Medical School: University of Vermont College of Medicine
PLUS Project: FUERTE: developed a school-based, Spanish-language, group-therapy curriculum for newcomer youth in Bay Area

Geoff Hart-Cooper, MD

Medical School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine
PLUS Project: Adolescent medicine providers’ perceived barriers in prescribing PrEP to youth at risk of HIV infection

Margaret Gilbreth, MD

Medical School: University of Colorado
PLUS Project: Qualitative study of Spanish-speaking parent experiences with transitions of care for children with special healthcare needs.

Heyman Oo, MD, MPH

Medical School: University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine
PLUS Project: FUERTE: developed a school-based, Spanish-language, group-therapy curriculum for newcomer youth in the Bay Area

Rachel Brim, MD

Medical School: Michigan State University
PLUS Project: Long-Term Neurocognitive Outcomes in Survivors of Cerebral Malaria

Neeti Doshi, MD, MPH

Medical School: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
PLUS Project: CAPTURING RESILIENCE: An examination of resilience in urban, low-income adolescents through Photovoice

Amy Chong, MD

Medical School: Tufts University
PLUS Project: Piloted the use of the BREATH app, a mobile app designed to coach birth attendants through basic neonatal resuscitation in Peru via a randomized control, simulation-based trial

Vivien Sun, MD, MS

Medical School: UCSF
PLUS Project: CAPTURING RESILIENCE: An examination of resilience in urban, low income adolescents through Photovoice

Brittany Blockman, MD, MA

Medical School: Tulane University
PLUS Project: Teaching mindfulness and meditation to children with chronic medical illnesses. CALMM: Cultivating Adaptive Leadership in Medicine through Mindfulness

Priscilla Chan, MD

Medical School: UCSF
PLUS Project: K-12 Education and interventions addressing adverse childhood experiences

Lauren Nelson, MD, MPH

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
PLUS Project: Pediatric Providers’ Perceptions on Addressing Social Needs in Context of Family Help Desk Interventions

Michael Scahill, MD, MBA

Medical School: Stanford University
PLUS Project: Technology skills, startups, global health, how behavioral econ & market forces influence the uptake & success of any intervention (even free, public sector ones)

Kaitlyn Bailey, MD

Medical School: University of North Carolina School of Medicine
PLUS Project:  Expanding access to quality health care, decreasing health care barriers experienced by immigrants and non-English speaking families, collaborating with media outlets and school systems to create a healthier culture, improving the coordination of care for medically complex children

Jessica Duvall, MD

Medical School: University of Washington, Seattle, WA
PLUS Project: Increasing Opportunities for Physical Activity in Elementary School. Community based participatory research - looking at how physical activity might impact test performance

Nneka Edwards-Jackson

Medical School: Columbia University
PLUS Project: Underserved and minority populations, particularly in urban settings; at risk youth; health disparities; global health; medical education

Ryan Padrez, MD

Medical School: University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
PLUS Project:  Increasing Opportunities for Physical Activity in Elementary School. Community-based participatory research - looking at how physical activity might impact test performance.

Rhea Boyd, BA, MD

Medical School: Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
PLUS Project: Erasing Trauma:  Tattoo Removal as a Healing Intervention

Adam Schickedanz, MD

Medical School: University of California, San Francisco
PLUS Project: The Financial Fitness Clinic: Tackling the economic roots causes on health inequity

Peter Simon, MD, MPH

Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine
PLUS Project: Universal Chlamydia Screening Among Adolescents in Urgent Care

Sohil R Sud, MD, MA

Medical School: Tufts University
PLUS Project: Trading Away Health The Influence of Trade Policy on Youth Tobacco Control

Joanna Mimi Choi, MD

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
PLUS Project: Motivate Me: A Motivational Interview Protocol to Address Obesity in High School Students

Holly Martin, MD

Medical School: Columbia University
PLUS Project: Peru Child Health, a non-profit dedicated to improving the health and wellness of Peruvian children through medical service, education and research

Jessica Schumer, MD

Medical School: Tulane University
PLUS Project: Pediatric Residency Project Wiki
 

Liz Triche, MD, MPH

Medical School: Cornell
PLUS Project: Parks Prescription Collaborative: A multidisciplinary collaborative working together to connect San Francisco youth, adults, and families to nature and the outdoors for health

Sarah Libecap, MD, MEd

Medical School: University of Arizona
PLUS Project: Beyond Immunizations; Improving Well-Child Visits Through Parent Education

Shannon Shea, MD, MPH

Medical School: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
PLUS Project: Baylor International Pediatric AIDS Initiative, Tanzania

Ilana Sherer, MD

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
PLUS Project: Improving Health Outcomes for Gender Non-conforming Children

Julie Stein, MD

Medical School: UCSF
PLUS Project:  Beyond Immunizations; Improving Well-Child Visits Through Parent Education

Amy Beck, MD

Medical School: University of Connecticut
PLUS Project: An Evidence-Based Obesity Intervention at an Inner-City Elementary School in San Francisco
 

J. Raul Gutierrez, MD, MPH

Medical School: University of Michigan
PLUS Project: Gender Expansive Children: Awareness and Clinical Significance in the Primary Sare Setting

Lisa Meneses, MD, MPH

Medical School: University of California, Davis
PLUS Projects: Violence prevention and reproductive health curriculum for preadolescent girls at Boys and Girls Club. Prevalence data on traumatic stress in SF youth in order to advocate for needed mental health services

Carey Levin, MD

Medical School: University of California. Davis
PLUS Project: Improving pediatric oral health in rural West Marin County through community health clinic access and education in public schools.
 

Mana Golzari, MD


Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine
PLUS Project: SB 1469: enroll eligible youth into MediCal prior to release from detention. Juvenile detention health curriculum within the UCSF Pediatric residency program​​​

Natalie Guerrier, MD

Medical School: Yale Medical School
PLUS Project: Developing a fourth-year visiting clerkship at UCSF aimed at students underrepresented in medicine

Jyothi Marbin, MD

Medical School: Brown University
PLUS Project: Developing a Validated Screening Tool for Youth Violence

Amy Whittle, MD

Medical School: Cornell Medical School
PLUS Project: Medical-legal partnership at San Francisco General Hospital, Access to the legal help for SDOH

Elizabeth Baca, MD, MPA


Medical School: Harvard University
PLUS Project: GET FIT: Goals, Education and Training for Fitness
 

Kajal Khanna, MD, JD

Medical School: University of Toronto
Personal Interests: Bullet Proof: Media Advocacy for Youth affected by Community Violence

Tricia Michels, MD, MPH

Medical School: UCSF
PLUS Project: Bullet Proof: Media Advocacy for Youth affected by Community Violence

Alex Zusman, MD, MPH

Medical School: University of Florida College of Medicine (Gainesville, FL)
PLUS Project: Bulletproof: documentary film on youth violence in SF
 

Ricky Choi, MD, MPH

Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina
PLUS Project: Developing advocacy within community health centers

Kevin Clarke, MD

Medical School: University of Connecticut
PLUS Projects: Building international partnerships to support HIV/AIDS orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa by establishing a non-profit, Friends of Zambian Orphans

Bergen Nelson, MD

Medical School: Harvard Medical School
PLUS Project: School-based approaches to obesity prevention.
 

Matt Oster, MD

Medical School: University of Pennsylvania
PLUS Project: S.T.O.P. Obesity - School Toolkit On Preventing Obesity
 

Naomi Bardach, MD

Medical School: UCSF
PLUS Project: Literacy intervention for pregnant adolescents
 

Ryan Phelps, MD, MPH

Medical School: Duke University
PLUS Project: Community health survey of Batey 1, southwest Dominican Republic
Development of the nonprofit organization, The Health Justice Collaborative.
 

​​​​​​Josh Rising, MD, MPH

Medical School: Boston University (MD); Boston University (MPH)
PLUS Projects: Co-author of paper describing SFGH's novel asthma clinic
Co-author on a theoretical model describing risk factors for children to develop a special healthcare need
Primary author on paper outlining SF's recent health insurance expansion to cover low-income individuals aged 18-25