Current Fellows

 

Salma Dali, MD
Medical School: Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
Residency Training: Stanford
Fellowship Training Years: 2022-2024
Research Project: TBD
Email:  [email protected]

Lori Mendelsohn, MD
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University
Residency Training: Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago
Fellowship Training Years: 2022-2024
Research Project: TBD
Email: [email protected]

Sara Aziz, MD
Medical School: Stanford
Residency Training: Stanford
Fellowship Training Years: 2021-2023
Research Project: TBD
Email: [email protected]

 

Jordan Vaughan, MD
Medical School: University of Washington
Residency Training: University of Utah
Fellowship Training Years: 2021-2023
Research Project: TBD
Email: [email protected]

Fellowship Graduates

Nicole Penwill, MD, MPH
Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine
Residency Training: University of Colorado School of Medicine / Children's Hospital of Colorado
Fellowship Training Years: 2020-2022
Research Project: 1) Best Practices in Pediatric Hospital Care during the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2) Optimizing COVID-19 Symptom Screening in the Pediatric Population
Email: [email protected]
Current Position: Children’s Hospital Colorado, Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Nadia Roessler De Angulo, MD
Medical School: First and Second Cycle of Medical Studies at Lyon Laennec. One year at the Medical University of South Carolina"
Residency Training: Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire in Lille, France/SUNY Downstate. Brooklyn, New York
Fellowship Training Years: 2020-2022
Research Project: Pain prevalence in hospitalized children
Email: [email protected]
Current Position: Faculty, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital

Sarah Schechter, MD
Medical School: Columbia University
Residency Training: Cincinnati Children’s Hospital/New York Presbyterian Hospital
Fellowship Training Years: 2019-2021
Research Project: Effect of a Pediatric Quality Improvement Initiative on Inpatient Healthcare Disparities, Sustainability of a National Quality Improvement Initiative to Improve Pediatric Asthma Care
Current Position: Faculty, Columbia University / Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital 

Matthew Nordstrom, MD
Medical School: University of California, San Francisco
Residency Training: University of California, San Francisco
Fellowship Training Years: 2019-2021
Research Project: UCSF site lead for the AAP value in inpatient pediatrics project on the standardization of fluids in inpatient setting, Implementation vs Deimplementation: Clinical Decision Support Tools and Physician Behavioral Modification.
Current Position: Faculty, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Email: [email protected]

Martha Elster, MD
Medical School: Wake Forest University
Residency Training: Kaiser Permanente Oakland
Fellowship Training Years: 2018-2020
Research Project: Does a Coach Role Benefit Coaches? A Mixed Methods Study of Coach Self-Efficacy, Job Satisfaction, and Burnout
Current Position:  Faculty, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Email: [email protected]

Nora Pfaff, MD
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University
Residency Training: Children’s Hospital Los Angeles
Fellowship Training Years: 2018-2020
Research Project: Opportunistic High Risk Behavior Screening of Inpatient Adolescents
Current Position:  Faculty, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Email: [email protected]

Nisha Gupta, MD
Medical School: St George’s University, St George, Grenada
Residency Training: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
Fellowship Training Years: 2017-2019
Research Project: Fidelity and Adaptation in Implementation of Clinical Pathways to Improve Pediatric Asthma Care
Current Position: Pediatric Hospitalist, Inova Children's Hospital

Bethany Woomer, MD
Medical School: West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, WV
Residency Training: University of Louisville, Louisville, KY
Fellowship Training Years: 2016-2018
Research Project: How does a single day of training in implicit bias effect pediatric residents in training?
Current Position: Faculty, University of Louisville / Norton Children's Hospital

Noga Ravid, MD
Medical School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
Residency Training: Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Fellowship Training Years: 2015-2017
Research Project: Utilizing a Telemedicine Discharge Conference to Improve Care Transitions in Children with Medical Complexity: A Pilot Study
Current Position: Faculty, Stanford University / Lucile Packard Children's Hospital 

Brian Gin, MD, PhD
Medical School: University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA
Residency Training: University of California, San Francisco
Fellowship Training Years: 2014-2016
Research Project: Inductive Qualitative Method to Explore Trainee Perceptions of Trust
Current Position: Faculty, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital
Email: [email protected]

Jennifer Rosenthal, MD
Medical School: University of California Davis
Residency Training: University of Washington/Seattle Children's Hospital
Fellowship Training Years: 2013-2015
Research Project: Profiling Inter-facility Transfers for Hospitalized Patients
Current Position: Faculty, UC Davis

Andrew Saunders, MD
Medical School: Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH
Residency Training: University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Fellowship Training Years: 2012-2014
Research Project: Diagnosis and Treatment of Tuberculosis Among Children at an HIV Care Program in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Current Position: Faculty, Stanford University / Lucile Packard Children's Hospital