Aylin Ulku, MD, PhD

Aylin Ulku joined the faculty at UCSF in July 2012. After completing her Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency at Yale-New Haven Hospital, she continued as Chief Resident in the Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency at Waterbury/Yale-New Haven Hospitals. From 2010-2012, she began work in Kigali, Rwanda, as an Assistant Clinical Professor for Yale School of Medicine, to assist in medical education capacity building within the National University of Rwanda (NUR) School of Medicine.
At UCSF, her focus remains in social justice and health equity through a variety of efforts. She is a member of an anti-racist committee working to reduce bias in documentation in the UCSF Health electronic record. She works as an advocate for adults living with sickle cell disease, accompanying patients throughout their hospital stays when admitted for complications of sickle cell disease. She has worked for over a decade as a mentor in global health education as the Director of the Global Health Elective in the Internal Medicine Residency program as well as in the HEAL (Health, Equity, Action, Leadership) Initiative, a fellowship for health practitioners across with world working or health equity. Currently, she serves as the Associate Director of the HEAL Initiative Global Fellowship.
Aylin works full time as a clinician in both internal medicine and pediatric hospital medicine providing direct care or working with trainees as a coach and mentor.

Education:
- Princeton University, Chemistry (BA)
- University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (MD-PhD - pharmacology)
- Yale-New Haven Hospital (internship, residency, chief resident)

Board Certifications:
- Internal Medicine (2010 to present)
- Pediatrics (2010 to present)
- Pediatric Hospital Medicine (2024)