Joanna Mimi Choi, MD

Hometown: Saratoga, CA
Undergraduate: Stanford University
Medical school: Harvard Medical School
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Other Education/Training:
Interests:
Access to Nutrition, Environmental Health, Childhood Obesity, Immigrant Health, Use of writing to educate and advocate, Health Policy
Personal:
Cooking, Baking, Running, Yoga, Hiking, Arts & Crafts, Getting around the city without a car

Holly Martin, MD

Hometown: Charlottesville, VA
Undergraduate: Yale University
Medical school: Columbia University
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Other Education/Training:
Interests:
International health, healthcare disparities, immigrant health
Personal:
Spend time with my baby girl and husband, exploring the bay area, going on day hikes and cooking

Jessica Schumer, MD

Hometown: Larchmont, New York
Undergraduate: Rice University
Medical school: Tulane University
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Other Education/Training:
Interests:
Working across disciplines at the grassroots and policy levels to support the development of healthy kids, healthy families and healthy communities
Personal:
Sports (flag football, water polo, tennis, soccer, racquetball), cooking and eating all kinds of food (especially Asian cuisine), hanging out with friends, dancing

Liz Triche, MD, MPH

Hometown: Miami, Florida
Undergraduate: University of Florida
Medical school: Cornell
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Other Education/Training: Master of International Public Health (MIPH) at University of Sydney
Interests:
Personal:
Hiking, Knitting, Arts and crafts, playing terrible guitar on city roofs or when camping, salsa dancing

Sarah Libecap, MD, MEd

Hometown: Tucson, AZ
Undergraduate: University of California, Irvine
Medical school: University of Arizona
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Other Education/Training: Master's in Education University of Arizona
Interests:
Underserved access to health care, border health issues, incarcerated youth, public health and universal health care.
Personal:
Ultimate frisbee, backpacking, yoga, cycling, international travel, recycling, public transportation, wine tasting

Shannon Shea, MD, MPH

Hometown: Ponte Vedra Beach, FL
Undergraduate: Univeristy of Notre Dame
Medical school: Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Other Education/Training: MPH at Bloomberg School of Public Health
Interests:
Immigration and Child Health; Pediatric HIV
Personal:
Travel, Reading, Watching college football even when my team is not doing well, All things Bolivian

Ilana Sherer, MD

Hometown: Allentown, PA
Undergraduate: Brown University
Medical school: University of Pennsylvania
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Other Education/Training:
Interests:
Medically complex children, transgender children, immigrants, global health
Personal:
Klezmer violin, cycling, dogs, exploring SF

Julie Stein, MD

Hometown: La Canada, CA
Undergraduate: Princeton University
Medical school: UCSF
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Other Education/Training: MS, Health and Medical Sciences, UC Berkeley
Interests:
SCHIP and Medicaid enrollment, under-insurance, access to health services
Personal:
Traveling, running, eating good food and spending time with friends and family

Amy Beck, MD

Hometown: Greenwich, CT
Undergraduate: Harvard University
Medical school: University of Connecticut
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Interests:
Childhood Obesity, Prevention of Type II Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome, Pediatric HIV and TB, Immigrant Health, Mental Health Access
Projects:
An Evidence Based Obesity Intervention at an Inner-City Elementary School in San Francisco
Personal Interests:
Baking, Hiking, Running, Reading novels, Travel in Latin America

J. Raul Gutierrez, MD, MPH

Hometown: Brownsville, TX
Undergraduate: Stanford University
Medical school: University of Michigan
Interests:
Health care access, Child Health Policy and Access (Latino and LGBT youth); Cultural Competency; Migrant Farmworker Health
Personal Interests:
Outdoors, Live music; Singing; All things Brazilian

Carey Levin, MD

Hometown: Carbondale, CO/ Albuquerque, NM
Undergraduate: University of Colorado, Boulder
Medical school: University of California. Davis
Interests:
Rural Health, Health Care Access, Oral Health
Project:
Improving pediatric oral health in rural West Marin County through community health clinic access and education in public schools.
Personal Interests:
Snowboarding, Kayaking, Climbing, Mountain biking, running with my dog, traveling, anything outdoors and beautiful

Jyothi Marbin, MD

Hometown: Boston, MA
Undergraduate: Brown University
Medical school: Brown University
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Interests:
Youth development, teen pregnancy, youth violence, social capital, screening tools
Personal:
Spending time with my husband and daughter, reading, hiking, exploring the Bay Area

Lisa Meneses, MD, MPH

Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate: Stanford University
Medical school: University of California, Davis
Graduate school: UC Berkeley School of Public Health
Interests:
Adolescent Health; Ethnic Minority Health; Helath Care Disparities and Access; Public Health
Projects:
1. Working with a group of preadolescent girls at Boys and Girls Club to assist in curriculum design (focus on violence prevention and reproductive health) and program evaluation
2. Working with local stakeholders to obtain prevalence data on traumatic stress in SF youth in order to advocate for needed mental health services
Personal Interests: Travelling, Eating at new restaurants, Spending time with family/friends

Amy Whittle, MD

Hometown: White Plains, NY
Undergraduate: Yale University
Medical School: Cornell Medical School
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Interests:
- Universal health care & comparative health care delivery systems
- Carribbean/Latin American health issues, particularly HIV prevention
- Public/private partnerships for improving community health
Project:
Medical-legal partnership at San Francisco General Hospital, starting Fall 2008. By having an attorney physically located at the pediatric clinics, patients will have access to the legal help they so often need with issues such as substandard or unsafe housing, public benefits, and special education plans. The SFMLP will also train residents on topics related to the social determinants of health. We hope to help the next generation of pediatricians to be empowered and informed to refer patients to the appropriate resources.
Personal Iinterests:
Biking & hiking in the wilds around San Francisco 

Mana Golzari, MD

Hometown: Osprey, FL
Undergraduate: Harvard University
Medical school: Stanford University School of Medicine
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Interests:
Juvenile detention reform, Medical homes for youth exiting detention, Legislative advocacy, Foster care reform, Youth violence, Health care policy reform
Project Partners:
San Francisco Juvenile Hall (Special Programs for Youth), San Francisco General Primary Care Clinic, New Directions
Projects:
I worked to write, advocate for the passage, and strategize for the implementation of SB 1469 which makes it now mandatory in the state of California to enroll eligible youth into MediCal prior to release from detention. I also worked to create a partnership between San Francisco Juvenile Hall (S.P.Y.) and San Francisco General Hospital Primary Care Clinic in order work towards the establishment of a system by which youth exiting juvenile detention will have a PMD appointment at the time of discharge. In conjunction with faculty collaborators, I worked to establish a juvenile detention health curriculum within the UCSF Pediatric residency program. Finally, I worked to research barriers to the establishment of medical homes for youth exiting detention with the goal of better understanding strategies by which physicians can work to establish medical homes for this often overlooked pediatric population.
Personal:
Painting, writing, activism for social justice
Post-Graduate Activities:
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellow 2010
Legacy Report: Rattling the Bars for Change: Medical Homes for Youth Exiting Detention. Pediatrics in Review Vol 30 No 4 April 2009 151.

Natalie Guerrier, MD

Hometown: New Haven, CT
Undergraduate: Harvard University
Medical School: Yale Medical School
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS, UCSF
Interests:
Access to Health Care, Health Disparities/Minority Health, Adolescent Health, Children's Rights, Public Education
Project: Developing a fourth-year visiting clerkship at UCSF aimed at students underrepresented in medicine.
Personal Interests:
Eating at great restaurants, Travel, Music, Reading fiction

Kajal Khanna, MD, JD

Hometown: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Undergraduate: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Medical School: University of Toronto
Other Education/Training: JD, University of Toronto
Interests:
International Health and Human Rights, Access to Health Care, Media and Advocacy, Medical Education
Personal Interests:
Music, Photography, Being Outdoors, and Sunday brunch
Legacy Report: Bullet Proof

Tricia Michels, MD, MPH

Hometown: Fountain Valley, CA
Undergraduate: Harvard, Cambridge, MA
Medical school: UCSF
Residency: Pediatrics, Pediatric Leadership for the Underserved, UCSF
Other Education/Training:
MPH, Interdisciplinary Program, UC Berkeley
Interests:
Adolescent health, risk assessment and decision-making, youth pregnancy, youth violence, obesity, recreation opportunities for children, and media advocacy
Personal: Dance, hiking
Legacy Report: Bullet Proof: Media Advocacy for Youth affected by Community Violence

Alex Zusman, MD, MPH

Hometown: Hollywood, FL
Undergraduate: Duke University (Durham, NC)
Medical school: University of Florida College of Medicine (Gainesville, FL)
Residency: Pediatrics, PLUS Program, UCSF
Other Education/Training:
MPH in Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at Yale University College of Epidemiology and Public Health
Interests:
Media, Advocacy
Project Partner:
Wraparound Project
Project:
Bulletproof: documentary film on youth violence in SF
Personal Interests: Various...
Post-Graduate Activities: Pediatric Hospitalist
Legacy Report: Bullet Proof: Media Advocacy to Improve the Care of Injured Youth

Ricky Choi, MD, MPH

Hometown: none
Education:
BA The University of Chicago
MD Medical University of South Carolina
MPH Harvard University
Interests:
North Korean health, health policy, children’s rights
Project Partner: Asian Health Services
Project: Developing advocacy within community health centers
Personal Interests: jazz/blues music and history
Post-Graduate Activities: General Pediatrician, Asian Health Services, Oakland, CA

Kevin Clarke, MD

Hometown: Shelton, CT
Undergraduate Education: University of New Hampshire
Medical School: University of Connecticut
Other Education:
Research Internship, Rwanda-Zambia HIV Research Group
Interests:
Orphaned and vulnerable children, African HIV/AIDS crisis, tropical medicine, immunization registries, global health education
Projects:
1. Building international partnerships to support HIV/AIDS orphans in Sub-Saharan Africa by establishing a non-profit, Friends of Zambian Orphans. www.fozo.org
2. Effects of global health training experiences on professionalism and future career choices.
Project Partners:
1. Kondwa Centre in Lusaka, Zambia and local American school communities.
2. Child Family Health International, San Francisco.
Personal interests:
Kayaking, hiking, and all that is outdoors
Post-Graduate Activities: Baylor Pediatric AIDS Corp
Legacy Report: Responding to hte HIV/AIDS Orphan Crisis

Bergen Nelson, MD

Hometown: Reston, Virginia
Education:
Wellesley College, '98
Harvard Medical School, 2000-2004
Teach for America, New York City, 1998-2000
Interests:
Health disparities and access to care, public education. International health.
Project: School-based approaches to obesity prevention.
Partners:
School health programs, SFUSD, individual schools and nurses, AAP chapter on school health. Non-profit organizations: Joy of Sports Foundation, Bay Area SCORES.
Project:
Academic-Community Partnerships for Child Health and Education: Lessons in Leadership
Post-Graduate Activites: Clinical Instructor, General Pediatrics UCSF; Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, UCLA.

Matt Oster, MD

Hometown: Metairie, Louisiana
Undergraduate: Vanderbilt University
Medical school: University of Pennsylvania
Interests:
Childhood Obesity, Legislative Advocacy, Cardiology
Project: S.T.O.P. Obesity - School Toolkit On Preventing Obesity
Project Partners: American Academy of Pediatrics, Buena Vista Elementary School, California Food Policy Advocates
Personal Interests:
Ultimate Frisbee, Football, Travel, Web Design
Post-Graduate Activities: Pediatric Cardiology Fellowship, Emory

Naomi Bardach, MD

Hometown: Berkeley, CA
Undergraduate: Barnard College, NYC
Medical school: UCSF
Interests:
Teen literacy and early childhood learning, international health, particularly Latin America, medical education
Project: Literacy intervention for pregnant adolescents
Project Partners: Mt Zion Young Women's Clinic; KQED.
Personal Interests:
Rafting, reading, hiking, singing, knitting, biking
Post-Graduate Activities:
Pediatric Chief Resident, San Francisco General Hospital
UCSF Gen Peds/Health Policy Fellow" and "PLUS advisor

Ryan Phelps, MD, MPH

Hometown: Denison, TX
Education:
UT-Austin (BA)
Duke (MD)
Johns Hopkins University (MPH)
Interests:
Cost-effective prevention and treatment strategies of common communicable diseases in the developing world.
Project:
(1) Community health survey of Batey 1, southwest Dominican Republic
(2) Development of the nonprofit organization, The Health Justice Collaborative.
Partners:
Batey 1, Dominican Republic; The Health Justice Collaborative (www.thehjc.org)
Personal Interests:
New Yorker cartoon contest, poker, running, my wife (wait...put her first).
Post-Graduate Activities:
Pediatric AIDS Corp

Josh Rising, MD, MPH

Hometown: Cheshire, CT
Education:
Carleton College (BA)
Boston University (MD)
Boston University (MPH)
Interests:
- Universal healthcare
- Health services research
- Medical Education
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
Partners:
- Shannon Thyne, MD (Director of SFGH's Asthma Clinic)
- Paul Newacheck, DrPH (researcher @ the Institute for Health Policy
Studies)
- Mitch Katz, MD (Director of the DPH in SF)
- San Francisco Health Plan (the health plan implementing the health
insurance expansion)
Personal interests: Biking, reading fiction
Post-Graduate Activities:
Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program, Yale.
Health Policy Advisor Connecticut Senate Democrats

Lela Bachrach,MD, M.S.

Hometown: Palo Alto, CA
Undergraduate: UC Berkeley
Medical School: UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Other Education:
Masters in Health and Medical Sciences, UC Berkeley
Fulbright Fellow, Public Health, University of the West Indies
Interests:
Health of underserved populations, access to care, health of immigrant and refugee children, language barriers and health literacy, adolescent health, reproductive health, violence prevention, nutrition, developmental pediatrics, information technology, medical education, evidence-based medicine.
Projects:
Pediatric developmental screening clinic at SFGH Research on diagnosis of latent TB infection in children (skin test versus blood test in SFGH population) Access to mental health services, Bayview Hunter's Point Healing Arts Center Partners: First Five, Special Needs Project SF TB Clinic Healing Arts Center
Personal Interests:
Music (making-- usually singing or playing violin, and listening), Travel, Swimming, Eating, Dancing, Community Building
Post-graduate Activities:
Clinical Faculty at SFGH/UCSF; PLUS Faculty Advisor

Alice Brock-Utne, MD

Hometown: Palo Alto, California
Undergraduate:
Indisciplinary Field Studies: comparing colonial American history to the emergence of independant Namibia in the early 1990s. UC Berkeley
Medical School:
UC Davis
Other education:
Certificate in Print Journalism from Stanford's Mass Media Institute
Interests:
Environmental Health, Social Justice,
Parent Education and Empowerment
Project:
Bayview Hunter's Point Healing Arts Center
Project partner:
Bayview Learns
Personal interests:
Sports, travel, history, family
Post-Graduate Activities:
Clinical Faculty UCSF/SFGH, community pediatrician

Mark Ghaly, MD

Post-Graduate Activities:
Medical Director, Southeast Medical Center

Susi Goddard, MD

Post-Graduate Activities:
Community Pediatrician

Elvira Isganaitus, MD

Post-Graduate Activities:
Endocrine Fellow