CME - Key Persons


A. Meg Autry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Sciences / Director of CME and Faculty Development, UCSF

Adnan Alseidi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Assessment, Improvement, and Accreditation Professor of Clinical Surgery

Allison Savage

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Special Projects / Central - Office of Medical Education

Allison Yen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Evaluations Analyst
  • Senior Evaluations Analyst / Assessment, Curriculum, Evaluations ( ACE )

Amber Fitzsimmons

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board

Andrew Corson

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Andrew H Murr

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Anita Browning

Job Titles:
  • Communications Specialist, GME
  • Communications Specialist, GME / Graduate Medical Education

Ann Poncelet

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Clinical Neurology Director, Academy of Medical Educators
  • Profile

Anthony Luke

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery / Director, Human Performance Center, UCSF Orthopaedic Institute

Brandon Sessler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Senior Physician Assistant, UCSF Spine Center Director, APP Professional Practice

Brittany Boznanski

Job Titles:
  • Resident & Fellow Affairs Mgr / Graduate Medical Education

Catherine Chadwick

Job Titles:
  • Education Coordinator
  • Education Coordinator / Assessment, Curriculum, Evaluations ( ACE )

Catherine Lucey

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost
The purpose of medical education is to improve the health of our communities and to alleviate suffering from illness and disease. Achieving this goal means that we, as leaders in education, must continuously survey the environment and adapt our teaching to ensure that physician graduates are fully prepared to become physicians and leaders committed to advancing health for all. The goal is to educate physician graduates are perfectly prepared to lead, serve, learn and thrive in the world of medicine that will exist when they are ready to enter practice eight to 10 years down the road. Through the work of our talented faculty, an ethos of continuous improvement and a spirt of inquiry, the School of Medicine's Bridges Curriculum was designed to amplify the enduring qualities of the very best of San Francisco's practicing physicians: compassionate, accountable, and expert. In addition, Bridges was created to help physicians master emerging competencies in interprofessional team-based care, measurement and continuous improvement, and continuous learning through inquiry. These new competencies will help our physicians meet the health care needs of our diverse patients.

Cathi Dennehy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Clinical Pharmacy

Chandler Mayfield

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Christian Burke

Job Titles:
  • Director of Technology
  • Director, Tech Innovation
  • Director, Tech Innovation / Technology Enhanced Education
Christian Burke is the Director of Technology Innovations in the Technology Enhanced Education group in the School of Medicine. He leads many of the efforts to enhance the teaching and learning in the School of Medicine using instructional design, pedagogy and innovative technologies.

Christina Cicoletti

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Medical Education

Christopher Conway

Job Titles:
  • Registrar

Christy Boscardin

Job Titles:
  • Education
  • Professor Educational Researcher
  • Professor Educational Researcher / Center for Faculty Educators
  • Professor of Medicine
Christy Boscardin, PhD, is a Professor of Medicine, and education faculty in the Office of Medical Education. Her research interests include issues of reliability and validity of performance assessments, applications of latent variable modeling to complex data, medical education, implementation science, health disparity and access to quality health care. Dr. Boscardin received her BA from UC Berkeley, her MA from Stanford University, and PhD in research methodology with emphasis on applied statistics from UCLA. Education 2018 - Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training, University of California

Colin Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Admissions Officer

Daphne Chan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Associate Chief of Optometry, Department of Ophthalmology

David Shimabakuro

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Anesthesia / Medical Director, Sepsis Program

Dawn Bohlmann

Job Titles:
  • Conference Manager
  • Senior Conference Manager
  • Senior Conference Manager / Continuing Medical Education

Daysia Sngoeun

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator / Post Baccalaureate & Outreach

Dennis Chan

Job Titles:
  • Student Life & Leadership Advisor
  • Student Life & Leadership Advisor / Admissions & Student Experience ( AsSET )

Dominic Tarpey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Senior Analyst, UCSF Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital and Clinics

Dr. Michelle A. Albert

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Admissions Professor of Medicine
  • Associate Dean for Admissions Professor of Medicine / Admissions & Student Experience ( AsSET )
  • Member of the Oprah Winfrey Network ( OWN ) Your Health Advisory Board
Dr. Michelle A. Albert, MD MPH is the Walter A. Haas-Lucie Stern Endowed Chair in Cardiology and Professor in Medicine at the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF), Admissions Dean for UCSF Medical School and Director of the CeNter for the StUdy of AdveRsiTy and CardiovascUlaR DiseasE (NURTURE Center). Dr. Albert is a graduate of Haverford College, the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Harvard School of Public Health. She completed Internal Medicine Residency and served as Chief Medical Resident at Columbia University Medical Center in New York. Dr. Albert then completed Cardiovascular Clinical and Research Fellowship at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, where she rose in the ranks to an Associate Professor in Medicine. She was previously the Vivian Beaumont Allen Endowed Professor/Chair and Chief of Cardiology at Howard University. Dr. Albert's clinical expertise involves both taking care of the most critically ill heart disease patients and preventive cardiology at UCSF. As a physician-scientist-epidemiologist, Dr. Albert has had a longstanding commitment to cutting-edge research that innovatively seeks to incorporate "biology" with social determinants of health to transform CVD science and healthcare of global populations, i.e "the biology of adversity". A central component of her current work focuses on developing innovative epidemiology and implementation strategies to curb adversity related CVD risk with a focus on cumulative toxic stress. She is recipient of sustained research funding as principal investigator including NIH R01 funding, funding from Robert Wood Johnson (Harold Amos Scholar), Kellogg and Doris Duke Foundations as well as the American Heart Association (AHA). She is the recipient of numerous awards traversing the clinical, research, leadership and education domains. For example, she is one of two recipients nationally of the prestigious 2018 AHA Merit award for visionary research and is the first woman and under-represented racial/ethnic person to receive this award. Dr. Albert also received the 2020 AHA Population Science, 2023 AHA Distinguished Epidemiology Achievement Awards, 2024 AHA John B. Herrick Award for Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Cardiology, the 2025 Dr. Carolyn McCue Woman Cardiologist of the Year Award and 2024 American College of Cardiology (ACC) Distinguished Scientist Award. Dr. Albert is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine (NAM), the Association of University Cardiologists (AUC), the American Society of Clinical Investigation (ASCI) and the Association of American Physicians (AAP). She is the 86th Immediate-Past President of the American Heart Association (AHA: 2022-2023), Immediate-Past President of the Association of Black Cardiologists, Inc (ABC: 2020-2022), the Past 60th President of the Association of University Cardiologists (AUC: 2021-2022). Dr Albert is the recipient of the 2023 AHA National Distinguished Leadership and 2024 ABC National Distinguished Leadership Awards. She is the first person in history to serve collectively and concurrently as President of these three of the most prestigious cardiovascular societies. Dr. Albert is the first woman of color and Black woman to serve as AHA President and AUC President. Albert currently serves/ed as a member of the federal Advisory Committee to the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (ACD), NHLBI Board of External Experts (BEE), 2019 ACC/AHA Cardiovascular Prevention Guidelines committee and as a standing committee member of NIH study section - Mechanisms, Emotion, Sleep & Health (MESH). Dr. Albert has also served/serves on multiple national AHA and ACC committees including on the Sarnoff Cardiovascular Medical Research Foundation Board of Directors. Dr. Albert is a member of the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) Your Health Advisory Board and the Health/Cardiovascular Advisory Board for Women's Day Magazine. Her research has been featured on national and international media outlets such as the BBC, Canada Broadcasting Corporation, TIME, CNN, Today Show, CBS, Associated Press, NPR, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle and Washington Post. She is a sought-after interviewee/speaker on multiple news outlets including TV, digital and print media about especially about topics pertaining to research, cardiovascular health, health equity, psychosocial stress and maternal health. Dr. Albert enjoys mentoring trainees at all levels across the United States. She was a nominee/finalist for the competitive 2011-2012 Excellence in Mentoring Award at Harvard Medical School and the recipient of the Women in Cardiology Mentoring Award from the AHA (2016). She received the ACC Heart of Women's Health Credo Award (2012), Woman's Day Magazine's Red Dress Award (2014), the 2018 Daniel D. Savage Science Award (ABC's highest honor), and the Haverford College Alumni Award (2015) -- given to an alumnus whose "work typifies the values of the college and is of outstanding service to humanity". Dr. Albert received an Honorary Doctorate in Science (DSc, Hon) from the University of Rochester in 2023 and delivered the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry 2023 Commencement Address. Dr. Albert has been named to Forbes 50 over 50 List for her Impact.

Elena Fuentes-Afflick

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Pediatrics / Vice Dean Zuckerberg San Francisco General

Emerald Wong

Job Titles:
  • Accreditation Specialist
  • Accreditation Specialist / Graduate Medical Education

Erick Hung

Job Titles:
  • Assoc. Dean for Students
  • Associate Dean for Students Professor of Psychiatry
  • Profile

Gaelen Lombard

Job Titles:
  • Conference Manager

Geraldine Collins-Bride

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Nursing, Community Health Systems

Gina Biviano

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Manager of Athletic Trainers and PlaySafe Program

Gunner Shroy

Job Titles:
  • HPE Systems Manager / Graduate Medical Education

H. Quinny Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Medicine

Heather Yaden

Job Titles:
  • Learning Success Specialist
  • Learning Success Specialist / Admissions & Student Experience ( AsSET )

Jane Brooks

Job Titles:
  • Conference Manager
  • Senior Conference Manager
  • Senior Conference Manager / Continuing Medical Education

Jeffrey Tabas

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Emergency Medicine / Director of Outcomes and Innovations, Office

Jennifer Vogt

Job Titles:
  • Director, Graduate Medical Education

Jerome Borjal

Job Titles:
  • Accreditation Analyst / Continuing Medical Education

Jessica Yepez Rangel

Job Titles:
  • Simulation Technician
  • Simulation Technician / Simulation Learning Center

Jill Bond

Job Titles:
  • Instructional Designer
  • Instructional Designer / Technology Enhanced Education
Jill brings 9+ years of health science-focused instructional design experience to her role at UCSF. Prior to her instructional design work, she taught in higher education for 15 years. Jill studied South Asian history as an undergraduate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and received her M.A. in Instructional Systems Design from the University of Maryland in 2005. Jill is passionate about designing interactive, fun, meaningful and measurable learning experiences. In her spare time, she likes to cook TexMex food for her two daughters and hike all over the San Francisco Bay Area.

Joey Bernal

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Learner Experience
  • Program Manager, MOCAP
  • Program Manager, MOCAP / Continuing Medical Education
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John Davis

Job Titles:
  • Assoc. Dean for Curriculum
  • Associate Dean for Curriculum Professor of Medicine
  • Profile

Karen Brent

Job Titles:
  • Communications Analyst
  • Communications Analyst / Center for Faculty Educators
I support the Center for Faculty Educators' communication and recognition efforts among its several key projects and stakeholders - The Haile T. Debas Academy of Medical Educators, Research and Development in Medical Education, and Volunteer Clinical Faculty. Communication outreach includes supporting, promoting, and marketing of programs in faculty development, advanced graduate degrees in education, funding for educational innovations, educational research support and dissemination, and endowed chairs in education.

Karen Hauer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Profile
  • Vice Dean for Education
  • Vice Dean for Education Professor of Medicine

Karen Sun

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Pediatrics / Chief, Division of Pediatric Hospital Medicine

Kat Bishop

Job Titles:
  • Data Management and Reporting Specialist
  • Data Management and Reporting Specialist / Technology Enhanced Education

Katherine Julian

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Interim )
  • Professor, Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education
  • Profile

Kelly Kao

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff, Office of Medical Education

Kimberly Williams

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Program Director, San Joaquin Valley Undergraduate Medical Education Expansion
  • Administrative Program Director, San Joaquin Valley Undergraduate Medical Education Expansion / SJV PRIME

Kira Shea

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator, SJVUE / SJV PRIME

Kristin Casey Callaghan

Job Titles:
  • Manager
  • Manager, CMC / Assessment, Curriculum, Evaluations ( ACE )

Kristy Hanstad

Job Titles:
  • Finance Manager

Laurel Carr

Job Titles:
  • Manager Anatomy Learning Ctr
  • Manager Anatomy Learning Ctr / Simulation Learning Center
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Liz Austin

Job Titles:
  • Manager, Foundational Sciences Curriculum
  • Manager, Foundational Sciences Curriculum / Assessment, Curriculum, Evaluations ( ACE )

Lorriana Leard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Chairman )

M. Anthony Pogrel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor Emeritus of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery

Maria Wamsley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Medicine / Director, UCSF Program for Interprofessional Practice and Education
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Matt Trojnar

Job Titles:
  • Director of Admissions

Melissa Salonga

Job Titles:
  • Business Systems Analyst / Technology Enhanced Education

Michael Francis

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board

Nanette Pico

Job Titles:
  • Operations Coordinator

Niharika Patel

Job Titles:
  • Conference Manager

Nisha Acharya

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Opthalmology, Proctor Foundation

Patricia O'Sullivan

Job Titles:
  • Professor Director, Medical Education Research

Payal Anand

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board

Philina Lim

Job Titles:
  • Conference Manager

Polo Black Golde

Job Titles:
  • Director, Data & Analytics
  • Director, Data & Analytics / Technology Enhanced Education
I lead a technical team driving continuous quality improvement for the education mission by providing data-driven insights and reporting. Our data subject areas include accreditation, student assessment, curriculum, program evaluation, research, and scheduling. I am a Bay Area native with degrees in Chemistry and Philosophy from Williams College. I joined UCSF/TEE in May 2017.

Quan-Yang Duh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Surgery

Rachel Lupole

Job Titles:
  • Portfolio Manager / Maintenance of Certification

Rani Sandhu

Job Titles:
  • Technical Project Manager / Technology Enhanced Education

Raquel Rodriguez

Job Titles:
  • Director, Center for Faculty Educators

Robert Corbett

Job Titles:
  • Conference Manager

Ryan Arakaki

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Assistant Professor of Dermatology

S. Andy Josephson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor and Chair of Neurology

Sandi Borok

Job Titles:
  • Educational Evaluations Analyst
  • Educational Evaluations Analyst / Assessment, Curriculum, Evaluations ( ACE )

Sandrijn van Schaik

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Pediatrics / Education Director, Kanbar Center for Simulation and Clinical Skills
  • Professor of Pediatrics Director of Faculty Development

Sara Clemons

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director of Assessment, Curriculum and Evaluation

Sari Ogden

Job Titles:
  • Conference Manager

Sheila Salapare

Job Titles:
  • Student Assessment Coordinator / Central - Office of Medical Education

Somer Bishop

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Psychiatry, UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences

Stacey Samuels

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Accreditation and Educational Development
  • Manager, Accreditation & Educational Development / Continuing Medical Education

Susana Aranas

Job Titles:
  • Inquiry Course Coordinator
  • Inquiry Course Coordinator / Assessment, Curriculum, Evaluations ( ACE )

Talmadge E. King Jr

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team
  • Dean - SOM / VC - Medical Affairs
  • Profile

Tiffany R. Geraldizo

Job Titles:
  • Digital Media Specialist

Tymothi Peters

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board

Valerie Margol

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director

Vice Dean

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Leadership Team

Wenia Lee

Job Titles:
  • Career Launch Advisor

Z. Laura Tabatabai

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Governing Board
  • Professor of Pathology / Director of Cytopathology, San Francisco Veterans Affairs Health Care System

Zohra Saiyed

Job Titles:
  • Program Administrator, PRIME - US Program / PRIME ( Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved )