Chief Residents

Chief Residents

Maggie Dietrich, UC San Francisco

Maggie was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. She went to college at Yale University, where she majored in Ethics, Politics, and Economics. After college, Maggie worked with Teach for America in New Orleans, LA, and Houston, TX, where she was a founding teacher at a PreK-8 school serving students displaced by Hurricane Katrina. She then completed a post-baccalaureate premedical program at Goucher College. Maggie went on to work in public health, first at the Baltimore City Health Department as a Special Assistant to the Commissioner of Health, and later at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a Special Assistant to the Principal Deputy Commissioner and the Director of the Center for Devices and Radiological Health. Maggie attended medical school at UCSF, where she participated in the Program in Medical Education for the Urban Underserved (PRIME-US). She took a year off to pursue an MPH in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley. Maggie's professional interests include adolescent medicine, reproductive health, and social epidemiology. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, being outdoors, and spending time with her wife and family.


Teresa Gomez-Bramble, Northwestern University

Teresa was born and raised in Inglewood, CA and spent most of her life in Southern California prior to attending medical school in Chicago. She attended Claremont McKenna College and graduated with a BA in Biology and Spanish. Soon after, she worked at the University of Southern California conducting research in the Psychiatric and Behavioral Sciences Department for a year before moving to Chicago for medical school. At Northwestern, she pursued an MD/MPH and became actively involved in the Latino Medical Student Association (LMSA) as she is very passionate about Latino health and mentoring underrepresented minorities in medicine. She also participated in numerous global health trips to Jamaica, Mexico and Ecuador Outside of her career interests, which include serving the underserved and providing quality care to vulnerable populations, she enjoys spending time with her husband, family and friends (especially now that she's back in CA) and exploring the bay area (restaurants, hikes, festivals, etc)!


Kenji Taylor, University of Pennsylvania

Kenji was born and raised in rural Kansas and Pennsylvania. He headed to the big city of Providence, RI to study Neuroscience, East Asian Studies and Entrepreneurship at Brown University. Following graduation, his short-lived career in finance took him to Los Angeles, London and Tokyo, before he decided medicine was how he could directly help others who needed it the most. He attended the University of Pennsylvania where he developed a passion for health disparities, social justice and community medicine in West Philadelphia. As an applied epidemiology fellow at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he experienced firsthand the excitement and possibilities of global health policy and HIV medicine as a family doctor. He is especially interested in HIV primary care, adolescents, transgender health and health information systems. For fulfillment outside of medicine, he plays the violin, travels, spins, spends time outdoors and enjoys cooking with friends and family.