PGY2 Residents

PGY-2 Class of 2020

 

Danielle Baurer, Temple

Dani grew up outside of Philadelphia, PA with her two sisters, Elana and Talia. She went to undergrad at Northwestern University where she studied Education and Social Policy, soaked up Chicago, and sailed on Lake Michigan. After undergrad she worked at a feminist and trans* health collective, Chicago Women's Health Center. She then returned home to Philly to attend medical school at Temple University School of Medicine, where she got an MA in Urban Bioethics in addition to her MD. Her master's thesis work focused on the racist and eugenicist roots of current day perceptions of teen pregnancy and childbearing, and how the medical community can be better informed and respect reproductive autonomy in caring for teens from marginalized communities. Her professional passions include adolescent health, sexual health/reproductive health, trans* health, and HIV primary care. Otherwise, she loves traveling, cities, live music, and being outside. [email protected]


 

Anya Desai, UCSF

Anya grew up in Southern California and Nashville, but her roots and extended family are scattered throughout the Bay Area. She graduated with a BA in History and minor in East Asian Studies from Oberlin College and then spent two years living and working in North India with Jagori Grameen, a feminist NGO where she became interested in combining western medicine with other healing traditions. After India, she went back to school at College of Alameda and Merritt College for her pre-med courses while working various part-time jobs. At UCSF, she became interested in the intersection of health and environment in addition to integrative medicine. She is interested in being part of change towards a more just and sustainable health care system, working to challenge institutional racism, classism, and sexism. She also loves to read, cook, spend time outdoors, and is an avid appreciator of visual and performance art. [email protected]


 

DJ Freitas, UCSF

DJ was born in Korea, adopted by second-generation Portuguese parents, and raised on 40 acres of farmland in the small town of Loomis, CA. He attended UC Berkeley for undergrad, where he met the love of his life and current partner, and subsequently spent 4 years providing and coordinating health care and housing services for homeless individuals throughout the East Bay. He later joined the PRIME program at UCSF focused on providing care to urban underserved populations where he continued to advocate for the homeless through leading the student run homeless clinic, research, and co-founding an East Bay non-profit focused on providing care to the Oakland underserved. He then returned to UC Brekeley to complete his MPH focusing on health and affordable housing. He is thrilled to be able to continue his training at UCSF and join such an inspiratonal group of physician advocates. His other interests include: poorly playing guitar and basketball, binge-watching Netflix shows, and drinking a good scotch or IPA. [email protected]


 

Tara Gonzalez, UCSF

Tara was born and raised in sunny San Diego, moving to the Bay Area to attend UC Berkeley, where she found her love for public health and youth development. After college, Tara worked at Berkeley High School as a sexual health educator through Americorps. She then worked in the SFDPH HIV epidemiology unit before attending medical school in the UCB-UCSF Join Medical Program and PRIME program. Tara's master's thesis involved exploring the medical and social decision-making processes of families supporting their transgender and gender expansive kids. She found her way to Family Medicine, wanting to join a community committed to social change, and a field where health is seen dynamically across individuals, families, and communities. When she's not at work, you might find Tara curled up in a cafe with a good book, out in search of new fresh water swimming spots, listening to live music, or fussing with her many plants. [email protected]


 

Nicole Gordon, Quinnipiac

 


 

Amulya Iyer, Columbia

Amulya grew up outside of Boston and went to undergrad at Williams College. Prior to medical school at Columbia, Amulya was a middle school teacher and worked in a stem cell lab at Boston University. He could not be more excited to be doing family medicine at UCSF and working at San Francisco General Hospital. [email protected]


 

Ed Kobayashi, Quinnipiac

Born and raised in the Bay Area, Ed attended UCLA where he studied psychobiology and Japanese language. His interest in the intersection of health, community, and policy was largely shaped through time spent volunteering at health clinics in Nicaragua as well as his engagement in the Japanese American community in SF's Japantown and Little Tokyo, LA. He sought to preserve stories from the Japanese American wartime incarceration and to share them with the greater community as a vehicle for advocacy and dialogue. After college, he completed a post-baccalaureate program at SF State University, then ventured out to the Northeast as a member of the inaugural class at Frank Netter School of Medicine at Quinnipiac University. He developed an interested in CQI, completing a capstone project that evaluated the impact of lean management implementation on healthcare provider attitudes across multi-specialty outpatient sites. Ed helped create the peer advocacy program at his medical school and was voted by his peers to receive the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine award. When not in the hospital, you can find Ed taiko drumming at his Buddhist temple, watching the Warriors, or hiking the variety of Bay Area landscapes. [email protected]


 

Elaine Lee, UCSF

San Francisco native, pre-2000 Giants and Warriors fan, foodie.

Elaine went to UC Berkeley for her undergraduate degree in Bioengineering and then attended medical school at UCSF as part of the PRIME-US program. She also earned an MPH at UC Berkeley, where she studied the intersection of class, ethnicity, and emotional wellbeing in community colleges. Her interests include adolescent/under-resourced youth health, dismantling the school-to-prison pipeline, urban underserved (including homeless and LGBT populations), and palliative care. Her hobbies are food! (burger to omakase), coffee, bouldering, origami, crosswords, and traveling (for food). [email protected]


 

Yuyang Mei, UCSF

Yuyang grew up mostly in Danville, California. He studied medical anthropology as an undergraduate at Harvard and again while pursuing an MD/MS at the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. His research interests include the links between global health and Western imperialism, and he has also studied the lived experience of caregiving. He is happy to be at UCSF where he hopes to learn to practice community-based medicine that produces social change. In his free time, he enjoys music and dance. [email protected]


 

Stephen Richmond II, UCLA Geffen

Stephen was raised in Hampton Roads, Virginia, but has enjoyed living and learning on both coasts and various places in between. Over the last fifteen years, he's called California home with a strong preference for Bay Area culture, climate, and creativity. He is a veteran of the US Air Force and graduate of Solano Community College, completing his undergraduate work at UC Berkeley and medical degree at David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. While completing his master's at Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, he studied the social determinants of health, and soon discerned that a career in family medicine was the ideal path to target both upstream and downstream effectors of health, particularly in vulnerable populations. Stephen is broadly interested in health systems innovation to improve care for the underserved, the intersection of medical education and social justice, and patient advocacy in all of its forms. When not at work, you might find him cycling the coast or immersed in a good book. [email protected]


 

Stephany Rush, Morehouse

Stephany was born in Atlanta and grew up in Fayetteville, Georgia. She graduated from Spelman College, and went on to teach 7th grade science with Teach for America in Los Angeles. After two years in the classroom, she joined Community Health Corps where she volunteered at a Federally Qualified Health Center in Santa Monica, California. In this position, she helped to ensure patients had access to health care services by assisting in the enrollment of state- and federally-funded programs. She then moved back home to attend medical school at Morehouse School of Medicine. She is passionate about providing family-centered care. Stephany is interested in erasing food deserts for children and addressing the health disparities that disproportionately affect marginalized communities. Outside of medicine, she enjoys indoor gardenining, southern hip-hop, and spending time with friends and family. [email protected]


 

Jenni Sneden, UCSF

Jenni grew up in Denver, Colorado where she graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in biomedical sciences. She moved to San Francisco to complete a Master's in Global Health at UCSF, after which she worked for a cervical cancer screening program for women living with HIV. During medical school, Jenni focused on primary care advocacy and volunteered at the SFGH Wellness Center. Her interests include chronic disease management, health service disparities, and reproductive health. She enjoys spending time with her husband hiking, camping, and anything outdoors. [email protected]


 

Linh Vo, University of Wisconsin

Linh was born in Vietnam and immigrated to Chicago with her family at the age of 9. For three years, she learned English through ESL classes -- something she could not have done without the help of dedicated teachers and mentors. After graduating from Lane Technical High School, she left the Midwest to attend Harvard University, where she majored in Chemistry and gave back to the immigrant community by teaching ESL to third-graders. Thereafter, she returned to the Midwest to attend the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine and Public Health. While in medical school, Linh found her passion for family medicine, with a particular interest in working with diverse, underserved communities, promoting women's health, and performing clinical procedures. Secretly, Linh had always wanted to live in California and after interviewing at this program, she knew it as the perfect fit! She feels privileged to be working at the General along with all her great co-residents. She current lives in SF, enjoying Golden Gate Park and all the festivities the neighborhood has to offer. Her other hobbies include reading the Harry Potter series, trying different restaurants, traveling, and spending time with friends and family. [email protected]


 

Katherine Wei, UCSF

Katherine was born and raised on the outskirts of Los Angeles, where the weather was so nice she decided she needed to leave California for college in order to experience something different. She went to Rice University in Houston where she studied psychology before moving back to California to attend medical school at UCSF. At UCSF, she cemented her interest in caring for the underserved and social justice through her work with the women's jail, interpersonal violence, and student-run clinics. Katherine's hobbies include hiking, baking, cooking, and eating delicious food with great friends! [email protected]


 

Vera Zeldovich, UCSF

Varvara (Vera) Zeldovich was born and raised in Russia, received her Bachelor's degree in Chemistry at Cornell University and completed her PhD at UCSF in placental biology with molecular and microbiological techniques. She subsequently spent several years getting to know healthcare as a venue for advocacy: volunteering as a health education at the Women's Community Clinic and Lyon-Martin Health Services, and volunteering with and serving on the board of ACCESS Women's Health Justice, a Bay Area reproductive justice organization. Upon completion of her MD at UCSF, she matched in Family Medicine at UCSF/SFGH. Her passion in medicine is focused around honoring and empowering people of all genders around their sexual and reproductive health, and bringing intersectional justice into the everyday of primary care. Her clinical interests include family planning, sexual health, gynecology through the age spectrum, as well as palliative and geriatric care. In her free time, she loves zipping around the city on a bike, crafting snail-mail for friends and pen pals, getting into the chilly Pacific ocean, and making art and propaganda with her feminist screen-printing collective ArtBison. [email protected]