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Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month and Our Extraordinary Colleagues | Volume 9, Issue 4, October 2025

From September 15 to October 15, we celebrate Latinx Heritage Month. We are fortunate to have many Latinx faculty, staff, and trainees at ZSFG who bring their diverse gifts, cultural strengths, and deep commitment to our missions of clinical care, education, and research. We are proud to highlight the work of a few Latinx members in our community.

spotlight: Mandana Khalili, MD, Priya Shete, MD, Neil Powe, MD, MPH, MBA

featuring: Connie Calderón-Jensen, Veronica Manzo, MD, MS, Maria Solorzano, Gabriel Ortiz, MD, PhD

Transforming the Work We Do: ZSFG Department of Medicine Staff Excellence Awards 2025 | Volume 9, Issue 3, September 2025

Each year, our departments celebrates exceptional staff members who exemplify Excellence in Patient Care, Research, Administration, and Leadership. This year, we honor seven outstanding individuals whose contributions have transformed our ability to serve our community. We recognized their contributions at our Department of Medicine Staff Appreciation Celebration in Pride Hall on September 16.

featuring: Johanna Sluser, Mary Shiels, Robin Fatch, Celeste Enriquez, Jen Lau, Eva Lo, Justin Vang-Moore

Promoting Joy and Well-Being | Volume 9, Issue 2, August 2025

August is National Wellness Month, a time to reflect on work satisfaction as well as our overall joy and well-being. It encourages us to holistically examine all dimensions of our wellness including career, spiritual, emotional, physical, social, environmental, and financial, and to engage in self-care, healthy habits, and human connection. In this newsletter, we describe our efforts to augment well-being for our faculty and staff in the Department of Medicine at ZSFG.

spotlight: Mary O. Gray, MD, Brian B. Graham, MD, Ayesha Appa, MD, Harini Sarathy, MD, Annie Luetkemeyer, MD

featuring: Larissa Thomas, MD

Sharing a Love of Teaching: 2025-2026 Chief Residents | Volume 9, Issue 1, July 2025

This month, we welcome our new chief residents who just completed their internal medicine residencies at UCSF. These exceptional young physicians will help educate, guide, and support, the 180 interns and residents who rotate through the Department of Medicine at ZSFG this academic year. They bring a wealth of talent to their new leadership roles, including experience caring for underserved patient populations and a deep commitment to medical education.

spotlight: Rebeccah Brusca, MD, Nicholas Iverson, MD, Susan Ehrlich, MD, David Chia, MD, Matt Durstenfeld, MD, MAS, Neil Zhang, MD, Kristine Gu, MD, Rena Mai, MD, Haiyan Ramirez Batlle, MD, Jorge Salazar, MD, Diana Funk, MD, Robert Gallo, MD, Mohammed Hussain, MD, Anu Ramachandran, MD, Angela Suen, MD, Nora West, MD, Kristen Mengwasser, MD

featuring: Harry Cheung, MD, Pooja Lalchandani, MD, Tamara Sanchez Ortiz, MD, MPH

Improving Cancer Screening, Diagnosis, and Treatment | Volume 8, Issue 12, June 2025

There are many exciting advances in cancer therapies, but these are most effective when cancer is diagnosed as early as possible. This issue highlights faculty and staff who are spearheading improvements in cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment though multi-disciplinary engagement and impressive collaboration.

spotlight: Mike Reid, MD, MPH, MA, Angela Suen, MD, Jonathan Davis, MD, Christy Camp, RN, MS, Ivet Avila Gonzales, Ali Cunningham, Ellie Gladstone, Adriana Najmabadi, Jessica Osorio, Kenny Perez, Viva Tai

featuring: George Su, MD, Ana Velázquez Mañana, MD, MSc, Mollie Hudson, PhD, NP-C, MSN, MS, Emily Wistar, MD,

Celebrating Excellence: 2025 ZSFG Department of Medicine Faculty Awards | Volume 8, Issue 11, May 2025

The Department of Medicine at Zuckerberg San Francisco General recognizes and celebrates our talented, innovative, and dedicated members through the 2025 Medicine Service Awards. With nominations informed by peers, these awards acknowledge accomplishments in many dimensions and importantly express gratitude for faculty commitment to the department and hospital's goals.

spotlight: Maura Temple, Maria Ruiz, MD, MPH

featuring: Mary Gray, MD, Lurit Bepo, MD, Seth Goldman, MD, Lisa Ochoa-Frongia, MD, Sandra Moody, MD, Anne Rosenthal, MD, Leslie Suen, MD, Cody Cichowitz, MD, Alicia Fernandez, MD, Elizabeth Abbs, MD, Vanessa Thompson, MD, Elaine Dekker, RN, Marlene Martin, MD

Shepherding Students to Become Doctors: The Bridges Coaching Program | Volume 8, Issue 10, April 2025

In this issue, we feature three ZSFG Department of Medicine faculty who serve as Bridges coaches, training and mentoring medical students on their journey to becoming doctors.

spotlight: Binh An Phan, MD, Jeff Critchfield, MD, Elysia Roberts

featuring: Mimi Margaretten, MD, MAS, Rebecca Brusca, MD MPH, Jaime Yao, MD

New Leaders at ZSFG Department of Medicine | Volume 8, Issue 9, March 2025

For Women's History Month, we are highlighting three outstanding leaders in the ZSFG Department of Medicine. They bring passion, a wealth of talent, and clear visions for the future to their new roles.

spotlight: Laurence Huang, MD, Serena Loya, Jaya Mallidi, MD, Sarah Goglin, MD

featuring: Oanh Nguyen, MD, MS, Serena Lee, MS, Serena Loya, MS-HAIL

Improving African American Health | Volume 8, Issue 8, February 2025

As part of our celebration of Black History Month, this issue of the newsletter highlights two initiatives to improve health equity for African Americans.

spotlight: Marlene Martin, MD, Jaya Mallidi, MD, Binh An Phan, MD, Shelene Stine, MD

featuring: Lucas Zier, MD, Jonathan Davis, MD, Andreas Mitchell, MD, MPP

ZSFG Department of Medicine: Mission-Driven, Value Guided | Volume 8, Issue 7, January 2025

A message from our Chief:

During the past year, our department has made strides in fulfilling our missions high-performing, compassionate clinical care, teaching learners, and making discoveries that will benefit the health and healthcare of San Franciscans and people worldwide. Our core values of creativity, teamwork, lifelong learning, and commitment to social justice have sustained us in the face of adversity and will in the future. Here we report on the state of the Department of Medicine at ZSFG.

- Neil R. Powe, MD