HPE Global: Alumni
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Hannah Archibald
San Francisco, CA, USA
Dr. Hannah Archibald is a general internist at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. She completed medical school and internal medicine-primary care residency at UCSF. She practices as a primary care physician and clinician educator with the internal medicine residency at CPMC. She is interested in ambulatory education of internal medicine residents and mentorship.
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Akemi Brown
San Francisco, CA, USA
Dr. Akemi Brown is a Clinician Educator Fellow at UCSF. She completed the UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program for her medical degree and completed her residency in the UCSF Primary Care General Internal Medicine Track. Dr. Brown is deeply committed to providing equitable and inclusive care, leveraging her diverse heritage as half-Australian and half-Japanese to enhance her contributions to diversity in the medical field. Outside the hospital, she finds joy in exploring San Francisco's culinary scene and the serene walks in Golden Gate Park with her dog, while professionally, she is passionate about nutrition, weight management, and education, aiming to specialize in Obesity Medicine by the end of her fellowship.
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Justin Bullock
Seattle, WA, USA
Dr. Justin Bullock is a fellow in Nephrology at the University of Washington School of Medicine and the Co-director of the Docs with Disabilities Initiative. He is passionate about creating safe environments in medicine where everyone in the hospital is able to bring their authentic selves to work in the spirit of healing. Dr. Bullock is a passionate medical educator: a teacher, researcher, and lifelong learner. His primary research focus centers on how educators can minimize identity threats in the learning environment. Drawing on his dual identities as a patient and provider with serious illness, Justin believes deeply that medicine is a lifelong journey of healing as much for providers as it is for patients.
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Michael Cammarata
Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Dr. Michael Cammarata is a rheumatology fellow at Johns Hopkins University. He received his medical degree from Eastern Virginia Medical School and trained in internal medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. Prior to medicine, he taught English at the primary school level in Madrid, Spain. He currently facilitates large group, case-based sessions within the MSK block for preclinical medical students at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. His medical education interests include clinical reasoning, feedback, and mentorship. Outside of medicine, he enjoys running, rock climbing, and drums and percussion. He also formerly trained as an amateur bullfighter at the Escuela de Tauromaquia de Madrid "Marcial Lalanda.”
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Viridiana Garcia
San Francisco, CA, USA
Dr. Viridiana (“Viri”) Garcia is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine and Course Director of the Health Professions Education Longitudinal Didactics for the Internal Medicine Residency program. She divides her time between clinical and educational roles.
Viridiana completed her BS in Life Sciences and MS in Science of Health Care Delivery at Arizona State University and received her MD from the University of Arizona. She completed her internship, residency, and chief residency at UCSF before joining UCSF's Division of Hospital Medicine as faculty.
Clinically, she works as an academic hospitalist at UCSF Health where she attends on the direct care and teaching services. During her time at UCSF, Viridiana has been involved in leadership roles within the Residency Diversity Committee with a focus on recruitment of UIM medical students to UCSF. Her academic interests include teaching in the clinical environment, rounds leadership, and effective clinical coaching.
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Julian Genkins
Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Dr. Julian Genkins is a clinical Informatician and internist at VUMC. He completed medical school at Vanderbilt followed by and internal medicine residency at UCSF and clinical informatics Fellowship at Stanford. His professional interests lie at the intersection of clinical informatics, provider wellbeing, preventative care, and learning theory/health professions education. Outside of work he is a runner, soccer player, dog dad, and lover of all things science fiction.
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Thomas Goslinga
Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
Dr. Thomas (“Tom”) Goslinga received his MD from the University of Michigan, where he was inducted into both Alpha Omega Alpha, and the Gold Humanism Honor Society, and received numerous academic awards. He completed residency training in Internal Medicine from the University of California, San Francisco, where he completed the HPE course and longitudinal sessions and was recognized for his excellence in teaching with the University-wide Commitment to Teaching award. As an academic Hospitalist at the University of Utah, he was awarded the 2023 Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award for the division of General Internal Medicine.
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Emily Groot
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
@hinterlandphpmDr. Groot is a public health physician, born and raised in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario on the territory of Garden River and Batchewana First Nations. She completed medical school at McMaster University, residency in Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Queen’s University, and a Masters in Public Health at the University of Toronto. She now lives with her family in Sudbury, Ontario, where she serves as the medical director of Réseau ACCESS Network’s supervised consumption site and HIV clinic. She has previously worked as the associate medical officer of health for the Thunder Bay District Health Unit, the Regional Supervising Coroner for Northeastern Ontario, and the associate medical officer of health for Niagara Region. She is an associate professor and the program director of the Public Health and Preventive Medicine Residency Program at NOSM University. Her HPE interests include competency-based public health training and social accountability in medicine. Her clinical interests include harm reduction and communicable disease control with a focus on syndemics, especially in northern, rural, and remote communities.
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Betelhem Kifle
San Francisco, California, USA
Dr. Betty Kifle is a current hospitalist attending at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. She graduated from UCSF internal medicine residency in 2023 and will be starting as a pulmonary/critical care fellow at UCSF in July 2024. Her interests in medical education are as a clinician educator, particularly in direct teaching for undergraduate medical training and simulation curriculum.
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Eleonora Leopardi
Newcastle, NSW, Australia (Awabakal Land)
@nora_leopardiDr. Eleonora Leopardi (“Nora”) is passionate about preparing current medical students to face the healthcare challenges that humanity will face in the next 50 years. She believes in fostering self-directed and self-regulated learning in students from the earliest stages of their training, in order to prepare them for continuous professional development and lifelong learning throughout their career. Nora believes that scholarship of teaching and learning in Health Professions Education is the key attribute for educators and clinicians to transform students into the best healthcare professionals they can be.
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Megan McGrath
San Francisco, California, USA
Dr. Megan McGrath is an attending hospitalist at UCSF hospital in San Francisco. She completed medical school at Emory University in 2019 and internal medicine residency at UCSF in 2022. She practices as a clinician educator with the internal medicine residency program at UCSF and serves as a confidential career advisor for UCSF medical students. She is interested in both formal and informal medical education as well as in wellness and mentorship.
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Noah Romero Nakajima
Uberlândia, MG, Brasil
@Noah_NakajimaBrazilian by birth, physician by training. Proud CPSolvers team member. Passionate about all things clinical reasoning, medical education, videogames, and fantasy books.
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Caroline Nguyen
San Francisco, CA, USA
Dr. Caroline Nguyen is an internal medicine trained, adolescent medicine fellow with a future career in academic primary care, who will start as faculty in the UCSF Division of General Internal Medicine in the Fall of 2024. Her academic focus is on equity and inclusion in medical education. She is passionate about discovering how we can augment the learning environment so all learners can thrive for their differences and also changing the way medical education teaches historically stigmatized topics so that we are creating providers better apt at serving our population.
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Katie Raskob
Seattle, Washington, USA
Dr. Katie Raskob completed the HPE course and participated in the longitudinal HPE sessions for internal medicine residents while at UCSF. She then joined faculty at the University of Washington as a hospitalist. She is the Co-Director of the Cardiovascular Block for Preclinical Medical Students. She hosts faculty development through the monthly Teaching Club for academic hospitalists. The skills she developed and deeper knowledge of medical educational theory she gathered as a resident in HPE helped her assume more impactful teaching roles at the University of Washington. Her medical education interests are in learning climate, clinical coaching of trainees, and faculty development as educators.
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Cory Rohlfsen
Omaha, Nebraska, USA
@CoryRohlfsenDr. Cory Rohlfsen is a core faculty member of the Internal Medicine residency at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and the director of the nation's first interprofessional, competency-based health educator track. As an internist practicing a hybrid of hospital medicine and primary care, Dr. Rohlfsen is deeply familiar with the challenges, affordances, and untapped opportunities within the clinical learning environment. He possesses a strong passion for educational psychology, motivation, and the impact of competency-based medical education (CBME) on trainees. Dr. Rohlfsen is also intrigued by the potential of large language models (LLMs) and generative AI to revolutionize traditional approaches to diagnostic reasoning, evidence-based medicine, and competency-based assessments of learners. At his core, he is a clinician educator who values the unchanging sacredness of the educational alliance between a dedicated teacher and learner. Dr. Rohlfsen considers it a privilege to teach, mentor, and coach incredibly talented trainees across both undergraduate and graduate medical education spectrums.
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Michael Root
Denver, Colorado, USA
Dr. Michael Root is a Pulmonary & Critical Care fellow at the University of Colorado. He completed medical school at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine and residency training in internal medicine at University of California, San Francisco. His academic interests are in quality improvement, patient safety, and medical education.
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Andrew Sanchez
Northeast, USA
@ASanchez_PSDr. Andrew Sanchez is an exiting PGY-3 in internal medicine at Yale New Haven Hospital: he will soon be starting a career in academic hospital medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston. Meeting hospitalized patients and working with them to achieve diagnostic clarity is his primary clinical passion. His interest in diagnosing the undifferentiated patient is the driving force behind deep interest in learning and teaching diagnostic reasoning. On X/Twitter – which he considers the centerpiece of his teaching portfolio – he is known for creating and sharing schemas for both common and uncommon clinical dilemmas, which are frequently accompanied by “Tweetorial” commentary, as well as diagnostic case challenges. He is additionally a team member of the multi-platform group The Clinical Problem Solvers.
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Bingyan Shi
San Francisco, California, USA
Dr. Bingyan Shi is an academic hospitalist and clinician-educator at UCSF, in the Division of Hospital Medicine. She cares for patients directly on the hospital medicine service, attends and teaches on medicine wards, and provides medical consultation to surgical services. She devotes her academic time to teaching/mentoring within UME and GME, and quality improvement projects within the space of Transitions-of-Care.
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Lailaturrahmi
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
@aminocteLailaturrahmi (“Ami”) is a pharmacy faculty from Universitas Andalas, Indonesia. Her experience in teaching and quality assurance in her institution leads her to pursue Ph.D. in Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Science Education (PPS-Ed) Theme at Monash University, Australia. Being a first year PhD student, she is eager to learn more from other health professional educators. Her fields of interest are online learning, clinical skills, and competency-based education in health professions education. goes here
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