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UCSF Medical Center

William Simmons, MD

Medical Director, Adult Antimicrobial Stewardship at UCSF Medical Center, Chair, Antimicrobial Subcommittee, UCSF Medical Center, Assistant Clinical Professor
Medicine

Dr. William Simmons is an infectious disease specialist who cares for patients with complex conditions, including serious bacterial infections in the bloodstream and infections related to surgically implanted devices and hardware. He treats patients in both the clinic and the hospital.

His research focuses on how to use antibiotics to both improve outcomes for patients and reduce the development of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. He is also the medical director of the adult antimicrobial stewardship program at UCSF.

Emily Kaip, PharmD

Pharmacist Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Adult Antimicrobial Stewardship Program

Ripal Jariwala, PharmD BCIDP

Pharmacist Specialist, Infectious Diseases, Adult Antimicrobial Stewardship Program

Sarah Doernberg, MD, MAS

Clinical Professor
Medicine

Sarah Doernberg is a Professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases. She has an active outpatient Infectious Diseases Clinic and sees inpatients on the Transplant Infectious Diseases service. Her clinical research focuses on diagnosis and treatment of antibiotic resistant infections.

Jennifer Babik, MD, PhD

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Medicine

CLINICAL ACTIVITIES
Jennifer Babik specializes in clinical infectious diseases with a particular focus on infections in immunocompromised hosts. She attends on the Immunocompromised Host and General Infectious Diseases Consult Services at UCSF Health.

Rachel Bystritsky, MD

HS Assoc. Clinical Professor
Medicine

Rachel Bystritsky is an infectious disease specialist who sees patients at the UCSF Medical Center. She received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2012 and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Columbia University Medical Center where she went on to be a chief resident. She completed Infectious Disease Fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco, where she has remained on faculty.

Charles Chiu, MD, PhD

Professor
Laboratory Medicine

Charles Chiu, M.D./Ph.D. is Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at University of California, San Francisco and Director of the UCSF Clinical Microbiology Laboratory. Chiu currently leads a translational research laboratory focused on the development and clinical validation of metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS) and host response profiling assays for diagnosis of infections, outbreak investigation, and pathogen discovery.

Daniel Escobar, MD, MS

HS Asst Clinical Professor
Medicine

Dr. Daniel Jose Escobar is an infectious disease specialist who cares for patients with a broad range of complex bacterial, fungal and viral infections, including those involving bones, joints, surgical implants and surgical complications.

Katherine Gruenberg, PharmD, MA

Associate Professor
Clinical Pharmacy

Alexandra Horeczko

Pharmacist Program Crd

Chaz Langelier, MD, PhD

Assoc Professor In Residence
Medicine

The translational research in my lab bridges basic and clinical investigation by engaging genomic technologies to understand relationships between microbes, host response and clinical outcomes. We study lower respiratory tract infections, ARDS, sepsis, nosocomial infections, and emerging pathogens including SARS-CoV-2. One focus area involves developing new diagnostic techniques that combine metagenomic sequencing and machine learning to simultaneously profile both host and microbiome from clinical samples.

Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS

Associate Dean & Professor
Clinical Pharmacy

Conan MacDougall, PharmD, MAS, BCPS, BCIDP is Associate Dean for Integrated Core Curriculum and Professor of Clinical Pharmacy in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. MacDougall teaches pharmacy, medical, and nursing trainees at UCSF, for which he has twice received the Academic Senate Campus Award for Distinction in Teaching. A member of the School of Medicine’s Academy of Medical Educators, he has been recognized as an Emerging Teaching Scholar by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and received the Albert B.

Katherine Yang, PharmD, MPH

Professor
Clinical Pharmacy

Kathy Yang, Pharm.D., MPH is a Health Sciences Clinical Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California (UCSF) School of Pharmacy and an Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacist in the UCSF Medical Center. Dr. Yang specializes in the treatment of multi-drug resistant infections, particularly gram negative bacteria such as Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Her area of research focuses on the pharmacodynamic optimization of antibiotics for the treatment of biofilm-mediated infections such as cystic fibrosis.

Deborah Yokoe, MD, MPH

Medical Director, Infection Control at UCSF Medical Center
Medicine

Deborah Yokoe, M.D., M.P.H. is a Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine. She is the Medical Director for Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention for the adult services and an attending physician on the Transplant Infectious Diseases consultation service.

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco

Rachel Wattier, MD, MHS

Associate Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, San Francisco , Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Pediatrics

Rachel Wattier, M.D., M.H.S. is a physician in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Health. She started the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Benioff Chidren's Hospital San Francisco and has conducted collaborative research to improve judicious antimicrobial and diagnostic test use in children. Her current research as a scholar in the UCSF-KPNC Urologic Epidemiology K12 program focuses on improving evidence uptake and application in diagnosis of urinary tract infections.

Lynn Ramirez, MD, MS

Medical Director, Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, HS Assoc Clinical Professor
Pediatrics

Lynn Ramirez MD, MSc, who joined the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Health in November 2014, serves as Medical Director of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control at the UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco. In this role, she collaborates with nurses, physicians, and ancillary services to prevent hospital acquired infections including those related to invasive medical devices and Clostridium difficile.

Steve Grapentine

Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist

VA Medical Center San Francisco

Jennifer Mulliken, MD

Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship at VA Medical Center San Francisco, Assistant Professor
Medicine

OVERVIEW

Clara Lee, PharmD, BCPS

Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Manager

Theora Canonica, PharmD

Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Manager

Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center

Lisa Winston, MD

Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center, Professor
Medicine

Lisa Winston received her MD from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in 1994. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF and was Chief Resident at San Francisco General Hospital. Dr. Winston then completed fellowships in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology at UCSF.

She is the Associate Chief Medical Officer for Medical Surgical Services and Hospital Epidemiologist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center. Her research interests are infection control and prevention and antimicrobial resistant bacterial pathogens.

Vivek Jain, MD, MAS

Professor of Clinical Medicine
Medicine

Vivek Jain, MD, MAS, FIDSA is a Professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases in the Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).

Amanda Roy PharmD, BCIDP AAHIVP

Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship Clinical Pharmacist

UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

Cynthia Huwe

PharmD, Antimicrobial Stewardship Pharmacist, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

Prachi Singh, DO

DO, Medical Director , Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Pediatrics