2023-2024 Geriatric Medicine and GeriPal Fellowship Class!

Angelin Cheng. Angelin completed medical school at UC-Davis and is finishing internal medicine residency at Kaiser Oakland. She is in the Health Equity and Disparity Track in which she works in a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) and the state prison. She has long-standing interest in geriatrics ever since she was working at Over 60 Health Center prior to medical school. Angelin has done scholarly work on advanced care planning in Over 60. She is currently examining the social needs and stress of older adults during the COVID 19 pandemic, especially among the AAPI populations, and working on a multi-center research study to assess provider knowledge, attitudes, and practice regarding social factors that impact the health of older adults. She is interested in home-based primary care and quality improvement.

Stacy Han. We are so happy that Stacy is coming back to UCSF where she did medical school and is now completing internal medicine residency at UC-San Diego. She has a long-standing passion in serving the underserved population, including student-run free clinics and the local Alzheimer’s Association. She has done work in Medical-Legal Partnership for Seniors while in medical school. In residency, Stacy took the initiative in creating an inclusive language curriculum aimed to reduce bias in healthcare settings. Furthermore, her scholarly work focuses on the intersection of older adults and addiction medicine. On top of all of these, she is mentoring first generation medical students in UCSD. Stacy is interested in clinical leadership in settings that would allow her to continue her personal mission and to serve the population in the central valley in California.  

Mara Rosenberg. Mara completed medical school at Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine and is completing IM residency at Legacy Good Samaritan and Emanuel. She has a background as a computational biologist with many publications and has found her passion in geriatrics. She is currently working on rural vs. urban caregiver characteristics and the impact of COVID19 on the mental health of care recipients and caregivers as well as a project on the impact of stuffed companions on older hospitalized adults with dementia. She is interested in becoming a clinician-researcher. We are super excited that she is leaving the Oregon nest and exploring San Francisco!

Kathryn Sellman. Kathryn did medical school at Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University and is finishing internal medicine residency at Virginia Commonwealth University Health System. She was a MSTAR student. During residency, she has taken the initiatives to work with the geriatrics faculty on improving the geriatrics curriculum for IM residency. Furthermore, she has also been working on a longitudinal interprofessional course, specifically on evaluating interprofessional skills in a simulated advanced care planning meeting among health professions learners. She is interested in clinical care and medical education.

Ryan McMahan. We are so happy that Ryan is coming back to UCSF! Ryan had done many projects with our research faculty prior to joining medical school at UCSF. He is finishing internal medicine residency at Kaiser, San Francisco. Ryan is establishing himself as a prolific researcher with a number of publications, especially in the area of advanced care planning, including in vulnerable populations such as those who are Spanish speaking and in those living mental health conditions. He’s also volunteered in the Ethics Committee both during medical school and residency. Ryan is planning a career as a clinician researcher.