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Co-Directors
Leslie Carstensen Floren, PharmD, PhD, MA
Associate Dean of Fellowships
Professor
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Rada Savic, PhD
Co-Vice Dean of Graduate Pharmacy Education Programs
Professor
Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences
Associate Directors
Amelia Deitchman, PharmD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Clinical Pharmacy
Shylaja Srinivasan, MD, MAS
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Department of Pediatrics
Faculty
Fellows work with research and clinical faculty members at UCSF—a world-renowned institution exclusively focused on health sciences.
- Nadav Ahituv, PhD
- Fran T. Aweeka, PharmD
- Sourav Bandyopadhyay, PhD
- Leslie Z. Benet, PhD
- Neal L. Benowitz, MD
- Kristen Bibbins-Domingo, MD, PhD
- Atul Butte, MD, PhD
- Amelia Deitchman, PharmD, PhD
- Grant Dorsey, MD
- Timur Durrani, MD, MPH
- Leslie Carstensen Floren, PharmD
- Kathleen M. Giacomini, PhD
- Timothy Henrich, MD
- Ronald Krauss, MD
- Janel Long-Boyle, PharmD, PhD
- Pamela N. Munster, MD
- Akinyemi Oni-Orisan, PharmD, PhD
- Kathryn A. Phillips, PhD, MPA
- Jennifer M. Puck, MD
- Philip Rosenthal, MD
- Nancy C. Sambol, PharmD
- Rada Savic, PhD
- Janice B. Schwartz, MD
- Marina Sirota, PhD
- Eric Small, MD
- Bani Tamraz, PharmD, PhD
- Gustavo Velasquez, MD, MPH
- Joshua Woolley, MD, PhD
- Alan H. Wu, PhD
- Elad Ziv, MD
Current postdoctoral scholars and fellows
| Photo | Who | Research interests |
|---|---|---|
| Hannah Lusk, MS, PhD Clinical Pharmacology Fellow | Mass Spectrometry method development for toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring |
| Dvijen Purohit, PharmD, MS Clinical Pharmacology Fellow | Apply computational approaches and model-based drug development to inform chemotherapeutic management of tuberculosis in patients globally |
| Andrew Riselli, PharmD Clinical Pharmacology Fellow | Using biomarkers to characterize transporter-mediated drug-drug interactions and polymorphisms in membrane transporter genes; physiologically-based pharmacokinetic modeling |
| Maureen Shin, PharmD, MS Clinical Pharmacology Fellow | Dose optimization via population pharmacokinetic (PK) modeling in pediatric infectious disease and oncology patients |
| Chao Wang, PhD Postdoc Scholar | Methodologies development for detecting broadly neutralizing antibodies during treatment interruption in people with HIV and evaluating neurobiological biomarkers linked to cognitive impairment in women living with HIV |
| Michael Yoon, PharmD, PhD Clinical Pharmacology Fellow | Model-Informed Dose Optimization for Infectious Diseases in Pediatric and Adult Populations |
Former fellows
| Who, Years mentored | Now | Main research |
|---|---|---|
Jordan Brooks, PharmD July 2021 - April 2023 | Pharmacometrician / Data Scientist at InsightRX | Developing computational models to improve medication use in children, translating models into clinical applications that improve efficacy and minimize toxicity from medications used in pediatric hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. |
| Anita Chaphekar, DO | Attending Physician at Cincinnati Children's Hospital | Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy as a novel treatment in anorexia nervosa |
Isaac Cohen, PharmD July 2018 - May 2020 | Senior Scientist at Denali Therapeutics | Population PK modeling of antibiotics, retrospective analysis of postoperative pain management, and advising psychiatric drug development |
Amelia Deitchman PharmD, PhD January 2018 - January 2020 | Assistant Professor, UCSF Clinical Pharmacy | clinical and translational pharmacology and pharmacometrics to understand drug action and variability to improve patient outcomes and streamline drug development in the setting of infectious disease, specifically tuberculosis, HIV, and malaria |
| Elizabeth Ennis, PhD | Pharmacologist, U.S. Food and Drug Administration | genetic determinants of metformin pharmacokinetics, and drug-transporter interactions |
Briana Fitch, PhD July 2019- June 2021 | Medical Director at Beckman Coulter Diagnostics | Therapeutic drug monitoring of anticoagulants, clinical applications of mass spectrometry, and prognostic value of inflammatory markers in infectious disease and cancer. |
Priya Jayachandran, PharmD, MSE July 2017- June 2020 | Pharmacometrician at Pfizer | pharmacokinetic / pharmacodynamic modeling of drug response, infectious diseases, pediatrics, study design, global health |
| Eunice Lee, PhD | Fellow, National Institutes of Health | environmental and molecular epidemiology, gene-environment interactions, biomarkers of exposure to air pollution, drug response |
| Ryo Miyakawa, MD, MPH | Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medicine | Improving dosing strategy of antimycobacterial medications |
Kendra Radtke, PharmD July 2021 - June 2023 | Principal Scientist at Genentech | Apply novel computational approaches to inform dosing and therapeutic management of infectious diseases in special populations such as children and pregnant women. |
Lesly-Anne Samedy, PharmD, PhD, MS July 2017-June 2020 | Program Officer, National Institutes of Health (NICHD) | pharmacogenetics and epigenetic factors in the development of asthma in admixed populations; pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, and drug response; genetic variant associations; health disparities |
| Markus Ville Tiitto, PharmD, PhD | Effect of parenteral drug administration absorption rates on systemic absorption (AUC) | |
| Erika Wallender, MD, MPH | Medical Officer at U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling to optimize antimalarial use for malaria treatment and prevention in children in Uganda |
| Michelle Wang, PharmD, PhD | Assistant Professor at UCSF | Using novel artificial intelligence computational methods to study real-world data to improve the use of novel therapeutics |
Yasmine White, MD July 2020 - June 2023 | Assistant Professor at University of Utah Health | Pharmaceuticals for birth asphyxia, pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic modeling in neonates |
Jonathan Witonsky, MD, MPH July 2019-June 2020 | UCSF Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Clinical Instructor and Clinical Research Informatics Postdoctoral Research Fellow | genetic and epigenetic factors in the development of asthma, pulmonary function testing in admixed populations, and health disparities in clinical research |
Eric Wohlford, MD, MPH July 2019-March 2021 | Senior Medical Director at Gilead Sciences | Genetic and microbial factors associated with immune-mediated diseases including asthma in children. Interests include improving disparities in research and clinical care for minority populations, with an aim to make personalized medicine available to all population |
Yu “Jada” Zhang, MD, PhD July 2019-March 2021 | Assistant Professor at University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center |