People

Photo	Who	Research interests
	Hannah Lusk, MS, PhD Clinical Pharmacology Fellow [email protected]	Mass Spectrometry method development for toxicology and therapeutic drug monitoring
	Dvijen Purohit, PharmD, MS Clinical Pharmacology Fellow [email protected]	Apply computational approaches and model-based drug development to inform chemotherapeutic management of tuberculosis in patients globally
	Andrew Riselli, PharmD Clinical Pharmacology Fellow [email protected]	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 [email protected]	Dose optimization via population pharmacokinetic (PK) modeling in pediatric infectious disease and oncology patients
	Chao Wang, PhD Postdoc Scholar [email protected]	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 [email protected]	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		Psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy as a novel treatment in anorexia nervosa
Isaac Cohen, PharmD July 2018 - May 2020		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		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		Improving dosing strategy of antimycobacterial medications
Kendra Radtke, PharmD July 2021 - June 2023		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		pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic modeling to optimize antimalarial use for malaria treatment and prevention in children in Uganda
Michelle Wang, PharmD, PhD		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		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 Wolford, MD, MPH July 2019-March 2021		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