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The Nocturnists

The theme for our upcoming event is "Diversity and Identity." We have an outstanding lineup including several physicians, a medical student, and a medical translator, who will tell stories about the intersection of their personal and professional identities. This event is sponsored by the Residency Diversity Committee.
 

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host and creator

Emily is a hospitalist at SFGH and creator of The Nocturnists. She is interested in harnessing the power of narrative to improve the doctor-patient relationship, improve health outcomes, build community, reduce physician burnout, and enhance both medical and public education. In her spare time she enjoys reading, writing, listening to podcasts, and going on road trips with her husband Boaz.

producer

Ali is a family medicine doctor in San Francisco. Every day she has the privilege of bearing witness to her patients’ experiences of birth and death, illness and wellness, and joy and grief. She and her husband Tim are executive producers on a documentary film called Dr. Feelgood, which explores the ethical dilemma of opiate prescriptions.

producer

Sarah is a hospitalist at UCSF and the Director of GME Diversity for the Department of Medicine. She's originally from El Paso, TX and spent ten years in between Boston, San Francisco, and New York before putting down roots in the Bay Area. While it's incredibly expensive, there are few other places that a queer Latina with a wife who loves to surf would feel quite as much at home. Sarah is interested in exploring how we bring all of our personal and professional identities into our work as healthcare providers, and how the field of medicine can grow to embrace and value those identities. She's grateful to her colleagues and friends for sharing their stories at this event.


Eva was born in Paris, France and moved to the Bay Area at age 9.  She went to UC Berkeley for undergrad, and decided to stay 2 more years (because she loved it so much) to do an MPH.  She worked in an infectious disease lab at UC Berkeley for 3 years, focusing on drug-resistance bacteria in spinach. She had the opportunity to work in Salvador, Brazil, and Mysore, India, on different molecular epidemiology projects.  She went to medical school at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. She is now a third-year resident in Family and Community Medicine at UCSF.


Candice is a second-year medical student at Stanford who is learning to embrace the “gray zone” in basically every area of her life: identifying as sometimes femme and sometimes androgynous; pursuing the basic sciences and the medical humanities; wishing she could practice both primary care and a subspecialty. She used to think that she had to choose one way or another, but she’s starting to realize that maybe her thing is being on both sides of the fence. She spent the summer teaching undergraduates about why CRISPR might be the best (or the worst) thing that’s happened to society, coaxing stem cells to turn into skin grafts, and falling in love with Maya Angelou all over again.


Originally from St. Louis, Tyler Mains had short careers in acting, education, and the nonprofit sector before landing on medicine.  He is currently a second-year resident in the Internal Medicine Primary Care program based at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. His career has and will remain focused on creating inclusive and diverse learning environments within health care, and leadership development especially for learners who are under-represented in medicine. As a new Californian, he spends most of his free time exploring the Bay Area with his partner.


A veteran interpreter in healthcare, Suzanna has worked as a staff medical interpreter since 1997 at UCSF. Her past experience spans immigration defense, community health initiatives and teaching in San Francisco’s public middle and high schools. Her commitment to language access for Limited English Proficient patients includes education and advocacy initiatives such as language competency testing for healthcare providers and promoting compliance with language access laws. She holds a BA in Community Studies from UC-Santa Cruz and an MPH from San Francisco State University. She has studied Serbo-Croatian in Belgrade (in former Yugoslavia), obtained a California teaching credential, and a certificate in legal and medical Interpreting from San Francisco State University. She is a Certified Healthcare Interpreter (CHI)™. August 2017 marks the publication of her first book, an intermediate interpreter training textbook, entitled “Interpreting with Heart and Mind."


Sirisha is an internal medicine hospitalist at UCSF Medical Center. Apart from caring for patients, she enjoys hiking, resurrecting dormant music capabilities, and spending time with her Bay Area (and beyond) family.


Matt was born in New Jersey and attended college in North Carolina. He has worked as a schoolteacher and journalist in New York, and attended the University of Illinois-Chicago for medical school. He is an Internal Medicine Resident at Stanford, where he is also Executive Editor for the Pegasus Review, a literary medical journal which launches in March 2018. He lives in Menlo Park with his wife Ilana and son Sam.

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Megha is a hospital medicine physician at the San Francisco VA. She hails from Florida and bravely battles the cold San Francisco summers. She enjoys traveling abroad, cultivating her painting skills, and reading wonky policy blogs.


Meshell  is a faculty member in the division of Pulmonary/Critical Care/Sleep Medicine at UCSF, and mostly cares for patients in the ICU at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. As part of a military family growing up, she has lived in many places, but calls a small town in southeastern Arizona home. When she is not working, she likes to travel, dote on her niece and nephew, and endlessly work on home improvement projects that miraculously fail to get finished.


Sriram, a poet and academic hospitalist at UCSF, has spent the better part of the last 10 years working in Burundi, Haiti, Rwanda and India. He is interested in health equity and narrative equity, working towards a world where lives are of equal value both the health care we deliver and the stories we highlight. He co-founded HEAL Initiative which aims to build a community of health professionals dedicated to make serving the underserved a life long choice. HEAL is a two year experiential fellowship at UCSF. Half of HEAL fellows are either Native American or from the Global South.

cellist

Helen continually seeks ways to expand the technical and expressive boundaries of her instrument through close collaboration with other innovative performers and composers. Her passion for collaboration and experimentation has led her to premiere a number of new works by both emerging and established composers. Helen is a founding member of string quartet Amaranth, string trio Chartreuse, jazz sextet distortise, and experimental noise quartet HK&tCS. Her premiere solo album, Dialogue, was released in April 2017.