We started the SHARE (Sexual Harassment and REporting) collaborative to give all physicians the opportunity to anonymously contribute their own stories around experiences of sexual harassment by patients and their families.
Urmimala Sarkar, MD, MPH
Urmimala Sarkar MD, MPH is a Professor of Medicine at UCSF in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Associate Director of the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations, and a primary care physician at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital’s Richard H. Fine People's Clinic. She does research using innovative solutions to work towards health equity and holds a variety of research training roles at UCSF.
Shirin Hemmat, MD, MPH
Shirin Hemmat, MD MPH is a third-year Internal Medicine resident in the UCSF-Primary Care program. Her academic interests include patient and provider safety, quality improvement, caring for vulnerable populations, and the advancement of women in Medicine. After residency, she will be serving as the Ambulatory UCSF Chief Resident at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
Elaine Khoong, MD, MS
Elaine Khoong, MD, MS is a general internist and assistant professor of medicine based at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. She is interested in leveraging informatics and implementation science to operationalize research findings to reduce health inequities. Dr. Khoong is a mixed-methods researcher, with experience in qualitative methods and implementation science, and ultimately aims to develop, pilot, and implement interventions that improve care for vulnerable populations. Dr. Khoong's research interests are driven by her experiences as a Cantonese-speaking clinician providing primary care to diverse patients within a safety-net setting.
Anjana Sharma, MD, MAS
Anjana Sharma, MD, MAS is a family physician researcher practicing at the Family Health Center at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. Her research focus is on the study of patient engagement in programs to improve the quality and safety of primary care in underserved settings. She is PI of the PARTNRS Study, a KL2 award investigating how patients can be more involved in the reporting and review of unsafe events in primary care and in identifying safety priorities for primary care for vulnerable populations. She received her MD from Harvard Medical School and completed residency at the Tufts University Family Medicine Residency at Cambridge Health Alliance. She is a graduate of the Primary Care Research Fellowship and Master's in Clinical Research program at UCSF.
Gabriela Reed, MD
Gabriela Reed, MD, is a second-year Internal Medicine resident in the UCSF-Primary Care program. Her clinical and research interests center around care for the underserved, with a focus on addiction medicine and Latino communities. She also enjoys writing and hopes to integrate narrative medicine in her career.
Sarah Lisker
Sarah Lisker is a Program Manager at the UCSF Center for Vulnerable Populations. She is experienced in designing, implementing, and evaluating qualitative and quantitative research studies. In addition to her focus on improving health equity, Ms. Lisker is particularly interested in projects that seek to better understand and improve physician well-being. For example, she contributed to the largest study to date that analyzed detailed second victim experiences across US physicians throughout their careers and across diverse specialties as well as practice settings.
Kristan Olazo, MPH
Kristan Olazo joined the Center for Vulnerable Populations in August 2019 as a Research Analyst. Kristan received her MPH in Community Health Education from San Francisco State University and her BS in Physiology with a minor in Asian American Studies also from SF State. As a graduate student, Kristan conducted research on the spectrum of living conditions and housing vulnerability, the role of political participation in Asian American health, and decolonizing approaches to addressing Filipino American mental health.