The teaching faculty at UCSF Fresno includes both a core faculty at Community Regional Medical Center and the VA Hospital and a community-based volunteer faculty. The community-based volunteer faculty provides the residents with a number of specialty experiences including geriatrics, office orthopedics, ophthalmology, and otolaryngology in addition to primary care experiences in the community. We have created an additional page for you to view some information about featured volunteer faculty. The following is a list with links to information about the core teaching faculty in the program:
Vice Chief of Medicine
Vipul V. Jain, MD, MS
Executive Vice Chair
Division Chief for Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Smoking Cessation Program, UCSF Fresno
Cardiology
John A. Ambrose, MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Interventional Cardiologist, Community Regional Medical Center
Ryan Berg, MD, FACC
Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Interventional Cardiologist, VACCHCS
Teresa Daniele, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Chief of Cardiology, UCSF Fresno
Prakash Deedwania , MD, FACC
Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Chandra K. Katikireddy, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF
Director, Cardiac Imaging Section, VACCHCS
Richard Kiel, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Program Director, Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program
Medical Director, Heart Failure Services
Siri Kunchakarra, MD
Felice Lin, MD
Mouatou Mouanoutoua, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Interventional Cardiologist, Community Regional Medical Center
Program Director, UCSF Fresno Interventional Cardiology Fellowship
Henning Rasmussen, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Interventional Cardiologist, Community Regional Medical Center
Ankit Rathod, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF
Director of Cardiac Imaging
Arang Samim, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Brandon Woodbury, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF
Dermatology
Endocrinology
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Jaya Krishna Chintanaboina, MD, MPH, FACP
Associate Clinical Professor
Devang N. Prajapati, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF
Gastroenterologist, VA-VACCHCS
Helen Wong, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine. UCSF
Chief, Gastroenterology. VA – VACCHCS, Fresno
Director, Fellowship Program. UCSF Fresno
Marina Roytman, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Director, Liver Program, UCSF Fresno
Hepatologist
Juliana Yang, MD
Division Director, Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Assistant Clinical Professor
General Medicine (Ambulatory)
Belayneh A. Abejie, MD, MPH
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
UCSF
Medical Director, Employee Health Services,
Community Medical Centers
Dominic Dizon, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Alan Kelton, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Chief of General Medicine Division
Associate Chief for Clinical Affairs
Stutee Khandelwal, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Tin-Tin Kyaw, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Wessel Meyer, MBChB
Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF
Chief of Staff, Veteran’s Administration
Hau (Ken) Nguyen, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Seema Policepatil, MD, MBA, FACP
Assistant Clinical Professor
Ivance Pugoy, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Teresa Sigala, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF
Michael Tom, DO
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Associate Program Director
Elbert Tun, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
General Medicine (Emergency)
General Medicine (Hospitalist)
Kam Lun Au Yeung, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Gail Ajanaku, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Hiral Patel, DO
Clinical Instructor
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Manjit Singh, MD
Associate Clinical Professor
Steven Ray Stoltz, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Antonio Toribio, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Hospitalist
Steven Tringali, DO
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF
Geriatrics
Paulette Ginier, MD
Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF
Hematology/Oncology
Haifaa Abdulhaq, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF
Hem/Onc Program Director, UCSF Fresno
Mohammed Sani Bukari, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Hematology/Oncology
Uzair B. Chaudhary, MD
Chief of Medicine, UCSF Fresno
Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF
Chief, Hematology/Oncology
Sanjay Hinduja, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Omer Ilyas, MD
Constance Stoehr, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Infectious Diseases
Hebah Ghanem, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Erica Kasper, MD
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency
Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF
Specialty: Infectious Disease/Internal Medicine
Robert Libke, MD
Director, Infection Control
Chair, Human Investigation Review
Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF
Michele Maison-Fomotar, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Naiel N. Nassar, MD, FACP
Infectious Diseases Division Director
Antibiotic Stewardship Director
Professor of Clinical Medicine, UCSF
Almira Opardija, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
Infectious Disease
Geetha Sivasubramanian, MD
FIDSA Asst. Clinical Professor
Program Director
Nephrology
Cho-Cho Khine, MD
Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF
Pulmonary/Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Eyad Almasri, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine
Vijay P. Balasubramanian, MD, MRCP (UK)
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care
Medical Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program
UCSF Fresno
Peter Baylor, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Kathryn L. Bilello, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Co-Medical Director for Respiratory Care
Program Director, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Vijai Daniel, MD, MPH
Timothy Evans, MD, PhD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Director of Intensive Care Units
Mohamed A Fayed, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Anil Ghimire, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Medical Director, Chronic Lung Disease Program
Pravachan Hegde, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Vipul V. Jain, MD, MS
Executive Vice Chair
Division Chief for Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Director, Smoking Cessation Program, UCSF Fresno
J. Joseph Vempilly, MBBS, MD, MRCP (UK), FCCP
Professor of Clinical Medicine
Chief of Pulmonary Medicine for VACCHCS
Lynn Keenan, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine
Program Director of Sleep Medicine Fellowship
Michael W. Peterson, MD
Associate Dean, UCSF Fresno
Valley Medical Foundation Endowed Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Vice Chair of Medicine, UCSF
Steven Ratcliff, DO
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine
Pulmonary VA
Crystal Ives Tallman, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, UCSF
Karl Van Gundy, MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
UCSF Fresno
Rheumatology
Women’s Health
Jeanette Rylander, MD
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
* indicates the Division Director