Dr. Narges Alipanah-Lechner is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at UCSF. She received her undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University and her medical degree and master's degree in clinical and epidemiological research from UCSF. Dr. Alipanah-Lechner's research interest is to apply complementary systems biology approaches within precision medicine to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with syndromes of critical illness such as sepsis and ARDS.

Victoria Chu, MD, MPH is a pediatric infectious diseases physician-scientist and hospital epidemiologist. Her research involved utilizing metagenomic sequencing to understand antimicrobial resistance acquisition and hospital-acquired infections. In addition, she serves as an Associate Medical Director of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Prevention at Benioff Children's Hospital - San Francisco. In this role, she collaborates with the medical staff and ancillary services to address hospital-acquired infections and high-consequence special pathogens preparedness.

I am an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco and Affiliate Faculty in the UCSF/UC Berkeley Joint Program in Computational Precision Health.

My research is motivated by two key questions I frequently encounter in my clinical practice as an intensive care physician and pulmonologist: 1) Why do patients with same disease have such different responses to the same treatments?; and 2) Why are so many promising preclinical treatments ineffective in large clinical trials?

Dr. Max Brondfield is an assistant professor in the division of gastroenterology at UCSF in San Francisco. He completed his medical degree, internal medicine residency, chief residency, and fellowship at UCSF. His clinical interests include celiac disease, functional GI disorders including irritable bowel syndrome, fecal microbiota transplantation, and inflammatory bowel disease.

Natalie L. Wilson, PhD, DNP, MPH, APRN-BC, is an associate professor of Nursing in the Department of Community Health Systems at the UCSF School of Nursing. Dr. Wilson’s research is informed by over 30 years of clinical expertise in primary care, HIV, and sexual health. As part of the Ending the HIV Epidemic National Strategy, she is currently focused on developing innovative solutions to address constraints in accessing HIV prevention and treatment in health for marginalized populations and those in disadvantaged socioeconomic environments.

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Dr. Ajay V. Maker M.D. is a surgical oncologist and chief of the UCSF Division of Surgical Oncology. He is an expert in surgically treating complex gastrointestinal and hepatopancreatobiliary diseases (those affecting the liver, pancreas, gallbladder and bile ducts), as well as melanomas and sarcomas.