People

Slavena Vylkova, PhD

Scientific Communications Manager
Medicine

Dr. Slavena Vylkova manages the scientific communications for the Benioff Center for Microbiome Medicine (BCMM). Her responsibilities include assisting with pre-award research funding operations, scientific writing/editing and project development.

Robert Wachter, MD

PROFESSOR AND CHAIR
Medicine

Robert M. Wachter, MD is Professor and Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). He is the author of 300 articles and 6 books. He coined the term “hospitalist” in 1996 and is often considered the “father” of the hospitalist field, the fastest-growing medical specialty in U.S. history. He is past president of the Society of Hospital Medicine, past chair of the American Board of Internal Medicine, a Master of the American College of Physicians, and an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. In 2004, he received the John M.

Evan Walker, MD

Assistant Professor
Medicine

Dr. Walker is a medical oncologist with a specific focus on gastrointestinal cancers. He maintains clinical practices at UCSF and the San Francisco VA.

Emmanuelle Waubant, MD, PhD

Professor
Neurology

Dr Waubant trained as a neurologist in Toulouse, France. She continued her training as a neuroimmunology fellow in Dr Stephen Hauser’s UCSF laboratory, focusing on matrix metalloproteinases (MMP) and their tissue inhibitors (TIMP), and their role in migration of lymphocytes through equivalents of the blood-brain barrier. In 1994, Dr Waubant returned to Toulouse to complete her 2-year junior faculty/chief residency in neurology. Dr Waubant later returned as a clinical research fellow at the UCSF MS Center with Dr Donald Goodkin.

Jacqueline Weinstein, MD

Assistant Professor
Otolaryngology

Jacqueline E. Weinstein, MD, is an Assistant Professor and Pediatric Otolaryngologist in the Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. She earned her medical degree at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles. She went on to complete her residency in Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery at Tulane University School of Medicine in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Catera Wilder, PhD

Assistant Professor
Bioengineering

Catera Wilder, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering and Therapeutic Sciences at the University of California San Francisco and Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Investigator. She received her Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University (2016) under the direction of Manu Platt. As a UCLA Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the lab of Alexander Hoffmann (2016-2022) she focused on understanding innate immune and inflammatory responses by studying ISGF3 transcription factor dynamic regulation using a systems biology approach.

Bryan Winn, MD

Professor
Ophthalmology

Bryan J. Winn, MD, is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at UCSF and Chief of Ophthalmology at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center. He is board-certified in Ophthalmology and a fellow of the American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ASOPRS), specializing in the medical and surgical management of eyelid, lacrimal, and orbital disorders, as well as aesthetic rejuvenation of the face.

Janet Wojcicki, PhD, MPH

Professor
Pediatrics

Karin Wu, MD

Assistant Adjunct Professor
Medicine

Dr. Karin Wu is Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCSF and Staff Physician at the San Francisco VA Health Care System. She is board-certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialty of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Her work centers on improving care for patients with osteoporosis and metabolic bone disease. Her research uses both clinical and translational methods to understand the interactions between nutrition, the gut microbiome, and skeletal health, and to create new approaches for fracture prevention.

Huijuan Yan, PhD

Postdoctoral Scholar
Microbiology and Immunology

Lu Yang, PhD

Computational Biologist
Medicine

Scott Zamvil, MD, PhD

Professor
Neurology

Dr. Scott Zamvil is a neurologist and immunologist who specializes in treating multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica. His research focuses on developing novel treatments for these autoimmune diseases.

Zamvil earned his medical degree and a doctorate in microbiology and immunology from Stanford University. He then completed a residency in internal medicine at Stanford University and a residency in neurology at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Before coming to UCSF, he was a neurologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

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