Clinical medicine, with its emphasis on health, healing, and the human connection, offers an abundance of compelling stories. When we share these stories with each other and the community at large, we participate in the critical process of self-reflection and self-healing, remind ourselves of the deep meaning present in our jobs, re-invigorate our curiosity in our patients’ stories, demystify doctorhood for the general public, and contribute to an overall sense of camaraderie and community.
Our October event is part of Re:imagine | End of Life: a citywide conversation about living and dying through art, experience, and design, inspired by IDEO's End of Life Challenge.
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DOORS: 7:00pm - 8:00pm
PROGRAM: 8:00pm - 11:00pm
Emily is an internal medicine resident at UCSF 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.
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.
Dawn aims to transform the taboos around talking about death. She sees her practice of hospice and palliative medicine as an opportunity to make wishes come true. When not joyfully working with her palliative care team at UCSF, she aspires to be the "Dr. Ruth of Death" as host of the new, call-in radio program, Dying To Talk, on 91.7FM KALW. Dawn also enjoys writing poetry and prose and engaging her three children and husband (and anyone else in earshot) in conversations about what matters most in life.
Galen is a native New Yorker who started out as a religion major and spent a few years in finance (and a few more in business school) before migrating west to begin a career in healthcare. By day she works in strategy and operations for UCSF, by night she is training to be a volunteer EMT, and the rest of the time she’s usually off exploring the great Bay Area outdoors.
Grant grew up in Knoxville, TN, where his mom is a general dentist and his dad is an engineer. He went to undergrad at Duke, where he was a psychology major. He spent a year in Tanzania working with an OBGYN on projects looking at maternal mortality. After that, he went to Harvard for medical school, where he took a research year to pursue an interest in palliative are at Dana Farber Cancer Institute and Ariadne Labs. He is now a second year resident in the UCPC program and plans to pursue a career in palliative care.
Wendi is a Hospitalist for Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Santa Cruz California. Twelve years ago she had a solo practice in rural Kansas. Then in a rare moment of sanity she packed up her kid, husband and dogs and left Kansas for Northern California. Prior to all that she studied History and Literature at Washington University in St. Louis, taught high school, went to University of Kansas Medical School and did internal Medicine residency and Chief residency at UC Davis. Her free time is spent with family and friends on the water, in the mountains or in her hammock with a good book.
Anne is a palliative care physician at San Francisco General Hospital, where she and her fantastic team meet some of the city's most vulnerable residents in what are often the hardest moments of their lives. Her professional passion is to help expand access to palliative care for vulnerable patients. Outside of work, she's pondering: life's big questions, her next trip across the US or the world, the next dance performance to see, or how many restaurants can be added to her bucket list before things get out of hand.
Brad is an internal medicine resident at UCSF and is pursuing a career in oncology. He grew up in Salt Lake City and has lived in the US, Australia, and China. Sometimes he wonders why he didn't become a spy. When he isn't explaining to his children why they need to wear clothes or chasing them around the city, he enjoys biking and discussing a good book with his wife.
 Dhruv is a cardiologist and health economist at UCSF and the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital. His research explores the interplay among medicine, economics, and health policy, with the goal of optimizing how health systems invest in the cardiovascular health of the populations they serve. When not torturing data, Kazi enjoys rock climbing, salsa dancing, and scuba diving. And he likes to photograph people.
Milana is a resident physician in Family and Community Medicine at UCSF. She is interested in cultivating resilience, caring for moms and their babies, challenging racism, and healing the harms of violence in all its forms. She likes doing bhakti yoga, mixing cocktails, and swimming in all bodies of water large or small.
Calico hails from the small towns of rural California. They play a blend of old time, country and folk -- anything with a twang. Charlotte Carlson is on fiddle and sings harmony, and Alex Nitta supplies guitar and lead vocals. Calico loves a good porch jam, so if you have a lonely porch, or if you just want to say hello, email them at calicotwang@gmail.com.
Bret is the co-founder and winemaker of Côte West, an Oakland-based winery. He grew up in Carmel Valley, where he developed an early appreciation for the natural beauty of the California landscape. He holds a master’s degree in Viticulture & Enology from UC Davis and got his hands dirty interning at Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars in Napa and Domaine des Comtes Lafon in Meursault, Burgundy. Upon returning from France, he set out to combine that tradition-steeped approach with his training at Davis in order to create Old-World style yet undeniably Californian wines.