Alumni

Adrian Tomes, MD is an Assistant Professor of Family Medicine at UCSF. He received his MD from Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, is a graduate of the Family and Community Medicine Residency at Hennepin Healthcare, and completed Clinical Informatics fellowship training at UCSF in 2024. In his faculty role at UCSF, Dr. Tomes serves as the Medical Director of Data Equity, Residency Program Redesign Informatics Lead, APeX Physician Lead for Primary Care, and Express Care Project Lead.

Karen Trang, MD is currently a General Surgery resident at UCSF. She received her MD from Stanford Medical School before joining UCSF for surgical residency and using her 2 year research block to complete her CI Fellowship. During her fellowship, she completed numerous projects in surgical dashboard development, e-consent for procedures, and analytical platform development. After completing her surgical residency, Dr. Trang plans to pursue a potential fellowship as well as her future career as a surgeon informaticist.

Timothy Wen, MD, MPH is joining UC San Diego as an Assistant Professor in the Divisions of Biomedical Informatics (Medicine) and Maternal-Fetal Medicine (ObGyn&RS) in the fall 2024. He received his MD from the Keck School of Medicine at USC and completed residency in OBGYN at New York Presbyterian/Columbia prior to joining UCSF as a Maternal Fetal Medicine Fellow at UCSF and dual tracking with Clinical Informatics Fellowship. Dr. Wen is interested in expanding the role of informatics in women's health, the use of data and the EHR for clinical risk prediction and care augmentation, and using the EHR to improve care delivery to patients.

Akshay Ravi, MD is the Informatics Director for Hospital Medicine at the Contra Costa Regional Medical Center, where he will also be a hospitalist physician. He earned his medical degree and completed internal medicine residency at UCSF. During his fellowship, he led nationwide research efforts about the governance of electronic health record systems, improved enterprise-wide communication systems, and used data analytics for several quality improvement and clinical operations projects. Dr. Ravi is interested in the intersection between informatics and quality improvement, and hopes to leverage data analytics to improve the patient and provider experience.

Benjamin Weia, MD is currently a medical informaticist at OCHIN, an organization providing Epic systems and other digital tools to a network of community care health institutions and FQHCs, and a practicing general internist. He earned his medical degree at UT Southwestern and completed internal medicine residency at Stanford. During his fellowship, he implemented digital tools and data analytics for a new geriatric care program in the SFVA emergency department, evaluated interruptive alerts (BPAs) to reduce unnecessary interruption, created curricular activities for residents and medical students. Dr. Weia is interested in applying human-centered design and data science to maximizing joy and efficiency in healthcare. 

Stefano Leitner, MD, MPH received his MD from the Florida State University, MPH from the University of California, Berkeley, and is a graduate of the UCSF Occupational & Environmental Medicine residency. His academic interests include digital health innovation, clinical decision support, interoperability, population health analytics, and health economics. Dr. Leitner is exploring a career in climate health informatics.

Anoop Muniyappa, MD, MS is currently faculty at the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine. He earned his medical degree from the UCSF-UC Berkeley Joint Medical Program and completed internal medicine residency and clinical informatics fellowship at UCSF. During clinical informatics fellowship, Dr. Muniyappa led data extraction, analytics, and visualization for several enterprise-wide quality and operational improvement initiatives, including the development of Tableau dashboards to visualize disparities in online patient portal access. He also led a national study of factors associated with adherence to remote monitoring of cardiac implantable electronic devices. Dr. Muniyappa's informatics interests include leveraging data science, the electronic health record, and digital health tools to improve healthcare quality, value and equity. 

Colin Purmal, MD is currently on faculty at the San Francisco Veterans Administration. He received his medical degree from UT Southwestern and completed his residency at UCSF. His academic interests are EMR improvement, healthcare for the unhoused, and improved electronic communication between providers. Dr. Purmal splits his time between providing care in the SFVA Emergency Department and with the VA Sierra Pacific Network (VISN 21) Clinical Resource Hub telehealth group where he is focusing on data analytics and support.

Priya Ramaswamy, MD is currently Deputy Chief Health Informatics Officer at the San Francisco VA Medical Center. She​​​​​ earned her medical degree from Tufts University School of Medicine and completed both intern year and Anesthesiology residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA. In 2022, she received the Physicians in AMIA Applied Clinical Informatics Fellowship Award. Her academic interests are in sustainability and operational informatics, health innovation and machine learning. 

Reiri Sono, MD is an Assistant Professor of Pathology Informatics and Molecular Pathology at the University of Texas at Houston McGovern Medical School. Dr. Sono has completed a residency in Anatomical/ Clinical Pathology at the Mount Sinai Hospital In New York and a fellowship in Molecular Genetic Pathology at UCLA. Her clinical interests center on molecular pathology, cytogenomics, and lab management. During her CI fellowship Dr. Sono developed software tools for the molecular genetics group, analyzed COVID-19 premortem/postmortem test correlation, built Epic workbench reports for pathology, and helped develop a project for automated inaccuracy detection on death certificate data. She additionally helped design and teach the course on introduction to programming in Python. Dr. Sono's interests include digital pathology AI, digital infrastructure, and molecular pathology test development.

Meera Subash, MD is currently on clinical faculty the University of Texas Health Sciences Center with a joint appointment in the Division of Rheumatology at the McGovern Medical School and the UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics. She completed her internal medicine residency at UC San Diego followed by a chief resident year at the VA San Diego. During fellowship, she co-facilitated the Rheumatology Informatics System for Effectiveness (RISE) Learning Collaborative, co-led the development of the innovative Parnassus Emergency Department Video Visit model which was adopted by the Digital Recovery Solutions Team during UCSF's COVID-19 response and recently led AMIA's ACIF Go-Live Podcast series. Dr. Subash's informatics interests include improving the digital patient experience, quality improvement metrics and reporting in the EHR, telehealth applications, and fostering a diverse workforce in clinical informatics. Dr. Subash has been elected to the 2024-2026 Epic Adult Rheumatology Steering Committee and will instrument changes to Epic foundational content that affect her specialty.

Logan Pierce, MD is currently on clinical faculty at the UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine (DHM), and practices clinically as a hospitalist and proceduralist. He completed his medical school training at Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA followed by a residency in Internal Medicine at UCLA. During his Clinical Informatics Fellowship at UCSF, he learned to code using R, SQL, and Tableau, which gave him the skills necessary to help lead the development of a new clinical data analytics group embedded in UCSF's Department of Medicine, called Data Core. Dr. Pierce also provides clinical data science support for the UCSF Department of Surgery and sits on two university committees: the Digital Diagnostics & Therapeutics Committee as well as the Research Data Science Council. His research interests include healthcare price transparency, clinical data dashboards, and machine learning applications in medicine.

Matt Sakumoto, MD currently works at Sutter Health as a virtualist primary care physician and CMIO for the San Francisco region. He first became interested in informatics working as a practice facilitator helping small practices and safety net clinics started on EHRs for Meaningful Use. He completed internal medicine residency at Mercy Hospital in San Diego (where he assisted in their Epic Go-Live). After completing fellowship, he gained experience at multiple telehealth startups and serves as a clinician-advisor to many early-stage companies. He is passionate about exploring and expanding the virtual care landscape, and his informatics interests include telehealth, provider workflow optimization, and population health management.

Steven Chan, MD, MBA (@StevenChanMD, www.stevenchanMD.com) is a clinical informaticist and addiction psychiatrist. He is a clinical associate professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine as Medical Director of Digital Health, Addiction Consultation and Treatment. He is immediate past chair of the American Psychiatric Association's Committee on Innovation. Dr. Chan’s research encompasses telepsychiatry and digital mental health, applied to underserved and minority health. Dr. Chan is a sought-after national speaker whose ideas, thoughts, and research have been featured at Google headquarters, JAMA, Telemedicine and e-Health, JMIR (Journal of Medical Internet Research), Wired, PBS, and NPR Ideastream. He serves as Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of AsyncHealth, a University of California-backed digital mental health tech startup supported by Berkeley SkyDeck PAD-13 and the National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps (i-Corps).

Michael Wang, MD is an Assistant Clinical Professor at UCSF Division of Hospital Medicine and medical lead at the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research (CLIIR), completing the UCSF Clinical Informatics fellowship in 2018, and co-founding the AMIA Clinical Fellows organization (formerly ACIF). Dr. Wang completed his internal medicine training at Highland Hospital in Oakland, CA after completing medical school at the Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine in Chicago. He received his BA from Harvard College in 2007. He was previously heavily involved with Project Health (now Health Leads) in Boston and remains involved with the Health Advocates program at Highland Hospital. Dr. Wang's current research interests include clinical documentation, underserved medicine, clinical workflow optimization, informatics policy, and genomics.