Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

Faculty: John Brown, Robert Rodriguez, Starr Knight, Marianne Juarez, Evelyn Porter, Kayla Enriquez, Prathap Sooriyakumaran, Kavita Gandhi, Juan Carlos Montoy, Nancy Anaya, Rosny Daniel, Joseph Graterol

Fellows: Kevin Hanley, Tim Hong

Residents: Oluwatosin Adenuga, Mayra Cruz, Jaskirat Dhanoa, Michaela Gonzalez, Madeline Grade, Meghan Hewlett, Elaine Hsiang, Vincent Lee, Rebecca Lozano, Emmanuel Quaidoo, & JL Santamarina

LMSA Contacts: Carolina Ornelas-Dorian, Joseph Graterol

SNMA Contacts: 

LGBTQIA+ Contacts: Michaela Gonzalez, Elaine Hsiang

The UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine is extremely supportive of our LGBT patients, faculty, trainees, and staff. We are a diverse department and we cater to an even more diverse patient population.

The UCSF-ZSFG Emergency Medicine residency program boasts a five-section LGBT Health Issues curriculum embedded into the weekly resident didactic sessions. Topics include drugs of abuse, HIV and STIs, transgender health, and psycho-social aspects of the LGBT experience that are related to disproportionate health effects felt in our community. Faculty and residents from the department of Emergency Medicine, UCSF at large, and other San Francisco health providers teach this material and opportunities for research in this area abound.

Our department is not only supportive of our UCSF LGBT family members, but we also recognize domestic partnerships in regards to health and dental benefits. Our faculty, residents, and staff are involved with the UCSF LGBT Resource Center. Several of us participated in San Francisco General Hospital's “It Gets Better” public announcement video catering to individuals struggling with acceptance. We also remain active in several UCSF community initiatives, such as the Underrepresented in Medicine monthly dinners catering to students, the Chancellor’s LGBT Committee, and our very own Diversity Committee within the Emergency Medicine Residency Program.

We uphold a non-discriminatory sexual orientation policy to the highest standard and provide training on the specific needs of our LGBT patient population and their supportive family structure. In fact, we are currently the only Emergency Medicine program nation-wide with a LGBT health curriculum.

We gladly welcome LGBT applicants to join our family! We welcome you to explore the UCSF LGBT Resource Center website.

• Rosny Daniel, MD - 2019 John A Watson Faculty Scholar
• Juan Carlos Montoy, MD & Brenda Oiyemhonlan, MD - 2018 John A. Watson Faculty Scholars
• Cortlyn Brown, MD - UCSF Chancellor Award for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership (2018)

• Rosny Daniel, MD - UCSF Chancellor Award for Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership (2017)

• Kayla Enriquez, MD - 2016 John A Watson Faculty Scholar
• Starr Knight, MD - 2016 John A Watson Faculty Scholar
• Marianne Juarez, MD - Award to attend the AAMC Minority Faculty Career Development Seminar
• John Brown, MD - Caifornia ACEP Humanitarian Award & 2017 Charlotte Baer Memorial Award for Volunteer Clinical Faculty

The Visiting Elective Scholarship Program supported by the Department of Emergency Medicine was established to encourage fourth year medical students who are underrepresented in medicine to apply for the UCSF emergency medicine clerkship (EM 140.01). The scholarship program provides up to $1,500 for each recipient.

The UCSF Department of Emergency Medicine welcomes medical students interested in completing a 6-week summer fellowship in our emergency department. This fellowship is open to medical students who are underrepresented in medicine (URM) and have completed their first year in medical school. ​​​

We are committed to enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion within the UCSF/SFGH Emergency Medicine Residency Program and are inviting medical students who are underrepresented in medicine, LGBTQIA+, first generation in medicine/college, and other diverse students and applicants to join us for a series of Zoom conversations to learn about diversity within our program and at UCSF, health equity and social advocacy, life in the San Francisco Bay Area, and more. 

All sessions will take place at 5 PM PST unless otherwise indicated.

RSVP here to sign up for any of these sessions! You can also follow us on Instagram @ucsf_em to keep in touch!