Faculty Mentees

Mentoring is integral to the IgNITE Lab. Dr. Sarkar’s mentoring roles include Director, with Dr. Ralph Gonzales, of the Learning Health Systems Early Career Acceleration Program (LEAP) K12 Program and Director of the UCSF’s K Scholars Program.

William Brown III, PhD, DrPH, MA

Janet Chu, MD, MPH

Niharika Dixit, MD

Mark Fleming, PhD

Kiran Gupta, MD

Matt Pantell, MD, MS

Lisa Rotenstein, MD, MBA

Anjana Sharma, MD

Trainees

Jessica Ainooson, MPH

Jaysón Davidson, PhD Candidate

Magdalene Kuznia, BSN, MS-HCI, RN

Juan Carlos Lozano, MD

Katarina Wang, BS

Alexandra Rojek, MD

Jonathan Shih, BS

Lab Babies

Past Trainees

 
 
  Name 
    Time in Lab 
    Current Position and Location  
  
   
Seth Berkowitz, MD, MPH
2010-2012
Assistant Professor at UNC Chapel Hill
 
Adam Luxenberg, MD 
 2014-2017 
Physician at Kaiser Permanente Oakland
 
Jacob Mirsky, MD
2014-2017
 Founder and Owner of Lifestyle Medicine Consulting LLC
 
Matthew Hickey, MD
2016-2018
Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of HIV, ID, & Global Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital
 
Marisa Westbrook, MPH
Summer 2016
Assistant Professor in Community Health/Health Promotion at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health at Portland State University
 
Michael Bentz, MPH
Summer 2018
Lead Research Associate at Westat 
 
Helena Lyson, PhD 
2017-2019
Senior Research Program Manager at Hello Heart
 
Shirin Hemmat, MD, MPH
2015-2021
Medical Officer at the FDA
 
Ajay Haryani, MD, MBA
2018-2021
Physician and Founder at Seen Medical
 
Gabriela Reed, MD
2019-2022
Assistant Professor of Medicine at Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at UNC School of Medicine
Jonathan S. Lee, MD
2017-2022
Internal Medicine Physician at Sutter Health
Valy Fontil, MD
2015-2023
Associate Director, NYU Program on Digital Health Equity
Michelle Linh Nguyen, MD
2020-2023
Creative Director at Canyon Oak
Becks Fisher, MA, MB BChir
2022-2023
Director of Research and Policy at The Nuffield Trust