Narges Alipanah-Lechner, MD | Clinical Fellow | [email protected]

Narges is a UCSF Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellow in Dr. Calfee’s lab, working on Metabolomics in ARDS as well as sub-phenotyping COVID ARDS using precision medicine techniques within the ISPY COVID adaptive randomized controlled trial. Narges completed undergraduate training in public health studies at Johns Hopkins University, followed by medical school at UCSF and internal medicine residency and chief residency at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Her ultimate goal is to study precision medicine diagnostics and therapeutics in syndromes of critical illness including ARDS and sepsis. In her spare time, before she welcomed her new baby this year and pre-pandemic, she enjoyed reading fiction, running/interval training, and traveling the world with her family.

Bruno Evrard, MD, MS | Postdoctoral Fellow | [email protected]

Bruno Evrard, MD, MS, is a french physician fully trained in intensive care medicine. He is currently working on understanding the factors associated with the mortality in the acute respiratory distress syndrome phenotypes. Before working as a postdoctoral fellow at UCSF, he was an attending physician in Limoges-France, where he specialized his clinical practice and research in hemodynamic assessment in intensive care. He completed his medical studies at the University of Toulouse before his residency and fellowship training which he carried out in Limoges. Bruno Evrard also completed a master’s degree in clinical research in Paris. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, flying planes, and travel with his family. 

Ben LaCombe | Staff Research Associate | [email protected]

Ben LaCombe is a staff research associate in the Calfee/Matthay lab, working primarily on the ISPY COVID and ARDS trials. Ben graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor’s in Economics. Before joining the lab, Ben taught in the Bayview community in San Francisco and East Palo Alto as a middle school science teacher. In his spare time, he likes to surf, volunteer with youth, bake bread, recreate San Francisco cuisine at home, and bike the city.

Chelsea Lin | Clinical Research Coordinator | [email protected]

Chelsea Lin is a Clinical Research Coordinator working on the COVID-19 Multi-phenotying for Effective Therapies (COMET) study. She is also a part of various clinical trials within the Calfee-Matthay research group. Chelsea graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a double major in Public Health and Economics. In her spare time, Chelsea enjoys traveling and exploring the world and loves doing yoga.

Lucile Neyton, PhD | Bioinformatics Programmer | [email protected]

Originally from France, Lucile received her MSc degree in Applied Bioinformatics from Cranfield University in 2016 and then attended The University of Edinburgh for her PhD studies in Precision Medicine up until recently. In that time she worked on the subtyping of critical illnesses in humans using different types of data and clustering techniques. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and wildlife photography.

Aartik Sarma, MD | Assistant Professor | [email protected]

Aartik is a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at UCSF and an NHLBI F32 postdoctoral research fellow. His research is focused on integrating transcriptomic and metagenomic sequencing data from the respiratory tract to characterize phenotypes of COPD exacerbations and ARDS. Aartik is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard Medical School. He completed his clinical training in internal medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital and in pulmonology and critical care medicine at UCSF. Outside of research, Aartik enjoys hiking in Marin and cooking vegetarian food. 

Andrew Willmore | Research Data Analyst | [email protected]

Andrew is a data manager for the COVID-19 Multi-phenotyping for Effective Therapies (COMET) study and a research data analyst within the Calfee Research Group. Andrew received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Davis and now primarily uses R in his day to day to navigate the world of data. In his free time, Andrew rewatches The Dark Knight.

Ann Zalucky, MD, M.Sc.​ | Postdoctoral Research Fellow | [email protected]

Ann Zalucky is an Intensivist and Clinical Scholar from the University of Calgary, Canada. Ann received her joint MD/MSc degree from the University of Calgary before going on to the University of Toronto where she completed residency training in internal medicine and critical care medicine. She is interested in studying respiratory mechanics and the lung-kidney axis to better define phenotypes in critical illness syndromes including ARDS and AKI. She is excited to work on projects that integrate proteomics with machine learning to examine heterogeneity in treatment effects. When she is not in the lab, Ann is looking forward to exploring hikes in the Bay Area and surrounding Napa Valley. She is a cocktail enthusiast and is keen on trying all the delicious multicultural cuisine San Francisco has to offer.  

Alumni:

Jeff Gotts, MD, PhD. Current Position: Assistant Professor at UCSF

Kirsten Kangelaris, MD. Current Position: Professor at UCSF

Farzad Moazed, MD. Current Position: Physician at Highland Hospital

Chaz Langelier, MD, PhD. Current Position: Associate Professor at UCSF

Jenny Wilson, MD. Current Position: Associate Professor at Stanford University

Ricky Wang, MD. Current Position: Assistant Professor at UCSF

Matt Schwede, MD. Current Position: Oncology Fellow at Stanford University

Katie Auriemma, MD. Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania

Amy Ni, MD. Current Position: Physician in private practice

Vikram Fielding-Singh, MD. Current Position: Assistant Professor at Stanford University

Kathryn Vessel. Current Position: Medicine resident at UPMC Pittsburgh

Thomas Deiss. Current Position: Internal medicine resident at LSU

Tom Liu. Current Position: General surgery resident at Rutgers

Matt Lippi. Current Position: Emergency medicine resident at UCSF-Fresno

Katie Famous, MD. Current Position: Physician at Kaiser Oakland

Bob Lee, MD. Current Position: Assistant Professor at University of Washington

Aaron Spicer, MD. Current Postion: Instructor at Harvard

Erika Moseson, MD. Current Position: Physician in private practice

Ashish Agrawal, MD. Current Position: Associate Professor at UCSF

S. Jean Hsieh, MD. Current Position: Associate Professor at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine

Pratik Sinha, MD, PhD. Current Position: Assistant Professor at Washington University, Saint Louis

Serena Ke.  Current Position: Medical student at University of California, Davis

Jason Abbott. Current Position: UCSF Respiratory Therapist

Alejandra Jauregui. Current Position: Nurse at Randall Children's Hospital

Chayse Jones. Current Position: Research Associate at Tenaya Therapeutics

Rajani Ghale. Current Position: Medical student at Rocky Vista University College of Osteopathic Medicine

Eran Mick, PhD. Current Position: Senior Bioinformatics Scientist at GRAIL