OF INTEREST

OPAL GUPTA, MD KEN KATZ, MD, MSC, MSCE HELEN YU, MD

Allergy & Immunology Dermatology

Why Are You Interested In Serving? Current Job Positions and Hospital and Teaching Affiliations I am in private practice with San Francisco Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. My current hospital affiliations include UC San Francisco and CPMC hospital systems. SFMMS Nominations Committee Through my training and practice, I have worked to improve patient care and patient experience by studying the barriers in access to care, the limitations in health care delivery, and the effect of personal characteristics (such as race and socioeconomic status) on disease management. I have mentored fellows, medical students and undergraduates. I currently serve on the Education Services, Data & Technology Committee as part of the American College of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology. Physician voices are essential in framing health and social policy. As an allergist treating a wide variety of common conditions, my patient population is diverse in age, ethnicity, and background. I would be honored to help shape and represent healthcare policy locally and statewide as part of the CMA delegation. Dermatologist, Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Chief, Outpatient Pharmacy & Therapeutics,

SFMMS/CMA Committees or Offices

Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Nominations Committee, 2018-2020 Chairperson, FDA Dermatologic and Ophthalmic Drugs Advisory Committee Editorial Board member, JAMA Dermatology California should be a leader in helping physicians provide affordable, patientcentered, culturally appropriate care to all its residents. I would be honored to help SFMMS continue to advocate for policies at the state level that help us achieve that goal.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

I am a child and adolescent psychiatrist at Kaiser Permanente in San Francisco. I completed my training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at UCSF in 2020. I also received my General Psychiatry Residency training at UCSF.

Additional Relevant Experience

Why Are You Interested in Serving?

None As a resident and fellow, I have been involved in various formal and informal leadership positions that have included working on quality improvement projects in my own department, collaborating with trainees from other departments to improve patient care, and developing community partnerships to link patients to

needed services. Our local region is facing many difficult challenges such as homelessness, substance use, and access to mental health care. We need to work across different fields of medicine, and across different organizations. It’s important to bring a diversity of voices to the table in regards to the leadership of SFMMS.

SFMMS Delegation to the CMA House of Delegates

DANIEL FLIS, MD JESSICA DUHE, MD

Also a candidate for SFMMS Nominations Committee

Otolaryngology Internal Medicine

Current Job Positions and Hospital and Teaching Affiliations Otolaryngologist specializing in head and Internist, Department of Adult and Family neck surgical oncology; employed by San Medicine, Kaiser San Francisco Medical Center; Francisco Otolaryngology; hospital affilia- Volunteer Clinical Associate Professor, UCSF tions include Marin Health Medical Center, School of Medicine University of California San Francisco, California Pacific Medical Center, and Novato Community Hospital.

SFMMS/CMA Committees or Offices

None

Additional Relevant Experience

Involved with AMA and New Jersey Medical Society during medical school.

Why Are You Interested in Serving?

After several years practicing in the community, I would like to become more involved with the greater medical community and engaged with local health policy that affects medical care in the Bay Area. None During my medical training I served in various leadership roles within the Student National Medical Association (SNMA), including serving as former President of the University of Iowa SNMA, as well as on regional and national committees. My core efforts focused on recruiting and supporting underrepresented students in medicine, addressing health inequities and cultivating socially conscious physicians. Today I look forward to focusing my efforts on physician-patient advocacy in the community that I now serve.

A global pandemic has highlighted the inequities of care delivery, the importance of physician advocacy and need for collaboration within the medical community. I am interested in recruiting new physicians of diverse backgrounds and experiences into the medical society to shape policy and improve the health of our community.