Associate Directors

In addition to the faculty who lead program tracks, five Associate Program Directors (APDs) have responsibility for mentoring residents and also direct discrete functions of the educational program:

Elizabeth Harleman, MD, practices at San Francisco General Hospital and serves as the APD for Curriculum and Special Projects. As a member of the Academy of Medical Educators, she oversees categorical and primary care residents based at San Francisco General Hospital and has been involved with many curricular innovations. She is a graduate of the UCSF School of Medicine; was then a resident in the SFGH Primary Care program and a chief resident at SFGH. In addition to attending on the medicine wards and in the primary care clinics, she also practices high-risk maternal-fetal medicine.

Katherine Julian, MD, is the APD for Ambulatory Affairs. Please view her background under the Track Directors link.

Jeffrey Kohlwes, MD, is based at the VA Medical Center and coordinates resident scholarly activities. He also is the APD for Resident Evaluation and Well-being. After completing his residency and chief residency at UCSF, he completed the Robert Wood Johnson clinical Scholars fellowship at the University of Washington. Dr. Kohlwes returned to UCSF to assume the directorship of the PRIME program at the VA. During his tenure as Director, the PRIME program has expanded to include a large percentage of categorical residents per year. He has been a research mentor for many residents and also organizes the annual resident research symposium.

Sumant Ranji, MD, is the APD for Quality and Safety Programs. After completing his residency and chief residency at the University of Chicago, he came to UCSF for a two year hospitalist fellowship before joining the UCSF faculty. Dr. Ranji is working to develop competency-based assessment of housestaff and improved methods of measuring the quality of care provided by residents.

Brad Sharpe, MD, is the APD for Inpatient Affairs. Dr. Sharpe received his medical degree from Harvard Medical School, completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF. Dr. Sharpe is an attending on the inpatient service at Moffitt-Long Hospital and also spends time on the Medicine Consult service and the Neurosurgery Co-management Service. Dr. Sharpe is the Assistant Chief to both the medical service at Parnassus and the Associate Division Chief in the Division of Hospital Medicine. He also serves on multiple Medical Center committees, focusing on many issues pertinent to hospital medicine, including patient safety, transitions in care, and quality improvement. Dr. Sharpe was awarded the UCSF Internal Medicine Residency Housestaff Teaching Award in 2006, and various UCSF School of Medicine teaching awards from the classes of 2005, 2007, and 2010. In 2007, he received the UCSF Academic Senate Distinction in Teaching.

Site Directors

Each inpatient and outpatient training venue also has a site director to oversee site-specific training issues.

UC Moffitt / Long Hospitals

Lorriana Leard, M.D.
Site Director for inpatient rotations at UC Moffitt / Long hospitals. Dr. Leard received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her M.D. from the University of California San Diego. After completing her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, she came to the University of California, San Francisco for her Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship. She completed an additional subspecialty fellowship in Lung Transplantation at the University of California, San Francisco and joined the faculty in 2006.

San Francisco General Hospital

Richard Brooks, M.D., MPH
Dr. Brooks went to Duke University in Durham, North Carolina for medical school and, while there, completed a Masters Degree in Public Health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Between his third and fourth years of medical school, he spent a year as a Luce Scholar living and working in Bangkok, Thailand at Mahidol University. After returning from Southeast Asia and completing medical school, Dr. Brooks moved to the University of California, San Francisco for internship and residency. He is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Division of Hospital Medicine at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) and serves as Director of the Medical Consultation Service. His clinical interests include HIV, particularly in the geriatric population, and global health.

San Francisco Veterans Administration Hospital

Rachael Lucatorto, M.D
Site Director and assistant chief of the medical service at the San Francisco VA medical center. Dr. Lucatorto completed her residency and chief residency at UCSF.

The program leaders have also developed a large network of other faculty in the Department to teach, advise, and mentor our residents.