In Their Own Words
From their memorable experiences to how it feels to graduate in the time of COVID-19, hear from our graduates about what they are taking with them as they leave UCSF and begin the next chapter of their careers.
Our Class of 2020
We couldn't all gather for a class photo, but we still wanted to show the faces of our newest health heroes. Grads, to add your selfie to this slideshow, please submit here.

From top left: Yasaman Sardari, DDS; Shilpa Raveendran Menon, DDS; Jennifer Lin, DDS; Michael Nguyen, DDS; Adel Se Eun Ahn, DDS; Arthi Dandmepally, DDS; Gurpreet Kaur, DDS; Yasmin Grewal, DDS; Hye Joon Lee, DDS; Eric Hsu, DDS; Karisa Yamamoto, DDS; Erron Titus, MD; Olga Byakina, DDS; Sagar Desai, MD; Karen Raju, DPH; Ana Alejandra Navarro Palacios, OCS

From top left: Camille Jones, MD; Andrew Yousef, MD; Sarah Koser, MD; Tuyen Nguyen, MD; Lisandro Maya-Ramos, MD, PhD; Angel Rosario, MD; Elaine Hsiang, MD; Tiana Woolridge, MD; Bushra Hossain, MAS; Xucheng Zhu, PhD; Maya Ladenheim, MD; Akemi Brown, MD; Foram Choksi, MS; Tinney Leong, MS, APHN; Mary Jean Basmayor, MS-HAIL; Sarina Behera, MHA

From top left: Madiha Shah, PharmD; Arda Mizrak, PhD; Justin Truong, PharmD; Beatrice Huang, PharmD; Carol J. Ou, PharmD; Michelle Bretschneider, PharmD; Adrienne Stormo, PhD; Loreen Atallah, PhD; Kate Arriola, PharmD; Daphne Lizette Perez Penaflor, MS-HAIL; Hosna Tabatabaifar, PharmD; Heather Brown-Douglas, MS-HAIL; Annam Quraishi, MTM; Deepika Sarode, MTM; Bria Bailey, MTM; Neala Rafijah, PharmD

From top left: Jatin Arora, DDS; Abhishek Jahagirdar, DDS; Anna V Goritskaia, DDS; Navita Kalair, DPH; Thurein Soe, DDS; Clare Lee, DDS; Amandeep Kaur Brar, DDS; Manveen Sandhu, DDS; Pooja Mehta, DDS; Shilpa Priya Mangalampally, DDS; Jonathan Gao, DDS; Lucy Tian, DDS; Jashandeep Kaur, DDS; Ebony Helaire, DDS; Kuljit Singh, DDS

From top left: David Joy, PhD; Ariel Kauss, PhD; Shivali Joshi, MS; Isabella Polese, MS; Brooklyn Jean Dominguez, MS; Oriane Matthys, PhD; Nan Wang, MS; Carina Pascale Ashkar, MS; Alyssa Bercasio, MS; Hannah R. Joo, PhD; Emily Hotchkiss, MS; Brooke VanSickle, MS; Anika Kalra, MS; Maya Smith, MS-HAIL; Maricianah Onono, PhD; Anna Khachatryan, MS

From top left: Marina E. Padilla-Millan, MS; Sheri Chun, MS-HAIL; Risa Jiron, MS; child of Christian Santa Maria, PhD; Janak Jobanputra, MTM; Sunya Akhter, MS; Amy D. Lu, MAS; Stephanie Holden, PhD; Rosalie Winslow, PhD; Akhilesh Yeluru, MTM; Luis A. Rodriguez, PhD; Hyelee Kim, MS; Hardik Kothare, PhD; Perry Spratt, PhD; Sung Jun Hong, PhD

From top left: Tim Jung, DDS; Chieh Te Lin, MS; Abayantika Ranjitkar, DDS; Javed Khan, DDS; Justin Chang-Ryul Lee, DDS; Kristine Cheuk, DDS; Bingyan Shi, MD; Emmanuel Mogire, DDS; Mauricio Rubio, DDS

From top left: Jorge Mena, MD; Sheela Lewis, DDS; Alicia Valerio, MS PNP-AC; Legina Garrett, DNP; Genesis Vasconez, PMHNP; Trung Nguyen, DDS; Samara Sullivan, MS-HAIL; Sikai Song, MD