Education

Current Residents

UCSF Orthopaedic Surgery Resident Information

(*denotes research resident)

PGY-5 Research

Alexis Dang*
Hometown: Orange, CA
Undergraduate: Stanford University
Medical School: UC San Francisco
Activities: Photography

PGY-5

Tenner Guillaume
Hometown:
Undergraduate: Princeton University
Medical School: University of Minnesota

Erik Hansen*
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate: Stanford University
Medical School: UC San Francisco

Michael Kelly
Hometown: Needham, MA
Undergraduate: Boston College
Medical School: University of Massachusetts

Michael Laidlaw
Hometown: Katy, Texas
Undergraduate: United States Air Force Academy
Medical School: Georgetown University
Activities: Spending time with my family and friends, surfing, and traveling to wine country whenever possible

Jennifer Laine
Hometown: St. Paul, MN
Undergraduate: Harvard University
Medical School: Columbia University

Cameron Sadeghi
Hometown:
Undergraduate: Claremont McKenna College
Medical School: Boston University School of Medicine

PGY-4

Vincent Chow
Hometown: Hudson, FL
Undergraduate: University of Miami
Medical School: University of Miami
Activities: Surfing, spearfishing, freediving, water skiing, swimming, and anything involving H2O

Reza Firoozabadi
Hometown: Los Altos, CA
Undergraduate: UC Berkeley
Postgraduate: Boston University (MA)
Medical School: Boston University
Activities: Traveling, working out, photography, and spending time with family

Christine Kashyap*
Hometown: Minneapolis, MN
Undergraduate: Harvard University
Medical School: Columbia University

Adam Warren
Hometown: Pasadena, CA
Undergraduate: UC Berkeley
Postgraduate: UC Berkeley (MPH)
Medical School: Stanford University
Activities: Arts-based youth education, reggae music, snowboarding

Rosanna Wustrack
Hometown: West Linn, OR
Undergraduate: Yale University
Medical School: Washington University (St. Louis)
Activities: Running, basketball, painting, baking and traveling

Akira Yamamoto
Hometown: Sapporo, Japan
Undergraduate: UC Berkeley
Medical School: UC San Francisco

PGY-3

Abby Kennedy
Hometown:
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Luis Corrales
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Undergraduate: UC Los Angeles
Medical School: Harvard University

Jaicharan Iyengar
Hometown: Fullerton, CA
Undergraduate: UC Los Angeles
Medical School: UC San Francisco
Activities: Traveling, basketball, golf, movies, global orthopaedics, eating other peopleメs cooking

Carol Lin
Hometown: Tustin, CA
Undergraduate: Stanford University
Medical School: Washington University (St. Louis)
Activities: International health, taiko, modern lit, cooking, swimming, biking, backpacking, handstands

Robert Sproul
Hometown: Moraga, CA
Undergraduate: UC Berkeley
Medical School: UC San Francisco
Activities: Sports, movies, backpacking, fishing, sailing, lifting, eating

Dan Thullier*
Hometown: Oakland, CA
Undergraduate: Georgetown University
Medical School: UC San Francisco
Activities: Basketball, baseball, hiking, anime, fiction, ghostriding my whip

PGY-2

Russell Dedini
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate: UC Davis
Medical School: UC Davis
Activities:  Spending time with my daughter and wife, road cycling, scuba diving, playing guitar

Scott Kaiser
Hometown: Fairfax, CA
Undergraduate: Georgetown University
Medical School: Washington University, St. Louis
Activities:  Travel, grilling, soccer, skiing, surfing, freediving

Jun Matsui
Hometown: Richmond, IN
Undergraduate: Amherst College
Medical School: University of Chicago
Activities: Baking, eating, running, swimming, creative writing, ultimate frisbee, traveling and learning languages, basic auto mechanics

Lionel Metz
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergraduate:  UC Davis
Medical School:  UC San Francisco
Activities: Reading, running, softball, hanging out with friends and family, tinkering with assorted electronics, traveling, home improvement

Lee Jae Morse
Hometown: Danville, VT
Undergraduate: University of Vermont
Medical School: University of Vermont
Activities: Eating oysters at Point Reyes, rock climbing, mountain biking, travel, skiing, doing all of the above with wife

Samantha Piper
Hometown: Coronado, CA
Undergraduate: Harvard
Medical School: UC San Francisco
Activities: Running, cycling, sea kayaking, surfing, traveling to exotic places, exploring nature

PGY-1

Paul Toogood
Hometown: Cincinnati, OH
Undergraduate school: University of Pennsylvania
Medical School: Case Western Reserve University
Activities: Personal fitness, golfing (poorly), and the remainder of my free time is divided between my wife and my cat

David Shearer
Hometown: Toppenish, WA
Undergraduate school: MIT
Medical School: University of Washington
Activities: Water skiing, snow skiing, basketball, swimming, travel

Ehsan Tabaraee
Hometown: Washington, DC
Undergraduate school: University of Virginia
Medical School: George Washington University
Activities: Basketball, soccer, grilling, orthopaedic surgery

Amanda Tencza
Hometown: New Albany, Ohio
Undergraduate school: University of Kentucky
Medical School: Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University
Activities: Swimming, biking, running, skiing, and cooking

Ying Ying Kao
Hometown: Richmond, Va
Undergraduate school: University of Chicago
Medical School: University of Chicago

Michael Feldstein
Hometown: Hillsborough, CA
Undergraduate School: UC Berkeley (Bioengineering)
Graduate School: MIT (Bioelectronics)
Medical School: Harvard (Health Sciences and Technology)

Activities: Snow skiing, snowboarding, swimming, water-polo, SCUBA diving, surfing, water-skiing, wake-boarding, mountain biking, MacGyvering