Medical Students
Jackie J. Lin, MD
Dr. Lin was a medical student at the University of California, San Francisco, applying into Internal Medicine. She graduated from Duke University with a degree in Biology, and worked as a full-time statistical analyst at the Medical University of South Carolina before starting medical school. In collaboration with Dr. Evans, her projects investigate factors predicting financial toxicity after a pediatric cancer diagnosis, and associated financial assistance and coping strategies. Her research interests surround the short- and long-term consequences of patient-incurred medical costs, and its impact on decision-making.
Lucky Ding, MD
Dr. Ding is a Pediatric Resident at the University of California, San Francisco. She received her MD from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
Colin Huang, MD
Dr. Huang was a medical student from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
Anthony Bell, MD
Dr. Bell is a Resident Physician in Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. He received his MD from the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine.
Pediatrics Residents
Anya Platt, MD (she/her)
Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow
Dr. Platt was a pediatric resident at the University of California, San Francisco. She earned her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson University and plans to pursue fellowship training in pediatric hematology/oncology. Her research focused on the ways in which families have been financially impacted by a pediatric cancer diagnosis during the COVID era.
Erica Evans, MD
Dr. Evans is a Clinical Fellow in the Division of Pediatric Critical Care. She received her BA from Stanford University, her MD from the University of Minnesota, and completed her pediatrics residency at UCSF. She is currently leading a study to examine financial toxicity, income loss, and household material hardship in families affected by pediatric cancer. She is passionate about disparities research as well as translational immunotherapy research and hopes to combine these interests during her pediatric critical care fellowship
Hematology/Oncology Fellows
Bao Truong, MD
Dr. Truong is the founder and CEO of Med2Lab. He received his MD from Harvard Medical School.
Neela Penumarthy, MD, MAS
Dr. Penumarthy received her MD from Albany Medical Center. She is now an attending physician at Kaiser Permanente.
Karen Chao, MD
Dr. Chao was a Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Fellow at Medical College of Wisconsin. She received her MD from the University of Cincinnati.
Priya Parikh, MD, MAS
Dr. Priya Parikh is a Clinical Instructor in the Division of Pediatric Hematology at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals. She earned her BA degree at Washington University in St. Louis, her MD at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and her master’s degree in Clinical and Epidemiologic Research at UCSF. Clinically, she completed her pediatric residency at the University of California Los Angeles and pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship at the University of California San Francisco. Her research concentrates on health equity and health services in the treatment of pediatric blood disorders, with an emphasis specifically on implementation science to lessen disparities.
Staff
Jacklyn Sanchez Alvarez, BS
Clinical Research Coordinator
Jacklyn was a Clinical Research Coordinator (CRC) in the Division of Bone & Marrow Transplant at the University of California, San Francisco. She graduated from the University of California San Diego, with a degree in Public Health. She is the primary CRC for the research group and helps with patient recruitment, data collection, and IRB/regulatory matters.
Tanushree Banerjee, PhD
Biostatistician
Dr. Banerjee is a health research scientist. She received her PhD in Biostatistics from University of Delhi, India. Her research portfolio is focused on the health implications of unhealthy diet, in particular diet-dependent acid load and acid-inducing inflammatory diets on the progression of chronic disease. She offered her methodological expertise as well as her biostatistical experience in utilizing methods for analyzing the data from the different projects in this group.