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Dr. Keenan completed her MD and PhD at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, where she focused on using cancer vaccines to overcome immune suppression in the tumor microenvironment in mouse models of pancreatic cancer. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and Hematology/Oncology fellowship at UCSF. During her fellowship, she trained in both gastrointestinal oncology and cancer immunotherapy. She is the Co-Director of the Cancer Immunotherapy Program and Medical Director of the Cancer Immunotherapy Clinic.
Dr. Arielle Klepper is a gastroenterologist and hepatologist. She received her MD and PhD from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, followed by internal medicine residency, chief residency, and gastroenterology fellowship at the University of California, San Francisco. Her clinical focus is in both gastroenterology and general hepatology, joining Drs. Courtney Sherman and Treveni Defries, as well as Davina Martinez, in the HALT clinic, focused on the treatment of patients with alcohol-associated liver disease.
Lucy Zumwinkle Kornblith, M.D., F.A.C.S. received her undergraduate degree from University of California Santa Barbara, her M.D. from the University of Colorado, completed her General Surgery residency at the University of California San Francisco (UCSF), a Trauma and Critical Care Clinical Translational Research Fellowship at UCSF, and subspecialty training in Trauma and Acute Care Surgery and Surgical Critical Care at UCSF prior to joining the faculty at UCSF.
Dr. Kotas is an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep, Allergy and Sleep Medicine. She received her BA, MD and PhD from Yale University. After completing residency training in Internal Medicine at New York Presbyterian - Columbia University, she completed a fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine at UCSF. She serves as an attending physician in the intensive care units at UCSF.
