Congratulations to the UCSF faculty at UCSF Fresno who were honored with Milestone Service Awards in 2025. UCSF Fresno proudly recognizes those who have reached a service milestone of five, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 or 50 years. Vice Dean Jose M. Barral Sanchez, MD, PhD, joined Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs Roger Mortimer, MD, to present the awards.
30-Year Milestone
- Craig Campbell, MD, Psychiatry
- Krista Kaups, MD, Surgery
- Roger Mortimer, MD, Family and Community Medicine
25-Year Milestone
- Brian Chinnock, MD, Emergency Medicine
- Ivan Gomez, MD, Family and Community Medicine
20-Year Milestone
- John Ambrose, MD, Medicine
15-Year Milestone
- Haifaa Abdulhaq, MD, Medicine
- Eyad Almasri, MD, Medicine
- Ryan Berg, MD, Medicine
- Scott De Shields, MD, Emergency Medicine
- Stacy Sawtelle Vohra, MD, Emergency Medicine
- Gregory Simpson, MD, Medicine
10-Year Milestone
- Paul Do, MD, Pediatrics
- Amir Fathi, MD, Surgery
- Patrick Macmillan, MD, Medicine
- Ankit Rathod, MD, Medicine
- Sireesha Reddy, MD, Family and Community Medicine
- Lidia Rodriguez-Carranza, MD, Medicine
- Michelle Storkan, MD, Emergency Medicine
Five-Year Milestone
- Waqas Aslam, MD, Medicine
- Vijai Daniel, MD, Medicine
- Omer Ilyas, MD, Medicine
- Sammy Siada, DO, Surgery
- Geetha Sivasubramanian, MD, Medicine
- Jessie Werner, MD, Emergency Medicine
Congratulations to these faculty members for being recognized by the Fresno Madera Medical Society with the following honors:
Alexander Sherriffs, MD, Family and Community Medicine, Lifetime Achievement Award
Amir Fathi, MD, Surgery, Community Service Award.
Kudos to Greg Simpson, MD, Medicine, Dermatology, who was installed as President of FMMS. Anne Prentice, MD, Surgery, was installed as Treasurer. Farah Karipineni, MD, Surgery; Marina Roytman, MD, Medicine, Hepatology; and Joseph Sanford, MD, Neurology, were announced among the 2026 Board of Governors.
Congratulations to the following faculty on their SJV PRIME/Undergraduate Medical Education appointments:
- Claire Gibson, MD, Pediatrics, Assistant Director, Career Advising Program
- Andrea Long, MD, Surgery, SJV PRIME Assistant Director, Physician Identity Weeks
- Greg Simpson, MD, Medicine, Dermatology, SJV PRIME Medical Student Coach
Kudos to Hung Le, DDS, UCSF Fresno Oral Maxillofacial Surgery chief resident, on being recognized by Community Health System’s Office of Philanthropy as part of their Honor Your Care Hero Program. A grateful patient donated to Community in his honor.
Congratulations to UCSF Summer Biomedical Internship (SBI) students on their recent scholarly accomplishments. These student-led research projects were conducted under the mentorship of Geetha Sivasubramanian, MD FIDSA, Medicine, Infectious Diseases. SBI student Nikhil Nair, now a SJV PRIME+ student, led the project “Community-Level Health and Socioeconomic Disparities in Coccidioidomycosis: Insights from the Social Deprivation and Healthy Places Indices,” which was accepted for publication in Medical Mycology. SBI student Japleen Dhillon completed the project “Missed Opportunities for Early Diagnosis of Coccidioidomycosis in an Endemic Region,” which is scheduled for presentation at the American Society for Microbiology Annual Meeting in Washington, DC this summer.
Kudos to Emy Lopez Phillips, EdD, on the upcoming publication of her manuscript, “The Community College Path Medicine: An Untapped Resource to Diversity and Improve Our Future Physician Workforce” in Academic Medicine.
Kudos to SJV PRIME student Alyssa Marie Rivera on the publication of her policy case study, “From the Valley, For the Valley: Insights on Health Care Workforce Development in the San Joaquin Valley.”
Congratulations to Almira Opardija, MD, Medicine, Infectious Diseases, (first author) and colleagues on the publication of “Profoundly Uncontrolled Diabetes Mellitus and Social Disadvantage Among Hospitalized Patients with Mucormycosis in Central California” in the Journal of Fungi.
