“Before I became a doctor, I wanted to be a teacher,” says Brian Lin, MD, TPMG director of undergraduate medical education and program director of the KP Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship (KLIC) at KP San Francisco. “That was my ambition, but…
“Gender-affirming care is a mindset and philosophy of care delivery, a patient-centered model that focuses on compassion, cultural humility, and service,” says Marcos Siqueiros, MD, regional lead of transgender care experience for KP Northern California. Throughout his career, Dr. Siqueiros…
Gillian Kuehner, MD, says her most important research project was her first: a study on the management of rare and difficult-to-diagnose tumors called papillary lesions. Partnering with the KP Northern California Division of Research, she presented findings at a large…
“I see so many patients who are 80 and older, and they want to live out their golden years with full health, be fully active and functional, and take care of themselves and have a good quality of life,” says…
When cardiologist Matthew Solomon, MD, PhD, FACC, joined KP Oakland more than a decade ago, he started seeing numerous patients with ascending thoracic aortic aneurism, or TAA, a bulge and weakening of the body’s largest and most important artery. “It…