Meet Our Clinical Excellence 2025-2026 Awardees
About the Academic Senate Clinical Excellence Awards
The UCSF Academic Senate proudly honors this year’s Clinical Excellence Award recipients — an extraordinary group of faculty whose work defines the very best of UCSF.
Across the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Dentistry, these clinicians exemplify exceptional skill, innovation, leadership, and compassion. They care for our most complex patients, advance equitable access to care, mentor the next generation of health professionals, and lead transformative improvements across clinical systems.
Selected by the Senate’s Clinical Affairs Committee, these awardees reflect UCSF’s enduring commitment to excellence in patient care and to advancing health worldwide.
School of Medicine
- Clara Gomez-Sanchez, MD
- Elisabeth Askin, MD
- Kirk D. Jones, MD
School of Nursing
- Rosalind de Lisser, PhD, FNP, PMHNP
- Bridget Gramkowski, DNP, CPNP-PC
- Andrea Kuster, DNP, FNP-BC, IBCLC
School of Pharmacy
- Carlo Legasto, PharmD, BCOP
- Mimi Lo, PharmD, BCOP, BCPS
- Jennifer Cocohoba, PharmD, APh
School of Dentistry
- JungSoo Kim, DDS, MS
- Thuan Le, DDS, PhD
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Call for Academic Senate Committee Volunteers
Academic Senate is UCSF’s faculty government and a representative voice for faculty in critical academic and university matters. All faculty at UCSF are invited to participate in Academic Senate, regardless of academic series. University and community service is highly encouraged, and, in some faculty series required, for advancement and promotion at UCSF.
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