Key Faculty

Anthony M. Cosentino, MD, FACP, FCCP, Key Faculty

Chief of Academic Medicine
Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Clinical Professor of Medicine, Creighton University

After graduating from the University of Illinois College of Medicine in 1956, Dr. Cosentino received his graduate medical education at University of California at San Francisco. This was followed by a fellowship in cardiopulmonary physiology in the cardiovascular research unit at UCSF, under the direction of Dr. Julius Comroe. He has since been actively involved in the practice of chest medicine, and was one of the early practitioners of critical care. A strong interest in mechanical ventilation and the interaction of the lungs and heart in the environment of the thorax led to the publication of textbooks on this unique issue in physiology. Dr. Cosentino also has a deep interest in acid-base physiology. Almost all residents and students rotating at St. Mary's meet daily with Dr. Cosentino for didactic teaching, and for unparalleled bedside teaching of physical diagnosis. Dr. Cosentino also teaches critical care medicine at San Francisco General Hospital and at St. Mary's, where he was program director of the internal medicine residency for 18 years. He was the Governor of the American College of Chest Physicians for Northern California in 2005. Dr. Cosentino is board certified in critical care.

Daniel Raybin, MD, FACP, FCCP, Key Faculty

Chairman of the Dept. of Medicine, St. Mary's Medical Center
Education Coordinator of Pulmonary and Critical Care
Adjunct Professor of Medicine, Stanford University
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, Creighton University

Dr. Raybin received his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine. This was followed by an internship in medicine at New York Memorial Hospital and a residency at the University of Pennsylvania. After completing a fellowship in Respiratory Medicine at Stanford University, he joined the medical staff at the Veterans Administration Health Care System in Palo Alto as a pulmonary consultant, a position he continues to hold. He became a medical staff member at St. Mary's Medical Center in 1982 and since then has been very actively involved with the training program. He works with house staff on a daily basis in the ICU, on the wards, during chest conference and in clinic. Residents also get the opportunity to enjoy Dr. Raybin's excellent teaching skills during their rotation through the Pulmonary Consultation Service. His enthusiasm and clinical excellence are fully appreciated as reflected in his receiving the Attending Physician of the year and the Outstanding Physician and Educator Award. Dr. Raybin is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Critical Care.

Eva Mikrut, MD, Key Faculty

Hospitalist
Education Coordinator for Hospitalist Medicine

Dr. Mikrut graduated from USC Keck School of Medicine in 1994, followed by a residency in Family Practice at Northridge Hospital Medical Center. She then pursued and completed her training in Internal Medicine at St. Mary’s, realizing that her heart was really in that specialty. After graduation, she joined the faculty as a chief resident and subsequently in 2001 was offered a position as St. Mary’s first fulltime hospitalist and key faculty. In that role, she has been instrumental in helping to design and implement a unique hospitalist rotation for senior residents. Under her one-on-one supervision the resident has the opportunity to experience real-world inpatient management. Dr. Mikrut is board certified in Internal Medicine.

Matthew Jeong, MD, Key Faculty

Lead Hospitalist

Dr. Jeong received his Bachelor of Sciences degree from Stanford University in 1994 and his Medical Degree from the University of Connecticut in 2002. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at St. Mary’s in 2005 and was awarded a chief residency at our institution after his graduation. In 2006 he joined the medical staff as a hospitalist and became the lead hospitalist and a key faculty member in 2007. Dr. Jeong supervises the hospitalist residents and play an integral role in teaching the curriculum in hospitalist medicine both on the wards and in the MICU. Outside of medicine Dr. Jeong enjoys mountain biking, snowboarding and fly fishing. Dr. Jeong is board certified in Internal Medicine.

Teaching Faculty and Specialty Leaders

Education Coordinator for Research and Medical Statistics
Director of Academic Research, St Mary's Medical Center
Director of Radiation Biology, Scientist, California Pacific Medical Center Research Institute

Dr. Yang received his medical education and postgraduate training in molecular radiation biochemistry at the 2nd Military Medical University in China. In 1993 he graduated with a Ph.D. degree in pharmacology and toxicology from Dartmouth Medical School where he completed his postdoctoral fellowship. After working as associate professor at Florida State University for five years, Dr. Yang came to the Bay Area to become the radiation biologist for the radiation oncology residency program. He continues to teach medical statistics and basic science to the residents in internal medicine at St Mary's. Dr. Yang’s research has focused on the synthesis of tumor specific radio sensitizers and studies on radio sensitization, pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, toxicology, and DNA damage/repair in vitro and in vivo cancer cell models. He is an inventor of seven U.S. patents and an author of many scientific papers. Dr. Yang’s current projects include studies of therapeutic effects of novel taxane analogs on human prostate, breast and lung cancers, and molecular mechanisms of drug action in killing human cancer cells. Dr. Yang is available for support in research and study design, and offers our residents the opportunity to work in an animal laboratory research facility.

Kevin Man, MD

Education Coordinator for Gastroenterology and Hepatology

A native of Chicago and from a family of physicians, Dr.Man was raised in Southern California. He graduated from UCSD with a BS in biomedical engineering. He received his medical degree from Medical College of Wisconsin, and completed his internship, residency and a subsequent fellowship in Gastroenterology/Hepatology at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. Dr. Man joined the teaching faculty at St. Mary’s over a decade ago, and oversees a busy but very popular in-and-outpatient rotation in Gastroenterology. In addition, he attends his private subspecialty practice in downtown San Francisco. Dr. Man is board certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology/Hepatology. He is a member of the St. Mary’s Hospital Board of Directors and the Asian Physician Advisory Committee.

Robert Tseng, MD

Education Coordinator for Nephrology

A native of Taiwan, Dr. Tseng received his medical degree from Hahnemann University and subsequently completed his internship, residency and fellowship in Nephrology at the University of California at Davis. After graduation he joined a private Nephrology practice in San Francisco, and became a member of the teaching faculty at St. Mary’s Medical Center two years ago. Dr. Tseng precepts for both the renal clinic and the elective in Nephrology; he is responsible for the Nephrology curriculum. Dr. Tseng currently chairs the Northern Californian Chapter’s Annual Symposium of the National Kidney Foundation. Dr. Tseng is board certified in Internal Medicine and Nephrology.

Remo Morelli, MD, FACC

Education Coordinator for Cardiology
Chief of the Chest Pain Evaluation Unit, St. Mary's Hospital
Chief of Peripheral Vascular Intervention, St. Mary’s Hospital
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of San Francisco, California

Dr.Morelli received his medical degree from the University of California in San Francisco and completed his internship and residency at St. Louis University Hospitals and Washington University, Missouri. He was awarded a research fellowship at the Cardiovascular Research Institute of the University of California San Francisco and completed a clinical cardiology fellowship at the same institution. After four years of co-directing of the Coronary Care Unit at San Francisco General Hospital, UCSF, Dr. Morelli joined St. Mary’s Hospital as attending physician of the Western Heart Institute. Dr. Morelli offers a one-on-one rotation in clinical cardiology to St. Mary’s Internal Medicine residents and UCSF students. This rotation provides encounters with a diverse patient population in his busy private practice, as consultant in the hospital, and in the Sr. Mary Philippa Health Center. Dr. Morelli has been involved in 7 clinical trials as principal investigator and co-investigator.

Robert Weber, MD

Education Coordinator for Oncology/Hematology
Associate Director, Northern California Melanoma Center, Saint Francis Memorial Hospital
Chairman, Cancer Committee, St. Mary’s Medical Center

A native of San Francisco and from a family of physicians, Dr. Weber received his medical degree from the University of St. Louis in Missouri. He completed his internship and residency at the University of California at Davis, and subsequently underwent fellowship training in Hematology and Oncology at Scripps Clinic in San Diego. He has a particularly strong interest in clinical oncology research and actively participates in several clinical trials. He joined the consulting panel of the Northern California Melanoma Center in 2000 as Associate Director. Dr. Weber has a large private practice in Oncology in San Francisco, a site for an outpatient elective in Oncology/Hematology. Dr. Weber is board certified in Internal Medicine and Oncology and Hematology.

Jose Eguia, MD, MPH

Education Coordinator for Infectious Diseases
Medical Director of Infection Control and Antibiotic Management, St. Mary's
Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF

Dr. Eguia grew up in Connecticut and graduated from Georgetown University with a BS in Biology and a minor in Spanish. After two years of research in malaria (with one year spent in Cameroon), he began medical school followed by a  residency at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and surgeons. He came to San Francisco for his fellowship in Infectious Diseases at UCSF and during that time also completed a Masters of Public Health at Berkeley. He was an active faculty member at San Francisco General Hospital while performing NIH-funded research on MRSA. Currently, he has a busy consultation practice based at St.Mary’s where he also teaches the house staff. Additionally, he provides primary care to HIV infected patients at San Francisco General Hospital and works on a national telephone hotline for clinicians with questions about their HIV+ patients. Hobbies include overseas travel and hiking. Second and third year residents may elect to spend an elective month with  Dr.Eguia in a busy in-and-out-patient rotation in Infectious Diseases.
Dr. Eguia is board certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious diseases.

John H. Fullerton, MD, CMD, FACP, AGSF

Education Coordinator for Geriatric Medicine
Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF
Clinical Instructor, Yale University
Clinical Preceptor, Stanford University

A native of Miami, FL, Dr. Fullerton completed medical school at the University of Miami. He came to California to complete his Internal Medicine residency at California Pacific Medical Center, where he was selected “resident of the year’ and subsequently also served as a chief medical resident. He worked as a hospitalist for over nine years and pioneered early hospitalist methods at a satellite of CPMC by successfully integrating internal medicine, geriatrics and palliative care principles into their internal medicine program. Over the past nine years he has remained an active clinical faculty at Yale, UCSF and Stanford and has provided teaching and mentoring to many students and residents rotating  from UCSF, Stanford, Kaiser, CPMC, UCLA and USC. Dr. Fullerton has won numerous awards for his body of work in urban-underserved settings. He joined the faculty at St. Mary’s as a preceptor two years ago and has since then gradually increased his teaching and mentoring committment to our residents. As the newly appointed Director of Geriatric Training he devotes his time to care for the vulnerable elderly with an inter-disciplinary team, designing innovative approaches to care at various levels along acute-and-longterm care (LTC). Dr. Fullerton is board certified in Internal Medicine, Geriatrics, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine.

John Selle, DO

Assistant Medical Director, St. Mary Philippa Health Center, St. Mary's

Dr. Selle completed his undergraduate studies with a Major in Physics at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He subsequently received his Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona California in 2002. This was followed by an Internal Medicine residency at St. Mary’s. Since 2005 he has been running a busy solo practice in Internal Medicine and Primary Care on our campus. He also provides medicine consultations to the patients in the Adolescent Psych Unit. He joined the clinic teaching faculty in 2005. Over the past year Dr. Selle has been instrumental in re-designing its electronic medical record due to his his interest and expertise in Health Information Technology. He serves as a mentor and resource to residents pursuing clinic research projects and overseas clinic quality projects. His outside interests include music and Rugby. Dr. Selle is board certified in Internal Medicine. 

Constance Wong, MD

Core Hospitalist, St. Mary's

Dr.Wong a Native of San Francisco attended high school at Lowell H.S. in San Francisco, completed her undergraduate studies at U.C. Berkeley and subsequently went to the Chicago Medical School.  She returned to the Bay Area for her residency at St. Mary’s Medical Center in internal medicine. During her third year she served as a chief resident and subsequently joined St. Mary’s as a  core hospitalists. Constance enjoys that St. Mary’s has allowed her remain close to her family in a world class city while developing the skills to become a compassionate and excellent physician.  Her personal interests include dining out at the Bay Area’s many great eateries, cooking, and fine wine.

Elizabeth Jensen, DO

Core Hospitalist, St. Mary's
Director of Student Clerkship, St. Mary's

Dr. Jensen is a Bay Area native. Spending most of her life in San Francisco, she attended local institutions such as Convent of the Sacred Heart Elementary School, San Francisco University High School, and the University of San Francisco. She attended Touro University completing her medical degree as Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine in 2005. During her third year of training,at St. Mary’s she served as chief resident and after completion of her residency training she joined our medical center as a core hospitalist. Dr.Jensen remains involved in her alma maters by being a member of the San Francisco University High School Alumni Council and as an active participant of the Pre-Professional Health Committee at USF. Outside of her career, Dr. Jensen enjoys the outdoors, cooking and spending time with family and friends.