Medicine Grand Rounds - Drs. Winston, Gensler, and Hsu

Lisa Winston, MD is Professor of Medicine, Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Medicine, at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She completed medical school at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was a resident in Internal Medicine, a chief resident, and a fellow in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Pharmacology at UCSF. She currently serves as the Vice Chief, Inpatient Medical Services and Hospital Epidemiologist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.

Dr. Winston works with the California Emerging Infections Program as the California Principal Investigator for a multi-site Clostridium difficile surveillance supported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is a member of the steering group for the CDC’s Healthcare-Associated Infections Community Interface.

Dr. Winston has a long-standing interest in graduate and undergraduate medical education and was inducted into UCSF’s Academy of Medical Educators. She was also selected as a member of the UCSF Department of Medicine Council of Master Clinicians.    

Lianne Gensler, MD is a rheumatologist at UCSF Medical Center and director of the Ankylosing Spondylitis Clinic, which treats an inflammatory disease that primarily causes pain and inflammation in the spine and the joints between the spine and pelvis.

Gensler earned a medical degree at the University of California, Irvine. She completed an internal medicine residency, chief residency and rheumatology fellowship at UCSF and then joined the medical staff in Rheumatology. Her primary research interest is in studying the disease progression of axial spondyloarthritis, including ankylosing spondylitis and identifying the predictors of osteoporosis development in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. She is an associate clinical professor of medicine at UCSF.

Gerald Hsu, MD PhD is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Department of Medicine at UCSF. He practices Hematology/Oncology at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and is active in medical education of Medicine Residents and Hematology/Oncology Fellows. Dr. Hsu is a member of the 2014-15 Teaching Scholars Program and is developing a web-based core hematology curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents.

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