About
Program Description
The UCSF sleep medicine fellowship is a partnership between UCSF and the San Francisco VA. The fellowship is one year and offers two spots annually. Fellows have exposure to a wide range of sleep disorders including obstructive and central sleep apnea, insomnia, sleep related movement disorders, circadian rhythm disorders, parasomnias, and central hypersomnias. Fellows follow a year-round schedule with continuity clinic UCSF, SFVA and Children's Oakland. They will have opportunity to participate in a wide range of additional clinics including strong training in cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia. UCSF boasts a wide range of sleep research opportunities and fellows are encouraged to become involved during their year of training.
Mission
- Develop future leaders in the field of sleep medicine by providing a strong clinical foundation and fostering exploration and discovery
- Equip trainees to serve diverse populations, including veteran populations, to continue UCSF's mission to advance health worldwide
- Expose trainees to a wide range of learning environments, patients, and perspectives to improve their ability to deliver effective care as well as ask and answer the critical questions remaining in sleep medicine
- Offer fellows the opportunity to grow in an environment rich with research, collaboration, and exploration in sleep and its interaction with other areas of health, wellness, and disease
Details
All fellows will participate in a range of clinics including:
• Sleep continuity clinic at UCSF and SFVA, including telemedicine and hands on with CPAP machines
• Neuro/psych sleep clinic
• Pediatric sleep clinic
• Cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia group and clinic
• Otolaryngology sleep surgery clinic
• Oral and maxillofacial sleep surgery clinic
• Dental clinic
• Orthodontics clinic
• Neuromuscular weakness pulmonary clinic
• Epilepsy monitoring unit rotation
• Pediatric otolaryngology clinic
• Pediatric muscular dystrophy clinic
• Opportunity to observe sleep surgery in OR (elective)
- Weight management clinic
- Inspire clinic
The educational program also includes:
• Training in reading polysomnography, home sleep tests, PAP reports and actigraphy
• Weekly didactic half days
• Weekly case conference
• Monthly journal club
• Inpatient consultations
• Multidisciplinary sleep case conference
• Time and mentorship for a scholarly and quality improvement project
Research Opportunities
A wide range of sleep research is ongoing at UCSF. Fellows are encouraged to become involved in an appropriately scoped research project that can be presented at the annual SLEEP meeting in June.
More information on some of the active clinical research can be found here:
- UCSF Insomnia Clinical Trials
- UCSF Sleep Disorder Clinical Trials
- UCSF Memory and Aging Center : Sleep
- Neugenes Human Sleep Behaviors
Facilities/Training Sites
UCSF Sleep Disorders Center
2330 Post St #420
San Francisco, CA 94115
UCSF Neuro/Psych Sleep Clinic
Weill Institute for Neurosciences
1651 4th St
San Francisco, CA 94158
San Francisco VA Medical Center
4150 Clement St
San Francisco, CA 94121
Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland
744 52nd St, 5th floor
Oakland, CA 94609
How to Apply
Prerequisites
Application Process
Contact
Current Fellows
2024-2025
Jessica Jimenez, MD, PhD – Neurology background
Nicola Park, MD – Psychiatry background
Former Fellows
2022-2023
Katherine Malcolm, MD - Pulm/cc trained, after fellowship joined Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine faculty at UCSF
Elena Kennedy, MD - Pulm/cc trained, after fellowship joined Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Kaiser
2023-2024
Sanaz Vaziri, MD – pediatric pulmonary trained, after fellowship joined Pediatric Pulmonary UCSF faculty
Will Lu, MD – Family medicine/primary care trained, after fellowship joined sleep start up as medical director