Meet our Team

At UCSF Health, we excel in evidence-based care for patients admitted to our inpatient units at Parnassus, Mission Bay, and Mount Zion hospitals as well as patients seen in our outpatient clinics throughout the Bay Area. Our team of Registered Dietitians (RDs) are food and nutrition experts who meet the credentialing requirements of Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR) of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (AND). All RDs have a minimum of a bachelor's degree in dietetics with completed internships and many of them have a graduate degrees and specialty certifications.

Meet our current team.

Adult Inpatient
Amber Antonopoulos

Amber Antonopoulos

  • Critical Care
  • Heart and lung transplant
Cait Richards

Cait Richards

  • Clinical Nutrition Manager
Chloe Sasakado

Chloe Sasakado

  • Liver,kidney,pancreas and auto islet cell transplant
Emily Brumsted

Emily Brumsted

  • Critical care
  • General surgery
Isabelle Wlodkowski

Isabelle Wlodkowski

  • Oncology
Kaitlyn Attiga

Kaitlyn Attiga

  • Surgical oncology
  • Obstetrics
Liz Sullivan

Liz Sullivan

  • Clinical nutrition manager
  • Dietetic internship director
  • Adult Behavioral health
Rene Wah

Rene Wah

  • General medicine
Shannon Lee

Shannon Lee

  • Neurosciences
  • Critical care
Siya Luo

Siya Luo

  • General medicine
Yishan Huang

Yishan Huang

  • Heart and lung transplant
  • Cardiovascula thoracic surgery
Outpatient Adult
Angie Fong

Angie Fong

  • Preventive Cardiology
Julius Navarro

Julius Navarro

  • Dialysis
Kristi Cheng

Kristi Cheng

  • Nephrology
  • Kidney transplant
  • Cystic fibrosis
Mary Ellen DiPaola

Mary Ellen DiPaola

  • Pre-kidney transplant
  • Bariatric surgery
  • Women's health
Melissa Xia

Melissa Xia

  • Weight management
Neha Shah

Neha Shah

  • Inflamatory bowel disease
  • Ostomy
  • Short bowel syndrome
Talya Kurzion

Talya Kurzion

  • Diabetes
  • Weight management
  • Hyperlipidemia
Outpatient Pediatrics
Allie Latray

Allie Latray

  • Inborn errors of metabolism
Bre Philips

Bre Philips

  • Pediatric dialysis
  • Pediatric rheumatology
Lisa Keung

Lisa Keung

  • Pediatric dialysis
  • Pediatric kidney transplant
  • Pediatric chronic kidney disease
Meghan Ownens

Meghan Ownens

  • Pediatric cardiology
  • Pediatric oncology
Mikayla Kuykendall

Mikayla Kuykendall

  • Eating disorders
Sarah Mencia

Sarah Mencia

  • Gestational diabetes
  • Lactation
Sarianne Madsen

Sarianne Madsen

  • Ketogenic diets
Pediatrics Inpatient
Alyson Crowley

Alyson Crowley

  • General pediatrics
Beth Saunders

Beth Saunders

  • Adolescent health
  • Eating disorders
Callie  Austin

Callie Austin

  • General pediatrics
Casey Britts

Casey Britts

  • General pediatrics
Cat Marks

Cat Marks

  • Pediatric cardiology
Clarissa Hom

Clarissa Hom

  • Pediatric BMT
Maria Hetherton

Maria Hetherton

  • Neonatology
  • Pediatric critical care
Micaela Bellés

Micaela Bellés

  • General pediatrics
Rosa Keller

Rosa Keller

  • General pediatrics
Shana Johnson

Shana Johnson

  • General pediatrics
  • Pediatric Gastroenterology
Shannon Burke

Shannon Burke

  • Neonatology
  • Pediatric surgery
Tara Trakin

Tara Trakin

  • Pediatric critical care