Training and Education

Samantha Allen MD, MS

Dr. Allen is a Neurologist and Epilepsy Clinical Fellow in the Department of Neurology at UCSF. She is interested in health disparities and neuroinfectious disease, particularly neurocysticercosis, as well as public health efforts to improve care delivery and access for epilepsy patients globally.  

Education 
Pomona College, BA (Religious Studies), 2008 
University of California Berkeley, MS (Health and Medical Sciences), 2015 
University of California San Francisco, MD, 2017 
Oregon Health and Science University, Internship, 2018 
Oregon Health and Science University, Residency in Adult Neurology, 2021 
 

Matthew Jenson MD

Dr. Jensen is a Neurologist and Epilepsy Clinical Fellow in the Department of Neurology at UCSF. He is interested in surgical management of epilepsy, particularly understanding language localization in multilingual patients to preserve language function. He is also interested in health care policy as it affects patients access to timely and appropriate care. 

Education:
United States Military Academy at West Point (Life Science)
University of Utah, BA (Biology with Chemistry Minor), 2012 
George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, MD, 2018 
University of Utah, Internship, 2019 
University of Utah, Residency in Adult Neurology, 2022 

Nausheen Mahmood MD

Dr. Mahmood is a Neurologist and Epilepsy Clinical Fellow in the Department of Neurology at UCSF. She is interested in healthcare delivery for the urban underserved and medical education. She hopes to treat and manage refractory epilepsy in medically vulnerable populations.

Education
Stanford University, BA (Human Biology), 2014
UCSF School of Medicine, MD, 2018
UCSF Medicine Internship, 2029
UCSF Adult Neurology Residency, 2022

Fellowship Alumni

2022
LeeAnn Chang MD, MS
Anthony Mefford MD - University of California, San Francisco
Clare Timbie MD, PhD - University of California, San Francisco

2021
Joline Fan MD, MS - University of California, San Francisco
Patrick Hullett MD, PhD - University of California, San Francisco
Virginia Liu MD - Children's Hospital Orange County, Orange, CA
Joseph Sanford, MD - UCSF Fresno
Roxanne Simmons MD - UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland

2020
Besim Uzgil MD, PhD - Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA

2019
Brandy Ma MD, MPH - Houston Methodist Hospital
Rawan Daghistani MBBS - King Fahad Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Jon Kleen MD, PhD - University of California, San Francisco

2018
Proleta Datta MBBS - University of Nebraska Medical Center
Samantha Coffino MD - Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
Philip Larimer MD, PhD - Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA

2017
June Yoshii-Contreras MD - University of California, San Diego
Archana Pasupuleti MD - Children's National Medical Center

2016
Emily Matthews MD, PhD - Stanford Medical Center
Brian Cabaniss MD - Emory University
Wolfgang Mulhofer MD - University of Alabama, Birmingham

2015
Michael Oldham MD - Medpace, Inc.

2014
Marisa Gardner MD - UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland
Arti Muralidhara, MD - Jackson & Coker
Vikram Rao MD, PhD - University of California, San Francisco

2013
Nilika Singhal MD - University of California, San Francisco
Yana Kriseman MD - Kaiser Permanente, Redwood City, CA
Sarah Shalev MD - Sutter Health

2012
Siddharth Kharkar MBBS - Nanavati Hospital, Mumbai, India
Jeffrey Bigelow MD - Intermountain Healthcare

2011
Manu Hegde MD PhD - University of California, San Francisco
Josiah Ambrose MD - Kaiser Permanente, Redwood City, CA
John Betjemann MD – Kaiser Permanente, San Francisco, CA
Kendall Nash MD - University of California, San Francisco

2010
Susannah Cornes MD - University of California, San Francisco
Arif Kabir MD - University of Maryland

2009
Jeffrey Tsai MD, PhD - University of Washington

2008
Nina Garga MD - University of California, San Francisco
Joyce Matsumoto MD - University of California, Los Angeles
Rachel Kuperman MD - Eysz, Inc