UCBAAPT created a mentoring program for Scholars, based on an established and successful UCSF School of Nursing's Midwifery & Belonging Mentoring Program.
UCBAAPT Mentorship program will match Scholars with mentors who are clinicians from the community, SON alumni, and/or SON Volunteer Clinical Professor (VCP), to support Scholars’ sense of belonging and build their resilience in practice. Mentors from diverse backgrounds will be recruited and mentees who would like a mentor will be matched to their mentors to create a supportive network.
- The UCSF Office of Career and Professional Development (OCPD) has supported an existing mentor training for the CNM program and will be invited to plan implementation for UCBAAPT Mentoring program.
- Mentoring resources will address topics such as microaggressions, imposter syndrome, and interprofessional care.
- UCBAAPT mentors can be nominated for appointment as a SON VCP to increase the visibility of clinicians from the community and the UCSF SON Volunteer Faculty Network (VFN).
Inaugural UCBAAPT Mentors
The UCBAAPT Mentorship Pilot launched between January - June 2025 to support Cohort 2 Scholars.
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Interested being a UCBAAPT mentor?
The mentor application is coming soon!
(*UCBAAPT Cohort 1 alumni)
- Alicia Hernandez Punsalan, DNP, FNP-BC
Saint Agnes Care - Women's Health & OBGYN - *Cariann Perumal, FNP
La Clínica de la Raza - *Carly Hwang, FNP
Petaluma Health Center - Carmen Mandac, PNP-PC
Stanford Medicine: Children's Health - *Chau Le, FNP
Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group (PAFMG), Camino Division - *Danielle Senecharles, CNM, WHNP-BC
UCSF, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Obstetrics and Gynecology - Dylan M. Coyne, FNP-C
Ravenswood Family Health Network, Mayview Clinics - Fion Ng, PNP-PC
Boston Children's Hospital, prior San Francisco Department of Public Health - *Jackie Farreles, FNP-BC
UCSF Post-Liver Transplant Clinic - *Kalmia Beets, PNP
Vista Community Clinic - Laurel DeCou, FNP. MFA
Community Health Centers of Lane County - Lisa Lestishock, DNP, RN, CPNP-PC, CNS
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford - Molly Kenward, FNP
UCSF, Department of General Internal Medicine - Nicholas Rieken, FNP
Tiburcio Vasquez Health Center - Nora Ali, FNP-C
Hoag Urgent Care, South Orange County - Sarah Vaillancourt, DNP with a Public Health Nurse Leader (PHNL), WHNP-BC
California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC), Community Medical Centers - Shirley Deng, CPNP-PC
Berkeley Pediatrics Medical Group - Simran Tagore, DNP, FNP
Obstetrics/Gynecology (Ob/Gyn) Kaiser Permanente San Leandro and Oakland Medical Centers - Sonia Lai, DNP, FNP
UCSF, PREPARE Clinic
Coming soon!
Coming soon!
