Dr. Cobert is an anesthesiologist and intensivist at the SFVAHCS. He trained in Internal Medicine, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine. His research interests include palliative care in the intensive care unit (ICU), ICU survivorship and Post-Intensive Care Syndrome (PICS), language and clinician reflexivity in medical notes and natural language processing (NLP) and language models in the clinical setting. His lab focuses on the study of narrative elements, bias, stigmatizing language and subjectivity in clinical notes and how this impacts clinician behavior. He is the cofounder of the Collaborative for Advanced Illness Research and Education (CAIRE) which focuses on improving primary palliative care delivery, research and educational opportunities at UCSF. His mentees include multiple medical students, Internal Medicine housestaff, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine fellows, masters students.

Dr. Seal is a primary care internist and Chief of the Integrative Health Service for the SFVAHCS. She directs the Integrated Care Clinic for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans, the Integrated Pain Team Clinic and the roll-out of Complimentary and Integrative Health (CIH) services for veterans and VA staff. She also conducts health services and clinical trials research to study novel interventions to improve care for veterans with chronic pain, opioid misuse and PTSD.

Dr. Ganguly started the Laboratory of Plasticity and Neuromotor Recovery in 2012. The laboratory conducts both clinical and basic research in neurological rehabilitation. The primary goal is to translate neural engineering and plasticity based treatments to patients with motor disability.

My mission is to use health data analytics to drive health system improvement, ensure health equity, and improve physical and mental health at the individual and population levels.

Kathleen Sarmiento is an Associate Professor of Medicine, Director of the Sleep Program at the VA San Francisco Health Care System, VISN 21 Specialty Care Sleep Clinical Resource Hub Director, and National Lead for VHA TeleSleep. Her research focuses on improving access to sleep care for both rural and urban Veterans by leveraging telehealth and hub-spoke partnerships, and by de-implementing low-value visits. Her current grant will assess the value of home sleep apnea testing in a broad range of comorbidities and pre-test risk for OSA, as well as study the impact of an initial consultation before sleep testing on adherence to therapy, patient satisfaction, and patient outcomes. Through the national implementation of VA’s TeleSleep Program, a variety of synchronous and asynchronous modalities to improve access, quality, and timeliness of care are evaluated. Dr. Sarmiento is also engaged in clinical research evaluating web-based care for sleep apnea, hospital to home transitions and the benefit of non-invasive ventilation on morbidity and mortality in patients with chronic respiratory failure, and remote monitoring of patients with ALS using telehealth. She is an innovator and early adopter of technology, seeking to incorporate AI and machine learning into care delivery models to improve practice efficiency and patient outcomes.