Sarah Alba-Nguyen

Sarah Alba-Nguyen, MD, MPH, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine. She serves as Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency and Director of GME Diversity, balancing clinical, educational, and administrative roles. Clinically, she works as a hospitalist, attending on the Medicine Teaching Service, Goldman Medicine Service, and Medicine Consult Services at Parnassus and Mission Bay. Her leadership in graduate medical education focuses on enhancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, including robust programs to recruit, retain, and mentor trainees from underrepresented backgrounds. She is passionate about addressing unconscious bias, microaggressions, and stereotype threat in medicine, delivering seminars for faculty and trainees. Since 2018, she has co-led academic career development programs at the UCSF Latinx Center of Excellence (LCOE), supporting Latinx and underrepresented minority (UIM) medical students and residents.

Education includes a Medical Doctorate from New York University School of Medicine, Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at UCSF, and a 2017 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Champion Training program. Her research and publications emphasize gender and racial disparities in clinical performance assessments, residency diversity trends, and mitigating biases in medical education. She has contributed to over 20 peer-reviewed articles, with recent work focusing on equity in graduate medical training and virtual interview challenges.

Her academic contributions extend to co-authoring studies on narrative assessment biases, mentorship across differences, and the impact of faculty/trainee gender dynamics. She actively collaborates with initiatives like the LCOE to advance health equity through inclusive academic practices. No specific grants or future projects are detailed in the provided text, though her ongoing roles suggest continued advocacy for diversity and excellence in medical education.