Primary Investigator
 Professor & Chair, Department of Anatomy |
Administrative Support
 Executive Assistant I assist several labs at UCSF in Anatomy and Physiology. My passions are travel, art, photography and all things Italian! |
Current Lab Members
 Andrew Crowther, PhD
Postdoctoral fellow NIDR F32 fellow |
 Biafra Ahanonu, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow HHMI Hanna H. Gray Fellow Neural circuit and molecular mechanisms of the pain neuroaxis. |
 Darian Mohsenin, BS
Junior Specialist |
 Élora Midavaine, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar |
 Hui Yuan, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar |
 Jarret Weinrich, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar Studying the neural mechanisms of general anesthesia induced analgesia. |
 Joao Braz, PhD
Scientist |
 Julian Motzkin, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Researcher Pain Medicine Fellow I am a clinician-scientist and recently minted neurologist interested in central mechanisms underlying the aversiveness of chronic pain. I am currently completing a one year Clinical Pain Medicine fellowship at UCSF. In the lab, I use calcium imaging to i |
 Karnika Bhardwaj, M.Tech
Assistant Specialist |
 Madison Jewell, BS
Assistant Specialist |
 Mariela Rosa Casillas, BS
Graduate Student NSF GRFP Fellow |
 Ramiro Colon Vilella, BS
Junior Specialist I’m a 4th-year medical student from Puerto Rico, currently dedicating a year to pain research at UCSF. My work focuses on orofacial pain using preclinical models of trigeminal neuralgia. Outside of research, I enjoy playing beach volleyball. |
 Sakeen Kashem, MD, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar |
 Sian Y. Rodríguez Rosado, BSc
Junior Specialist |
 Tia Tummino, PhD
Postdoctoral Scholar As a scientist, my primary interest is developing novel drugs to treat pain. During my doctoral work, I utilized computational drug discovery to identify promising bioactive compounds for multiple targets. My postdoctoral research now focuses on understan |
 Xiaobing Yu, MD
Associate Professor Pain medicine physician and anesthesiologist |