Jason Tokumoto, MD – Medical Director

Jason Tokumoto, MD is board certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco where he precepts first year medical students in the PRIME program (students interested in working with the underserved population). He is also clinical coordinator of the National HIV/AIDS Clinicians' Consultation Center (NCCC) located at San Francisco General Hospital. The NCCC is a federally funded program that provides telephone consultation to clinicians in the USA who have questions about the management of their HIV patients, pregnant HIV patients, and health care workers exposed to a potentially infectious fluid. In addition, he manages 50 HIV-infected Native Americans patients at the Native American Health Center. He has a special interest in complementary and alternative medicine in HIV and has written chapters on this subject in 3 major textbooks. He believes that all patients should be treated as a "whole person" and the only way to provide the best care is to address their physical, emotional, psychological, and spiritual needs.

Royce Lin, MD

Dr. Lin completed his undergraduate degree at Harvard University and received his medical doctorate from Yale Medical School. He then completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and his HIV subspecialty training through the HIV Clinical Scholars Program fellowship at the HIV/AIDS Division of San Francisco General Hospital.

Dr. Lin is currently Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCSF and co-director of ASPIRE (AIDS Services – Prevention, Intervention, Research, and Education), the international program at UCSF/SFGH providing training and technical assistance to HIV care sites throughout Africa. Dr. Lin provides HIV care and treatment services at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH), and at Department of Public Health sites including Tom Waddell Health Center and Tenderloin Health. In his clinical work, Dr. Lin focuses on HIV care delivery to vulnerable populations – particularly clients impacted by social marginalization on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, immigration status, substance use, mental health challenges, homelessness and/or marginal housing.

Dr. Lin's UCSF faculty appointment reflects both his dedication to providing high quality HIV services for San Francisco's neediest clients, and his longstanding commitment to excellence in training HIV clinicians, both domestically and internationally. Dr. Lin travels regularly to Sub-Saharan Africa where he has spearheaded new teaching methodologies and quality improvement solutions to improve clinic workflow, establish quality assurance programs, create safe workplace environments, facilitate clinical research and accelerate ARV rollout.  Dr. Lin and members of the ASPIRE team have – to date – trained the majority of physicians and nurses providing antiretroviral therapy in 6 regions in Tanzania with a catchment population of >11 million people, developed clinical mentoring models that have been incorporated into national guidelines, and stimulated teaching innovations in HIV medical education at African universities such as Tanzania's Muhimbili University of Heath Allied Sciences. Dr. Lin's expertise is in ensuring sustainability through a "train-the-trainer" model that develops clinical and teaching skills among local clinician-leaders, who are then equipped to train other local providers in their communities. He oversees programs in several African countries, including Kenya, Tanzania, Cote d'Ivoire, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

Dr. Lin has served as the Director of the HIV Consultation Service at San Francisco General Hospital, and the Education Director of the HIV/AIDS Division at SFGH. Dr. Lin has been nominated for the Subspecialist of the Year Award at San Francisco General Hospital in 2008 and 2010. He has also been nominated for numerous teaching awards at UCSF, and is the recipient of the 2011 Meg Newman Award for Excellence in HIV Teaching. He serves on the Board of Directors at the Asian Pacific Islander Wellness Center, and volunteers for numerous HIV/AIDS organizations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.

• International Clinical Education and Capacity Building
• Provision of HIV services to vulnerable populations
• Clinical education in HIV/AIDS

Tri Do, MD, MPH

Tri Do joined Roche Molecular Diagnostics in July 2008 as Director of Clinical Research and Scientific Affairs for HIV and CMV. He is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. While at UCSF, his NIH-funded research focused on the social epidemiology of HIV infection among communities of color and among men who have sex with men, in particular Asians and Pacific Islanders. He has been an attending physician at the UCSF Positive Health Program at San Francisco General Hospital since 2002. He also provided clinical mentorship to clinicians serving under-resourced populations including people living with HIV in Vietnam and in the California prison system. He currently serves on the board of several non-profit community based organizations including API Wellness Center.

Kathy Hsiao, MD

Dr. Kathy Hsiao is a board certified OBGYN physician/surgeon.  She completed her residency training at UCSF and has been in practice for nearly twenty years.  She teaches medicine and surgery as a Volunteer Clinical Assistant Professor at UCSF.  Dr. Hsiao is a long term supporter of LGBT rights in the Bay Area.  She serves many lesbians, bisexuals and FTM trans men in her practice.  Dr. Hsiao specializes in performing minimally invasive outpatient total laparoscopic hysterectomies for trans men and alternative insemination services for queer/alternative family building. Dr. Hsiao will serve as a volunteer physician at the API Wellness Clinic, providing basic primary care, basic gynecological services, STI screening/education, sexual health, hormonal and surgical referrals for trans men.

Emiko Kamitani, RN, CNS, MS – Director of Nursing

Emiko Kamitani is Doctoral Nursing Student and Graduate Student Researcher in the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Department of Community Health System, School of Nursing. She is a Registered Nurse and Clinical Nurse Specialist in Public Health and earned her Master's degree in Advanced Community Health/ International Nursing with HIV/AIDS as minor from UCSF. She previously worked at liver/kidney transplant unit in University of California, Los Angeles Medical Center. Her passion is toward Healthcare Disparity, especially due to race, sexual preference, gender, and substance use. Her research area includes various HIV or hepatitis-related healthcare issues in Asian and Pacific Islanders, Transgenders, Inmates or Substance Users. She was born and raised in Japan and has been in the US since 1999. She likes to run, go to the gym, travel, chat with friends, and meet new friends in her free time.

Robert (Robby) Wallace - Clinic Administrator

Robby was born and raised in the San Francisco Peninsula where he attended Burlingame High School and completed his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Nevada – Reno in Community Health Science with a dual emphasis in Public Health and Clinical Medicine. His experience in healthcare began in private specialty practices and merged into corporate medicine, where he held a position of almost five years working in a managed care facility to aide in the expansion efforts of community based clinics to offer primary care and urgent care services to the public. In December of 2010, he chose to leave the corporate world and move into the non-profit sector to ensure the highest quality of care to those in need. His volunteer services are widespread in philanthropic work, delivering charitable time and programming efforts for Youth AIDS through his chartered Fraternity, Sigma Phi Epsilon - Nevada Alpha Chapter. He continues to be apart of his community donating time to youth recreation and is an avid supporter of HIV/AIDS and LGBTQ communities. He resides in the San Francisco Peninsula and enjoys playing outdoor sports and enduring his passion for travel.