2023-2024 Fellows
Donna Haysbert, MD, MPH
Donna Haysbert, MD, MPH
About Me
Dr. Donna Haysbert is an internal medicine physician and Patient Safety Fellow. She completed her undergraduate studies at UC Berkeley and obtained her medical degree at UC Davis. Dr. Haysbert returned to the East Bay to complete her residency at Kaiser Oakland, where she conducted research in cardiovascular risk factors for Vietnamese-Americans and a quality improvement project about patients' perspectives in the hospital discharge clinic. After completing residency, she obtained a Master’s of Public Health with a graduate certificate in Health Management at UC Berkeley. During her MPH year, she worked on a project with mentors from the Alameda Department of Public Health and Stanford University to examine trends in Hepatitis B vaccination in vulnerable populations. Within the next year, Dr. Haysbert hopes to continue to develop her skills in quality improvement and health management and to impact patients' lives through transforming healthcare delivery and engaging in population health and health disparities work. In her free time, Dr. Haysbert loves spending time with her husband and their 2-year-old daughter.
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Emily McKenna, MD, MPH
Emily McKenna, MD, MPH
About Me
Dr. Emily McKenna is a pediatrician and one of this year’s Patient Safety Fellows. She received her Bachelor of Arts in Art History from Colorado College and decided to pursue medical training after working at the AIDS Education and Training Center in Oakland. She completed her premedical requirements at the Bryn Mawr postbaccalaureate program and then attended Cooper Medical School of Rowan University. She then completed Pediatrics residency at Kaiser Oakland and her Masters in Public Health at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research interests have ranged from applying machine and deep learning in pediatric neuroradiology during medical school, a QI project implementing food insecurity screening during her residency training and most recently the use of electronic medical record systems for tuberculosis screening and treatment in outpatient pediatric settings during her Public Health training. Over the course of this year she hopes to broaden her understanding of Patient Safety and her leadership skills by focusing on projects in both inpatient and outpatient pediatrics. She loves baking and spending time in her garden with her toddler and her husband in her free time. Following her fellowship she plans to pursue specialty training in pediatric Infectious Diseases.
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