Amalia Dangilan Fyles, RN, MSN,CNS, CDE
Amalia Dangilan Fyles has been a certified diabetes educator for 30 years working in the Adult Medical Clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. She coordinates the Adult Medical Diabetes Self-Management Education Program which has achieved certification as a Recognized Diabetes Program by the American Diabetes Association. In 2010, she received the “Hearts and Heroes” award for her work among patient with diabetes at SFGH.
Baljeet Sangha, MPH

Barbara Walter RN, MS, PHN, Practice Manager-SFGH

Blue Walcer, Founder and Director of the CARE program

Carolina Bravo, MPH

Davi Pakter, MD

Diana Coffa, MD

Eric Nefstead, MDiv

Hilary Seligman, MD, MAS

Jenny Chacon, MPH

Jill Samish, BS
Jill Samish is the Program Coordinator for SFGH’s HeartBeets Natural Food Program. Jill graduated from San Francisco State University with B.S. in Health Education and was trained as a Natural Chef at Bauman College in Berkeley. She also works for Riverdog Farm at the Berkeley Farmer’s market promoting quality, seasonal and local foods. Jill is inspired by cooking, fresh produce, animals, and her friends and family.
Joy Graham

Kelley Long
Kelley Long is the Development Officer of Corporate and Foundation Relations for the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation. Kelley received her Bachelor’s degree in International Studies and Nonprofit Management from Pepperdine University. In her spare time, Kelley enjoys all things outdoors.
Maya Vasquez, RN, IBCLC

Nasrin Aboudamous, BS

Nikki Bengal, BA, RN, PHN, MSN

Ocean Berg, MSN
Ocean Berg received her BA in Sociology at University of California Santa Cruz, her MSN in Community Public Health/Clinical Nurse Specialist in Perinatal from San Francisco State University in 1998 and 2003 respectively. She is currently the Perinatal Clinical Nurse Specialist at San Francisco General Hospital. Ocean thrives in multidisciplinary work and strives to promote normalcy in high risk birth. At SFGH Ocean Co-Chairs the Surgical Care Improvement Project and Professional Development Council. Currently Ocean is representing the Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing with MD Nancy Lowe in a Home Birth Consensus Summit. She has lectured throughout California for the Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nursing on the subjects of Baby Friendly and Normalizing Childbirth. She has co-authored an article for the Journal of Perinatal and Neonatal Nursing on the topic of Baby Friendly and for Maternal Child Nursing on the topic of Skin to Skin in the Operating Room. Ocean lives in San Francisco with her two home birthed daughters, extreme sport engrossed husband and two calico cats. Non professional pursuits include outdoor sports of all sorts and enjoying her extended family of friends.
Patricia Erwin, MPH
In her current position as the Health Education Programs Director for the San Francisco Department of Public Health leads a team of professional health educators who implement various community-based health education programs, and provides technical expertise on health education and prevention to other sections of the DPH and to community-based agency partners. She was formerly Program Director of the Newcomers Health Program of the San Francisco Department of Public Health since 1998, and managed a clinic- and community-based refugee and immigrant health program. She has presented at local, statewide and national conferences on community health education, health access, and refugee health issues and has about 15 years of experience managing and working on multicultural public health programs both in the US and abroad. Patricia Erwin has an M.P.H. in Public Health from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in International Studies from The School for International Training.
Shieva Khayam-Bashi, MD

Shermineh Jafarieh, MS

Sylvia Romero-Pagan
