OUR PEOPLE
Education and Training
Stanford University,Palo Alto, B.A - 06/2010 Human Biology
University of California, Los Angeles,Los Angeles, M.D. - 06/2018
University of California, San Francisco,San Francisco, MAS - 06/2023 Master's in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Implementation and Data Science Track
University of California, San Francisco,San Francisco 06/2025 Surgical Training
Awards and Honors
National Clinician Scholars Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, 2021-2023
CTSI Spring 2022 Resident Research Funding Award, UCSF, 2022
Diverse Surgeons Initiative, The Society of Black Academic Surgeons, 2022
Emerging Liver Scholar, AASLD, 2022
Overview
Mignote Yilma, MD is a general surgery resident at UCSF who is currently in her dedicated research years. She is also a National Clinician Scholars Fellow at UCSF, previously known as Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and has recently joined Health Affairs as a Health Equity Fellow. Mignote is also pursuing a Master's in Biostatistics and Epidemiology with a focus on implementation science. Her research interests include addressing early barriers to transplantation with a focus on using area-based neighborhood measures of socioeconomic status as well as individual measures of socioeconomic status. She is interested in pursuing a career in abdominal solid organ transplantation.