Current staffing by campus
  Pacific Campus: 18 FTEs
  California Campus: 4 FTEs
  Davies Campus: 10 FTEs
  St. Luke's Campus: 8 FTEs

Physician Profiles
  Recruitment of high-level graduates from UCSF, Johns Hopkins and CPMC residency programs, with varied backgrounds and different levels of experience
  Languages spoken: Spanish, Japanese, French, Romanian, Mandarin, German, Taiwanese, Cantonese

Unique Hospitalist program culture
  Emphasis on quality and cost-effective care
  High level of teamwork and camaraderie
  Active member involvement in ongoing program improvement
  Sense of ownership of Hospitalist program amongst members

Hospitalist Retention
  Long-term Hospitalist retention
  Minimal staff turnover since program's inception
  Excellent morale and teamwork
  Outstanding role models for resident trainees


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CPMC St. Luke's Campus, 3555 Cesar Chavez St., San Francisco 94110. St.Luke’s Hospital is located at 3555 Cesar Chavez Street at the corner of Valencia Street.  A parking lot is available at around the corner on San Jose Avenue.

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Edwin Coe, M.D., MBA graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a B.S. in 1987. He attended Medical College of Wisconsin and received his M.D. in 1991. He completed his internal medicine residency at CPMC in 1994 and was Chief Resident, 1994-1995. In 1997 he was named the Medical Director of the Irene Swindell Alzheimer's Center. He joined IMMG in 1996 and remained with the group when it became PIMG. Dr Coe also completed an MBA at UC Berkeley, Haas School of Business in 2003. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

Jacqueline Denkabe, M.D. graduated from the University of Ghana in 1997 with a B.S. in Medical Sciences. She received her Doctor of Medicine in 2001 from the University of Ghana Medical School in 2001. She completed Internal Medicine residency at Columbia University New York in 2005. Dr. Denkabe is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

Lauren Friedly, M.D. graduated from Stanford University in 1990 with an A.B in Human Biology. She received her Doctor of Medicine in 2000 from the University of California, San Francisco. She then completed her residency program at CPMC in 2004 and continued as Chief Resident in 2005. Dr. Friedly has been a hospitalist since 2005 working as a Subspecialty Hospitalist at CPMC and as a Hospitalist at Marin General Hospital. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

Claudio Gallina, M.D. graduated from Santa Clara University in 1990 with a B.S. in Biology. He later attended Louisiana State University where he obtained a M.S. in Molecular Biology in 1993. He graduated from Louisiana State University School of Medicine in 1999. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine from the University of California San Francisco-Fresno in 2002. Dr. Gallina has been a hospitalist at St. Luke's Hospital since 2003. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine.

Casey Jackson, M.D. received his B.A in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1999. He then attended Georgetown University of Medicine graduating in 2003. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at California Pacific Medical Center 2006. Dr. Jackson is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. Prior to joining our team at St.Luke’s Hospitals, Dr Jackson practiced medicine at the Health Loop in Memphis Tennessee.

Bhavna Kasturia, M.D. graduated from the Government Medical College in Amristar, India with a MBBS in 1998. After practicing medicine for a year, Dr. Kasturia completed one year of surgery internship at New York Hospital Medical Center. She later completed her Internal Medicine residency at Mercy Catholic Medical Center Drexel University. She is board certified in Internal Medicine. She recently joined St.Luke's as a hospitalist in 2008 and continues with PIMG into 2009.

Narinder Singh, M.D. graduated from Rutgers University in 1990 with a B.A. in Biology. He then attended Ross University School of Medicine graduating in 1996. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine in 2006 from St.Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center. Dr. Singh is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. He is a traveling physician having worked at over six different hospitals throughout the country as a Hospitalist.

Sonal Shah, M.D. graduated from Indiana University with a B.A. in Biology and History. She later attended the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine graduating in 2004. She completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at New York Hospital of Queens in 2007. Dr. Shah is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. She recently joined St.Luke's as a hospitalist in 2008 and continues with PIMG into 2009.

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