Mignote Yilma, MD
Resident Physician
Surgery
School of Medicine

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.

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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.

Awards

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  • Emerging Liver Scholar, AASLD, 2022
  • Diverse Surgeons Initiative, The Society of Black Academic Surgeons, 2022
  • CTSI Spring 2022 Resident Research Funding Award, UCSF, 2022
  • National Clinician Scholars Fellow, University of California, San Francisco, 2021-2023

Education & Training

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  • Surgical Training University of California, San Francisco 06/2025
  • MAS Master's in Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Implementation and Data Science Track University of California, San Francisco 06/2023
  • M.D. University of California, Los Angeles 06/2018
  • B.A Human Biology Stanford University 06/2010

Interests

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  • Barriers to solid organ transplantation
  • Transplant Equity
  • Social determinants of Health
  • Healthy Equity

Publications (14)

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Carcinoma, HepatocellularTissue and Organ ProcurementLiver DiseasesInternship and ResidencyHepatitis C, ChronicEnd Stage Liver DiseaseLiver NeoplasmsFellowships and ScholarshipsOrgan TransplantationChemoembolization, TherapeuticLiver TransplantationWaiting ListsGeneral SurgeryTissue DonorsKidney Transplantation

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