Welcome Sandra Zeng!

Please join us in welcoming Sandra Zeng, Clinical Research Coordinator, who's working with Drs. Melisa Wong and Natalie Young!

Sandra recently graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor’s degree in History and Science with an emphasis in Medicine and Society and a minor in Global Health and Health Policy. She is interested in end-of-life care and has collaborated with clinician investigators in Boston including UCSF alumna Dr. Laura Petrillo on their palliative care research. Sandra was named a Cordeiro Research Fellow in 2020, which supported her senior research thesis: “Searching for Care, Not a Cause: Palliative Care in the United States During the AIDS and the COVID-19 Epidemics.” As a Clinical Research Coordinator in the Division of Hematology/Oncology, Sandra will support Dr. Melisa Wong’s geriatric oncology research program as well as Dr. Natalie Young’s geriatric assessment program at the UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center. Sandra’s goal is to attend medical school to become a palliative medicine physician.