Sarah Hilgenberg, MD

Rathmann Fellowship Director
Clinical Professor
Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Stanford University

Dr. Sarah Hilgenberg is a Clinical Professor of Pediatric Hospital Medicine at Stanford Medicine Children’s Health. She was an Associate Program Director of Curriculum in Stanford’s Pediatric Residency Program for 11 years where she designed, implemented, and studied multiple innovative local and national curricular initiatives. She is a longstanding passionate mentor and sponsor in Stanford Pediatric Residency’s Medical Education Scholarly Concentration and the Department’s Pediatric Coaching and Mentoring Program. She and her mentees have won multiple grants and awards for their scholarship. In addition, she directs Stanford Pediatrics Peer Scholarship Communities Program which aims to equip clinical faculty with skills to enhance their scholarship. Nationally, she is the Chair of the Curriculum Committee for the Academic Pediatrics Association’s Educational Scholars Program and an Associate Editor at the journal Academic Pediatrics. This past year, she was inducted into the National Academy of Distinguished Educators in Pediatrics. In her spare time, she enjoys running, hiking, reading, gardening, doing crosswords, watching her kids’ sports and music concerts, and spending time with her family outdoors. She is excited to take on the role of Director of the Rathmann Fellowship and looks forward to connecting more broadly across the School of Medicine.

Nicole Arkin, MD

Dr. Nicole Arkin is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine with training in anesthesiology and critical care medicine, as well as graduate training in education. Her scholarship focuses on competency-based education, learner assessment, and simulation-based teaching. Through the Rathmann Fellowship, Dr. Arkin will evaluate whether extended reality (XR) simulation can achieve learner engagement and self-efficacy comparable to traditional simulation for teaching high-stakes interpersonal communication, with the goal of expanding access to high-quality simulation-based education.

Jena Pizula, MD, FACC

Dr. Jena Pizula is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at Stanford University and a maternal cardiologist with training in internal medicine, pediatrics, and cardiovascular medicine. Through her work in cardio-obstetrics, she recognized an important gap in medical education: patients do not stop needing subspecialty care because they are pregnant or lactating, yet few physicians receive formal training in how these physiologic states affect care. As a Rathmann Fellow, Dr. Pizula is developing an educational framework that combines expert-guided learning, simulation, and AI to expand access to maternal medicine expertise and improve care for pregnant and lactating patients.

Evan Baum, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor
Medicine

Malerie Pratt, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor
Surgery - General Surgery

Asheen Rama, MD

Clinical Assistant Professor
Division of Pediatric Anethesiology
Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative,
and Pain Medicine

Lijia Xie, MD MS FACP

Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital
Medicine, Stanford School of Medicine Hospitalist,
Stanford HealthCare TriValley Hospital Medicine

Elisa Phillips, MD
Pediatric Hospital Medicine Fellow – PGY4
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, Stanford University

Takudzwa Shumba, MD MPH
Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford Family Medicine
Division of Primary Care and Population Health
Stanford University School of Medicine

Kim Hoang, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatric Hospital Medicine
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital 
Stanford School of Medicine

Samantha Wang, MD 
Clinical Assistant Professor
Division of Hospital Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine

James Xie, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford Health Care & Stanford Children's Health