Kjersti Kirkeby, MD
Program Director
After graduating from Medical School at
the University of Bergen, Norway, Kjersti moved to San Francisco to live with her
husband, a Bay Area native. She completed her Internal Medicine residency and Chief
Residency at California Pacific Medical Center (CPMC) and her Endocrinology Fellowship
at Stanford. After fellowship, Kjersti returned to CPMC and joined Sutter Pacific
Medical Foundation. Kjersti has always been committed to medical education, and after
returning to CPMC, focused her efforts on starting the Endocrinology Fellowship. Her
medical practice includes all aspects of endocrinology with an emphasis on diabetes
management. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two children,
hiking, camping and traveling.
Anthony Yin, MD, ECNU, FACE
Associate Program Director
Anthony is a graduate of Saint
Louis University School of Medicine. He completed his internship and residency in
internal medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center before completing his fellowship
in endocrinology at Los Angeles County Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. His clinical interests
include neck ultrasonography, fine needle aspiration biopsy of thyroid nodules, cervical
lymph nodes and suspected parathyroid adenoma, treatment of thyroid cancer, and male
andrology. He serves on the medical staff at both California Pacific Medical Center
as well as Novato Community Hospital.
Karen Earle, MD
Chief of Endocrinology
Medical Director of the Center
for Diabetes Services
After graduating from Yale Medical School, Karen
moved to San Francisco to complete her training at UCSF including a residency in Internal
Medicine and a fellowship in Endocrinology. Her research focused on immunology and
type 1 diabetes. She moved to CPMC in 2005 to become medical director of the Center
for Diabetes Services and start an endocrine private practice. She became Chief of
Endocrinology at CPMC in 2006. In 2008 she joined SPMF to form an endocrine division,
serving as lead of her group from 2008-2014. Her medical practice includes all aspects
of endocrinology, but her primary focus is on diabetes and ways technology can improve
the lives of our patients with diabetes. She is committed to medical education and
works with both internal medicine residents and endocrinology fellows and serves as
the assistant program director for the fellowship. Outside of work she enjoys spending
time with her husband and three children, cooking, hiking, and traveling.
Diana Antoniucci, MD
Director of Metabolic Bone Disease Program
Diana obtained
her Medical Degree from Mayo Medical School, and completed her internal medicine residency
at Oregon Health Sciences University. After residency, she moved to San Francisco
for fellowship training in Endocrinology at UCSF. Here she pursued clinical research
on phosphate metabolism and epidemiology work in calcium metabolism and osteoporosis
while acquiring a Masters in Clinical Research. In 2008 she joined Sutter Pacific
Medical Foundation (SPMF)’s nascent Endocrinology division, and in 2014 became
lead of this group. Her clinical practice includes all aspects of endocrinology, with
a focus on calcium, phosphate metabolism disorders and osteoporosis. She is committed
to medical education and works with internal medicine residents and endocrinology
fellows. Diana also has a special interest in the electronic medical record and is
a power user for Epic at SPMF, as well as serving as a Subject Matter Expert for Endocrinology
for Sutter’s electronic medical record. In her free time, she enjoys hiking
and traveling with her family, with a focus on wildlife watching, reading as well
as volunteering at her children’s school.
Melissa Weinberg, MD
Medical Director of Inpatient Diabetes Program
After graduating
from Yale Medical School and completing her internal medicine residency at Brigham
and Women’s Hospital in Boston, Melissa moved to San Francisco for fellowship
training in Endocrinology at UCSF. Her research focused on metabolic complications
of HIV infection and quality improvement in the management of hospitalized patients
with diabetes. She joined Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation and became Medical Director
of Inpatient Diabetes at CPMC in 2008. She leads the Sutter Diabetes Clinical Improvement
Community, which coordinates policies and practices across Sutter Health programs
to promote the highest clinical quality through strategic planning, sharing best practices
and performance improvement. She is also a Subject Matter Expert for Endocrinology
for the electronic health record. Her medical practice includes all aspects of endocrinology,
and she strives to empower her patients to take an active role in improving their
health. She is committed to medical education and works with both medical residents
and endocrinology fellows. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her family
and can usually be found on the weekends watching her three sons play sports.
Shilpa Jain, MD
Director of Medical Weight Loss Program
Shilpa graduated
from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2003. Shilpa completed her internal medicine
residency at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and fellowship in endocrinology
at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH). As a fellow, she conducted research on
associations between adipokines and ectopic fat depots in the Framingham Heart Study
and she cared for patients with obesity at BWH’s Program for Weight Management.
After fellowship, she joined the Endocrinology Division at the Palo Alto Veterans
Affairs Health Care System and Stanford School of Medicine. In 2015, she joined Sutter
Pacific Medical Foundation to help establish a weight management program. Her medical
practice includes all aspects of endocrinology with an emphasis on obesity management.
She is also committed to medical education by teaching fellows and residents as well
as serving as an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford School of Medicine.
Outside of work, Shilpa enjoys playing sports with her twin boys, traveling and cooking.
Susana Harbutt, MD
Susi graduated from Rush University School of Medicine in 2013. She completed her internal medicine residency and endocrinology fellowship at CPMC. After fellowship she joined Sutter Pacific Medical Foundation in 2019 and sees patients at two site locations in San Francisco treating all aspects of endocrinology. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her large family, hiking, traveling, competitive cooking, and teaching her old dog new tricks.
Allan Pont, MD
Allan has been practicing endocrinology since 1977 when he joined the Stanford faculty after completing his endocrine fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In addition to his medical practice, he has served numerous local and national roles in hospital administration and medical education. He was chairman of medicine at California Pacific and its antecedents most of 1982 through 2006. He then became Chief Medical Officer and retired from that position in 2014. He was a residency program director for 20 years and served as the Chair of the Residency review committee for Internal medicine in 2000. He now sees patients mostly with thyroid disease or complex medical illness. Of note, he continues as Team Physician for the Oakland Athletics baseball Team- a position he has held for 31 years. Alan works part time to continue to teach residents and fellows. He no longer does much research but is best known for discovering that Ketoconazole blocks testosterone and adrenal hormone synthesis and then applying this to treating prostate cancer and Cushing’s syndrome. He spends his leisure time on his farm which is situated forty miles from San Francisco.