Faculty, Students Support COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts

Anna Weissman (left), master's student in the UCSF School of Nursing, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to Kaiwen Sun, MD, right, resident physician in the UCSF Department of Medicine, at UCSF's Parnassus clinic in December 2020.

On the first day of COVID-19 vaccinations at UCSF in December 2020, Liesl Piccolo (left), master’s student at the UCSF School of Nursing, administers the Pfizer vaccine to Michael Lejano, UCSF respiratory care practitioner.

Assistant professor Shannon Smith-Bernardin (left) and master’s student Dianne Georgetti were part of a team that vaccinated close to 200 people on April 29, 2021 in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district through the UCSF Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative.

Helping vaccinate UCSF patients who need to receive the COVID-19 vaccine at home are: Kevin Alcalde, UCSF Care at Home patient care coordinator, associate professor Helen Horvath, master’s student Laura Sanchez, and volunteer faculty member Courtney Gordon.

UCSF nursing students supporting the vaccine rollout have included: (back row, from left): Enrique Esteinou (MEPN student), Liesl Piccolo (master’s student), Sara Lezin (master’s student), Scottie Wan (MEPN student); (front row, from left): Anna Weissman (master’s student), Hannah Russell-Goodson (master’s student) and Melissa Im-Giuffrida (MEPN student)

Nursing students Casady Brown, Gal Haroush and Scott Berning, with assistant professor Kate Holbrook at the UCSF vaccine clinic where they are volunteering.