Laurel J. Schultz, M.D., M.P.H. – Partner
Dr. Laurel (Laurie) Schultz completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Iowa. She received her Medical Degree from the University of Minnesota where she was selected to the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society, before going on to complete her residency at the University of California San Francisco.
After earning a Masters of Public Health in epidemiology from the University of California Berkeley she worked for a year as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Zimbabwe Medical School and as an Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UCSF. She remains on the clinical faculty at UCSF. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics and the AAP section on Adoption and Foster Care.
Dr. Schultz is married and is the proud mom of two sons. In her free time she enjoys (outdoor) yoga, (outdoor) swimming, hiking and backpacking and anything else that brings her outside.
Mill Valley Schedule
Mondays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
San Francisco Schedule
Tuesdays: 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Wednesdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Thursdays: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Lisa G. Dana, M.D. – Partner
Dr. Lisa Dana was born in Bologna, Italy. She attended University High School in San Francisco and then went on to complete her undergraduate education at the University of California Santa Barbara. She attended Georgetown University for Medical School. She completed her Internship and Residency at the University of California San Francisco. Dr. Dana is on the clinical faculty at UCSF, is a member of the San Francisco Medical Society, and is also a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics. She has been part of our practice since 1999.
Dr. Dana is married and the proud parent of three children.
Mill Valley Schedule
Mondays: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Wednesdays: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
San Francisco Schedule
Tuesdays: 9:40 am – 5:00 pm
Thursdays: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Dawn Rosenberg, M.D. – Partner
Dr. Dawn Rosenberg is originally from New York City but spent her high school years in San Francisco. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University. She then attended the University of California San Francisco for medical school, distinguishing herself with election to Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical honors society.
She completed her post-doctoral training in pediatrics at Stanford University. She then stayed on at Stanford as a pediatric chief resident and clinical instructor in pediatrics. She remains actively involved in medical student and resident education as an Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Rosenberg serves on the Perinatal Quality of Care Committee at Sutter’s CPMC, and is a Trustee at the Burke’s School. She came to join our practice in 2005.
In her time away from the office, Dr. Rosenberg cherishes quality time with her family: her husband, two school-aged daughters, and three felines. She is also an active volunteer with the SPCA where she fosters kittens and special-needs cats.
Mill Valley Schedule
Tuesdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Fridays: 9:00am – 1:00pm
San Francisco Schedule
Mondays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Thursdays: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Fridays: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Tracy McMahan, M.D. – Partner
Dr. Tracy DeAmicis McMahan is a proud native San Franciscan with roots in the Italian American community of North Beach. She attended Lowell High School then earned a BS in Anthropology at UCLA and her MD at Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, MD. In 2000 she happily returned home for her pediatrics residency at UCSF and has been in practice since 2003 in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is currently the Primary Care Division Chief at California Pacific Medical Center and is a member of the UCSF Volunteer Clinical Faculty. Dr. McMahan joined our group in 2013.
Dr. McMahan has a wonderful husband and two great kids. She loves to stay active by running, cycling, swimming, and playing sports with her family. She volunteers her time at her children’s school and in the Italian Community.
Dr. McMahan encourages all of her patients to lead active lifestyles and has a particular interest in childhood obesity prevention, serving on the initial San Francisco Task Force for Childhood Obesity. Her other interests include sports medicine and the follow up of preterm babies. Dr. McMahan is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Mill Valley Schedule
Tuesdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Thursdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
San Francisco Schedule
Wednesdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Fridays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Paul M. Silvestre, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Paul Silvestre went to Stanford University for his undergraduate education. He then attended the University of California San Francisco to receive his medical degree and also completed his postdoctoral training there as well.
He has also received a Masters in Public Health from the University of California Berkeley with an emphasis in Maternal and Child Health. He has been with our practice since 1998.
San Francisco Schedule
Thursdays: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Fridays: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Monica Kwan, M.D.
Dr. Monica Kwan was born and raised in San Francisco. The daughter of working class immigrant parents, she is a proud graduate of Lowell High School and UC Berkeley and among the first generation in her family to attend college. After studying medicine at the University of Vermont, she returned home for pediatrics residency at UCSF with a focus on primary care. She worked in community health with the local Asian immigrant population for several years before joining our group in 2015.
Dr. Kwan lives in San Francisco with her husband and 2 young sons. Her professional interests include breastfeeding medicine, neurodivergence and inclusion, and addressing social and health disparities. In her free time she enjoys urban exploring (undoubtedly with many preplanned coffee and bakery stops), yoga, travel, rooting for the Giants, and spending time with friends and family.
Mill Valley Schedule
Thursdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Fridays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
San Francisco Schedule
Mondays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Tuesdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Lucy Hume, M.D.
Dr. Lucy Hume is a 3rd generation San Franciscan and a graduate of Katherine Delmar Burke School and University High School. She received her BA from Brown University in 1994, and her MD from the George Washington School of Medicine and Health Sciences in 2000. She completed her Pediatric Internship and Residency at the Children’s National Medical Center in Washington DC.
She moved back to her hometown in 2003 and began her pediatric career as a Pediatric Hospitalist at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and California Pacific Medical Center, eventually moving to outpatient pediatrics in 2008 and joining our practice in 2019.
She is married and the proud mother of two active teenage boys and Koda, their puppy. She currently sits on the board of her neighborhood association and sits on the Common Sense Media Advisory Council. Over the last decade she has managed her sons’ Ice Hockey teams and has been active in the SF Parks Alliance, SF Zoo, California Academy of Sciences and Town School for Boys.
Mill Valley Schedule
Fridays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
San Francisco Schedule
Wednesdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Ruth Friedrichsdorf, M.D.
Dr. Ruth Friedrichsdorf attended medical school in the medieval city of Munster, Germany. She started her pediatric residency at the St. Franziskus Children’s Hospital in Munster and continued her pediatric training at the Children’s Hospital of Westmead in Sydney, Australia. After immigrating to the United States and taking care of her three children she undertook another pediatric residency at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN. She worked as a primary care pediatrician at the busy M Health Fairview Children’s Clinic in Minneapolis from 2016 – 2020.
Dr. Friedrichsdorf is happily married to another pediatrician and they live with their three school-aged children in beautiful Mill Valley. She is an enthusiastic hiker and joined our practice in 2020.
Mill Valley Schedule:
Mondays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Tuesdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Tina Goldstein NP, CLC
Tina was born and raised in Marin County. She completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Biology from Northeastern University. After graduating from college, she continued on to complete Northeastern’s BSN/MSN program and graduated as a Family Nurse Practitioner in 2021, while also completing the training to become a Certified Lactation Counselor. During her time in Boston, she completed her training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston Children’s Hospital, and finally in primary care in Portsmouth, NH. During her final two years of Nurse Practitioner school, Tina worked as our RN in the San Francisco office, and joined our team of providers in 2021.
Katharine Leaning, M.D.
San Francisco Schedule
Tuesdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Matthew Rosenblum, M.D.
Dr. Matthew Rosenblum is a Sonoma County native and grew up in Sebastopol, CA. After earning his Bachelor’s Degree in Molecular Biology at UC Berkeley, he received his medical degree from Albany Medical College. After four cold winters in Upstate New York, he was thrilled to return to the Bay Area where he completed his Pediatric Residency at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital in Oakland.
San Francisco Schedule
Tuesdays: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Fridays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Erin Luckiesh, P.N.P.
Erin Luckiesh lives in Marin County with her husband, son, and daughter. She was born and raised in Marin and as a young child her pediatrician was Golden Gate Pediatrics’ Dr. Eileen Aicardi. She is a graduate of Redwood High School and UCLA.
Erin lived in San Francisco for several years after college and was a child life volunteer at the UCSF Children’s Hospital playroom alongside child life specialists for four years. After her inspiring experience as a volunteer with young patients, she then pursued a Masters in Nursing/Pediatric Nurse Practitioner degree with a specialty in primary care from Yale University, before returning back to the Bay Area. Erin worked as a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner for San Francisco’s Noe Valley Pediatrics in 2021-2022.
Erin originally joined Golden Gate Pediatrics in 2019 as an advice nurse and was added to the office’s team of providers in 2022.
Jonathan Aicardi, D.O.
Dr. Jonathan Aicardi is a native San Franciscan and the eldest son of longtime Golden Gate Pediatrics physician, Dr. Eileen Aicardi. He attended UC Davis where he obtained his BS in Biology with a minor in Chemistry. Upon completing his undergraduate degree, he spent time as a clinical research coordinator and project manager at UCSF, while also performing with his band as a musician. He then moved to New York to complete his medical education from Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2017, before embarking on his clinical rotations in New York, Connecticut and San Francisco. Dr. Aicardi completed his pediatric residency program with UCSF Fresno in 2022.
Dr. Aicardi enjoys spending his free time with his many nephews and nieces. He also enjoys exploring San Francisco by foot, trying out new restaurants, cooking, and visiting the California Academy of Sciences, all while continuing to make music. He joined our practice in 2022.
San Francisco Schedule
Mondays: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Julia Katsuura, M.D.
She is married to a fellow physician and the proud mother of two young boys. She spends her free time cooking, running, reading, and going on family hikes.
Mill Valley Schedule:
Wednesdays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Fridays: 2:00pm – 5:00pm
San Francisco Schedule:
Mondays: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Fridays: 9:00am – 12:00pm
Carrie McFarland, P.N.P.
Carrie was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and attended James Madison University in Virginia to obtain her B.S. in Nutrition. Following college, she moved to San Francisco where she worked as a senior clinical dietitian at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital for 17 years, with particular expertise in infants and children with growth and feeding difficulties. She loved her career as an RD but knew she had much more to offer her patients and families, so she returned to school to complete her MSN and Pediatric Nurse Practitioner fellowship at UCSF. She completed her PNP training during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a true test of her desire to become an advanced practice provider.
Melissa Pulling, M.D.
Jody Ullom, M.D.
Dr Jody Ullom is originally from Minnesota. While growing up in the Midwest taught her some resiliency skills, she readily adapted to the mild climate and outdoor adventure opportunities in Oregon where she completed her undergraduate degree in Chemistry with honors before completing medical school at Oregon Health Science University. She then moved to the Bay Area to complete her pediatric residency at Stanford. She joined Golden Gate Pediatrics in 2024 bringing her decades of experience in primary care.
Dr Ullom enjoys engaging with her patients and their families, listening to their needs and working with them towards solutions. She treats everyone with care and respect by including them in the decision-making process, so they understand her recommendations. She has been gratified to be part of a larger team supporting kids, young adults and their families as things have become more challenging over the last decade.
She is the proud parent of two young adults. In her free time, Dr Ullom enjoys playing pickleball, hiking and watching the birds and the wildlife that gather in her yard.
Susannah Wallenstrom MPH, RDN, CLT
Susannah is a registered dietitian nutritionist with over 22 years of experience working with families in the Bay Area. She has a BA from the University of Virginia and received her Masters in Public Health and Nutrition from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 2000.
Susannah loves working with kids of all ages and their families to establish healthy eating habits and to create a lifelong positive relationship with food. She regularly speaks on the topics of picky eating, sports nutrition, and positive parent feeding practices. She is also the mom of 3 college age girls and lives in San Anselmo. She has been working with Golden Gate Pediatrics since 2017.
If you have an appointment scheduled with Susannah, prior to the appointment, please complete this 3 day food record and bring it with you to your appointment.
San Francisco & Mill Valley Schedule
Schedule varies, please call the office to inquire
Allison Townsend, SLP
Allison is a proud San Francisco native, graduating from The Hamlin School and Drew School. She received a bachelor’s in communication sciences & disorders from Syracuse University (2015) and a master’s in speech-language pathology from St. John’s University (2018). Upon completion of her undergraduate & graduate degrees, she ventured back to the west coast to begin her career as a licensed speech-language pathologist.
Allison has worked with children of all ages, and has a passion for collaborating with families to help their little ones become the best communicators they can be! She has worked extensively in schools, clinics, hospitals and homes to provide a variety of services related to speech sound disorders, receptive/expressive language delays, literacy deficits, and fluency disorders. In 2021, she established Tip of the Tongue Speech Therapy, a private pediatric practice helping bay area children develop their speech and language skills. In her free time, Allison enjoys skiing, traveling, organizing, and going on outdoor adventures with her spunky Jack Russell Terrier, Boo.
Asa (“Osa”) Williams, OTR/L
Asa was born in Kristianstad, Sweden, and moved to San Francisco after attending college at the University of Lund, Sweden. She holds a bachelor of science in management and received her master’s of occupational therapy degree at San Jose State University in 2016.
She has worked in a variety of settings with both children and adults and has extensive experience in neurodevelopment and neurorehabilitation. She has experience working in inpatient facilities as well as community-based practice, and pediatric nature-based occupational therapy. She is passionate about working with kids and their families to promote well-being and facilitate meaningful engagement in all aspects of her patient’s lives.
Asa lives in San Francisco with her partner, John. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, reading, doing yoga, visiting museums, and spending time with her friends and family, including her two adult sons and two stepdaughters.
Annamarie Faro, RN, BSN, IBCLC
Annamarie is a registered nurse, an Internationally Board Certified Lactation Consultant, and a mom to three breastfed boys, now young men! She has worked with thousands of families in the hospital setting, outpatient clinic, and neonatal intensive care unit, helping them to identify and resolve feeding issues with their babies.
