Program Manager
University of California San Francisco MERI Center
Gayle Kojimoto has worked at UCSF since 2003 in various administrative roles from surgery scheduler to practice coordinator to her current position as program manager in the Division of Palliative Medicine. Her desire to find person-centered care led her to work in the UCSF Symptom Management Service (SMS), one of the first outpatient palliative care clinics in the United States, starting in 2011, where she was introduced to palliative care. She quickly realized that palliative care was exactly the career she was searching for and it has become her passion. After supporting the SMS for nearly ten years, Gayle moved from the clinical world to the academic world in 2019, supporting the MERI Center in the UCSF Division of Palliative Medicine. She now supports the MERI Center, Dr. Kara Bischoff’s Palliative Care for ALS study, Palliative Care Leadership Center at UCSF, and is a member of the division’s DEI Council.
At the MERI Center, Gayle’s passion for palliative care has only grown and she has learned that palliative care offers more than just medication to treat patients. As a co-facilitator for the MERI Center’s poetic medicine workshops, she has blossomed into a lover of poetry and a poet herself. More importantly, she has learned the healing power that poetry can have for us all. Gayle is also an editor of “Poems that Flow Through Us”, an anthology of poems written in the poetic medicine sessions, and enjoys finding the right images to accompany the poems.
Thursday, March 5, 2026
2:30pm - 4:00pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose