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Resident
University of California, San Francisco
University of California, San Francisco
Kei Katsura was born in Berkeley, Calif., and grew up in nearby Orinda. She moved to Vermont to attend Middlebury College, where she pursued a double major in Spanish and Biology. Dr. Katsura returned to the Bay Area to attend the University of California, San Francisco for graduate school, and her favorite moments were teaching anatomy as a TA and serving as academic chair for Psi Omega.
During her dental studies, Dr. Katsura also earned her PhD in Oral and Craniofacial sciences, focusing on Amelogenesis imperfecta and regenerative techniques for tooth enamel development and mineralization through the role of intracellular vesicle trafficking. She graduated with honors and was awarded the Merit Fellowship Award, Achievement Rewards for College Scientists Scholarship-Northern California Chapter, a F30 NIH Fellowship Grant, and the Captain Meritte Maxwell Scholarship Award for her research. In her spare time, she is a volunteer at UCSF’s Community Dental Clinic and travels annually to Guatemala for dental mission trips to provide preventive, dental, and surgical care. Dr. Katsura hopes to continue to enhance her knowledge of craniofacial anomalies and to continue bridging the gap between clinicians and scientists.