Marta Kochanska, MD

Associate Professor

Marta Kochanska, MD is an Associate Clinical Professor at UCSF. She divides her clinical time between providing HIV primary care to women at the Positive Health Program at Ward 86 and working as a hospitalist at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital.
Her interests are in HIV prevention, expansion of PrEP access, trauma-informed care and treatment of substance use disorders.
Education
Residency, 2007 - Internal Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
MD, 2004 - School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
BS, 1995 - Electrical Engineering, University of Pennsylvania
Publications

  1. Black F, Santos GM, McMahan VM, Fraser A, Clark J, Sturgeon L, Walker J, Kochanska M, Shoptaw S, Coffin PO. Safety of Intravenous Methamphetamine in Patients Taking Mirtazapine: A Two-Site Phase 1b Randomized Controlled Trial. Journal of clinical psychopharmacology 2026. PMID: 41779519


  2. Flynn S, Adamo M, Kochanska M, Garcia-Grossman I. Initiating pre-exposure prophylaxis in the inpatient setting: a quality improvement project. BMJ open quality 2024. PMID: 38232981


  3. Garcia-Grossman I, Hauser K, Adamo M, Flynn S, Burbank S, Crawford C, Davis J, Lydon E, Reed G, Kochanska M, Guzman K. Utilizing Inpatient Admissions to Increase HIV Screening During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond. American journal of medical quality : the official journal of the American College of Medical Quality 2022. PMID: 36519964