Dr. Yasmin Bains is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Clinical Sciences and Community Health at Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine in Vallejo, California. She is an internal medicine physician and fellowship-trained diabetologist. Dr. Bains focuses clinically and academically on diabetes and cardiometabolic disease. She earned her Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine degree from Touro University California in Vallejo. She completed an Internal Medicine residency at Highland Hospital in Oakland, California, and completed a Diabetology fellowship at Touro University California. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Bains combines patient care with teaching, research, and curriculum development. Her projects include a primary-care liver-screening workflow incorporating FibroScan, a residency home-visit curriculum addressing social determinants of health, and a medical-school assignment exploring the applications and limitations of artificial intelligence in learning. She has received the American Diabetes Association Scholar Award, the Jennifer Woo Advocacy Award, and the Bernard I. Zeliger Leadership & Service Award, among other honors. She serves on the Board of Directors as a fellow representative and on the Education Committee of the American College of Diabetology.
Her professional memberships include the American College of Diabetology, American College of Physicians, American Diabetes Association, and American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases.