Academic Departments and Faculty Rosters
Anesthesiology
Emergency Medicine
Family Medicine
Internal Medicine
Neuroscience
Obstetrics/Gynecology
Ophthalmology
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Orthopaedic Surgery
Otolaryngology
Pathology
Pediatrics
Psychiatry
Research LSI
Surgery
Anesthesiology (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair: Kenneth Lewis, MD
Peregrina Arciaga, MD *
Sharon Anita Ashley, MD, MPh, MBA
Ferdinand E. Braimah, MD *
Galust G. Halajyan, MD
Rodney McKeever, MD
Ronald G Shepperson, MD
Roya Yumul, MD, PhD *
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Emergency Medicine (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair:Chat Dang, MD *
Nehzat Nikakhtar, MD
Joanne Williams, MD, FAAEM
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Family Medicine (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair: Lutful Akhanjee, MD *
Chizobam Ani, MD, MPH
Mohsen Bazargan, PhD
Jorge Bernardez, MD
Zakaria Boshra, MD
Fred D Dominguez, MD, MPH
Ron Edelstein, EdD *
Muhammad Farooq, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAF *
Sabry Ghaly, MD, MPH, CCHP
David Hindman, PhD *
Felix U Igbinosa, MD
Mary Marfisee, MD, MPH *
Carmella Sawyers, MD
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Internal Medicine (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair: Theodore Friedman, MD, PhD *
Abbasi J. Akhtar, MD *
Cesar Aranguri, MD, FACC *
Jorge Artaza, MD *
Merlyn M Asuncion, MD *
Olga Calof, MD
Victor Chaban, PhD
Ram Chillar, MD *
Chester Choi, MD *
Jasminka Criley, MD, FACP *
Mayer Davidson, MD *
Ida Jean Davis, PhD, DC, PA-C *
Vinod Dhawan, MD *
Diana M Echeverry, MD *
Monica Ferrini, PhD, MSc *
Allen Funnye, MD, FACP *
Kalpana Ganesan, MD *
Ioannis Giannikopoulos, MD
Nestor Gonzalez-Cadavid, PhD, MSc *
Ajay Gupta, MD *
Nancy Hanna, MD *
Matthew H. Ho, MD, PhD
Stanley Hsia, MD, FRCPC, FACE *
Arnel Joaquin, MD *
Kevin Jones, PhD
Wilbert Jordan, MD *
Hemal Kadakia, MD *
Vidya Kaushik, MD *
Arthur Paul Kelly, MD*
Martin Laurence Lee, PhD *
Richard Lindstrom, MA
Yanjun Liu, MD, PhD *
Kabirullah Lutfy, PhD *
George Marks, MD
David Martins, MD, MS *
Keith Norris, MD, FACP *
Victor A. Oranusi, MD *
Shehla Pervin, PhD
Suzanne Porszasz-Reisz, PhD *
Shobita Rajagopalan, MD *
Tripathi Rajavashisth, PhD *
Rajan Singh, PhD *
Indrani Sinha-Hikim, PhD *
Thomas W. Storer, PhD *
Naureen Tareen, MD
Wayne Taylor, PhD *
Stacey Teruya, EdD
John Azubike Uyanne, MD, MS *
Jaydutt V Vadgama, PhD *
Yanyuan Wu, MD, MS *
Joyce Yeh, MD *
Francis Yemofio, MD, MPH, FACP *
Thomas T Yoshikawa, MD *
Leena Zopey, MD
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Neuroscience (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair: Duc Hoang Duong, MD *
Lowell Nelson, PhD, MD
Frederick Pitts, MD, FACS
Xiao-Quan Yuan, MD
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Obstetrics/Gynecology (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair: Sebhat Afework, MD
Bruce Allen, Jr., Dr. PH
Zoetania Dantas, MD
Ezra Davidson, MD *
Samuel S. Im, MD
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Ophthalmology (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair:Richard Baker, MD *
Richard Casey, MD *
Anne Coleman, MD, PhD, MS *
Yadavinder Dang, MD
Sheba M George, PhD
Kevin Heslin, PhD *
Cheryl J. Powell, MD
Paul Robinson, PhD *
Magda Shaheen, PhD, MD, MPH, MS *
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Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair: Joseph McQuirter, DDS *
Colonya C. Calhoun, PhD, DDS
Reginald E. Gowans, DDS
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Orthopaedic Surgery (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair:Don P. Sanders, MD, MSPH
Eleby R Washington III, MD
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Otolaryngology (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair: Jimmy J Brown, MD, DDS, FACS *
Mamdooh Ghoneum, PhD *
Junko Nishitani, PhD *
Lorraine Williams-Smith, MD
Kenneth Wolf, PhD *
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Pathology (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair:Hezla Mohamed, MD, FCAP *
John Elshimali, MD, FCAP, FASCP
Lucilene Tolentino, MD, FASCP, FCAP *
Brian Yee, MD
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Pediatrics (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair:Richard Findlay, MD *
Daphne Calmes, MD *
Kerry L English, MD *
Jasmine M Eugenio, MD
Gloria Green, PhD
Glenda Lindsey, MD *
Lilian Sababa, MD
David Tataw, PhD *
Mila Zatolulovsky, MD *
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Psychiatry (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair:Curley Bonds, MD *
Eraka Bath, MD *
Shahrzad Bazargan-Hejazi, PhD *
Eric Bing, MD, PhD, MPH
Karen Cheng, PhD
Joan Smith Cooper, PhD
Ernani d'Angelo, MD *
Lucy Erickson, EdD *
Frank Galvan, PhD, LCSW *
Tracie Harvey, MD
Charles Hilliard, PhD
David Kidwell, MD
Karen Lee, MD
Paul Longobardi, PhD *
Thad Makowski, MD
Hector Myers, PhD
Daniel Ortiz, PhD *
Keisha Carr Paxton, PhD *
Giovanna Pegolo, MD
Angel Rendon, MD
Ernestine Saxton, MD, PhD
Louis C. Simpson, MD
Madeleine Valencerina, MD
Rony Zodkevitch, MD *
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Research LSI (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair: Keith Norris, MD, FACP *
Terry Brown-Bryan, PhD *
Didra Brown-Taylor, PhD, MPH
Rosie Marie Connor, MPH
Cynthia C. Davis, MPH
Nell Forge, PhD
Nina Harawa, PhD, MPH *
Dulcie Kermah, MPH
Omolola Ogunyemi, PhD
Deyu Pan, MS
James Perkins, PhD
James Releford, DPM
Kristin Y Smith, MS
Senait Teklehaimanot, MPH
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Surgery (* dual UCLA appointment)
Chair:Nand Datta, MD *
Subramaniam Balasubramaniam, MD
Simon K Myint, MD
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At Large Faculty (* dual UCLA appointment)
Carmine Clemente, PhD *
Mervyn Dymally, PhD
