UCLA/Olive View-UCLA

The UCLA Emergency Medicine Residency program is proud of our residents, both past and present, and we consider them our greatest asset. Many of them have made valuable contributions to the field of emergency medicine.

Many of our residents have become full-time academic faculty members upon graduations. Others have pursued additional training obtaining Masters in Public Health, completing fellowships in sub-specialties including toxicology, pediatric emergency medicine, and critical care or serving as chief resident before seeking faculty appointments. Many are active in clinical, health services, or basic science research and have made major contributions to the Emergency Medicine literature. Thirteen have become program directors or emergency department directors at major teaching hospitals. Approximately a third of our graduates are full-time faculty members and another fourth are involved in medical student and resident teaching on a part-time basis. In the private sector, UCLA graduates practice at major emergency centers across the country and direct numerous well-known private and university-affiliated emergency departments. In the area of public service, graduates of our residency are and have been on the Board of Directors of the American College of Emergency Physicians, presidents of state chapters of ACEP, and in positions of leadership with the American Board of Emergency Medicine, Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, and Emergency Medicine Residents Association.

2007 Graduates 

Janak Acharya, MD - Faculty at UCSF Fresno

Jennifer Chen, MD - Faculty at VA/West Los Angeles Medical Center

Kenneth Chuang, MD - Practice at Long Beach Memorial Hospital, Long Beach, CA

Heather Devore, MD - Faculty at Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

Heather Enomoto, MD - Practice at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, CA

Kelli McCartan, MD - Public Health studies and part-time academic attending

Amit Shah, MD - Faculty at Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC

Gil Shlamovitz, MD - Practice at Windham Memorial Community Hospital, Willimantic, CT and Faculty at Hartford Hospital, University of Connecticut, Hartford, CT

Sunil Shroff, MD - Ultrasound Fellowship, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA

Natalie Shum, MD - Practice at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, CA

Amy Vinther, MD - Academic EM Fellowship at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

Matthew Waxman, MD - Faculty at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA

Gelareh Zargaraff, MD - VA Health Services Fellowship, Los Angeles, CA and Part-time Clinical Faculty at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA

2006 GRADUATES

Scott Bailey, MD - Practice in Chicago, Illinois

Anthony Cardillo, MD

Malkeet Gupat, MD - Fellowship at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Thomas Hemingway, MD - Practice in Hawaii

Brett Lorber, MD - Practice at Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, California

Martine Sargent, MD - Practice at Highland General Hospital, Oakland, California

Erik Schraga, MD - Practice at Santa Clara Valley Hospital, San Jose, California

Nara Shin, MD - Practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts

Sukhjit Takhar, MD - Faculty at UCSF-Fresno

Richard Treger, MD - Fellow in Nephrology, Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, CA

Carin van Zyl, MD - Practice in Simi Valley, California


2005 GRADUATES

Sanjay Arora, MD - Faculty at USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Tyler Barrett, MD - Faculty at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee

Orn-Usa Boonprakong, MD - Practice in Hawaii

Scott Braunstein, MD - Practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Edward Cotner, MD - Practice at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, California

Allison Cousineau, MD - Faculty at USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

David Hardy, MD - Practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Michael Katz, MD

Clayton Kazan, MD - Practice at St. Francis Medical Center, Lynwood, California

Jay Lee, MD - Practice at Encino-Tarzana Medical Center, Tarzana, California

Sara May, MD - Practice at Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, California

Charles Otieno, MD

Tahia Spector, MD - Faculty at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center


2004 GRADUATES

Heather Flaherty, MD - Practice at Henry Mayo Memorial Hospital, Valencia, California

Zachary Gray, MD - Practice at Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, California

Tiffany Hackett, MD - Practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Alex Kaplan, MD - Practice at St. Francis Medical Center, Lynwood, California

Dan Katz, MD - Practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Scott Lundberg, MD - Faculty at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California

Robert McCormick, MD - Practice at Hoag Memorial Hospital, Newport Beach, California

Michael Menchine, MD - Faculty at UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California

Jason Mount, MD

Joe Nakagawa, MD - Practice at Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, California

Kelly Painter, MD - Practice in Oklahoma

Marcus Wang, MD - Practice at Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, California


2003 GRADUATES

Todd Brown, MD

Diana Bui, MD

Reb Close, MD - Practice at Monterey Peninsula Hospital, Monterey, California

Armand Dorian, MD - Practice at Verdugo Hills Hospital, Glendale, California

Gregory Hallert, MD - Practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Ritu Malik, MD

David Presser, MD

Carlo Reyes, MD

Andrew Shen, MD - Practice at Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, California

Arthur Sorrell, MD

Ryan Wells, MD


2002 GRADUATES

Lisa-Jan Alcaraz, MD - Practice in San Diego, California

Scott Bisheff, MD - Practice at Sierra Vista Regional Medical Center, San Luis Obispo, California

Ilene Claudius, MD - Practice at Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, California

Keri Gardner, MD - Practice at Encino-Tarzana Medical Center, Tarzana, California

Hans House, MD - Faculty at University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Wendy Lin, MD - Practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Luis Moreno, MD - Practice at Antelope Valley Hospital, Lancaster, California

True Mullins, MD - Practice at Garden Grove Medical Center, Garden Grove, California

Hites Patel, MD

Carlos Ramos, MD - Practice at Kaiser Permanente Bellflower Medical Center

Matthew Richard, MD - Practice at Antelope Valley Hospital, Lancaster, California

Andrea Roberts, MD

Robert Rosenbloom, MD - Practice at Brotman Medical Center, Culver City, California

Roger Wallace, MD - Practice at Henry Mayo Memorial Hospital, Valencia, California


2001 GRADUATES

John Chung, MD - Practice at Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center

John Dani, MD - Practice at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Homestead Medical Center

Steven Gabriel, MD

Bessie Gavrilis, MD - Practice at Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center

Vanessa Hsieh, MD - Practice at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Homestead 
Medical Center

Anthony Loffredo, MD - Practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Luis Lovato, MD - Faculty at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California

Karen McDowell, MD - Practice at Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center

Mark Morocco, MD - Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Brian Romias, MD - Practice at Kaiser Permanente West Los Angeles Medical Center

Geraldine Stratton, MD - Practice in Portland, Oregon

Laurie Yamanaka, MD

Jason Ziemba, MD - Practice at Henry Mayo Memorial Hospital, Valencia, California


2000 GRADUATES

Catherin Bonomo, MD - Practice in Utah

Erin Casey Brewster, MD - Practice at Encino-Tarzana Medical Center, Tarzana, California

Gregory Scott Brewster, MD - Practice at Encino-Tarzana Medical Center, Tarzana, California

Angelique Campen, MD - Clinical Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Donald Mebust, MD - Practice in San Diego, California

Joel Patrick Pearsall, MD - Practice in Houston, Texas

Tasnim Shamji, MD - Practice at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, California

David Tashman, MD - Practice at Verdugo Hills Hospital, Glendale, California


1999 GRADUATES

Rushdi Abdul Cader, MD

Elisa Anhalt, MD - Practice at Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, California

Frank Day, MD - Clinical Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Heike Farin, MD - Clinical Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Robert Hook, MD - Practice at Henry Mayo Memorial Hospital, Valencia, California

John Hung, MD - Practice in Baltimore, Maryland

Jennifer Orman, MD - Faculty at UC Irvine Medical Center, Orange, California

John Riel, MD - Practice at Hoag Memorial Hospital, Newport Beach, California

Thomas Ronay, MD

Michael Tarnay, MD - Practice at Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, California

Ann Ullrich, MD - Practice at St. Joseph Hospital, Orange, California

Greg Whitley, MD


1998 GRADUATES

Michael Baker, MD - Practice at Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, California

Darren Bedolla, MD - Practice at Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, California

Howard Botwinick, MD

Mary Bouras, MD

Ivan Burgos, MD

Richelle Cooper, MD - Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Gerianne Dudley, MD

Julian Lis, MD - Practice at Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, California

Mark Louden, MD - Assistant Medical Director at Duke Raleigh Hospital, Raleigh, NC

Lynne McCullough, MD - Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Richard Oh, MD

Scott Rodi, MD - Faculty at Dartmouth University Medical Center, Lebanon, New Hampshire

Jeffrey Tabas, MD - Faculty at UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California

Griffeth Tully, MD

Jorge Vournas, MD


1997 GRADUATES

Beverly Bauman, MD - Practice in Portland, Oregon

Elizabeth Char, MD - Practice in Honolulu, Hawaii

Joseph Englanoff, MD - Clinical Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Laurence Friedman, MD - Practice at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Michelle Krueger, MD - Practice at Monterey Peninsula Hospital, Monterey, California

Brian Miura, MD - Practice at Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, California

Gordon Myers, MD

Jolie Pfahler, MD - Practice at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, California

Atilla Uner, MD - Practice at Antelope Valley Hospital, Lancaster, California.  Clinical Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

John Wong, MD - Practice in Eugene, Oregon

1996 GRADUATES

Lysa Campbell, MD

John Cawley, MD

Mary Chiu, MD

Shannon Corrigan, MD

William Goldberg, MD - Faculty at Bellevue Hospital, New York, New York

Paul Gregg Greenough, MD - Faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Robert Hancock, MD - Practice in Cleveland, Ohio

Swaminatha Mahadevan, MD - Faculty at Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, California

Samuel Ong, MD

Neal Peeples, MD - Practice in Bend, Oregon

John Pi, MD - Agent with Federal Bureau of Investigation, Los Angeles, California

Richard Sonner, MD - Practice at Torrance Memorial Hospital, Torrance, California


1995 GRADUATES

Victor Candioty, MD - Practice at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, California

Scott Chamberlain, MD - Practice in Shelby, North Carolina

Mark Davis, MD - Faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Pamela Dyne, MD - Faculty at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California

Susan Gelb, MD - Practice in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Thomas Graham, MD - Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Mel Herbert, MBBS - Faculty at USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

John Kreider, MD - Practice in Connecticut

Frances McCabe, MD - Practice in Bend, Oregon

Valerie Norton, MD - Practice at Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, California

Eric Otani, MD

Charles Pozner, MD - Faculty at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

Eric Savitsky, MD - Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Larry Sebring, MD


1994 GRADUATES

Mark Ahearn, MD

Steven Dominguez, MD

Steven Go, MD - Faculty at University of Missouri, Kansas City, Missouri

Eric Isaacs, MD - Faculty at UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California

Maureen McCollough, MD - Faculty at USC Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Kathleen Myers, MD - Practice in Portland, Oregon

Robert Rodriguez, MD - Faculty at UCSF-San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco, California

Carolyn Sachs, MD - Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Charles Schultz, MD - Practice at Henry Mayo Memorial Hospital, Valencia, California

Keiko Suzuki, MD - Practice in Valhalla, New York


1993 GRADUATES

Thomas Carter, MD

Greg Hendey, MD - Faculty at UCSF-Valley Medical Center, Fresno, California

Houtan Sabahi, MD - Practice at Encino Hospital, Encino, California

Douglas Slabaugh, DO

David Smith, MD - Practice at Scripps Memorial Hospital, La Jolla, CA

Pamela Tornay, MD

Joanna Weinberg, MD - Practice at Shasta Regional Medical Center, Redding, California  

Joseph Zibulewsky, MD


1992 GRADUATES

Evelyn Cardenas, MD

George Go, MD - Practice in Washington

Daniel Grossman, MD - Practice at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, California

Thoams Magner, MD

Gregory Moran, MD - Faculty at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California

Elizabeth Schilling, MD

Knox Todd, MD - Professor of Emergency Medicine, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
      Director, Pain and Emergency Medicine Institute, Beth Israel Medical Center


1991 GRADUATES

Robert Cox, MD

Christine Dean, DO - Practice in Portland, Oregon

D. Christopher Keyes, MD

Russ Kino, MD - Practice at St. Johns Hospital, Santa Monica, California

Douglas Lowery, MD - Faculty at Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia

George Nobile, MD

Barry Reeve, MD

Karen Wanger, MD - Practice in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada


1990 GRADUATES

Robert Ferm, MD - Faculty at University of Massachusetts, Worcester, Massachusetts

Jan Johnston, MD

Laura Lehmann, MD

Larry Levine, MD - Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine at Bristol Hospital, Bristol Connecticut

William Mower, MD - Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

Joseph Sachs, MD - Practice at Northridge Hospital, Northridge, California

Seth Schonwald, MD

Michael Weitz, MD


1989 GRADUATES

George Bosse, MD - Faculty at  University of  Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky 

Judi Meindl, MD - Practice at Northridge Hospital, Northridge, California

Matt Perl, MD

Craig Singer, MD

Kurt Solem, MD

Susie Spangler, MD

Paul Wax, MD

Eric Weiss, MD


1988 GRADUATES

Maryanne Mrdeza, MD - Practice at Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital, Whittier, California


1987 GRADUATES

Josefina Borbon, MD

Frank Ferlisi, MD

Jeffrey Gutterman, MD

Daniel Hull, MD

Bret Lambert, MD - Practice at Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup, Washington

Susan Meyer, MD

Diana Staatz, MD

Scott Votey, MD - Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California


1986 GRADUATES

Jessica Crosson, MD

Robert Galli, MD - Faculty at University of Mississippi, Jackson, Mississippi

James Glower, MD

Karen Morgan, MD - Practice at Scripps Mercy Hospital, San Diego, California

Jeffrey Nordella, MD

Daniel Spaite, MD

Carl Stevens, MD - Faculty at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California

David Talan, MD - Faculty at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Sylmar, California


1985 GRADUATES

John Mucia, MD

Kenneth Murphy, MD

Glenn Pinholster, MD

Raymond Regan, MD

Chu Tan, MD

Charles Waibel, MD

John Yanos, MD

Demetrios Zukin, MD


1984 GRADUATES

Sanford Braunfeld, MD

Michael Hill, MD

Ramon Johnson, MD

James Leo, MD

Paula Pearlman, MD

Mark Solem, MD

John Takahashi, MD - Practice at Kaiser Permanente Santa Clara Medical Center

Stephen Thom, MD


1983 GRADUATES

Edward Abraham, MD

Howard Levy, MD

Cyrus Pourzan, MD

Mark Rosen, MD

Robert Neal Rouzier, MD

Clarke Waffle, MD - Practice at Good Samaritan Hospital, Puyallup, Washington

Mark Wittman, MD


1982 GRADUATES

Pamela Adams, MD

Todd Bailey, MD

Fred Einesman, MD

William Howard, MD

Robert Lufrano, MD

Charles Peitrafesa, MD

Perry Robinson, MD

Michael Vitullo, MD


1981 GRADUATES

Roy Antelyes, MD - Practice at Huntinton Memorial Hospital, Pasadena, California

Carol Bryant, MD - Practice at Downey Community Hospital, Downey, California

Christopher McDougal, MD

James Pagano, MD

Lawrence Rudd, MD

Mark Schiffman, MD - Practice at Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, California

Oscar Seminario, MD


1980 GRADUATES

Paul Auerbach, MD - Faculty at Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, California

Stephen Dresnick, MD

Jill Furguson, MD

Edward Geehr, MD

Lawrence Jellinek, MD

John Rand, MD

Richard Schwab, MD

Charlotte Yeh, MD


1979 GRADUATES

Jerome Hoffman, MD - Faculty at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California

James Kahn, MD

Gerard LaSalle, MD