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Internal Medicine Residency Training Program Expert Team

Participants in the Cedars-Sinai Internal Medicine Residency Training Program have the opportunity to train with world-renowned physicians, who in their own right have advanced the practice of medicine.

Residency Training Program Leadership

• Mark S. Noah, MD, FACP
  Director, Internal Medicine Residency Training Program
  Medical Director, Graduate and Continuing Medical Education; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  
• Glenn D. Braunstein, MD
  James R. Klinenberg Chairman, Department of Medicine; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Dennis Schaberg, MD
  Chairman, Department of Medicine Department; Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
• Neil Paige, MD
  Co-Program Director, Residency Training Program
• Amanda Ewing, MD
  Associate Program Director, Residency Training Program
• Art Gomez, MD
  Associate Program Director, Residency Training Program
• Peggy Miles, MD
  Associate Program Director
• Giuilia Michelini, MD
  Associate Program Director, Residency Training Program

Physicians who are full-time members of Cedars-Sinai's Internal Medicine Department are listed below.

Department of Medicine Faculty CSMC

Cardiology

• Prediman K. Shah, MD
  Director, Division, Cardiology & Atherosclerosis Research Center
  Shapell & Webb Chair in Cardiology; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  Professor of Medicine; David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
• C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD, FACC, FAHA
  Women's Guild Endowed Chair in Women's Health
  Director, Women's Heart Center
  Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  Professor of Medicine; David Geffen School of Medicine
• Robert J. Siegel, MD, FACC
  Kennamer Chair in Cardiac Ultrasound
  Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  Professor of Medicine; David Geffen School of Medicine; UCLA
• Daniel S. Berman, MD
  Director, Nuclear Cardiology
• Sanjay Kaul, MD, FAHA
  Director, Cardiology Fellowship Training Program; Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute
  Professor, David Geffen Scholl of Medicine; UCLA
• Rajendra Makkar, MD
  Director, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
  Director, Interventional Fellowship Program; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Bojan Cercek, MD, PhD, FACC
  Foonberg Chair in Cardiac Intensive Care
  Director, Coronary Care Units; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  Co-Director, Atherosclerosis Research Center; Cedars-Sinai Research Institute
  Professor of Medicine; David Geffen School of Medicine
• Saibal Kar, MD
  Director, Cardiovascular Intervention Center Research
• Lawrence Czer, MD, FACC, FACP
  Medical Director, Heart Transplantation Program
  Director of Transplantation Cardiology; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  Professor of Medicine; UCLA
• Hrayr Karagueuzian, PhD
  Director, Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology Research
• Ernst R. Schwarz, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, FSCAI
  Medical Director, Cardiac Support Program
  Co-Director, Cardiac Transplantation
  Professor of Medicine; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  Professor of Medicine; David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
• Kuang-Yuh-Chyu, MD, PhD
  Assistant Director, CICU, Division of Cardiology, Heart Institute; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine; UCLA
• Sean Hayes, MD
  Associate Director, Nuclear Cardiology
• Sumeet S. Chugh
  Associate Director, The Heart Institute Genomic Cardiology and Section Cheif, Electrophysiology; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
• Donna Polk, MD, MPH
  Assistant Medical Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center
• Kirsten Tolstrup, MD
  Assistant Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory; Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  Accosiate Professor; David Geffen School of Medicine; UCLA
• Tasneem Naqvi, MD
  Associate Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory
• Neil Eigler, MD
  Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology
• James S. Forrester, MD
  George Burns and Gracie Allen Professor of Cardiovascular Research
• William Ganz, MD
  Senior Research Scientist
• Paul Dimayuga, PhD
  Research Scientist I
  Adjunct Assistant Professor
• Walter F. Kerwin, MD
  Staff Cardiologist, Electrophysiology
• Swaminatha Gurudevan, MD Staff Cardiologist
  Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory; Cedars-Sinai Mecical Center
  Assistant Professor; David Geffen School of Medicine; UCLA
• Ann Hickey, MD
  Cariothoracic Surgery
  Heart Transplantation Program
• James Whiting, PhD
  Medical Physics
• Frank Litvack, MD
  Interventional Cardiologist
• Tripathi Rajavashisth, PhD
  Research Scientist, Atherosclerosis Research Center
• Shien-Fong Lin, PhD
  Research Scientist, Cardiac Electrophysiology
• Behrooz Sharifi, PhD
  Research Scientist IV
• Kamlesh Astora, PhD
  Research Scientist

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

• Glenn D. Braunstein, MD
  Chair, Department of Medicine
  Acting Director, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
• Mark Goodarzi, MD, PhD
  Associate Director, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
• Philip Barnett, MD, PhD
  Director Diabetes Outpatient Treatment Center
• Vivien Bonert, MD
  Clinical Coordinator, Pituitary Clinic
• Shlomo Melmed, MD
  Director, Burns and Allen Research Institute; Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs
• Basil Rapoport, MD, PhD
  Director, Autoimmune Disease Unit
• Run Yu, MD, PhD
  Medical Director, Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Center
• Anat Ben Shlomo, MD
  Staff Endocrinologist
• John Carmichael, MD
  Staff Endocrinologist
• Ning-Ai Liu, MD, PhD, PhD
  Staff Endocrinologist

Gastroenterology

• Stephan R. Targan, MD
  Director, Division of Gastroenterology; Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
• Marla Dubinisky, MD
  Director, Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program
• Jeffrey Conklin, MD
  Medical Director Esophageal Center
• Andrew Ippoliti, MD
  Administrative Director, Division of Gastroenterology
• Simon Lo, MD
  Director, Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases Program
• Mark Pimental, MD, FRCPC
  Director, Gastrointestinal Motility Program
• Fred Poordad, MD
  Director, Hepatology
• Edy Soffer, MD
  Co-Director Gastrointerology Motility Program
• Tram Tran, MD
  Medical Director Liver Transplantation
• Eric Vasiliauskas, MD
  Associate Clinical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
• Dermot McGovern, MB, BS, PhD, MRCP (UK)
  Director of Translational Medicine
  The IBD Center and Immunobiology Research Institute
• Laith H. Jamil, MD
  Associate Director of Interventional Endoscopy, Pancreatic and Biliary Disease Program
• Christopher Chang, MD
  Associate Director, GI Motility

Medical Genetics

• David L. Rimoin, MD, PhD
  Director, Medical Genetics Institute
• John M Grahm, Jr., MD, ScD
  Director, Clinical Genetics and Dysmorphology
• Miklos Peterfy,PhD
  Director, Laboratory of Murine Models for Metabolic Disease, Medical Genetics Institute
• Yaron Rabinowitz,MD
  Director, Ophthalmology Research
• William Wilcox, MD, PhD
  Director, Inborn Errors of Metabolism Director, Skeletal Dysplasia Morphology Laboratory
• Xiao-Ning Cheng, MD
  Associate Director, Molecular Genetic Laboratory
• Jerome I. Rotter, MD, FACP, FACMG
  Director of Research and Co-Director, Division of Medical Genetics
• Daniel H. Cohn, PhD
  Director, Collagen Molecular Laboratory
• Ora Gordon, MD, MS
  Director, GenRISK Adult Genetics Program
• Xiuqing Guo, PhD
  Mathematical Genetics
• Leslie J. Raffel, MD
  Associate Director, Common Diseases Genetics Program
• Nathan Fischel-Ghodsian, MD
  Director, Molecular Hematology
• Kent Taylor, PhD
  Molecular Genetics
• Mark O. Goodarzi, MD, PhD
  Attending Physician, Medical Genetics Institute, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism

General Internal Medicine

• Mark Ault, MD
  Director, Division of General Internal Medicine
• Anish Desai, MD
  Attending Physician
• Amanda Ewing, MD
  Associate Director Internal Medicine Residency Program
• Robert Goodman, MD
  Director, Medical Consultation Service
• Joya Favreau, MD
  Attending Physician
• Mehrnaz Hadian, MD, MS
  Attending Physician, Procedure Center and Intensive Care Unit
• Dani Hackner, MD
  Associate Chair Performance Improvement, Department of Medicine
• Alexis Peraino, MD
  Attending Physician, Cedars-Sinai Center for Weight Loss
• Leon Henderson, MD
  Attending Physician
• Brian Kan, MD, MS
  Director, Employee Health
• Robert A. Jenders, MD, MD, FACP, FACMI
  Attending Physician
  Informatician, Enterprise Information Services
• Claude Killu, MD
  Attending Physician, Procedure Center and Intensive Care Unit
• Lawrence S. Maldonado, MD
  Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
• Peggy B. Miles, MD Associate Director, Division of General Internal Medicine
• Philip Ng, MD
  Director, Procedure Center
• Mark S. Noah, MD
  Director, Internal Medicine Residency Training Program; Medical Director, Graduate and Continuing Medical Education
• Bradley T. Rosen, MD, MBA
  Medical Director, Inpatient Specialty Program
• Jerome Wang, MD
  Attending Physician
• Karl Wittenbel, MD
  Attending Physician
• Adrienne Youdim, MD
  Director Weight Management Program

Hematology-Oncology

• H. Philip Koeffler, MD
  Director, Division of Hematology-Oncology
• David B. Agus, MD
  Research Director, Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center
• Mitchell Gross, MD, PhD
  ReMedical Oncologist; Associate Physician, Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center
• Angela M. Lopez, MD
  Hematologist/Oncologist, Bone Marrow Transplant
• Michael Lill, MD
  Director, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
• Stephen W. Lim, MD
  Associate Director, Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program
• Jeremy Rudnick, MD
  Attending Physician
• Amir Steinberg, MD
  Hematologist/Oncologist, Bone Marrow Transplant
• Daphne Stewart, MD
  Attending Physician
• Marnia Vaysburd, MD
  Attending Physician
• Robert A.Vescio, MD
  Director, Multiple Myeloma and Bone Metastases Program

Infectious Diseases

• David Hardy, MD
  Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
• Paula L. Gaut, MD
  
  Associate Director, AIDS and Immune Disorder Center
• Rekha Murthy, MD
  Director, Hospital Epidemiology Program

Nephrology

• Stanley C. Jordan, MD
  Director, Division of Adult and Pediatric Nephrology; Director, Kidney Transplant Program
• Arthur Cohen, MD
  Director, Renal Pathology
• Cynthia Nast, MD
  Renal Pathologist
• Alice Peng, MD
  Medical Director, Pancreas Transplantation, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program
• Rafael Villicana, MD Associate Director, Kidney Transplantation, Comprehensive Transplant Center

Neurology

• Cameron Adams, MD
  Director, Neuromuscular Services; Co-Director, Neuromuscular Center; Assistant Director, Neurophysiology Laboratory
• Jeffrey M. Chung, MD
  Director, Epilepsy Monitoring Unit, Associate Director, Clinical Neurophysiology Laboratory
• Dawn Eliashiv, MD
  Director, Epilepsy Program
  Director, Neurophysiology Laboratory
• Clark Espy, MD
  Director, Epilepsy Program
  Director, Neurophysiology Laboratory
• Abirami Muthukumaran, MD
  Director, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Program
• David Palestrant, MD
  Director, Neuro-critical Care, Director, Stroke Program
• Surasak Phuphanich, MD, FAAN
  Director, Neuro-Oncology Program, Department of Neurosurgery and Division of Neurology
• Jeremy D. Rudnick, MD
  Neuro-oncologist
• Eugene I. Tsimerinov, MD. PhD
  Assistant Director, Neurophysiology Lab

Pulmonary/ Critical Care Medicine

• Zab Mosenifar, MD
  Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
• David Balfe, MD
  Medical Director, Pulmonary Stepdown Unit
• George Chaux, MD
  Medical Director, Lung Transplantation Program
• Jeremy Falk, MD
  Associate Director, Lung Transplant Program
• Sara Ghandehari, MD
  Assistant Director, Lung Transplant Program
• Mario Fournier, PhD
  Research Scientist
• Heather Jones, MD
  Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
  Saperstein Critical Care Tower
• Michael I. Lewis, MD
  Director Respiratory Intensive Care Unit
  Director Pulmonary/ Critical Care Fellowship Program

Rheumatology

• Michael Weisman, MD
  Director, Division of Rheumatology
• Mariko Ishimori, MD
  Staff Physician

Physicians who are full-time members of the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Internal Medicine Department are listed below.

Department of Medicine Faculty at the Veteran Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Administration

• Dennis R. Schaberg, MD, Chief of Medicine
• W. Lance George, MD, Associate Chief of Medicine
• Neil M. Paige, MD, Residency Program Director
• Phyllis Guze, MD, Chief of Medicine Emaritus

Allergy Division

• William Klaustermeyer, MD
  Division Chief

• Freny Mody, MD
  Division Chief
• Malcolm Bersohn, MD
• Donald Chang, MD
• Ramin Ebrahimi, MD
• Zenaida Feliciano, MD
• Janet Han, MD
• Stan Rubin, MD
• Shelly Shapiro, MD
• Bramah Singh, MD
• Alberta Warner, MD

• Greg Brent, MD
  Division Chief
• Jerome Hershman, MD
• Masahiro Sugawara, MD
• Michael Tuck, MD
• Jane Weintreb, MD

• Joseph Pisegna, MD
  Division Chief
• Hartley Cohen, MD
• James Farrell, MD
• Steven Han, MD
• Dennis Jensen, MD
• Jonathan Kaunitz, MD
• Thomas Kovacs, MD
• Felix Leung, MD
• Gordon Ohning, MD
• Stephen Pandol, MD
• Neville Pimstone, MD
• Brennan Speigel, MD

• Paul Shekelle, MD
  Division Chief
• Steven Asch, MD
• Anita Bajpai, MD
• Jacqueline Bowles, MD
• Rumi Cader, MD
• Eric Cheng, MD
• Wendell Ching, MD
• Basil Clyman, MD
• Kristina Cordasco, MD
• Lisa Davis, MD
• Theo DeBruin, MD
• Connie Fung, MD
• Daniel Garcia, MD
• Peter Glassman, MD
• Dalia Goldfarb, MD
• Caroline Lubick Goldzweig, MD
• Arthur Gomez, MD
• Stella Izuchukwu, MD
• Mehran Kashefi, DO
• David Leaf, MD
• Greg Orshansky, MD
• Neil Paige, MD
• Maria Romanova, MD
• Lisa Rubinstein, MD
• Yvette Scott, MD
• Jeff Spina, MD
• Masahiro Sugawara, MD
• Diana Suzuki, MD
• Ali Towfigh, MD
• Michael Weiss, MD

• Matthew Rettig, MD
  Division Cheif
• Alan Lichtenstein, MD
• Jennifer Malin, MD
• Fariborz Mortazavi, MD
• Sanjai Sharma, MD
• Draupadi Talreja, MD

• W. Lance George, MD
  Divison Chief
• Sam Burstein, MD
• Jennifer Chen, MD
• Azadeh Lankarani-Fard, MD
• Zhaoping Li, MD
• Soleyman Rokshar, MD
• Paul Schneider, MD
• Benjamin Sun, MD
• Richard Treger, MD
• Sondra Vazirani, MD
• Mary White, MD

• Matthew Goetz, MD
  Division Chief
• David Beenhouwer, MD
• W. Lance George, MD
• Christopher Graber, MD
• David Haake, MD
• William Schwartzman, MD

• Glenn Nagami, MD
  Division Chief
• Arnold Felsenfeld, MD
• Jeff Kraut, MD
• David Lee, MD
• Barton Lee, MD

• Ken Rosenfeld, MD
  Division Chief
• Karl Lorenz, MD
• Debra Moran, MD

• Silverio Santiago, MD
  Division Chief
• Raj Batra, MD
• Steven Dubinett, MD
• Matthew Littner, MD
• Guy Soo Hoo, MD
• Michelle Zeidler, MD

• Jay Perssein, MD
  Division Chief
• Meika Fang, MD
• Ari Weinreb, MD