Faculty

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Simon W. Beaven, MD, PhD - Medical Director, Center for Obesity and METabolic Health (COMET); Director, Metabolic Syndrome Program
Jihane N. Benhammou, MD, PhD - Director, Human MASLD Core, Comprehensive Liver Research Center
Nirupama Bonthala, MD - Director, Women's Health in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Lin Chang, MD - Vice Chief, Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases; Program Director, GI Fellowship Training Program; Co-Director, G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR); Director, Clinical Studies and Database Core, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
Gina Choi, MD - Associate Program Director, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
Arpana Church, PhD - Co-Director, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center; G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR)
Tien S. Dong, MD, PhD - Director, Biorepository Core, Human Probiotic Core, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center; Director, Biospecimen Biorepository Core, Comprehensive Liver Research Center
Eric Esrailian, MD, MPH - Chief, Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases; Director, Melvin and Bren Simon Digestive Disease Center; Lincy Foundation Chair in Clinical Gastroenterology
Terri Getzug, MD - Director, Familial Mediterranean Fever Program
Kevin Ghassemi, MD - Medical Director of Clinical Programs for the Robert G. Kardashian Center for Esophageal Health; Clinical Chief, Westwood and Beverly Hills Practices; Site Director, RRUMC, GI Fellowship Program
Hassan Hamandi, MD - Director, Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Steven-Huy Han, MD - Philip L. Palumbo Chair in Clinical Hepatology; Director, Hepatology Clinical Research Center; Director, Human MASLD Core, Comprehensive Liver Research Center; Program Director, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship, Director, Asian Liver Center
Wendy Ho, MD, MPH - General GI
Elaine Y. Hsiao, PhD - Director, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
Danny Issa, MD - Interventional Endoscopy
Jonathan P. Jacobs, MD, PhD - Co-Director, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
Dennis M. Jensen, MD - VA-UCLA Hemostasis Research Group; Director, NIH T32 Training Grant
Swapna Joshi, PhD - Co-Director, Integrative Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
Marc Kaneshiro, MD - General GI
Stephen Kim, MD - Director, Faculty Career Development in Advanced Endoscopy
Hon Wai Koon, PhD - Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Jennifer Labus, PhD - Director, Integrative Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core, G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR), Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
Muriel Larauche, PhD - Stress-Neurogastroenterology
Berkeley Limketkai, MD, PhD - Director, Clinical Research, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil - Director, Melvin and Bren Simon GI Quality Improvement Program
Emeran A. Mayer, MD - Director, G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR); Founding Director, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
Million Mulugeta, DVM, MVSc, PhD - Stress-Neurogastroenterology
V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS - Medical Director of Endoscopy, UCLA Health; Leon J. Tiber, MD, and David S. Alpert, MD, Chair in Medicine
Arpan A. Patel, MD, PhD - Transplant Hepatology
Devin B. Patel, MD - General GI
Enrique Rozengurt, DVM, PhD - Hirschberg Memorial Chair in Pancreatic Cancer Research; Signal Transduction GI Cancer
Sammy Saab, MD, MPH - Medical Director, Pfleger Liver Institute; Chief, Transplant Hepatology; Medical Director, Adult Liver Transplant Program; Head, Outcomes Research in Hepatology
Jenny Sauk, MD, Director of Clinical Care, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Alireza Sedarat, MD - Interventional Endoscopy
Akshay Shetty, MD - Transplant Hepatology
Andrea S. Shin, MD, MSCR - Co-Director, Clinical Studies and Database Core, G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience; Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
Jasleen Singh, MD - Transplant Hepatology
Rajat Singh, MD, MBBS - Director, Comprehensive Liver Research Center
Catia Sternini, MD - Neurogastroenterology and Chemosensing
Gaurav Syal, MD, MSHS - Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Yvette Taché, PhD - Preclinical Neurogastroenterology Group - Brain-Gut Interactions
Adarsh M. Thaker, MD - Interventional Endoscopy
Elizabeth J. Videlock, MD, PhD - G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR), Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
Guy A. Weiss, MD - Program Leader, Celiac Disease Program

UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center

Lynn Shapiro Connolly, MD, MSCR - Clinical Chief, Community Practices, Melvin and Bren SImon Digestive Diseases Center
Vivy T. Cusumano, MD - General GI
Tien S. Dong, MD, PhD - General GI and Hepatology
Mary Farid, DO - General GI
Sentia Iriana, MD, MS - Transplant Hepatology
Carl Nordstrom, MD - Associate Program Director, UCLA GI Fellowship Program
Benjamin Nulsen, MD - General GI
Mark Ovsiowitz, MD - Lead Physician, UCLA Santa Monica GI Practice; Site Director at Santa Monica for the GI Fellowship
Kareem Sassi, MD - General GI
Alireza Sedarat, MD - Interventional Endoscopy
Tram Tran, MD - Transplant Hepatology
Beshoy T. Yanny, MD - Program Leader, Hepatology Program at UCLA Health Santa Monica

UCLA Health Community Clinics

UCLA Health – Beverly Hills

Lisa D. Lin, MD, MS - Associate Director, Westwood GI Motility; General GI
Anthony Myint, MD - General GI
Priyam V. Tripathi, MD, MPH - General GI

UCLA Health – Downtown Los Angeles

Shahrad Hakimian, MD - General GI
Camille Soroudi, MD - General GI

UCLA Health – Encino

Daniel Eshtiaghpour, MD - General GI
Ara Kardashian, MD - General GI

UCLA Health – North Hollywood

Daniel Eshtiaghpour, MD - General GI
Shida Haghighat, MD, MPH - General GI
Scott A. Hahm, MD - General GI
Ara Kardashian, MD - General GI
Niharika Mallepally, MD, MPH - General GI
Vikas K. Pabby, MD, MPH - General GI
Tina R. Storage, MD - General GI
Adarsh M. Thaker, MD - Interventional Endoscopy

UCLA Health – Porter Ranch

Kevork Khadarian, MD - General GI
Ronald H. Omino, MD - General GI
Anna Skay, MD - General GI

UCLA Health – Santa Clarita

Sentia Iriana, MD, MS - Transplant Hepatology
Danny Issa, MD - Interventional Endoscopy
Chanthel Kokoy-Mondragon, MD - General GI
Laura McEnerney, MD - General GI
Michael G. Quon, MD - General GI
Samik Shah, MD - General GI

UCLA Health – Simi Valley

Kevork Khadarian, MD - General GI
Ronald H. Omino, MD - General GI
Anna Skay, MD - General GI
Demetrios Stavrakis, MD - General GI

UCLA Health – Thousand Oaks

Craig Gluckman, MD - Associate Director, Community GI Motility; General GI
Hamed Nayeb-Hashemi, MD - General GI
Rimma Shaposhnikov, MD - General GI
Demetrios Stavrakis, MD - General GI

UCLA Health – Torrance

Nimah Ather, MD - General GI
Ellie Y. Chen, MD - General GI
Sonya Dasharathy, MD - General GI
Tien S. Dong, MD, PhD - General GI and Hepatology
Jennifer Kolb, MD, MS - Interventional Endoscopy
Adrienne Lenhart, MD - General GI
Didi Mwengela, MD - General GI
B. Sean Nguyen, MD - General GI

UCLA Health – West Hills

Mona Rezapour, MD, MHS - General GI
Danny Issa, MD - Interventional Endoscopy

VA Greater Los Angeles

Joseph Pisegna, MD - Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Parenteral Nutrition
Jihane N. Benhammou, MD, PhD - Transplant Hepatology
Steven-Huy Han, MD - Transplant Hepatology
Noam Jacob, MD, PhD - Director, Endoscopy
Jonathan P. Jacobs, PhD - General GI and IBD
Dennis M. Jensen, MD - Director, NIH T32 Training Grant; GI Hemostasis Research Group
Jonathan Kaunitz, MD - Director, Hepatology and Nutrition
Stephen Kim, MD - Interventional Endoscopy
Jennifer Kolb, MD, MS - Interventional Endoscopy; Site Directors at the VA for the GI Fellowship Program
Felix Leung, MD - Chief, Gastroenterology, Endoscopy and Motility, Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center
Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil - General GI
Alexander Monto, MD - Clinical Chief, Gastroenterology Section at the VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System
Alexander H. Nguyen, MD, PhD - Transplant Hepatology
Arpan A. Patel, MD, PhD - Transplant Hepatology
Yvette Taché, PhD - Preclinical Neurogastroenterology Group - Brain-Gut Interactions
Kirsten Tillisch, MD - Chief of Integrative Medicine
Elizabeth J. Videlock, MD, PhD - General GI

Harbor - UCLA Medical Center

Viktor Eysselein, MD - Associate Chief, UCLA Harbor Medical Center, Site Director at Harbor for the GI Fellowship Program
W. Michael Fleischman, MD - General GI
Sonya Reicher, MD - Chief, UCLA Harbor Medical Center; Interventional Endoscopy; General GI
Neetika Srivastava, MD - General GI

Olive View - UCLA Medical Center

Simon W. Beaven, MD, PhD - Chief, Gastroenterology
Shaun Chandna, DO - Hepatology
Daniel Cole, MD, MPH - General GI
Richard Hu, MD - Site Director at Olive-View for the GI Fellowship Program
Thomas O. Kovacs, MD - General GI
Gaurav Singhvi, MD - General GI
Adarsh M. Thaker, MD - Interventional Endoscopy
Lisa Toy, MD - General GI