Fellows

Current Fellows

2nd Year 

Miriam Beyder, MD
Undergraduate: UCLA
Medical School: Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Residency: UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital

Current Scholarly Activities:

• QI Projects
  • Improving the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Anaphylaxis in the Emergency Department
  • Improving Medication Reconciliation on Admission and Discharge
  • Implementation of Standardized Screening Protocols in the Newborn Nursery
  • Textbook Chapters
  • Febrile Neutropenia
• Case Reports
  • When Signs of Sepsis Point the Wrong Way: Presentation of Thyroid Storm
  • Anti-RhE: A Case of Severe and Persistent Neonatal Jaundice

Mentors: Audrey Kamzan, Andy Newcomer, Yamini Sharma, Rabia Cheema

Active Committee Member of the Quality Improvement Council and Medical Education Fellowship

1st Year 

Current Scholarly Activities:

• Clinical and Health Services Research & Projects
  • Simultaneous Spanish Interpretation on Family Centered Rounds and the Effects on Medication Safety, Pain Management, and Discharge Readiness in Pediatrics
  • Developing a Standard for Preferred Language Documentation in the Pediatric Population
  • Development of Empiric Antibiotic Guidelines for the Inpatient Pediatric Setting
• Case Reports
  • Stumped by the Stump: A Case of Persistent Omphalomesenteric Duct
  • Severe Vitamin A Deficiency: Unique Presentation in a High-Resource Setting

Mentors: Jessica Lloyd, Amanda Kosack, Audrey Kamzan, Carlos Lerner, Deepa Kulkarni, Ishminder Kaur

Active Committee Member of the Ronald Reagan Patient and Family-Centered Care Committee

Current Scholarly Activities:

• Medical Education
  • Training Pediatric Residents in Verbal De-escalation of Agitated Patients and Caregivers
  • Teaching Common Pediatric Conditions to Clerkship Medical Students on a Complex General Pediatrics Inpatient Service
  • UCLA DGSOM Medical Education Fellowship 2024-2025
• Patient Experience and QI Projects
  • Orienting Caregivers to the Inpatient Pediatric Environment
  • Improving Patient Experience on the Acute Care Floor 
• Case Reports
  • Mycobacterium cosmeticum catheter-related bloodstream infection in an immunocompetent patient: A case report and review of the literature

Mentors: Sarah Gustafson, Rabia Cheema, Alan Chin, Brandon Ito, Jessica Lloyd, Amanda Kosack, Deborah Lehman

Active Committee Member of the Ronald Reagan Patient and Family-Centered Care Committee and the Santa Monica Patient and Family Centered-Care Committee.

Incoming Fellows