Fellows
Accomplishments of Graduated Fellows
Current Fellows
2nd Years
Gabrielle Kelley, DO
Undergraduate: UC Davis
Medical School: Lake Erie College
Residency: Penn State Children’s Hospital
Medical School: Lake Erie College
Residency: Penn State Children’s Hospital
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
Julia Turock, MD
Undergraduate: Tufts University
Medical School: Tufts University
Residency: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Medical School: Tufts University
Residency: NYU Grossman School of Medicine
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.
1st Years
Joy-Marie Brusenback, DO
Undergraduate: California State University Fresno
Medical School: Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: University of New Mexico Health System
Medical School: Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: University of New Mexico Health System
Ethan Pfeifer, MD
Undergraduate: Carnegie Mellon University
Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine
Residency: Saint Louis University/Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital
Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine
Residency: Saint Louis University/Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital