Accomplishments of Graduated Fellows

Current Fellows

2nd Years

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Gabrielle Kelley, DO

Undergraduate: UC Davis
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

Julia Turock, MD

Undergraduate: Tufts University
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

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Joy-Marie Brusenback, DO

Undergraduate: California State University Fresno 
Medical School: Touro University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency: University of New Mexico Health System
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Ethan Pfeifer, MD

Undergraduate: Carnegie Mellon University
Medical School: Washington University School of Medicine
Residency: Saint Louis University/Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital