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Faculty Bios
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Dr. Yazdani
Dr. Anderson
Staff Bios
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Danika Pineda
Cecilia Flores
Ana Morales
Tom Klitzner, MD, PhD, is a board certified pediatric cardiologist and the founder and Executive Director of the Pediatric Medical Home Program at UCLA. He has been involved in developing systems of health care delivery for over a decade and has acquired significant expertise in the area of the pediatric patient centered medical home. He Serves on the Advisory Committee (MHI-PAC) to the National Center for Medical Home Implementation of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). He also serves on the AAP Resident Education Implementation Work Group (REIWG) which is developing curricula for the teaching of medical home concepts to pediatric residents. Dr. Klitzner has served as chair of the Executive Committee of the American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Cardiology and Cardiac Surgery, and is a past president of the American Heart Association's (AHA) Western States Affiliate. He is immediate past chair of the board of LA Care Health Plan, the nation's largest Medicaid Managed Care Health Plan, and he serves on the Executive Committee of the National Pediatric Cardiology Quality Improvement Project, a national quality improvement project to improve the outpatient care of infants after cardiac surgery. He has published extensively in the areas of access to care and outcomes for children with congenital heart disease, and the benefits of the pediatric patient centered medical home.
Ryan Coller, MD, MPH, is a general pediatrician and Medical Director for the UCLA Medical Home Program. Within the Mattel Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Coller serves as Director of Pediatric Quality and Associate Program Director for the UCLA Pediatric Residency Program. Dr Coller's interests include Quality Improvement, program monitoring and evaluation, and providing seamless integration of care across the inpatient-outpatient-community continuum. Dr. Coller is recipientt of a Young Investigator award from the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health to look at the relationship between primary care, medical homes and health care utilization after discharge (Readmissions and ED visits). Drs. Coller and Klitzner are Co-PI's on an 3-year award funded by HRSA/MCHB to study preventable hosptializations and then utilize the innovative Medical Home Program to reduce these hospitalizations among medically complex children. Prior to joining the general pediatric faculty, Dr. Coller completed medical school at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and did both his residency and chief residency at UCLA. While in residency, Dr. Coller participated in the Community Health and Advocacy Training Program. He completed his MPH at UCLA as a member of the Child and Family Health Fellowship through the UCLA Center for Healthier Children, Families and Communities, and the Maternal-Child Health Bureau.
Adrianna Saenz is the research coordinator for the Medical Home Program. Prior to coming to the Medical Home, Adrianna worked as a study coordinator at Kaiser Permanente (KP) Southern California's Department of Research & Evaluation where she coordinated various phases of internally and externally funded research projects. Among the studies she coordinated was a research study examining the relationship between medication adherence and anxiety/depression among parents of children with cystic fibrosis. She was instrumental in the development of quantitative survey instruments, and trained staff on best practices for administration of in-person and telephone questionnaires. She was also responsible for creating complex operating procedures and protocols that included the collection, handling and storage of genetic material in a biorepository for a multi-year, NIH-funded, case-control study examining the genetic, environmental and behavioral determinants of multiple sclerosis. She also conducted reference management software training workshops to resident and attending physicians at the KP Los Angeles Medical Center to assist research scientists with their manuscript and publication submissions. Ms. Saenz has a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to research internships at Pennsylvania State University and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, she also completed an intensive summer program in biostatistics at the Harvard School of Public Health. Adrianna is currently pursuing a Master's Degree in Public Health.
