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 - Transplant Hepatology
Lin Chang, MD - Vice Chief, Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases; Director, UCLA GI Fellowship Training Program; Co-Director, G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR)
Gina Choi, MD - Associate Program Director, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
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
Arpana Gupta, PhD - Co-Director, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center; G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR);
Steven-Huy Han, MD - Philip L. Palumbo Chair in Clinical Hepatology; Director, Hepatology Clinical Research Center; Program Director, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship, Director, UCLA 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 - Director, VA-CURE Hemostasis Research Group; PI and Director, NIH T32 Training Grant
Marc Kaneshiro, MD - General GI
Stephen Kim, MD - Director, Faculty Career Development in Advanced Endoscopy
Hon Wai Koon, PhD - Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Thomas O. Kovacs, MD - General GI
Jennifer Labus, PhD - G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR)
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
Arpan A. Patel, MD, PhD - Transplant Hepatology
Enrique Rozengurt, DVM, PhD - Hirschberg Memorial Chair in Pancreatic Cancer Research
Sammy Saab, MD, MPH - Medical Director, Pfleger Liver Institute; Chief, Transplant Hepatology; 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
Jasleen Singh, MD - Transplant Hepatology
Rajat Singh, MD, MBBS - Autophagy and Integrative Metabolism
Catia Sternini, MD - Associate Director, CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center; Director, Morphology and Imaging Core
Yvette Taché, PhD - Associate Director, CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center; Director, CURE Animal Core
Adarsh M. Thaker, MD - Interventional Endoscopy
Elizabeth J. Videlock, MD, PhD - G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR), Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Guy A. Weiss, MD - Program Leader, Celiac Disease Program

UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center

Daniel Cole, MD, MPH - General GI
Lynn Shapiro Connolly, MD, MSCR - Clinical Chief, Community Practices
Vivy T. Cusumano, MD - General GI
Tien S. Dong, MD, PhD - General GI and Hepatology
Mary Farid, DO - General GI
Sentia Iriana, MD - Transplant Hepatology
Carl Nordstrom, MD - Associate 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 GI Fellowship
Kareem Sassi, MD - General GI
Alireza Sedarat, MD - Interventional Endoscopy
Adarsh M. Thaker, 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
Robert Mocharla, MD - General GI
Priyam V. Tripathi, MD, MPH - General GI

UCLA Health – Downtown Los Angeles

Elliott Birnstein, MD - General GI
Shahrad Hakimian, 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
Scott A. Hahm, MD - General GI
Ara Kardashian, MD - 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

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

UCLA Health – Santa Clarita

Sentia Iriana, MD - 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

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

UCLA Health – Thousand Oaks

Ellie Y. Chen, MD - General GI
Ashwinee Condon, MD - Interventional Endoscopy
Craig Gluckman, MD - Associate Director, Community GI Motility; General GI
Hamed Nayeb-Hashemi, MD - General GI
Rimma Shaposhnikov, MD - General GI

UCLA Health – Torrance

Nimah Ather, MD - General GI
Ellie 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

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 Parenternal Nutrition
Jihane N. Benhammou, MD, PhD - Transplant Hepatology
Steven-Huy Han, MD - Transplant Hepatology
Noam Jacob, MD, PhD - Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Jonathan P. Jacobs, PhD - Co-Director, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
Dennis M. Jensen, MD - Director, VA-CURE Hemostasis Research Group; PI and Director, NIH T32 Training Grant
Jonathan Kaunitz, MD - Director, Hepatology and Nutrition
Stephen Kim, MD - Director, Endoscopy
Jennifer Kolb, MD, MS - Interventional Endoscopy
Felix Leung, MD - Chief, Gastroenterology, Endoscopy and Motility, Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center
Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil - General GI
Alexander H. Nguyen, MD, PhD - Transplant Hepatology
Arpan A. Patel, MD, PhD - Transplant Hepatology
Yvette Taché, PhD - Associate Director, CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center; Director, CURE Animal Core
Kirsten Tillisch, MD - Chief of Integrative Medicine
Elizabeth J. Videlock, MD, PhD - G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR), Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases

Harbor - UCLA Medical Center

Viktor Eysselein, MD - Chief, UCLA Harbor Medical Center, Site Director, GI Fellowship Program
Sonya Reicher, MD - Interventional Endoscopy, General GI
Neetika Srivastava, MD - General GI

Olive View - UCLA Medical Center

Simon W. Beaven, MD, PhD - Chief, Gastroenterology
Richard Hu, MD - Site Director, GI Fellowship Program
Thomas O. Kovacs, MD - General GI