Digestive Diseases Fellowship Program

Faculty

The UCLA GI Fellowship Program is proud to feature a distinguished and diverse faculty composed of nationally and internationally recognized leaders in gastroenterology and hepatology. Our faculty members bring expertise from across clinical care, academic medicine, and cutting-edge scientific investigation, offering fellows a rich and comprehensive training experience.

Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center 

  • Simon W. Beaven, MD, PhD: Transplant Hepatology
  • Jihane N. Benhammou, MD, PhD: Director, Human MASLD Core, Comprehensive Liver Research Center
  • Nirupama Bonthala, MD: Director, Women's Health in Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • Lin Chang, MD: Vice Chief, Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases; Program Director, GI Fellowship Training Program; Director, Walter and Shirley Wang Center for Integrative Digestive Health; Co-Director, G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR); Director, Clinical Studies and Database Core, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
  • Gina Choi, MD: Associate Program Director, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship
  • Arpana Church, PhD: Co-Director, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center; Director, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Cednter Neuroimaging Core
  • 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
  • Amir A. Ghaffari, MD, PhD: Director, Intestinal Ultrasound Program; Director, Advanced Inflammatory Bowel Disease Fellowship Program; Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • Kevin Ghassemi, MD: Medical Director of Clinical Programs for the Robert G. Kardashian Center for Esophageal Health; Co-Clinical Chief, Melvin and Bren Simon Digestive Disease Center; Site Director, RRUMC, GI Fellowship Program
  • Hassan Hamandi, MD: Director, Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program, Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • Steven-Huy B. Han, MD: Philip L. Palumbo Chair in Clinical Hepatology; Director, Hepatology Clinical Research Center; Director, Human MASLD Core, Comprehensive Liver Research Center; Program Director, Transplant Hepatology Fellowship, Director, Asian Liver Center
  • Yvonne L. Hernandez-Kapila, DDS, PhD: Felix and Mildred Yip Endowed Chair in Dentistry; Oral-gut-brain axis; Oral microbiome/virome
  • 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; Director, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center Microbiome Core
  • Dennis M. Jensen, MD: Director, VA-UCLA Hemostasis Research Group
  • Swapna Joshi, PhD: Co-Director, Integrative Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
  • Marc Kaneshiro, MD: General GI
  • Stephen Kim, MD: Director, Faculty Career Development in Advanced Endoscopy
  • Hon Wai Koon, PhD: Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • Amanda J. Krause, MD: General GI
  • Jennifer Labus, PhD: Director, Integrative Biostatistics and Bioinformatics Core, G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR), Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
  • Muriel Larauche, PhD: Stress-Neurogastroenterology
  • Berkeley N. 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; Associate Director, UCLA Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Equity in the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center; Associate Director, UCLA Specialty Training and Advanced Research 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: Pre-clinical neurogastroenterology and motility/translational research
  • V. Raman Muthusamy, MD, MAS: Medical Director of Endoscopy, UCLA Health; Leon J. Tiber, MD, and David S. Alpert, MD, Chair in Medicine
  • Megan Oser, PhD: Director of Clinical Program and Lead for GI Behavioral Medicine, Walter and Shirley Wang Center for Integrative Digestive Health
  • Jason J. Pan, MD: Transplant Hepatology
  • Arpan A. Patel, MD, PhD: Transplant Hepatology; Palliative Care
  • Devin B. Patel, MD: General GI
  • Enrique Rozengurt, DVM, PhD: Hirschberg Memorial Chair in Pancreatic Cancer Research; Signal Transduction GI Cancer
  • Sammy Saab, MD, MPH: Medical Director, Pfleger Liver Institute; Chief, Transplant Hepatology; Medical Director, Adult Liver Transplant Program; 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
  • Andrea S. Shin, MD, MSCR: Director, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center Biorepository Core; Co-Director, Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center Clinical Studies and Database Core; Director of Education, Walter and Shirley Wang Center for Integrative Digestive Health
  • Jasleen Singh, MD: Transplant Hepatology
  • Rajat Singh, MD, MBBS: Director, Comprehensive Liver Research Center
  • F. Otis Stephen, MD: Director, Small Bowel Endoscopy Program
  • Catia Sternini, MD: Neurogastroenterology and Chemosensing
  • Gaurav Syal, MD, MSHS: Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
  • Adarsh M. Thaker, MD: Interventional Endoscopy
  • Elizabeth J. Videlock, MD, PhD: G. Oppenheimer Center for Neurobiology of Stress and Resilience (CNSR), Goodman-Luskin Microbiome Center
  • Guy A. Weiss, MD: Program Leader, Celiac Disease Program

UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center   

  • Lynn Shapiro Connolly, MD, MSCR: Co-Clinical Chief, Melvin and Bren Simon Digestive Diseases Center
  • Vivy T. Cusumano, MD: General GI
  • Mary Farid, DO: General GI
  • Brian Horwich, MD, MS: Transplant Hepatology
  • Sentia Iriana, MD, MS: Transplant Hepatology
  • Carl Nordstrom, MD: Associate Program 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 the GI Fellowship
  • Kareem Sassi, MD: General GI
  • Alireza Sedarat, MD: Interventional Endoscopy
  • F. Otis Stephen, MD: Director, Small Bowel Endoscopy Program
  • Tram Tran, MD: Transplant Hepatology

UCLA Health Community Clinics

UCLA Health – Beverly Hills

  • Lisa D. Lin, MD, MS: Associate Director, Westwood GI Motility; General GI
  • Dorian Mendoza, MD: General GI
  • Anthony Myint, MD: General GI
  • Camille Soroudi, MD: General GI
  • Priyam V. Tripathi, MD, MPH: General GI

UCLA Health – Encino

  • Daniel Eshtiaghpour, MD: General GI
  • Ara Kardashian, MD: General GI

UCLA Health – North Hollywood

  • Daniel Eshtiaghpour, MD: General GI
  • Shida Haghighat, MD, MPH: General GI
  • Scott A. Hahm, MD: General GI
  • Ara Kardashian, MD: General GI
  • Niharika Mallepally, MD, MPH: General GI
  • Vikas K. Pabby, MD, MPH: General GI
  • Adarsh M. Thaker, MD: Interventional Endoscopy

UCLA Health – Porter Ranch

  • Kevork Khadarian, MD: General GI
  • Ronald H. Omino, MD: General GI
  • Anna Skay, MD: General GI

UCLA Health – Santa Clarita

  • Sentia Iriana, MD, MS: Transplant Hepatology
  • Chanthel Kokoy-Mondragon, MD: General GI
  • Laura McEnerney, MD: General GI
  • Michael G. Quon, MD: General GI
  • Samik Shah, MD: General GI
  • Nirali Sheth, DO: General GI

UCLA Health – Simi Valley

  • Kevork Khadarian, MD: General GI
  • Ronald H. Omino, MD: General GI
  • Anna Skay, MD: General GI
  • Demetrios Stavrakis, MD: General GI

UCLA Health – Thousand Oaks

  • Craig Gluckman, MD: Associate Director, Community GI Motility; General GI
  • Andrew Gregg, MD, PhD: General GI
  • Hamed Nayeb-Hashemi, MD: General GI
  • Rimma Shaposhnikov, MD: General GI

UCLA Health – Torrance

  • Nimah Ather, MD: General GI
  • Ellie Y. Chen, MD: General GI
  • Sonya Dasharathy, MD: General GI
  • Jennifer M. Kolb, MD, MS: Interventional Endoscopy
  • Adrienne Lenhart, MD: General GI
  • Didi Mwengela, MD: General GI
  • Alex Nguyen, MD: Interventional Endoscopy
  • B. Sean Nguyen, MD: General GI

UCLA Health – West Hills

  • Danny Issa, MD: Interventional Endoscopy
  • Ronald Omino, MD: General GI
  • Mona Rezapour, MD, MHS: General GI
  • Anna Skay, MD: General GI
  • Robert Tamai, MD: General GI

VA Greater Los Angeles  

  • Joseph Pisegna, MD: Chief, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Parenteral Nutrition
  • Jihane N. Benhammou, MD, PhD: Transplant Hepatology
  • Steven-Huy B. Han, MD: Transplant Hepatology
  • Noam Jacob, MD, PhD: Director, Endoscopy
  • Jonathan P. Jacobs, PhD: General GI and IBD
  • Dennis M. Jensen, MD:  Director, VA-UCLA Hemostasis Research Group
  • Jonathan Kaunitz, MD: Director, Hepatology and Nutrition
  • Stephen Kim, MD: Interventional Endoscopy
  • Jennifer Kolb, MD, MS: Interventional Endoscopy; Site Directors at the VA for the GI Fellowship Program
  • Felix Leung, MD: Chief, Gastroenterology, Endoscopy and Motility, Sepulveda Ambulatory Care Center
  • Folasade P. May, MD, PhD, MPhil: General GI
  • Alexander Monto, MD: Clinical Chief, Gastroenterology Section at the VA Greater Los Angeles Health Care System
  • Alexander H. Nguyen, MD, PhD: Transplant Hepatology
  • Arpan A. Patel, MD, PhD: Transplant Hepatology; Palliative Care
  • Kirsten Tillisch, MD: Chief of Integrative Medicine
  • Elizabeth J. Videlock, MD, PhD: General GI 

Harbor - UCLA Medical Center  

  • Viktor Eysselein, MD: Associate Chief, UCLA Harbor Medical Center, Site Director at Harbor for the GI Fellowship Program
  • Rome Jutabha, MD: General GI
  • Sonya Reicher, MD: Chief, UCLA Harbor Medical Center; Interventional Endoscopy; General GI
  • Netanel Zilberstein, MD, MS: General GI

Olive View - UCLA Medical Center  

  • Simon W. Beaven, MD, PhD: Chief, Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  • Shaun Chandna, DO: Transplant Hepatology
  • Daniel Cole, MD, MPH: General GI
  • Marjan Hovaida, MD: General GI
  • Richard Hu, MD: Site Director at Olive-View for the GI Fellowship Program
  • Thomas O.  Kovacs, MD: General GI
  • Adarsh M. Thaker, MD: Interventional Endoscopy
  • Lisa Toy, MD: General GI