Our Alumni
Alumni Spotlight

Olawale O. Amubieya, MD
UCLA STAR Research Fellow/UCLA Clinical Instructor, Lung Transplant Program
Co-Director of UCLA EDI Taskforce
"I am a Clinical Instructor at UCLA. I am completing my PhD in Health Policy and Management through the STAR program and doing additional training in transplant pulmonology. The great clinical and research training I received as a UCLA PCCM fellow have positioned me for a successful career as a physician scientist and health services researcher."

Roxana Cortes Lopez, MD
UCLA Clinical Instructor, Westwood
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Olive View Site Director, UCLA Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine
"After graduation, I was fortunate to remain at UCLA as a Clinical Instructor and Assistant Professor, where I'll be splitting my time between UCLA-Olive View Medical Center as the site director for UCLA Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, and in the ambulatory setting at Santa Clarita, Porter Ranch and Westwood (COPD clinic) clinics."

Allison L. Ramsey, MD
UCLA Assistant Professor, Westwood
"I am currently an assistant professor at UCLA specializing in lung transplantation and interstitial lung disease. During my fellowship at UCLA, I was fortunate to have excellent mentors who helped me to develop a specialized training pathway in these fields. The UCLA Pulmonary and Critical Care fellowship offers a robust clinical and procedural experience that has definitely prepared me for my career."

Russell G. Buhr, MD, PhD
UCLA Assistant Professor of Medicine, Westwood and VA West Los Angeles
"I am a health services researcher who primarily investigates health care utilization patterns among patients with COPD, with some additional more recent work in determining how to allocate scarce resources during disasters and pandemics. During my PCCM fellowship at UCLA, I completed my PhD in Health Policy and Management through the UCLA STAR program."

Tessy Paul, MD
Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Health System
Clinical Director of Interstitial Lung Disease Program
"I had an amazing experience at the UCLA PCCM fellowship program. After graduating in 2015, I joined University of Virginia faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. I spend majority of my time caring for patients with interstitial lung disease."
Our Recent Graduates
The breadth and depth of training at UCLA prepares graduates of our fellowship program to pursue diverse careers in all corners of Pulmonary & Critical Care medicine. See below for a list of our recent alumni and their respective career paths.
Class of 2022
Lawrence Benjamin |
UCLA STAR Research Fellow/Clinical Instructor + Staff Physician West Los Angeles VA |
Sarathi Bhattacharyya |
MemorialCare Medicine Group, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center |
Kevin Eng |
Staff physician West Los Angeles VA + Clinical Instructor, UCLA |
Gilad Jaffe |
Scripps Memorial Hospital, San Diego, CA |
Roberto Mempin |
Kaiser Permanente, Orange County, CA |
Jiyeon Seo |
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
Richard Watson |
UCLA STAR Research Fellow/Clinical Instructor + Staff Physician West Los Angeles VA |
Class of 2021
Ana Costa Monteiro |
UCLA STAR Research Fellow/Clinical Instructor |
David Dai |
Kaiser Permanente, West Los Angeles Medical Center |
Iheanacho (Obi) Emeruwa |
UCLA STAR Research Fellow/Clinical Instructor |
Leeyen Hsu |
Kaiser Permanente, Fontana Medical Center |
Sonia Jasuja |
UCLA Clinical Instructor, Westwood and Santa Monica Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program |
Alexander Sherman |
UCLA Clinical Instructor, Westwood and Santa Monica Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program |
Carolyn Shover |
Remote Tele-ICU Consultant, Australia |
Rajat Suri |
Assistant Professor, UC San Diego |
Nathan Yee |
Assistant Professor, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center |
Class of 2020
Olawale (Wale) Amubieya |
UCLA STAR Research Graduate + Assistant Professor, Lung Transplant Program |
Omar Awan |
Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine Faculty, Washington DC VA Medical Center |
Roxana Hixson |
UCLA Assistant Professor, Santa Clarita + Olive View-UCLA Medical Center |
William (Blake) LeMaster |
UCLA Sleep Medicine Fellowship + Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt |
Kristin Jensen |
UCLA Assistant Professor, Westwood + Olive View-UCLA Medical Center |
Faisal Shaikh |
Interventional Pulmonology Fellowship, Harvard MGH/BIDMC Combined Program + Assistant Professor, Columbia University |
Robert Stretch |
Remote Tele-ICU Consultant, Australia |
Timothy Young |
UCLA Assistant Professor, Santa Monica |
Class of 2019
Matthew Flynn |
Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR |
Stephanie Guo |
University of Hawaii, Queen's Medical Center, Honolulu, HI |
Jason Hong |
UCLA STAR Research Graduate + Assistant Professor, Pulmonary Vascular Disease |
Caleb Hsieh |
UCLA Sleep Medicine Fellowship + UCLA Assistant Professor, South Bay |
Dale Jun |
UCLA Assistant Professor, Burbank + Staff Physician West Lost Angeles VA |
Allison Ramsey |
UCLA Assistant Professor, Lung Transplant Program, Westwood |