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Philip Cohen, MD | Watch Video
Internal Medicine & Sports Medicine
Dr. Cohen grew up in New Jersey as an avid Mets fan. He graduated Cum Laude from Yale University in 1991, with Special Distinction in Psychology. He then returned to New Jersey, where he graduated from Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Wake Forest University, after which he completed his fellowship in Primary Care Sports Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Cohen served for 10 years as the Assistant Team Physician for Rutgers University Sports Medicine, while also serving as an attending internist and primary care physician for Rutgers Health Services. Dr. Cohen is an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine, and is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Sports Medicine. More>>
Salvador Plasencia, MD | Watch Video
Internal Medicine & Pediatrics (Med-Peds)
Dr. Plasencia is a primary care physician trained in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. He treats newborn patients to senior citizens. Dr. Plasencia was born and raised in California, having graduated from Arroyo High School, in El Monte. He then received a B.S. in Biological Sciences from the University of California, Riverside. He received his Doctorate of Medicine from UCLA and his resident training from the University of Oklahoma, Tulsa. He also has experience dealing with urgent medical issues having worked as a full time Emergency Room physician for one year following resident training. Dr. Plasencia is fluent in English and Spanish. More>>
Tiffany Sheh, MD
Family Medicine
Dr Tiffany Sheh is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA School of Medicine. Dr. Tiffany Sheh earned her medical degree at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. She completed her internship and residency in Family Medicine at Glendale Adventist Hospital where she served as the Chief Resident. Dr. Sheh practiced Internal Medicine at Motion Picture Television Medical Group in Burbank, California, for 16 years with exclusive comprehensive care for entertainment Industry members. She's a recipient of many awards, including Patients' Choice Award for the past consecutive 9 years. More>>
Boris Arbit, MD
Cardiology
Dr. Boris Arbit is a non-Invasive cardiologist, board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography, and Nuclear Cardiology. He received his Bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego and his medical degree from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and his fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Arbit focuses on management of acute coronary syndromes, chronic chest pain, coronary artery disease, chronic heart failure, and valvulvar abnormalities. Dr. Arbit performs all modalities of cardiac imaging. More>>
Ramin Assadi, MD
Cardiology
Dr. Ramin Assadi graduated with honors from the school of medicine at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. After completing his internal medicine residency and fellowship in cardiovascular disease at Loma Linda University, he pursued additional advanced training in interventional cardiology for catheter based treatments of coronary artery disease, structural heart disease, and peripheral vascular disease at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center/UCLA program. Dr. Assadi is committed to provide excellent individualized comprehensive cardiovascular care to his patients as if they are members of his family. Dr. Assadi speaks fluent Persian (Farsi). More >>
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Stella Cohen, MD
Pulmonary Medicine
Dr. Stella Cohen earned a Bachelor of Arts at New York University, Medical degree at the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, and subsequently completed her residency at UC San Diego and fellowship at UC Davis. Her travels have served to expand her approach to patient care, compassion for cultural diversity , and enhancement of multilingual skills. She has participated in educational, research, and quality improvement projects over her career. Dr. Cohen believes in a compassionate, communicative, and educational approach to patient-centered care. Languages spoken: English - fluent, Hebrew - fluent, Farsi - conversational, Spanish - conversational. More>>
Pouyan Famini, MD
Endocrinology
Dr. Pouyan Famini grew up in the San Fernando Valley and earned his Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). He then went on to the Albany Medical College in New York for his Medical Degree and returned to Los Angeles to complete residency training in Internal Medicine and specialty training in Endocrinology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism. Following his training, Dr. Famini was in private practice for two years in Van Nuys practicing Endocrinology and treating hormone related disorders before joining UCLA. More>>
Jaco Festekjian, MD
Plastic Surgery
Dr. Festekjian is Board Certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery as well as the American College of Surgeons. Professional memberships include the American College of Surgeons, the American Society of Plastic Surgery, the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, and the California Society of Plastic Surgery. More >>
Carolyn Goh, MD
Dermatology
Ara Kardashian, MD
Digestive Diseases
Dr. Kardashian joined the faculty within the Vatche and Tamar Manoukian Division of Digestive Diseases at UCLA in 2017. He obtained his undergraduate degree in biomedical and electrical engineering from Duke University. After earning his medical degree from New York Medical College, he completed internship and residency in internal medicine at Los Angeles County+USC Medical Center. He then went on to train in gastroenterology and hepatology at Scripps Clinic and Scripps Green Hospital in San Diego before joining UCLA. More >>
Ruihong Luo, MD
Infectious Diseases
Dr. Ruihong Luo received her medical degree from Sun Yat-Sen University of Medical Sciences and practiced in China for seven years. Later she completed residency in Internal Medicine at University of Nevada School of Medicine in Las Vegas, and Infectious Diseases fellowship at Boston University and Boston Medical Center. Her practice focuses on general infectious diseases for inpatients and outpatients as well as HIV management. She is also interested in antibiotic utilization, hospital infection control and epidemiology. Dr. Luo speaks fluent English and Chinese including Mandarin and Cantonese.
William Martin, MD
Rheumatology
Dr. Martin grew up in Washington State. He attended the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Upon graduation, Dr. Martin was a Peace Corps volunteer in Tanzania for two years where he taught high school chemistry and biology. Later Dr. Martin attended medical school at Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science / Chicago Medical School, in North Chicago, Illinois, graduating in 2006. He completed residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle, and Rheumatology fellowship at UCLA. More>>
Hoang Anh Nguyen, MD
Internal Medicine & Nephrology
Dr. Nguyen completed her medical education at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. She trained in internal medicine at University of California at Irvine Medical Center, and then completed her clinical research fellowship in nephrology at the University of California in San Diego. Her nephrology practice focuses on hypertension, chronic kidney disease, glomerulonephritis, and acute kidney injury management. She also sees patients on hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. Her research interests are in the area of chronic kidney disease and kidney disease knowledge among patients. Dr. Nguyen practices both nephrology and primary care.
George Pan, MD
Pain Management
Dr. Pan is originally from Atlanta, GA. He completed his undergraduate studies at Georgia Institute of Technology. He earned his M.D. at the Medical College of Georgia. He then went on to complete a surgical internship at Loma Linda University Medical Center and his Anesthesiology residency at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta. He finished his subspecialty training in Pain Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles and has stayed on as clinical faculty. He is currently board certified in Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine.
Sahar Sohrabian, MD
Cardiology
Dr. Sahar Sohrabian is a Non-Invasive Cardiologist who is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Echocardiography, and Nuclear Cardiology. She received her bachelor's degree from the University of California, Los Angeles and her medical degree from the University of California, San Francisco. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Olive View Medical Center, UCLA and her fellowship in Cardiology at the University of California, Irvine where she focused on Non-Invasive Imaging. Dr. Sohrabian’s focus is on the management of chest pain, coronary artery disease, congestive heart disease, valvular heart disease and heart disease in women. She strives to minimize barriers to cardiovascular care across all ethnicities, languages, and cultures. She is fluent in Farsi and has been involved in many Iranian community outreach programs. More>>
Erik Zeegen, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr. Erik N. Zeegen is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in joint replacement surgery, and has extensive experience in anterior hip replacement surgery, less invasive knee replacement surgery, and complex revision surgery of hip and knee replacements that have failed. Dr. Zeegen is the Chief of Joint Replacement Surgery at UCLA. More>>
Juan Alcantar, MD
Hematology-Oncology
Dr. Juan M. Alcantar grew up in Oxnard. He attended the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and completed an internal medicine residency at Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. His medical oncology and hematology fellowship was completed at Harbor-UCLA and City of Hope Medical Centers. Prior to completing his fellowship, Dr. Alcantar practiced ambulatory and hospital medicine in Sherman Oaks, California. He was in private practice in hematology/oncology from 2011-2015. Dr. Alcantar is board-certified in internal medicine as well as hematology and oncology. He regularly participates in multi-disciplinary tumor boards to provide optimal and up-to-date treatments for his patients. He is dedicated to providing comprehensive medical care with quality and compassion to his patients. Dr. Alcantar enjoys his spare time with his wife and two sons. He also enjoys soccer and reading on the history of medicine. More>>
Solomon Hamburg, MD, Ph.D
Hematology-Oncology
Sandy Liu, MD
Hematology-Oncology
Dr. Sandy Liu is a board-certified physician in hematology and oncology. She completed her hematology/oncology fellowship at UCLA and Internal Medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. She earned her medical degree from George Washington University in Washington D.C. and her bachelors of science in biology at University of Southern California.
Nicolaos Palaskas, MD
Hematology-Oncology
Dr. Palaskas completed his hematology/oncology fellowship at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and is a graduate of the Specialty Training and Advanced Research Program. Dr. Palaskas is a native of the American Midwest but spent many years in Europe, including attending medical school in Thessaloniki, Greece. He trained in Internal medicine at St Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Boston, a TUFTS University affiliate. Prior to his fellowship at UCLA, he cared for complicated cancer patients with multiple medical problems at a Partners Healthcare Long Term Acute Care facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As a clinician-investigator, Dr. Palaskas is interested in using metabolic interventions to improve the already promising activity of cancer immunotherapies.
Lee Rosen, MD
Hematology-Oncology
Lee Rosen, MD, FACP is Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hematology-Oncology, Department of Medicine. He has a longstanding interest in the treatment of pancreas and other gastrointestinal malignancies, specifically in the area of new drug development. Dr. Rosen completed his residency and fellowship in hematology/oncology at the UCLA School of Medicine in 1996, joining the full-time faculty immediately thereafter. He created and directed the Cancer Therapy Development Program, designed to coordinate translational/clinical research of new cancer treatments. Some of the first drugs he and his team worked with were designed for gastrointestinal cancers, so he and colleagues created a group dedicated to treating these diseases in a coordinated fashion.
Nimit Sudan, MD
Hematology-Oncology
Dr. Nimit Sudan is from the Midwest and completed his undergraduate and medical school at Wayne State University. He received his internal medicine residency training at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. Dr. Sudan completed his hematology and oncology fellowship at West Penn/Allegheny. He is board certified in internal medicine, hematology and oncology and manages all hematologic and oncologic conditions. He also has an interest in integrated medicine and has practiced acupuncture. Dr. Sudan’s mission is to treat every patient with the utmost compassion. He believes in good communication and educating his patients. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling and spending time with his family.
