Meet the Team

Peyman Benharash, MD
Associate Professor in Residence of Surgery and Bioengineering
Director of Adult ECMO Services
Specialty: Extracorporeal support, adult cardiac surgery, transcatheter valve programs

Office: (310) 206-6717

Reshma M. Biniwale, MD
Associate Clinical Professor Surgery
Interim Chief Pediatric Cardiac Surgery
Specialty: Congenital cardiac surgery, mechanical circulatory support, heart and lung transplantation

Office: (310) 206-5900

Vadim Gudzenko, MD
Medical Director, Adult ECLS/ECMO Service
Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
Associate Chief, Division of Critical Care Medicine
Specialty: Adult critical care, extracorporeal life support, liver transplant and thoracic anesthesiology

Kim De La Cruz, CCP
Director, Cardiac Perfusion Services
Director, ECMO Services
Specialty: Extracorporeal support, adult and pediatric perfusion

Office: (310) 267-8675

Nancy Satou, RN
Director of Informatics & Database Management
Division of Cardiac Surgery
Division of Thoracic Surgery
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Office: (310) 206-4168

Weiting Chen, RN, BSN, CCRN, CSC
ECMO Coordinator, Cardiac Perfusion Services
Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center

Email: [email protected]