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Executive Chair, Department of Internal Medicine Dr. Alan Fogelman is UCLA to the core. He obtained his medical degree from UCLA. He then completed his internship, residency, chief residency and cardiology fellowship at UCLA Medical Center. He currently serves as the Executive Chair of Medicine and the Director of the Atherosclerosis Research Unit. His interests include HDL mimetics and the role of HDL in atherogenesis. |
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Jodi L. Friedman, MD Dr. Jodi Friedman, a native Californian, grew up in the San Fernando Valley. She earned her undergraduate degree from UC Santa Cruz and her MD from UC Irvine School of Medicine. She completed her internship, residency and chief residency at UCLA Medical Center. After serving as an Associate Program Director from 1995 to 2003, she was named as the Program Director for the Department of Medicine Training Program. During her 16 years in that role, she oversaw the expansion of the residency, developed our Pathway programs, and trained nearly 800 internists. In 2019 she handed over the reins as PD to serve as the Vice Chair for Education for the UCLA Department of Medicine. Her interests as a clinician and a teacher include women’s health, preventive medicine, and primary care. She also loves making guest appearances with the Housestaff band at our Spring Retreat and spending time with her wife, kids, and two dogs. |
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Program Director Lisa Skinner is the Program Director of the internal medicine program and an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. Originally from Missouri, Lisa lived in Chicago, New Jersey, and Alabama before finally settling in California. She obtained her undergraduate degree at UCLA and a Master’s in Social Welfare from UC Berkeley. Lisa then attended the Yale School of Medicine, where she earned her MD in 1999. She and her husband, Michael, couples matched at UCLA, and Michael has become a devoted Angeleno after having spent his childhood and early adulthood in the Northeast. In 2003, after a year as Chief Resident. Lisa became a hospitalist and Associate Program Director. She has spent the bulk of her clinical career practicing primary care at the Iris Cantor Women’s Health Center at UCLA and helped build the ambulatory continuity experience for the medicine residency. She teaches about women’s health, preventive medicine, clinical teaching, and the role of effective feedback for developing physicians. When she is not in the hospital, Dr. Skinner enjoys cooking, traveling, and exploring Los Angeles’ neighborhoods and restaurants with her family. |
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Mina Ma, MD Dr. Mina Ma is an Associate Program Director in the Department of Medicine Training Program as well as the Director for the UCLA Primary Care Track. Originally from Northern California, she obtained her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley, and then her medical degree from Boston University School of Medicine. She completed her internship, residency and chief residency at UCSF/Mount Zion where she stayed on as an Assistant Program Director, before relocating to Southern California with her husband, an oncologist at UCLA. After joining the faculty in the Iris Cantor UCLA Women’s Health Center, she found a natural transition back into medical education. As a clinician educator, she is passionate about promoting the development of the next generation of primary care clinicians and leaders. When she is not caring for her patients, she enjoys being with her family in the outdoors, lakeside camping or sierra skiing, and her new found love of scootering (with a helmet). |
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Associate Program Director Christina Harris is an Associate Program Director of the internal medicine residency program and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine. Originally from San Diego, she attended Harvard Medical School and completed a primary care track residency at NYP/Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City. After 14 years on the East Coast she returned to Southern California in 2013 with her Bostonian husband and two children in tow. She spends her clinical time seeing primary care patients at the West Los Angeles VA where she directs the resident continuity clinic. She is passionate about physician diversity and inclusion and leads several initiatives both within the program and across GME. Outside of the hospital she enjoys playing basketball, fixing things around the house and eating her husband’s cooking. |
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Associate Program Director Dr. Edward Lee is a hospitalist and an Associate Program Director of the internal medicine residency program. He spent most of his childhood in Texas and graduated with a BA in Mathematics and a minor in Business from Baylor University. He then attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. He and his wife couples matched to UCLA in 2007 and have never left Los Angeles. He served as chief resident in 2010 before joining the hospitalist section. His clinical time is divided between most of our inpatient sites, including Ronald Reagan, Santa Monica, and the VA. In addition to patient care, his academic and research interests focus on high fidelity simulation and cardiac arrest/resuscitation. He helped build our simulation curriculum, which now spans all three years of residency with multiple experiences for our trainees. Within the residency program, he’s probably best known for being responsible for creating the yearly schedule, but he is more interesting than that! He enjoys spending time with his wife (an anesthesiologist at UCLA), playing random games with his two children, and running for exercise/stress relief. |
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Neil Paige, MD, MSHS
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Casey Kaneshiro, MD Dr. Casey Kaneshiro is an Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine. He was born and raised in Hawaii on the island of Oahu. He completed his undergraduate and medical school training at the University of Hawaii before moving to Los Angeles to complete his internship, residency and chief residency at the Cedars Sinai/VA Greater Los Angeles Internal Medicine Training Program. He spent 3 years as an Associate Program Director at Cedars Sinai before joining the program leadership team at UCLA. Clinically, you’ll find him at the West LA VA attending on the wards as a hospitalist. He is passionate about resident education, mentorship, and career development. He also chairs the Morbidity and Mortality Committee for the Department of Medicine at the West LA VA. Outside of the hospital you’ll find him either on the golf course, playing his ukulele, playing Pokemon, or cheering on his beloved San Francisco 49ers.
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