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James Wilson, MD, MS FACP  

James Wilson, MD, MS FACP
Director, UCLA Kidney Health Program


Fereidoun Abtin, MD  

Fereidoun Abtin, MD
Specialty: Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

 


Nasim Afsarmanesh, MD  

Nasim Afsarmanesh, MD
Specialty: Medicine, Hospitalist Internal Medicine

Nasim Afsarmanesh, MD SFHM is an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Neurosurgery and the Associate Chief Medical Officer at UCLA Hospitals. She also serves as the Executive Director of Quality and Safety for the Departments of Medicine and Neurosurgery, leading a comprehensive quality program spanning all settings of care. She has successfully implemented initiatives in quality, safety, patient satisfaction, utilization and efficiency and cost. She developed the “ABCs of Hospitalized Patients,” a multidisciplinary checklist to reduce the risk of hospital-acquired conditions.


Donald Baril, MD  

Donald Baril, MD
Specialty: Surgery, Vascular

Donald Baril is an Associate Professor in the Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He received a BA in Economics from Amherst College in 1997 prior to receiving his M.D. from the Ohio State University College of Medicine in 2001. He completed his general surgery residency at The Mount Sinai Hospital and subsequently completed his vascular surgery fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Prior to joining UCLA, he held academic positions at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. More >


Eric Cheng, MD, MS  

Eric Cheng, MD, MS 
Specialty: Neurology


Jakun Ing, MD  

Steven Michael Farley, MD
Specialty: Surgery, Vascular


Hugh Anthony Gelabert, MD  

Hugh Anthony Gelabert, MD
Specialty: Surgery, Vascular


Reshma Gupta, MD, MS  

Reshma Gupta, MD, MS
Specialty: Internal Medicine


Daniel Willem Hommes, MD, PhD  

Daniel Willem Hommes, MD, PhD
Specialty: Medicine, Gastroenterology


Daniel Hommes is a certified internist and gastroenterologist specialized in Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD). His PhD thesis (1994) dealt with novel drug targets for IBD. In 2001 he was appointed Director of the Center for Inflammatory Bowel Diseases in the Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. In 2006, Dr. Hommes was appointed Chair of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC). In 2007, he was appointed full professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology. Nationally, in 2003 he was co-founder of the Dutch Academic IBD Society ICC which he chaired from 2003 to 2007. He initiated the Pearl String Initiative (PSI) in 2006, a national academic biobanking infrastructure between the eight Dutch University Medical Centers covering eight disease areas.


Juan Carlos Jimenez, MD  

Juan Carlos Jimenez, MD
Specialty: Surgery, Vascular


Katherine L Kahn, MD  

Katherine L Kahn, MD
Specialty: Internal Medicine


Fady Michael Kaldas, MD  

Fady Michael Kaldas, MD
Specialty: Surgery, Transplant

Associate Director of the Abdominal Transplant and Hepatobiliary Fellowship Program, Director of the Liver Transplant Service and Surgical Director of the Liver Transplant Intensive Care Unit. Dr. Kaldas is a native of southern California where completed his undergraduate studies in microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics at UCLA, and his obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree at the University Of California Irvine School Of Medicine. He then moved to New York where completed his surgical residency training at SUNY Stony Brook department of surgery before returning to UCLA to complete his multi organ transplant fellowship training under the mentorship of Dr. Ronald W. Busuttil at the Dumont-UCLA transplant center. Dr. Kaldas is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. More >


Stephen Kee, MD  

Stephen Kee, MD
Specialty: Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology


John Moriarty, MD  

John Mariarty, MD, RPVI
Specialty: Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Dr. Moriarty is a specialist in vascular and interventional radiology at UCLA. He is a member of both the departments of Radiology and of Medicine (cardiology). He is director of the program for interventional innovation and co-director of vascular ultrasound service. His areas of clinical expertise and research interest include venous disease, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), pulmonary embolism (PE), IVC filters and arteriovenous venous malformations. His expertise also includes the use of advanced imaging scans for cardiac and vascular disease diagnosis and management, as well as delivering highly precise vascular therapy to control bleeding, treat tumors and shrink malformations (embolization). More >


Susanne Nicholas, MD, PhD  

Susanne Nicholas, MD, PhD
Specialty: Medicine, Nephrology


Carolyn Joy Sachs, MD  

Carolyn Joy Sachs, MD
Specialty: Emergency Medicine


Neil Steven Wenger, MD, MPH  

Neil Steven Wenger, MD, MPH
Specialty: Internal Medicine


Karen Woo, MD  

Karen Woo, MD
Specialty: Surgery, Vascular

Dr. Woo is an Associate Professor of Surgery at UCLA and a Vascular Surgeon at the Los Angeles VA Hospital. Though an active teaching faculty member, she is not currently seeing patients at UCLA. More >

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