Our Alumni

Alumni Spotlight

**Olawale O. Amubieya, MD, PhD (Class of 2020)**

UCLA STAR Graduate, UCLA Assistant Professor, Lung Transplant Program
Co-Director of UCLA EDI Taskforce

"I am an Assistant Professor at UCLA with a clinical focus in lung transplant. I also received my PhD through the STAR program and am studying social and environmental impacts on access to and outcomes in lung transplant. 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 Hixson, MD (class of 2020)**

UCLA Assistant Professor, Westwood
Olive View-UCLA Medical Center

"I am currently an Assistant Professor at UCLA, where I split my time between UCLA-Olive View Medical Center, and the Santa Clarita, Porter Ranch, and Westwood (COPD clinic) clinics. The PCCM training at UCLA offered ample opportunities to experience these different clinical settings with the county setting being the closest to my heart. I am thrilled to be part of the program leadership as Associate Program Director."

**Allison L. Ramsey, MD (class of 2019)**

UCLA Assistant Professor, Westwood, Lung Transplant Program

"I am currently an assistant professor at UCLA specializing in lung transplantation and interstitial lung disease, and the program director of the lung transplant fellowship. During my fellowship at UCLA, I was fortunate to have excellent mentors who helped me to develop a specialized training pathway in these fields. I cannot express how grateful I am to this one of a kind training program and the faculty who help every fellow realize their career goals!"

**Russell G. Buhr, MD, PhD (class of 2017)**

UCLA Assistant Professor of Medicine and Health Policy & Management, Westwood and VA West LA

"I am a health services researcher investigating health care utilization among COPD patients. During fellowship, I completed my PhD in Health Policy and Management through STAR. The mentorship, methodologic training, and networking that I received jumpstarted my career. The fellowship program has an excellent balance of clinical, procedural, and research training, and it was a great fit for my interests."

**Tessy Paul, MD (class of 2015)**

Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Health System
Clinical Director of Interstitial Lung Disease Program

"I had an amazing experience UCLA. After graduating in 2015, I joined University of Virginia faculty as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine. I serve as the clinical director for our ILD program and participate in clinical trials in ILD. I am fortunate and grateful to have had training and support from the outstanding faculty at the UCLA."

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 2023

Hana Bakalli	Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage, AK
Jennifer Chang	Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR
Victor Chun	Assistant Professor, UC San Diego
Jane Fazio	UCLA STAR Research Fellow/Clinical Instructor + Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Christiana Hayward	Assistant Professor, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Chris Miller	UCLA Clinical Instructor, North Valley + Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
Zachary Taich	West Coast Pulmonary, Oxnard, CA
Michael Troy	UCLA Pulmonary Vascular Disease Fellow
Jared Wilkinson	Lung Transplant Fellow, INOVA, Fairfax, VA

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, Los Angeles, CA
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	Mid Valley Pulmonary Medical Group, Los Angeles, CA
Sonia Jasuja	UCLA Assistant Clinical Professor, Westwood and Santa Monica Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program
Alexander Sherman	UCLA Assistant Clinical Professor, 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	Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Timothy Young	UCLA Assistant Professor, UCLA-Santa Monica Hospital, Los Angeles, CA

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	Staff Physician West Lost Angeles VA
Allison Ramsey	UCLA Assistant Professor, Lung Transplant Program, Westwood