Hospitalists

Our Team

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If you’re admitted to the hospital, your primary care physician will ensure that you receive care from a UCLA Health hospitalist. Please call us at 855-488-9550 if you have questions.

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Meet Our Expert Team

UCLA Health has hospitalists in 14 locations throughout the greater Los Angeles region as well as several skilled nursing facilities.

Executive Leadership

Neveen S. El-Farra, MD

Hospital Medicine

Vice Chair for Inpatient Medicine and Hospitalist Services
Section Chief, Hospital Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research

Linda Kaye Czypinski, MD

Hospital Medicine

Associate Section Chief, Hospital Medicine
Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research

Hospital Medicine Leadership

Spencer R. Adams, MD

Director, Santa Monica Hospital Medicine Consult/Preoperative Services

Michael F. Ayoub, MD

Co-Director, Ronald Reagan/Santa Monica Cohort

Alanna Chau, MD

Physican Co-Lead, St. John's/Nursing Homes Cohort

William P. Cope, MD

Co- Director, Ronald Reagan/Santa Monica Cohort

Nathan R. Cox, MD

Physician Lead, California Rehab Institute/RNPH Cohort

Navid Darouian, MD

Physician Co-Lead, St. John's/Nursing Homes Cohort

Erin P. Dowling, MD

Director, Ronald Reagan Internal Medicine Consult Service; Co-Director, DOM Inpatient Quality

Rong Hu, MD

Director, Hospital Medicine Scheduling Director, DOM Transfer Center Operations

Ruchi Jain, DO, MS

Co- Director, Ronald Reagan/Santa Monica Cohort

Michael E. Lazarus, MD

Director, UCLA West Valley & Hospital Medicine Community Practices

Edward Lee, MD

Senior Director, Hospital Medicine Scheduling Operations

Adrian Mayo, MD

Co-Director, Inclusive Excellence & Community Engagement

Antonio M. Pessegueiro, MD

Director, Westwood Hospital Medicine Preoperative Service

Veronica Ramirez, MD

Physician Lead, Barlow Respiratory Hospital/Martin Luther King Cohort

Faysal Saab, MD

Co-Director, Inclusive Excellence & Community Engagement

Digish D. Shah, MD

Co- Director, Ronald Reagan/Santa Monica Cohort

Ronald Reagan (RR) / Santa Monica (SM) Cohort

Spencer R. Adams, MD

Khushboo Akkad, MD

James Robert Antaki, MD

Ishan Asokan, MD, MSc

Michael F. Ayoub, MD

Megana L. Ballal, MD

Wossen Belachew, MD, MS

Ashley Busuttil, MD

John Jay P. Cadavona, MD

Lauren E. Caldemeyer, MD

Edson E. Carias, MD

Matthew D. Carroll, MD

Chun Hin Chan, MD

Sarah M. Chan, MD

Christina W. Chung, MD

Jeff Chung, MD

William P. Cope, MD

Co-Director, Ronald Reagan/ Santa Monica Cohort

Linda Kaye Czypinski, MD

Associate Section Chief, Hospital Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research

Meghan E. Dekitani, MD

Sean D. Delshad, MD, MBA

Reece R. Doughty, MD

Erin P. Dowling, MD

John L. Ebrahim, MD

Nasser S. El-Okdi, MD

Neveen S El Farra, MD

Vice Chair for Inpatient Medicine and Hospitalist Services Section Chief, Hospital Medicine Division

Christian B. Fagel, MD

David N. Farchadi, MD

Dahlia Fateen, MD

Gary S. Feigenbaum, MD

Jonathan F. Garcia, MD

Sarah L. Garvey, MD, MS

Alexandra M. Glaeser, MD

Agnieszka Gryguc-Saxanoff, MD

Edward L. Ha, MD, MEd

Sharona S. Hariri, MD

Estebes A. Hernandez, MD

Gabrielle Neumann Horner, MD, MPH

Karen A. Keniston, MD

Russell B. Kerbel, MD

Kevin Kim-Hak, MD

Thomas C. Kingsley, MD

Alex Kokaly, MD, MHSA

Aleksey Korolyov, MD

Marek M. Kowalski, MD, PhD

Jatinder Lachar, MD

Michael E. Lazarus, MD

Edward Lee, MD

Amit Levi, MD

David X. Li, MD

Sung Hyun Lim, MD, MPH

Yovani Llamas Valle, DO, PhD

Isabel M. Lopez, MD

Eyong J. Ly, MD

Jessica W. Ma, MD

Julie E. Magorien, MD

Akshara Malla, MD

Jetrina S. Maque, MD

Adrian Mayo, MD

Nathaniel E. Meyer, MD

Seyed S. Mirbagheri, MD

Jason D. Napolitano, MD

Shira Peress, MD

Antonio M. Pessegueiro, MD

Justin Peterson, MD

Magdalena E. Ptaszny, MD

Tanvir Rahman, MD

Justin M. Rogoski, MD, PhD

Faysal Saab, MD

Inderpreet S. Saini, MD

Digish D. Shah, MD

Elan G. Shahrabani, MD

Wendy M. Simon, MD

Co- Director, DOM Inpatient Quality

Nisha V. Sunku, MD

Heywan M. Tesfaye, MD, MPH

Ye Tian, MD

Wen-Ching Tran, MD

Christopher N. Tymchuk, MD, PhD

Nate VanderVeen, MD

William K. Winter, MD

Janette Zara, MD

RR/SM Nocturnist Cohort

Osei B. Boadu, MD

Daniel Abraham Cancilla, MD

Shawna E. Chagoury, MD, MS

Ruchi Pulin Desai, MD

Maryam Hajiabbasi, MD

Rafay Ahad Haseeb, MPH, DO

Jack Clayton Huebner, MD

Kevin M. Keller, MD, PHARMD

Robert G. Kropp, MD

Amanda Anisa Lopez, MD

Sneha S. Shaha, DO

Kevin Jacob Shamash, MD

Alexandra Thomson, MD, MPH

Danny X. Xu, MD

UCLA West Valley / Olive View UCLA Cohort

Nawal Ahmed, DO

Mesrop Aleksanyan, MD

Mohammad Samir Alghussein, MD

Roofan Alsayegh, MD

Jason E. Bahk, MD

Co-Director, UCLA West Valley Cohort

Chayma Boussayoud, MD

Maninder Singh Kaler, MD

Amanda Anisa Lopez, MD

Aram A. Namavar, MD, MS

Co-Director, UCLA West Valley Cohort

Grace Ng, MD

Tanvir Rahman, MD

Pranav Rajendra Sathe, MD

Guilianne R. Servano, MD

Mariam A. Soni, MD

Srija Vangala, MD

Neil Patrick Williams, MD

Stephanie Yanez, DO

Ericka Hanna Young, MD

Henry Mayo/ West Valley/Olive View Cohort

Jessica J. Antillon, MD

Balbir S. Brar, MD, MPH

Liza S. Buchbinder, MD, PhD, MS

Luciano M. Castaneda, MD

Jane M. Ma, MD

Sewon Oum, MD

Neel Shashikant Patel, MD

Rajan H. Patel, MD

Physician Lead, Henry Mayo Cohort

Patrick H. Poquiz, MD

Joey Tu, MD

Los Robles Cohort

Gholamreza Badiee, MD

Christine I. Bishop, MD

Deep C. Desai, MD

Hardik Mehta, MD

Physician Lead, Los Robles Cohort

Sina Shafiei, MD

Anthony Tabet, DO

South Bay Cohort

Farid K. Abdelmalak, MD

Patrick L. Bui, MD

Physician Lead, Southbay Cohort

Ilya Finkelshteyn, MD

Alexander Oshiro Gong, MD

Aretha Kou, DO

Christie L. Masters, MD

Amar C. Nawathe, MD

Adam Solis-Cohen, MD

St. John's & Skilled Nursing Facilities (SNF) Cohort

Salim F. Ahmed, MD

Alanna Chau, MD

Physician Co-Lead, St. John's/ Nursing Homes Cohort

Navid Darouian, MD

Physician Co-Lead, St. John's/ Nursing Homes Cohort

Jeanney Kang, MD

Ana Mohammad-Zadeh, MD

Jelissa A. MooYin, MD, MHS

Corey Mordas, MD

Maryam Shabihkhani, MD

Kyle S. Strouse, MD

Christine Y. Sun, MD

Barlow Respiratory Hospital / Martin Luther King (MLK) Cohort

Nico T. Conti, MD

Yao Liu, MD

Biyashee Daba Mosissa, MD

David J. Panek, MD

Veronica Ramirez, MD

Physician Lead, Barlow Respiratory Hospital/ Martin Luther King

Lina Altameemi Safi, MD

Christina T. Vu, MD

California Rehabilitation Institute (CRI) / RR & SM Cohort

Nathan R. Cox, MD

Physician Lead, California Rehab Institute/RNPH Cohort

Lin Deng, MD

Mary Henary, MD

Shelley N. Schwartz, MD

Rahul Vasavada, MD

Jamie A. Yabuno, MD

Hospital Medicine Program: Physicians

UCLA Health has more than 180 hospitalist physicians who care for patients at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center, UCLA West Valley Medical Center, UCLA Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, and 10 additional community hospitals throughout the greater Los Angeles region. Each hospitalist physician is board certified in internal medicine with specialized training in caring for hospitalized patients.

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