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Harbor-UCLA Department of Emergency Medicine

Faculty

Craig Goolsby, MD, MEd, MHCDS, FACEP

Department Chair
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Craig Goolsby, MD, MEd, MHCDS, FACEP is Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is a member of the International Liaison Committee on Resuscitation’s First Aid Task Force, the American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council, and is a leader in medical education and military-to-civilian knowledge transfer, particularly for the Stop the Bleed Campaign. His multi-million-dollar research portfolio has focused on bleeding control, tourniquet usage, first aid and public response, mass casualty incidents, and developing novel educational programs and tools.

Dr. Goolsby is a distinguished graduate of the United States Air Force Academy (BS), an AOA graduate of the Tulane University School of Medicine (MD), earned his Master of Education in the Health Professions degree from Johns Hopkins University, and completed a Master of Healthcare Delivery Science degree at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business.

His awards include the Outstanding Recent Graduate of Johns Hopkins University, the Chairman’s Award from the American Red Cross Scientific Advisory Council, the Dean’s Annual Faculty Teaching Award, and the William H. Montgomery Excellence in Education Award in addition to many other speaking and education awards.

Dr. Goolsby is an Adjunct Professor in the Uniformed Services University’s Department of Military and Emergency Medicine where he served for a decade prior to his current position. He also previously served as an active-duty military officer, including two tours as the flight commander and medical director of the Air Force’s emergency department in Balad, Iraq.

Dr. Goolsby is the author or co-author of more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, chapters, editorials, and other scholarly publications. He has spoken nationally and internationally at conferences including the American College of Emergency Physician’s Scientific Assembly, the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine’s Annual Meeting, and as a Keynote Speaker for the Disaster Medicine Symposium in Linköping, Sweden. Dr. Goolsby completed an internship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and his emergency medicine residency at UCLA. He is a board-certified, practicing emergency physician. 

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Vice Chairs

Amy Kaji, MD, PhD, FACEP
Executive Vice Chair
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Madonna Fernandez-Frackelton, MD, FACEP
Vice Chair, Education
Program Director
Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Andrea Wu, MD, MMM, FACEP
Vice Chair, Clinical Operations
Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Kabir Yadav, MD, MS, MSHS, FACEP

Vice Chair, Academic Affairs
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Biography

Kabir Yadav, MDCM, MS, MSHS, FACEP, is the Vice Chair for Academic Affairs and an Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at UCLA. He completed emergency medicine residency at Kings County Hospital Center/ SUNY Downstate Medical Center, followed by a clinical research fellowship at Jacobi Medical Center with a Masters in Clinical Research Methods. After completing a NIH KL2 Career Development Award and a Masters in Translational Science at GW, he became one of the first board-certified clinical informaticists in the country. He is core faculty at the UCLA CTSI for both the Community Engaged Research Program, and Biomedical Informatics. He has been funded through PCORI, NIH, CDC, and foundations to leverage technology and implementation science to perform collaborative health services research focused on improving patient and provider decision making, and partners with community to do mutually meaningful research with an emphasis on social determinants of health.

Core Faculty

David Burbulys, MD, FACEP, FAAP
Associate Program Director
Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Bradley Chappell, DO, MHA, FACOEP
Medical Director, Emergency Department
Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Ilene Claudius, MD
Director, Process and Quality Improvement Program
Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Ross Fleischman, MD, MCR
Director, Clinical Informatics Program
Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Timothy Horeczko, MD, MSCR, FACEP, FAAP
Program Director, Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship
Associate Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Timothy Jang, MD

Co-Director, Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Roger Lewis, MD, PhD

Department Chair Emeritus
Senior Physician, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Biography

Dr. Lewis received his PhD in Biophysics and his MD from Stanford University. He is a Senior Physician in the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, Professor of Emergency Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the Senior Medical Scientist at Berry Consultants, LLC, a group that specializes in innovative clinical trial design. He is also the former Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Lewis’s expertise centers on adaptive and Bayesian clinical trials, including platform trials; general clinical research methodology; data and safety monitoring boards, and the oversight of clinical trials. Dr. Lewis was elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine in 2009.

Dr. Lewis has previously served as a member of the Blood Products Advisory Committee of the US Food and Drug Administration, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), the Medicare Evidence Development & Coverage Advisory Committee of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and on multiple consensus committees of the National Academy of Medicine. He has chaired data and safety monitoring boards (DSMBs) for numerous federally funded, industry-sponsored, and multinational clinical trials. He is the statistical editor for JAMA and an editor of the JAMA series entitled “JAMA Guides to Statistics and Methods.” Dr. Lewis has served as a content reviewer for many other peer reviewed journals. He has authored or coauthored over 270 original research publications, reviews, editorials, and chapters.

Dr. Lewis has served as a grant reviewer for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the UK Medical Research Council (MRC), the National Cancer Institute of France, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI), and foundations.

During the US COVID-19 epidemic, Dr. Lewis served as the Director of Covid-19 Demand Modeling for the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services, leading a multidisciplinary team developing epidemiological prediction models to aid in hospital preparedness and response.

Dr. Lewis is a Past President of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) and served on the Board of Directors for the Society for Clinical Trials. He is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Statistical Association, and the Society for Clinical Trials.

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Yiju Teresa Liu, MD, RDMS
Co-Director, Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
Health Sciences Associate Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Adedamola Ogunniyi, MD
Associate Program Director
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Patricia Padlipsky, MD, FAAP
Medical Director, Pediatric Emergency Department
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Ryan Pedigo, MD, MHPE

Associate Program Director
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Biography

Ryan Pedigo, MD, MHPE graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside, and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. He then went on to receive his MD from the University of California, Los Angeles, receiving the award for Excellence in Emergency Medicine from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha honor society. After graduation, he began his postgraduate residency at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, specializing in Emergency Medicine, where he received a national award from the Emergency Medicine Resident’s Association for clinical excellence in his field and was one of the program’s chief residents. He was leader of the team that won the national resuscitation competition SimWars at ACEP in 2014. For the first five years as faculty, he was the Clerkship Director but has now transitioned to an Associate Program Director role as of 2020. He also serves as the course chair for a UCLA longitudinal 4th year medical student teaching fellowship and course faculty for the UCLA Faculty Development Medical Education Fellowship. He participated in the month-long Stanford Faculty Development Center for Medical Teachers Clinical Teacher Facilitator Training Program, completed a 2-year Medical Education Fellowship at UCLA, and completed the UCLA Simulation Instructor Training course. He is co-chair of a working group aimed at improving educational faculty development at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Dr. Pedigo is an avid educator and has authored or co-authored 9 books, 40 book chapters and articles, as well as being the editor of over 300 chapters.

He has been the recipient of multiple awards including the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Best Diagnostician Award (2019), Rising Star of the Year Finalist Award (2019), Outstanding Peer Reviewer for Academic Emergency Medicine: Education and Training Award (2018, 2019, 2020, 2021), Faculty Teaching Excellence award from EMRA (2018), the National Emergency Medicine Junior Faculty Teaching Award from ACEP (2018), the Faculty Teaching Award from CORD (2018), the Faculty Teaching Award from his own department (2017), Young Educator of the Year Award from SAEM/CDEM (2017), and the Distinguished Faculty Clinical Teaching Award from the Department of Internal Medicine at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (2016). He is also the recipient of the $100,000 Education Research Grant from the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine and completed a Master of Health Professions Education degree.

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Mohsen Saidinejad, MD, MBA, FACEP, FAAP
Director, Patient Experience
Health Sciences Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Shira Schlesinger, MD, MPH
Director, EMS and Disaster Preparedness Program
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Manpreet Singh, MD, MBE
Director, Medical Student Clerkship
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

David Tanen, MD

Associate Program Director
Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Biography

As a retired Naval Captain with the experience of multiple war-time deployments and as a current Emergency Medicine Physician working at a large county trauma center, Dr. David Tanen is dedicated to providing the best care to Harbor-UCLA’s patients. As a clinical researcher and chair of a large IRB, he has published over 65 peer reviewed articles and 35 textbook chapters with multiple studies on pediatric fever, pain reduction, treatments of acute poisonings or envenomations, and antidotes for chemical threats, and worked with colleagues to push the frontiers of emergency care.
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Natasha Thomas, MD
Director, Trauma Recovery Center
Assistant Director, Adult Emergency Department
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine
Juliana Tolles, MD, MHS
Emergency Medicine Faculty
Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine

Part-time Core Faculty


Diane Birnbaumer, MD
Nichole Bosson, MD, MPH
Clint Coil, MD, MPH
Ross Donaldson, MD, MPH, CTropMed
Marianne Gausche-Hill, MD
Robert Hockberger, MD, Department Chair Emeritus
Dennis Hsieh, MD, JD
Sarah Lopez, MD
Dipesh Patel, MD
Denise Whitfield, MD, MBA

Clinical Faculty

Omid Adibnazari, MD
Natalia Alvarez, MD
Cameron Araghi, MD
Zahir Basrai, MD
Lilly Bellman, MD
Jonathan Birnbaum, MD
Manny Celedon, MD
Susannah Empson, MD
Lourdes Escalona, MD
Alexandra Grossman, MD
Puneet Gupta, MD
Colin Hoff, MD
Ziyad Khesbak, MD
Sheetal Khiyani, MD
Jacob Newcomb, MD
Eleanor Oakley, MD
Neil Patel, MD
Kian Preston-Suni, MD
Shamsher Samra, MD, Ph.M
Alyssa Scott, MD
Patrick Shanovich, MD
Carolyn Shover, MD
Sonia Simms, MD
Thomas Solomon, MD
Shirley Tung, MD
Joyce Wang, MD
Richard Washofsky, MD
Curtice Wong, MD
Bobak Zonoor, MD