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Internal Medicine Residency Training Program Expert Team

Participants in the Cedars-Sinai Internal Medicine Residency Training Program have the opportunity to train with world-renowned physicians, who in their own right have advanced the practice of medicine.

Residency Training Program Leadership

  • Mark S. Noah, MD, FACP
    Director, Internal Medicine Residency Training Program; Medical Director, Graduate and Continuing Medical Education at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Glenn D. Braunstein, MD
    James R. Klinenberg Chairman, Department of Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Dennis Schaberg, MD
    Chairman, Department of Medicine Department of Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
  • Neil Page, MD
    Co-Program Director, Residency Training
  • Amanda Ewing, MD
    Associate Program Director
  • Arthur Gomez, MD
    Associate Program Director
  • Peggy Miles, MD
    Associate Program Director
  • Giuilia Michelini, MD
    Associate Program Director

Physicians who are full-time members of Cedars-Sinai's Internal Medicine Department are listed below.

Department of Medicine Faculty CSMC

Cardiology
  • Prediman K. Shah, MD
    Director, Division of Cardiology; Director, Atherosclerosis Research Center
  • Kamlesh Astora, PhD
    Research Scientist
  • C. Noel Bairey Merz, MD
    Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center; Director, Women's Health Program
  • Daniel S. Berman, MD
    Director, Nuclear Cardiology
  • Bojan Cercek, MD, PhD
    Director, Coronary Care Units; Co-Director, Atherosclerosis Research Center
  • Kuang-Yuh-Chyu, MD, PhD
    Staff Research Cardiologist
  • Lawrence Czer, MD
    Medical Director, Heart Transplantation Program
  • Neil Eigler, MD Cardiologist, Division of Cardiology
  • James S. Forrester, MD
    George Burns and Gracie Allen Professor of Cardiovascular Research
  • Sean Hayes, MD
    Associate Director, Nuclear Cardiology
  • William Ganz, MD
    Senior Research Scientist
  • Saibal Kar, MD
    Director, Cardiovascular Intervention Center Research
  • Hrayr Karagueuzian, PhD
    Director, Basic Cardiac Electrophysiology Research
  • Sanjay Kaul, MD, FAHA
    Director, Vascular Physiology and Thrombosis Research Laboratory; Director Cardiology Fellowship Program
  • Walter F. Kerwin, MD
    Staff Cardiologist, Electrophysiology
  • Shien-Fong Lin, PhD
    Research Scientist, Cardiac Electrophysiology
  • Frank Litvack, MD
    Interventional Cardiologist
  • Rajendra Makkar, MD
    Co-Director, Cardiovascular Intervention Center
  • Tasneem Naqvi, MD
    Associate Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory
  • Donna Polk, MD, MPH
    Assistant Medical Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center
  • Tripathi Rajavashisth, PhD
    Research Scientist, Atherosclerosis Research Center
  • Behrooz Sharifi, PhD
    Research Scientist, Atherosclerosis Research Center
  • Robert J. Siegel, MD, FACC
    Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory
  • Kirsten Tolstrup, MD
    Assistant Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory
  • James Whiting, PhD
    Medical Physics

Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • John S. Adams, MD
    Director, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism; Director, Bone Center; Holder, Alfred Jay Firestein Chair in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
  • Philip Barnett, MD, PhD
    Director Diabetes Outpatient Treatment Center
  • Vivien Bonert, MD
    Clinical Coordinator, Pituitary Clinic
  • Glenn D. Braunstein, MD
    Chair, Department of Medicine
  • Ida Chen, PhD
    Research Scientist
  • Sandra Mc Laughlin, PhD
    Research Scientist
  • Shlomo Melmed, MD
    Director, Burns and Allen Research Institute; Senior Vice President, Academic Affairs
  • Basil Rapoport, MD, PhD
    Director, Autoimmune Disease Unit
  • Neil Romanoff, MD, MPH
    Vice President, Medical Care Services

Gastroenterology
  • Stephan R. Targan, MD
    Director, Division of Gastroenterology; Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
  • Marla Dubinisky, MD
    Director, Pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program
  • Jeffrey Conklin, MD
    Medical Director Esophageal Center
  • Andrew Ippoliti, MD
    Administrative Director, Division of Gastroenterology
  • Simon Lo, MD
    Director, Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases Program
  • Konstantinos A. Papadakis, MD
    Staff Gastroenterologist, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
  • Mark Pimental, MD, FRCPC
    Director, Gastrointestinal Motility Program
  • Fred Poordad, MD
    Director, Hepatology
  • Edy Soffer, MD
    Co-Director Gastrointerology Motility Program
  • Tram Tran, MD
    Medical Director Liver Transplantation
  • Eric Vasiliauskas, MD
    Associate Clinical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
  • Gordon Wu, MD
    Director Transpalantation Immunobiology Laboratory

Medical Genetics
  • David L. Rimoin, MD, PhD
    Director, Medical Genetics Institute
  • Xiao-Ning Cheng, MD
    Associate Director, Molecular Genetic Laboratory
  • Jerome I. Rotter, MD, FACP, FACMG
    Director of Research and Co-Director, Division of Medical Genetics
  • Daniel H. Cohn, PhD
    Director, Collagen Molecular Laboratory
  • Ora Gordon, MD, MS
    Director, GenRISK Adult Genetics Program
  • Xiuqing Guo, PhD
    Mathematical Genetics
  • Leslie J. Raffel, MD
    Associate Director, Common Diseases Genetics Program
  • Rhona Schreck, PhD
    Director, Cytogenetics Laboratory
  • Kent Taylor, PhD
    Molecular Genetics
  • Dolly Tyan, PhD
    Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics
  • Huiying Yang, MD, PhD
    Associate Director, Genetic Epidemiology

General Internal Medicine
  • Mark Ault, MD
    Director, Division of General Internal Medicine
  • Anish Desai, MD
    Attending Physician
  • Amanda Ewing, MD
    Associate Director Internal Medicine Residency Program
  • Robert Goodman, MD
    Director, Medical Consultation Service
  • Joya Favreau, MD
    Attending Physician
  • Nancy Greengold, MD, MBA
    Attending Physician
  • Dani Hackner, MD
    Associate Chair Performance Improvement, Department of Medicine
  • Rahul Hooda, MD
    Attending Physician
  • Leon Henderson, MD
    Attending Physician
  • Brian Kan, MD, MS
    Director, Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Training Program
  • Doran Kim, MD
    Attending Physician
  • Spencer K. Koerner, MD
    Director, International Health and Telemedicine
  • Michael L. Langberg, MD
    Senior Vice President, Medical Care Services
  • Jae Lee, MD
    Attending Physician
  • Lawrence S. Maldonado, MD
    Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
  • Peggy B. Miles, MD
    Director, Hospitalist Program, and Director, Employee Heath Services
  • Philip Ng, MD
    Director, Procedure Center
  • Mark S. Noah, MD
    Director, Internal Medicine Residency Training Program; Medical Director, Graduate and Continuing Medical Education
  • Mehta Sabnis, MD
    Attending Physician
  • Ronald Shazer, MD
    Attending Physician
  • Bradley T. Rosen, MD, MBA
    Attending Physician
  • Jerome Wang, MD
    Attending Physician
  • Scott Weingarten, MD, MPH
    Attending Physician
  • Adrienne Youdim, MD
    Director Weight Management Program

Hematology-Oncology
  • H. Philip Koeffler, MD
    Director, Division of Hematology-Oncology
  • David B. Agus, MD
    Research Director, Louis Warschaw Prostate Cancer Center
  • Michael Lill, MD
    Director, Blood and Marrow Transplant Program
  • Stephen W. Lim, MD
    Associate Director, Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program
  • Daphne Stewart, MD
    Attending Physician
  • Robert A.Vescio, MD
    Associate Director, Multiple Myeloma and Bone Metastases Program

Infectious Diseases
  • David Hardy, MD
    Director, Division of Infectious Diseases
  • Paula L. Gaut, MD
    Assistant Director, AIDS and Immune Disorder Center
  • Rekha Murthy, MD
    Director, Hospital Epidemiology Program

Nephrology
  • Stanley C. Jordan, MD
    Director, Division of Adult and Pediatric Nephrology; Director, Kidney Transplant Program
  • Mike Bunnapradist, MD
    Medical Director, Kidney-Pancreas Transplantation Program; Director, Nephrology Fellowship Program
  • Arthur Cohen, MD
    Director, Renal Pathology
  • Cynthia Nast, MD
    Renal Pathologist
  • Alice Peng, MD
    Attending Physician, Renal Transplantation Program; Director, Nephrology Fellowship Program
  • Stanislav Shelkovnikov, MD, PhD
    Research Scientist

Neurology
  • Stefan M. Pulst, MD
    Director, Division of Neurology; Co-Director, Neuromuscular Center; Medical Director, American Parkinson Disease Information and Referral Center
  • Cameron Adams, MD
    Director, Neuromuscular Services; Co-Director, Neuromuscular Center; Assistant Director, Neurophysiology Laboratory
  • Michael F. Waters, MD, PhD
    Director, Clinical Stroke Program
  • Abirami Muthukumaran, MD
    Staff Physician
  • Dawn Eliashiv, MD
    Director, Neurophysiology Laboratory
  • Duong Huynh, PhD
    Research Scientist
  • Daniel Scoles, PhD
    Research Scientist

Pulmonary/ Critical Care Medicine
  • Zab Mohsenifar, MD
    Director, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine; Medical Director, The Lung Center
  • David Balfe, MD
    Director, Pulmonary Stepdown Unit
  • Ashraf Elsayegh, MD
    Staff Physician
  • George Chaux, MD
    Co-Medical Director, Lung Transplantation Program
  • Jeremy Falk, MD
    Co-director, Lung Transplant Program
  • Mario Fournier, PhD
    Research Scientist
  • Michael I. Lewis, MD
    Director Respiratory Intensive Care Unit

Rheumatology
  • Michael Weisman, MD
    Director, Division of Rheumatology
  • Mariana Linker-Isreali, PhD
    Research Scientist
  • Mariko Ishimori, MD
    Staff Physician

Physicians who are full-time members of the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System Internal Medicine Department are listed below.

Department of Medicine Faculty at the Veteran Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

Allergy Division

  • William Klaustermeyer, MD
    Division Chief
Cardiology Division
  • Freny Mody, MD
    Division Chief
  • Stan Rubin, MD
  • Bramah Singh, MD
  • Zenaida Feliciano, MD
  • Donald Chang, MD
  • Ramin Ebrahimi, MD
  • Malcolm Bersohn, MD
  • Edward Toggart, MD
  • Shelly Shapiro, MD
Endocrinology/Diabetes
  • Greg Brent, MD
    Division Chief
  • Jerome Hershman, MD
  • Jane Weintreb, MD
  • Michael Tuck, MD
Gastroenterology
  • Joseph Pisegna, MD
    Division Chief
  • Jonathan Kaunitz, MD
  • Gordon Ohning, MD
  • Felix Leung, MD
  • Stephen Pandol, MD
  • Hartley Cohen, MD
  • James Farrell, MD
  • Brennan Speigel, MD
General Internal Medicine
  • Paul Shekelle, MD
    Division Chief
  • Steven Asch, MD
  • Anita Bajpai, MD
  • Jacqueline Bowles, MD
  • Rumi Cader, MD
  • Eric Cheng, MD
  • Wendell Ching, MD
  • Basil Clyman, MD
  • Lisa Davis, MD
  • Theo DeBruin, MD
  • Connie Fung, MD
  • Daniel Garcia, MD
  • Peter Glassman, MD
  • Dalia Goldfarb, MD
  • Arthur Gomez, MD
  • Stella Izuchukwu, MD
  • David Leaf, MD
  • Karl Lorenz, MD
  • Greg Orshansky, MD
  • Neil Paige, MD
  • Maria Romanova, MD
  • Ken Rosenfeld, MD
  • Lisa Rubinstein, MD
  • Yvette Scott, MD
  • Jeff Spina, MD
  • M. Sugawara, MD
  • Diana Suzuki, MD
  • Ali Towfigh, MD
  • Michael Weiss, MD
  • Mary White, MD
Hematology/Oncology
  • Alan Lichtenstein, MD
    Division Chief
  • Samuel Bernal, MD
  • Suzy Melkonian, MD
  • Cecelia Park, MD
  • Eric Prommer, MD
  • Matthew Rettig, MD
  • Draupadi Talreja, MD
Hospitalist Program
  • Sam Burstein, MD
  • Keri Gardner, MD
  • William George, MD
  • Azadeh Lankarani-Fard, MD
  • Zhaoping Li, MD
  • Paul Schneider, MD
  • Sondra Vazirani, MD
Infectious Diseases/AIDS
  • Matthew Goetz, MD
    Division Chief
  • Jacob Fleischmann, MD
  • David Haake, MD
  • William Schwartzman, MD
Nephrology
  • Glenn Nagami, MD
    Division Chief
  • Arnold Felsenfeld, MD
  • Jeff Kraut, MD
  • David Lee, MD
  • Barton Lee, MD
Pulmonary/Critical Care
  • Silverio Santiago, MD
    Division Chief
  • Raj Batra, MD
  • Steven Dubinett, MD
  • Matthew Littner, MD
  • Ami Oren, MD
  • Guy Soo Hoo, MD
Rheumatology
  • Jay Perssein, MD
    Division Chief
  • Meika Fang, MD
  • Ari Weinreb, MD
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