Core Faculty

Jasprit Takher, MD
Program Director

  • Specialty: Internal Medicine
  • Residency: Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
  • Medical School: St. Matthew's University

Arian Gower, MD
Associate Program Director

  • Specialty: Nephrology
  • Fellowship: University of Colorado Anschutz
  • Residency: Mountain View Hospital
  • Medical School: Rosalind Franklin University

George Ishak, MD
Associate Program Director

  • Specialty: Internal Medicine
  • Residency: Eisenhower Medical Center
  • Medical School: Ross University School of Medicine

Zain Mehdi, DO

  • Specialty: Internal Medicine
  • Residency: University of Arizona (Tucson Campus)
  • Medical School: Midwestern University Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine

Mahvand Sadeghi, MD

  • Specialty: Internal Medicine / Geriatric Medicine
  • Fellowship: Geriatrics, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Residency: Eisenhower Medical Center
  • Medical School: Ross University School of Medicine
  • Graduate Program: Masters of Science in Gerontology, University of London, King's College

Kumar Desai, MD

  • Specialty: Gastroenterology/Hepatology
  • Fellowship: University of Texas Southwestern
  • Fellowship: University of Nebraska Medical Center
  • Residency: Montefiore Medical Center
  • Medical School: Creighton University

Ian Joel, MD

  • Specialty: Pulmonary Medicine / Critical Care Medicine
  • Fellowship: University of California at San Diego (UCSD)
  • Residency: University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
  • Medical School: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (UPSOM)

Saibal Kar, MBBS, MD

  • Specialty: Interventional Cardiology
  • Fellowship: Cedar Sinai Medical Center
  • Fellowship: Cedars Sinai Medical Center
  • Residency: VA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
  • Medical School: Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College, Kolkata, India

Ramesh Nathan, MD

  • Specialty: Infectious Disease
  • Fellowship: VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare
  • Residency: Cedars Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  • Medical School: George Washington University