Program Faculty

  • Jason An, MD, FACEP
    • Designated Institutional Official
    • Program Director Emergency Medicine Residency
    • Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
    • Residency Training: Loma Linda University Medical Center
    • Area of Interest: Medical Education, Wellness, Leadership, Mentoring, Psychology and Medicine
  • Curtis Knight, MD
    • Associate program director
    • Medical School: Loma Linda University
    • Residency Training: Georgetown University Hospital/Washington Hospital Center
    • Areas of Interest: Austere environment medical care, medical education, ED critical care, Aeromedicine
  • Allison Woodall, MD
    • Assistant program director
    • Medical School: University of Toledo College of Medicine
    • Residency: Emergency Medicine, University of Kentucky
    • Area of Interest: Women in Medicine
  • Samuel Zidovetzki , MD, MPH
    • Assistant program director
    • Medical School: University of Southern California
    • Residency Training: University of Wisconsin
    • Fellowship Training:Mount Sinai St. Lukes/Roosevelt
    • Graduate School:Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health
    • Areas of Interest:Global Health and Residency Education
  • Steven Kim, MD
    • Chairman, Emergency Medicine
    • Associate Designated Institutional Official
    • Medical School: Loma Linda University
    • Residency Training: Loma Linda University Medical Center
    • Areas of Interest: Leadership, professionalism, ED operations and flow, airway management, emergency orthopedics, global health, wellness
  • Stephen Patterson, MD
    • EMS Director
    • Medical School: University of California – Irvine
    • Residency Training: Loma Linda University Medical Center
    • Areas of Interest: Tactical medicine, EMS, aeromedicine, resuscitation
    • Other: Deputy Sheriff with San Bernardino County
  • Tommy Kim, MD FAAP FACEP
    • Pediatric EM Director and Research Director
    • Medical School: Loma Linda University
    • Residency Training: Loma Linda University Medical Center
    • Fellowship Training: Loma Linda University Medical Center
    • Areas of Interest: Pediatric Emergency Medicine and Research
  • Eva Tovar Hirashima, MD, MPH, AEMUS-FPD
    • Ultrasound Fellowship Director
    • Medical School: Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
    • Residency Training: Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency
    • Fellowship Training: Emergency Ultrasound, University of Maryland School of Medicine
    • Graduate School: MPH, University California, Berkeley
    • Areas of Interest: Border health, DEI, CLAS, FOAMed, EMS
  • Barbara Blasko, MD
    • Medical School: SUNY Stony Brook
    • Residency Training: UC Irvine
    • Graduate School: Oregon Health Sciences, Biomedical Informatics Graduate Certificate
    • Areas of Interest: Resident Wellness, Informatics, Telemedicine, Women in Medicine
  • Eddie Magee, MD, MPH
    • Medical School: Univ. of California – San Diego
    • Residency Training: Alameda Health System - Highland Hospital
    • Graduate School: Yale University School of Epidemiology and Public Health
    • Areas of interest: Patient Health Literacy, Patient Experience, Resident Physician Wellness, Physician Financial Literacy, Community Youth Outreach
  • Lucas Friedman, MD, M.Ed., AEMUS-FPD
    • Medical School: University of Arizona
    • Residency Training: Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, Combined Residency, Departments of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics, University of Arizona
    • Fellowship Training: Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship, University of Arizona
    • Areas of Interest: Ultrasound, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, and Medical Education
  • John Costumbrado, MD, MPH, FACEP
    • Medical Student Clerkship Director
    • Medical School: University of California –Riverside
    • Residency Training: Riverside Community Hospital/University of California, Riverside
    • Graduate School: UCLA Fielding School of Public Health
    • Areas of Interests: medical education, simulation, ED procedures
  • Daniel Ng, MD
    • Assistant program director
    • Medical school: Loma Linda University
    • Residency: Alameda Health System - Highland Hospital
    • Areas of interest: Medical education; financial literacy for physicians; physician wellness
  • Matt Underwood, MD
    • Medical School: Loma Linda University
    • Residency Training: Loma Linda University Medical Center
    • Areas of Interest: Quality and Peer Review, medical education, sports medicine, wellness
  • Nhan Do, MD
    • Medical School: University of California, Riverside/University of California, Los Angeles
    • Residency Training: Kern Medical Center
    • Areas of interest: Board Review, Personal finance
  • Michael Kang, MD
    • Medical School: Chicago Medical School
    • Residency Training: Loma Linda University Medical Center
    • Areas of Interest: Resident Education, Trauma, ED critical care/ resuscitation, ED procedures
  • Sassan Ghassemzadeh, MD
    • Transitional Year Residency Program Director
    • Medical School: University of Illinois at Chicago
    • Residency Training: Loma Linda University Medical Center
    • Areas of Interest: Resident Education, Wellness
  • Joshua Batt, DO
  • Ryan Brenchley, MD
  • Eugene Hu, MD
  • Eduardo Lam, MD
  • David Tito, MD
  • David Wagner, MD
  • Kelvin L. Wong, MD
  • Joseph Fargusson, MD
  • Eric Teacher, MD
  • Marcus Voth, MD
  • Chelsea Cosand, MD
  • Siri Chamarti, MD
  • Julia Glavinic, MD