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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