Internal Medicine Residency Faculty | Riverside Community Hospital

Program Leadership

Alina Popa, MD, Program Director

Dr. Popa received her medical degree from the University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Timisoara, Romania; and completed residency in neurology at the County Hospital Timisoara. Upon coming to the United States, she completed her residency at St. John's Episcopal Hospital/SUNY Downstate in New York. She later earned a certificate in clinical research and completed a fellowship in internal medicine at the Mayo Graduate School of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. She was director for medical education at University of California, San Diego Division of Hospital Medicine and a core faculty member of the internal medicine residency program. Her interests include medical education, faculty development, leadership in medicine, evidence-based medicine, quality improvement, and patient-centered rounding. She is a clinical professor of internal medicine at UC Riverside.

Scott Kubomoto, MD, Associate Program Director

Dr. Kubomoto received his medical degree from Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. He completed his internal medicine residency at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He is an assistant clinical professor of health sciences at UC Riverside.

Andrew Hwang, MD, Associate Program Director

Dr. Hwang received his medical degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia, PA. He completed his internal medicine residency at Riverside Community Hospital in Riverside, CA. He is an assistant clinical professor of health sciences at UC Riverside.

Tamara Aqui, DO, Chief Resident
Waqqas Mirza, MD, Chief Resident

Core faculty

Sarah Chae, MD, Outpatient Medicine

Dr. Chae received her medical degree from Stanford University, School of Medicine. She completed her internal medicine residency training at University of California, Los Angeles.

Dalia Dawoud, MD, Nephrology

Dr. Dawoud received her medical degree from Ain Shams University College of Medicine in Egypt. She completed her internal medicine residency at Capital Health System in New Jersey; and her interventional nephrology fellowship at University of Alabama.

Mohammad Kharazmi, MD, Hospital Medicine

Dr. Kharazmi received his medical degree from University of California, Irvine. He completed his internal medicine residency at St. Mary Medical Center, affiliated with University of California, Los Angeles. He is an assistant clinical professor of health sciences at UC Riverside.

Hoveda Mufti, MD, Hospital Medicine

Dr. Mufti received her medical degree from Baqai Medical College in Pakistan. She completed her internal medicine residency at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, affiliated with Brown University. Her interests include mentoring residents, diversity, anti-racism and equity training in medicine and the role of environmental factors in endocrinology. She is an associate clinical professor of health sciences at UC Riverside.

Remus Popa, MD, Hospital Medicine

Dr. Popa received his medical degree from University of Medicine and Pharmacy in Romania. He completed his internal medicine residency at St. John's Episcopal Hospital/SUNY Downstate in New York. Dr. Popa is the Director for Education at the High Value Practice Academic Alliance. He is a clinical professor of internal medicine at UC Riverside.

Hospitalists

Joseph Alukal, MD
Qais Ayouby, MD
Sahar Eivaz-Mohammadi, MD
Christine Mikhail, MD
Omar Nagy, DO
Gregory Shimizu, MD

Clinic site directors

John Agtuca, DO
Chris Bovetas, MD
Sarah Chae, MD
Melanie Crane, MD

Subspecialty education coordinators

Andre Babajanians, MD
Ahmed El-Bershawi, MD
Mimi Sen Biswas, MD
Eric Choi, MD
Andrew Corr, MD
Dalia Dawoud, MD
Sudhakar V. Mallela, MD
Evangeline Reyes, MD
David Song, MD

Faculty