Class of 2027

Pediatric Residents

  • Charlotte Abiezzi

    Hometown: San Francisco, CA
    Undergrad: UC Berkeley
    Medical School: A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Arizona
    Why LA General/USC: I chose USC because, during my interview day, I felt an undeniable sense of family and a positive culture among the residents. I knew that training at USC would give me the necessary exposure to excel as a general pediatrician while also providing a supportive and encouraging environment to build confidence in my skills.
    Plans for after residency: General Pediatrics/ Integrative Functional Medicine

  • Gayane Adamian

    Hometown: North Hollywood, CA
    Undergrad: UCLA
    Medical School: Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
    Why LA General/USC: I am so happy to be back in LA and practicing medicine in the community I grew up in. I also love working with the residents and attendings who are so welcoming and supportive.
    Plans for after residency: I am still exploring my options!

  • Alex Dombrower

    Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
    Undergrad: UC San Diego
    Medical School: Eastern Virginia Medical School
    Why LA General/USC: Everyone was just so genuine about treating underserved populations and health disparities. All the residents I interacted with were also so fun, outgoing and supportive of each other. 
    Plans for after residency: My plans after residency are to seek out a fellowship in either intensive care or cardiology. 

  • Karoline Loretan

    Hometown: Lancaster, Pennsylvania
    Undergrad: Hobart & William Smith
    Medical School: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
    Why LA General/USC: I felt so warmly welcomed during my sub-I rotation and knew that this was the patient population I wanted to learn from.
    Plans for after residency: If I had to pick right now - NICU!

  • Chelsea O'Camb

    Undergrad: UC San Diego 
    Medical School: Touro Nevada COM 
    Why LA General/USC: So so many reasons, I truly fell in love with the culture that this program has created and how supportive everyone is! On top of that, I was so obsessed with the idea of the Breathmobile, VIP clinic, and overall how involved this program is in giving back to the people of LA county!! Living in LA was also very important to me because I am super close with my family and my dog Bean! Also not gonna lie, I was enticed by the smoothies too hehe!
    Plans for after residency: Oooooh currently torn between going into outpatient and starting a cute lil clinic with my husband ORRR pursuing fellowship in Allergy/Immunology // Pulmonology because I am super passionate about asthma and all things atopic! 

  • Daniel Oheb

    Hometown: Granada Hills, CA
    Undergrad: UCLA
    Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix
    Why LA General/USC: I have always been interested in practicing in my home city, and felt that LA General would provide me with a wide breadth of educational opportunities in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. I am also very interest in the social aspect of healthcare, and feel that working in a county facility allows me more hands on experience in that aspect of medicine.
    Plans after residency: I am currently interested in working as a primary care pediatrician, but am open to other opportunities that allow me to be involved in behavioral health and social determinants of health.

  • Elissa Port

    Hometown: Stillwater, Minnesota
    Undergrad: University of Wisconsin – Madison
    Medical School: Western University
    Why LA General/USC: I had the opportunity to rotate at LA General as a SubI and really enjoyed my time here. I was so inspired by the passion and dedication of the residents and attendings to help the local community. I knew I wanted to be at a program that helps underserved populations but also supports its residents. I also wanted to stay in LA for the great weather and food. I'm so glad I found a program that had everything I wanted!
    Plans for after residency: I am thinking PICU or peds hospitalist 

  • Joshua Robbins

    Hometown: Temecula, CA
    Undergrad: University of California, Davis
    Medical School: Burrell College at New Mexico State University 
    Why LA General/USC: I chose USC/LA General because of the culture of family and dedication to training that I felt on interview day. The program made me feel like if I chose here, I could become even better of a pediatrician than I imagined. I felt like the balance of teaching and autonomy here would be conducive to setting myself up to excel for the rest of my career. 
    Plans for after residency: Still undecided, leaning Gen Peds or Peds Cardiology. 

  • Sameera Siddiqi

    Hometown: Chicago, IL
    Undergrad: Loyola University of Chicago
    Medical School: Loyola University of Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
    Why LA General/USC: It felt like my perfect fit for many reasons-- the unique and underserved patient population, all the friendly faces I met during the match process, and of course the beautiful surrounding city of LA!
    Plans for after residency: Keeping an open mind! Possibly hospitalist or NICU fellowship

  • Alangoya Tezel

    Pronouns: she/her
    Languages Spoken: English, Turkish
    Hometown: Louisville, KY + New York, NY
    Undergrad: Columbia University
    Medical School: University of Michigan
    Hobbies: going to art museums & aquariums, ceramics, playing Uno/backgammon, bachata/salsa dancing, physics!
    Why LA General/USC: I wanted to join a mission-driven program composed of like-minded people committed to serving the underserved. I wanted the opportunity, even at this early stage of my training, to be the kind of doctor I want to be. Our program provides us the time and autonomy to get to know and learn from our patients, counsel and empower their caregivers, and think creatively on their behalf as we work together to navigate a broken health care system. LA General is a place where I've found a warm, genuine camaraderie, invested faculty members & medical students, & excellent cafeteria chicken tendies (with the privilege of enjoying them outside every day, in the sun, under beautiful palm trees). 

    Plans for after residency: Taking care of sick kids and doing ethics consultations 🙂

  • Grace Wong

    Hometown: Fullerton, CA
    Undergrad: USC (fight on!)
    Medical School: Western University of Health Sciences
    Why LA General/USC: Our program emphasizes the importance of the social aspects of pediatric care, as well as the medicine, and I knew that I wanted to serve a community like the one I grew up in. I also did a sub-internship at LAGMC and loved how kind and supportive the faculty are and how we have such a safe learning environment.
    Plans for after residency: Keeping my mind open, but something that will allow me to see cute babies everyday!

Medicine/Pediatrics Residents

Isabel Chin

Pronouns: she/her
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish (proficient)
Hometown: South Pasadena, CA
Undergrad: Brown University
Medschool: Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Hobbies: pilates, yoga, running, reading, going to the beach, attempting to learn to surf, hiking
Fun Fact: I have a twin and also have younger teen sisters who are twins too!
Why LAGMC/USC? I am from LA county and love Angelenos. I am so happy to be home for residency and caring for this community. I worked at LA County Department of Health Services prior to medical school and loved working in the public health care system and my colleague’s dedication to working for the most disenfranchised members of our community. I was and continue to be very inspired by and aligned with the Med Peds program’s values of justice, compassion, advocacy, and anti-oppression practices and politics. Nowhere I’d rather be!
Plans after residency: I’m open to seeing where residency takes me, but I have an interest in med/peds primary care, street medicine, LGBTQ health and gender affirming medicine. 

Mariam Ghattas

Pronouns: She/ Her

Languages spoken: English and Arabic and Spanish (some 😊)
Hometown: Giza Egypt and San Fernando Valley, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Medical School: California University of Science and Medicine
Hobbies: Binge Watching TV (don’t underestimate the power of 2x speed), swimming, Barree and Pilates, cooking a feast for family and friends and developing my own recipes.
Fun Fact: My first word as a child was water followed by mangos and watermelons. All I can say my lovely parents were raising a hungry monster.
Why LAGMC/USC? The amazing people that are so driven to make the world a more equitable place. I did a rotation during my fourth year of med school and had the amazing opportunity of getting to know the residents and faculty Members and seeing the amazing work the program is invovled with in the community. I was comforted by how down to earth everyone is and the extend they go out of their way to help one another.  I am also very blessed to come back and serve a community that welcomed me and my family many years ago. It is also so good to be closer to my family <3. Plus what is there not to love about sunny LA. Did I forget to mention, LA has the best food from all around the world at your fingertips.
Plans for after residency: Combined MICU/PICU is the Dream but who knows , lets see what the next four years hold.

Crystal Gianvecchio

Pronouns: she/her
Languages Spoken: English, Mandarin Chinese
Hometown: Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Medschool: FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Hobbies: Reading, cozy Nintendo Switch games, hiking, birdwatching, playing the ukulele or piano, making beverages, trying beverages, checking out obscure museums, traveling, and most recently yoga/tennis!
Fun Fact: I’ve helped give a spotted hyena an EGD
Why LAGMC/USC? This program is made up of people who practice what they preach and I’m proud to be a part of it! Making genuine impacts on the community in/out of the hospital and providing compassionate care for the underserved are shared passions amongst the residents here. I also love all of the diverse little pockets there are in LA, there are a million things to do and see.
Plans after residency: primary care working w/ patients with developmental disabilities, maybe extensivist medicine?

Irene Goo

Pronouns: she/her
Languages Spoken: English, Korean
Hometown: Boca Raton, FL
Undergrad: Penn State
Medschool: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Hobbies: catching up with friends, exploring new coffee shops/restaurants, cooking, drawing/painting, making niche playlists, karaoke, traveling
Fun fact: I've kept every handwritten card I've ever received since I was a kid
Why LAGMC/USC? I wanted to train at a county hospital with opportunities to address community level health. The USC Med Peds program was the only program that included community members in the interview process and i loved hearing about their experiences working with the residents here. Also LA has a diverse population with an interesting medical landscape and health insurance system that helps with understanding systems level issues.
Plans after residency: still deciding but generally im big P little M, interested in transitions of care, pediatric complex care, primary care, GI, heme/onc

Henry Steyer

Pronouns: he/him
Languages Spoken: English, a decent amount of Spanish
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergrad: Harvard University
Medschool: Keck SOM of USC
Hobbies: Running, weightlifting, reading and writing historical fiction, concerts of any kind, finding hotter and hotter hot sauces, crying on airplanes to pixar movies, stretching the definition of pescatarian
Fun fact: When i was a child I looked a lot like the actor that played young Anakin Skywalker and people would approach me to ask for autographs
Why LAGMC/USC? The people, inside and outside of the program. It’s easy to become overwhelmed by the hardship we witness on a daily basis, so I wanted to surround myself with people who stick by their ideals and offer up hope in a world that can be so unfair.

Hyunho Yoon

Pronouns: he/him
Languages Spoken: Korean, English, a little bit of Spanish and French, trying to learn more Swahili
Hometown: Seoul, Korea
Undergrad: Carnegie Mellon University 
Medschool: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine 
Hobbies: Reading, writing, film photography, driving, camping
Fun Fact: When I was in elementary school I was the model in an advertising campaign for a major Korean bank. No one asked me for an autograph though. 
Why LAGMC/USC? I was so struck by the pride that the residents here have for the work that they do in serving the underserved and fighting alongside them for their rights. The nicest people here become the fiercest advocates when the need arises. I felt that I could learn so much from my peers and collectively make a huge difference in the lives of the patients we work for. I also felt that working on a day-to-day basis with multilingual, multicultural communities that are medically/politically/socially neglected would in many ways better prepare me for a career in global health than a few electives abroad here and there, although those opportunities are available as well.
Plans after residency: International humanitarian work doing a combination of inpatient+outpatient for all ages. I’m particularly interested in helping alleviate the many injustices that people face in refugee camps.