Associate Chief of Pediatrics

Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Inpatient Medicine

Director, Quality Improvement for Department of Pediatrics

Chair, Bioethics and Brain Death committees

Medical School: Keck School of Medicine of USC
Residency: LAGMC/USC, Pediatric chief resident

Residency Program Director

Hometown: San Fernando Valley, CA
Undergraduate: Los Angeles Pierce Community College and University of California Los Angeles
Medical School: Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California
Residency: LAGMC/USC, Pediatric chief resident
Fellowship: Children's Hospital Los Angeles - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
What does working at LAGMC/USC mean to you?: Being a physician in LAC+USC Pediatrics has been my dream since medical school.  It has meant being with a group of doctors dedicated to providing care for children and their families, some of whom have socioeconomic determinants that caused them to be turned away from other institutions.  Our patients are from the hard working families that embody the culture and values of the city of Los Angeles.  My colleagues and I are bound by the same goal of providing the best medical care for these families and their children.  We are also driven to provide the best training to generations of young doctors and medical students with the hope that they will join us in our goal.  A word that has been used to describe our department is "family."  It comes from the support and mentorship we provide one another.  It is also from the overall feeling of hope in the department that I sensed when I was a medical student looking in.  It is the same feeling that I feel now as a faculty member among our group.         

Hometown: Dallas, TX
Undergraduate: Wellesley College
Medical School: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
Residency: University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio 
Fellowship:  Children's Hospital Los Angeles - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
What does working at LAGMC/USC mean to you? Caring for the underserved and marginalized in Los Angeles alongside residents and colleagues who also share this passion motivates me to do better and be better.

Undergraduate: University of California Los Angeles
Medical School: Albert Einstein
Residency: LAGMC/USC, Pediatric chief resident
Fellowship: Children's Hospital Los Angeles - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
What does working at LAGMC/USC mean to you?: During residency at LAC+USC, my heart was broken for the underserved and marginalized. It became my passion and mission to try my best to ensure that the underserved children and families of Los Angeles received the best medical care possible - especially in the ICU, where we take care of families going through the most difficult times of their lives.         

Hometown: Northridge, CA
Undergraduate: California State University -Northridge
Medical School: Ross University School of Medicine
Residency: University of Florida - Jacksonville
Fellowship: Children's Hospital Los Angeles - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
What does working at LAGMC/USC mean to you? Being apart of this remarkable team, made up of caring individuals who share basic values, and who are driven by a common mission is truly a privilege. Working at LAGMC/USC means I have the opportunity to be useful to the underserved community at the core of our diverse region. In the PICU, I cherish the intimacy of being absolutely present to address the acute suffering of our patients and their families.                

Residency: LAGMC/USC, Pediatric chief resident
Fellowship: Children's Hospital Los Angeles - Pediatric Critical Care Medicine