Our Faculty
One of the many strengths of our program are our passionate faculty. We have over 80 EM faculty many with fellowship training to include 4 Toxicologists, 6 trained in Point-of-care Emergency Ultrasound, Global Health, Resuscitation, Healthcare Administration, Public Health. Several of our faculty also have niche interests in Simulation, Airway Management, Telemedicine, Disaster Medicine, EMS/Prehospital Care, Research, and Complimentary & Alternative Medicine.
Matthew Silver, MD
Residency Program Director
Residency Training: Jacobi/Montefiore Emergency Medicine
Professional Interests: Educational Technology/Web Development, Clinical Reasoning, Patient Experience, Communication,
Personal Interests: Skiing (on the West Coast), Mountain Biking, Taking care of my 20 pound puppy ‘Norman’. Living vicariously through his two kids.
Adam Schwartz, MD, MS
Chief/Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine
Residency Training: Maricopa Emergency Medicine
Interests: Management of Clinical Information--Big Data, ED operations, Low-risk chest pain, Basketball, Tennis, Fitness, All things 'water', Modern architecture, Cars, Taking care of my 100 pound puppy 'Gus'
William Krauss, MD, FACEP
Assistant Program Director
Residency Training: Brigham and Women's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency (HAEMR)
Interests: Acute Pain Management, Surfing, Swimming, Fishing, Enjoying Southern California with my wife and kids
Jonathan Kei, MD, MPH, FACEP
Assistant Program Director
Director of Airway Management
Residency Training: UC Davis Emergency Medicine
Interests: Airway management, resuscitation, public health/epidemiology, golf, fly fishing, photography.
Donald MebusT, MD
Clerkship Director
Residency Training: UCLA Emergency Medicine
Interests: Medical education, Hiking, Surfing, Softball, Jogging and raising my family.
Stephanie Diebold, MD
Assistant Clerkship Director
Residency Training: Denver Health
Professional Interests: Med Ed Education, Innovative didactics development, Medical Documentation, Patient Communication, Practice Efficiency
Personal Interests: Running, surfing, yoga, biking (road and mountain), paddle boarding, swimming, cooking, baking, gardening, DIY projects
Jeff Lapoint, DO
Director of Medical Toxicology
Residency Training: SUNY Upstate Medical University
Fellowship Training: Toxicology, NYC Poison Control Center/Bellevue
Interests: Technology in medical education, emerging drugs of abuse, envenomations, surfing, and photography.
Dasia Esener, MD, MS
Ultrasound Fellowship Director
Residency Training: Baystate Medical Center Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Training: Emergency Ultrasound, Baystate Medical Center
Professional Interests: Nerve blocks, TEE, ultrasound gel and sound waves.
Personal Interests: I love dogs, travel, and pretty much doing whatever it is that my kids' schedule dictate I must be doing at any given time.
Brent Lorenzen, MD, MA
Director of Research & PI
Residency Training: Carolinas Medical Center
Fellowship Training: University of Az. Clinical Informatics Fellow
Professional Interests: Informatics, Evidence Based Medicine, Medical Decision Making
Personal Interests: Skiing, Swimming, Outdoors, Travel
Randall Young, MD, MMM, Cal-ACEP Board Member
Residency Training: Washington University St. Louis Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Training: Admin Fellowship, EMA/LAC+USC Medical Center/Marshall School of Business
Interests: Emergency Operations, Disaster Management, Standards of Practice, XBox 360, Mountain Biking and Learning to Surf.
Charles Chiang, MD
Co-EM Medical Director Simulation Labs, SCPMG Regional ED Coding Champion
Residency Training: USC/LA County Emergency Medicine
Interests: Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Hyperrealistic Simulation, Resident Finance, Family, Volleyball.
Teaching Faculty
Eric Abrams, MD (Ultrasound Fellowship Co-Director)
Mette Adkisson, MD
Nicholas Aldridge, MD
Cesar Avila, MD
Paulo Berger, MD
Eduardo Borquez, MD
Kyle Brodmann, MD
Joe Bradley, DO
Darnell Cain, MD
Sonia Callejas, MD
Quetzalsol Chacon-Lopez MD, MPH (Ringside MD, Faculty Advisor for Diversity Cmte)
Kristel Choy, MD, MS
Alison Celis, MD
Ian Chong, MD (Assistant Chief)
Jenny Chua-Tuan, MD, MBA (Assistant Chief, Diversity Cmte)
Andrew Ciennik, MD
Rich Comeaux, MD
Kathy Cooper, DO (Toxicology)
Chad Correa (Diversity Cmte)
Spencer Darlin, MD
Rebecca Deross, MD (Disaster Director)
Michael Del Valle, MD
Paul Dohrenwend, MD
John Edwards, MD (Assistant Chief)
Jacob Gessin, MD
Stacy Gomez, MD
Vik Gulati, MD
Kyle Hersh, MD
Robert Husband, DO
Wender Hwang, MD
Vanessa Hsieh-Park, MD
Deana Kantartzis, MD
Christian Kelly, MD
Steven Kohler, MD
Ryan Krause, DO
Joanna Law-Courter, MD
Sari Lahham, MD
Hien Le, MD
Daniel Lee, MD
Bryan Maltby, MD
Christina Matulis, MD
Jonathan Mau, MD RDMS
Cameron McFarland, MD
Tina McGovern, MD
Mark Meyer, MD
Connie B. Miller, MD
Bhavesh Mody, MD
David Neison, MD (Assistant Chief)
So Onishi, MD
Sam Ontiveros, MD (Toxicology)
Elizabeth Owen, MD (Undersea and Hyperbarics)
Angela Pham, MD
Kristina Pfeiffer, MD
Matthew Poliakoff, DO
Gabe Rose, DO (Ultrasound Division Co-Director)
Peter Sacci, MD
Saema Said, MD
Anthony Salazar, MD (QI Director)
Tim Saylor, MD
Christopher Scott, MD (EMS Director)
Mashal Shamel, MD
Michael Shaheen, MD
Michelle Shaprut, MD
James Smithson, MD
Jen Soifer, MD
Jessica Stern, MD
Andrew Stolle, MD
Clifford Swap, MD, MS
William Swanson, MD
Chelsea Tafoya, MD
Ashley Tarchione, MD
Jack Taras, MD
Ben Trevias, MD
Emily Utschig, DO
Jon van de Leuv, MD (Resident QI)
Jose Vega, MD
Katy Welker, MD (Toxicology)
Michael Young, DO (Toxicology)
Randall Young, MD, MMM
Carl Youngs, MD (Wilderness Med)
Jon Zackary, MD
Reka Zsilinszka, MD