Current Fellows

Trina Dao, MD

Medical School: Michigan State University College of Medicine
Residency Training: Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles, Internal Medicine Residency

Pamela Villa, DO

Medical School: Western University of Health Sciences College of Osteopathic Medicine
Residency Training: UCLA Olive View, Internal Medicine Residency

Mid-Career Fellows

Monika Nguyen, MD

Medical School: Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Residency Training: Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles, Family Medicine Residency

Salma Habib, MD

Medical School: Medical College of Georgia
Residency Training: Emergency Medicine, Beth Israel Medical Center in NY

Where are our recent graduates now?

Hospice & Palliative Medicine Alumni
Graduating Class Name Program (location)  
2022 Christina Ortega-Chen, MD Kaiser Permanente
Panorama City, CA
 
2022 Christine Kwon, MD Pomona Valley FM Residency Faculty Pomona, CA  
2021 Brittany Doremus, DO Kaiser Permanente
Woodland Hills, CA
 
2021 Puzant Topaljekian, MD Community Hospice
Los Angeles, CA
 
2020 Stacey DaSliva, MD Kaiser Permanente

Woodland Hills, CA

 
2020 Kevin Hsu, MD Kaiser Permanente

Baldwin Park, CA

 
2019 Jason Ngo, MD Kaiser Permanente

Fontana, CA

 
2019 Nikki Vithalani, MD Geisinger Health

Pennsylvania

 
2018 Joseph Kwak, MD Kaiser Permanente

West Los Angeles, CA

 
2018 Heather Bitar, DO City of Hope

Duarte, CA

 
2017 Chuong Dang, MD Kaiser Permanente

Fontana, CA

 
2017 Chirag Gandhi, DO Kaiser Permanente

Fontana, CA

 
2017 Dov Shalman, MD Kaiser Permanente

Los Angeles, CA

 
2016 Gitanjili Arora, MD Children’s Hospital

Los Angeles, CA

 
2016 Stefanie Mooney, MD City of Hope

Duarte, CA

 
2016 Nicole Van Buren, MD Kaiser Permanente

West Los Angeles, CA

 
2015 Chandana Banerjee, MD City of Hope

Duarte, CA

 
2015 Ilanit Brook, MD Children’s Hospital

Los Angeles, CA

 
2015 Sonal Patel, MD National Health Service

London, England

 
2014 Maricela Garcia-Schiffman, MD Kaiser Permanente

Panorama City, CA

 
2014 Nadine Semer, MD Salinas Valley Memorial Hospital  
2013 Amir Asgari, MD Private Practice

San Diego, CA

 
2013 Thomas Bui, MD VITAS Hospice  
2012 Ilan Bernstein, MD The Queens Medical Center Honolulu, HI  
2012 Finly Zachariah, MD City of Hope

Duarte, CA

 
2011 James Henry, MD Kaiser Permanente Panorama City, CA

 

 
2011 Molly Keegan, MD Private Practice

Los Angeles, CA

 
2010 Christian Lu, MD Private Practice

Orange County, CA

 
2010 Michael Ma, MD Kaiser Permanente

Fontana, CA