Pediatrics Los Angeles Medical Center

As Program Director, my goal is to see all of our residents THRIVE in our supportive learning environment while becoming outstanding pediatricians. Our program creates a close-knit, family environment for training while offering one on one mentorship from pediatricians and subspecialists to support your education and future career planning. As a member of the Children’s Hospital Association and the tertiary medical center for over 4.5 million patients in the Southern California region, we are located in the heart of Los Angeles allowing you to care for an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse population of patients with a robust training experience including very complex tertiary care as well as have the opportunity to become very comfortable with common pediatric conditions and the practice of ambulatory pediatrics in a community-based setting.   Helping residents maintain their well-being throughout residency training, learn lifelong resiliency skills to support their career and find joy in the practice of medicine is of utmost importance to me.  We are affiliated with UCLA and the Bernard J. Tyson Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine. We value Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with a strong commitment to serve our local community augmented with an advocacy block to expand your education in serving at risk populations. Additionally, we have a pediatric community medicine fellowship program as a potential option for those wanting to extend their training further and continue a career in community medicine. We have many research opportunities to support your scholarly activity requirements with access to data from one of the largest patient populations in the United States via our integrated health care system utilizing a Kaiser Permanente-specific version of EPIC as our EHR. Whether you are already set in your career planning or are considering many opportunities, we will provide you with all of the building blocks needed to personalize your long term career path in pediatrics; 35% of our residents enter fellowships (not including hospitalist); 50% of our graduates (over the past 10 years) continue their careers within Kaiser Permanente (either as subspecialists post fellowship or post-graduation).

I completed my residency in a similar sized training program, and am tremendously grateful for the opportunities and personal connections I made as a result of choosing an “apprenticeship” model of training.   After completing fellowship in pediatric endocrinology, I started in my current clinical position in 2007 as a full-time staff SCPMG pediatric endocrinologist and am grateful for the vast opportunities available within Kaiser Permanente. There have been many highlights and rewarding aspects to the last 15+ years of my career, though being given the privilege and responsibility to help foster the development of our future pediatricians is on the top of that list!

We welcome you to explore all that Kaiser Permanente has to offer on this site and would be happy to have the opportunity to address any questions you may have this recruitment season.

Wishing you all the best in your future endeavors,

Joshua A. May, MD
Program Director, Southern California Kaiser Permanente Pediatric Residency
SCPMG Regional Lead, Pediatric Endocrinology
Faculty, Clinical Preceptor, Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine

Ameeta Ganju, MD
Associate Program Director

Jelena Douillard, MD 
Associate Program Director 
Pediatric Hospitalist 

Doris Waldron, MD
Associate Program Director

Joshua A May, MD
Program Director, Southern California Kaiser Permanente Pediatric Residency
SCPMG Regional Lead, Pediatric Endocrinology
Faculty, Clinical Preceptor, Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine

Contact Us

If you have any questions about our program, please email us at: LAMC-PEDS-Chief@kp.org.

Join Us At Our Virtual Open House!

Sep 18, 2023 – https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0pdeCvpzgvEtNzXLztFVr2FYRsgEIs1tVd
Meeting ID: 994 2979 3587

Sep 27, 2023 – https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJArdeioqDsoG9NbhiwkI9y0pzhOymx3Oyc_
Meeting ID: 946 2106 0217