The goal of the Department of Medicine is to innovate and provide leadership in:

  • Healing.
  • Education.
  • Discovery.
  • Integrated health-care delivery.
  • Shaping institutional and public policy.

The Department of Medicine supports the mission of Loma Linda University and Loma Linda University Health.

Vision

  • The Department of Medicine seeks to become a greater regional clinical resource.
  • The Department of Medicine seeks to foster a spirit of inquiry, expressed in research and teaching. The faculty advances clinical practice and understanding.

Themes

  • Renewal.
  • Growth.
  • Teamwork.

Chair

Douglas R. Hegstad

Executive vice chair

H. Bryant Nguyen

Vice chairs

Philip Gold

Anthony Hilliard

Navin Jaipaul

Daniel Kim

Lawrence Loo

H. Bryant Nguyen

Lauren Tan

Associate chairs

T. Michael Kashner

James Larsen

Sonny Lee

Leah Tudtud-Hans

Andrew Wright

Division of Cardiology

Anthony Hilliard, Head

Division of Endocrinology

Kevin Codorniz, Head

Division of Gastroenterology and Nutrition

Michael L. Volk, Head

Division of Hematology and Oncology

Mark E. Reeves, Interim Head

Division of Hospitalist Medicine

Michael Matus, Head

Division of Infectious Diseases

Jennifer Veltman, Head

Division of Nephrology

Amir Abdipour, Head

Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care

H. Bryant Nguyen, Head

Division of Regenerative Medicine

David J. Baylink, Head

Division of Rheumatology and Immunology

Karina D. Torralba, Head

Program director, Residency Program

Sonny C. Lee

Primary faculty

Amir Abdipour

Toufic Abdo

Arin Aboulian

Dmitry Abramov

Islam Abudayyeh

Endre Agoston

Kwame Agyeman

Zebayel Akele

Mojtaba Akhtari

Mohammed Akram

Anas Alani

Syed Ali

Hector Almanzar-Ramos

Hayder Alzubaidi

M. Reza Amini

Deborah Anghesom-Negusse

James Anholm

Pavan Kumar Annamaraju

Patricia Applegate

Timothy Arakawa

Jonathan Arcobello

Yona Ardiles

Vega Arturo

Mihran Ask

Marian Assal

Syed Athar

Lydia Aye

Mansoor Azim

Catherine Bacheller

Husek Baek

Sanjoy Banerjee

Ramesh C. Bansal

Richard Bardin

Juan Barrio

Basiem Barsoum

Frances Batin

David J. Baylink

Diane Berriman

Daniel Betat

Aditya Bharadwaj

Rahul Bhardwaj

Edward Blews

Cesar Bonilla

Reiner Bonnet

Kimberly Borden

Joel Brothers

Evert Bruckner

Kaveh Brumand

Tamara Burks

John Byrne

Marven Gerel Cabling

Cindy Cai

Constanza Burciaga Calderoni

Alejandro Calvo

Robert Cambridge

Huynh Cao

Yuan Cao

Matthew Cappiello

Kristin Carr

Ethelred Carter

Yas Casey

Daniel Castro

Bobby Chan

Jayaram Chandrasekar

Madalitso Chandu

Sandy Chang

Suzanne Chang

Daniel Chao

Zeno Charles-Marcel

Kendrick Che

Gregory Cheek

Chien-Shing Chen

Lynette Chen

Shaw Chen

Thomas Chen

Jason T. Cheng

Jeremiah Cheng

Doris Chih

Derek Chinn

Morteza Chitsazan

David Choe

Nicole Choi

Steven Chong

David Chooljian

Ara A. Chrissian

Sophie Chwa

Kevin A. Codorniz

Keith Colburn

David Condon

Tahmeed A. Contractor

Kathia Cordero-Caban

Adrian N. Cotton

Alfred C. Cottrell

James J. Couperus

Debra Craig

Chitra Damodaran

Nagamani Dandamudi

Patricia P. Dang

Nasim Daoud

Christopher Daum

Lino DeGuzman

Rahel Demisse

Peter Demuth

Angela Do

Hieu Duc Do

Paige Dobalian

Loomee Doo

Christina Downey

Kelly Downey

Karen Echeverria-Beltran

Bouchra Edderkaoui

Harvey Elder

Marvin L. Elias

Parastu Emrani

Amanda Etheridge

Dwight Evans

George Everett

John Faraci

David Farchadi

Ramiz Fargo

Maham Farshidpour

Ronald Fernando

Adam Fershko

Anthony Firek

Franz Fisher

Olha Fomenko

Alexander Friedman

Gerald Friedman

Helmuth Fritz

Geir Frivold

Enrica Fung

Brian Furukawa

Joe Gamboa

Lakshmi Ganesan

Vinisha Garg

Deepak Garg

Jalaj Garg

Roger Garrison

Frank Gavini

Alma Gerona

Bevan A. Geslani

Silvana Giannelli

Lauren Gigliotti

Paresh C. Giri

Robert Gish

J. Benjamin Gleason

Timothy Gobble

Stephanie Gondra-Sanabria

Dwayne Gordon

Alan Gorenberg

Prashanth Gowda

Nandini Gowda

Aric Gregson

Michaela Gruzensky

Tricia Guadiz

Richelle Guerrero-Wooley

Nancy Gupta

Hassan Haddadin

Harvey Hahn

Susan Hall

Saba Hamiduzzaman

Muhammad Hammami

Steven Hardin

Jonathan Harper

Jevede Harris

Abdalhamid Al Harsh

Muhammad Hasan

Mariam Hazem

Amy C. Hayton

Bruce Hayton

Davi Hecht

Douglas R. Hegstad

Giv Heidari-Bateni

Danielle Henkel

Steven Henley

Jan Herrman

Elaine Hguyen

Anthony A. Hilliard

Su Su Hline

Elliot Ho

Andrew Ho

Jason Hoff

Victor Hogen

Mehrnaz Hojjati

Annie Hong

Dennie Hong

Frank D. Howard

Russell Hoxie

Vincent Hsu

Chung-Tsen Hsueh

James Huang

Kathie Huang

Armando Huaringa

Enacio Hunt

Emad Ibrahim

Earl Ilano

Erick Imbertson

Michelle Imperio

Sergio Infante

Michael Ing

George Isaac

Dale M. Isaeff

Mohamed Ismail

Christian Jackson

Talisa Jackson

Katherine Jacob

Alan Jacobson

Alexander W. Jahng

Navin Jaipaul

Charmaine Jamias

Pairote Jaroonwanichkul

Niranjan Jeganathan

Suchaya Jinamornphongs

Joshua Jordan

Kenneth R. Jutzy

Tejinder M. Kalra

Ilho Kang

Matthew Kaptein

Lori Karan

T. Michael Kashner

Emmanuel P. Katsaros

Anas Kawayeh

Hana Kazbour

Asma Kazi

Waseemuddin Kazi

Waseemuddin Kazi

Casey Kennedy

Chandrasekhar Kesavan

Todd kessler

Keerti Khandekwal

Talha Khawar

Ahmed Kheiwa

John Jae-Woo Kim

Christina Kim

Mi Kim

Andrew Kim

Hyung Kim

Joseph Kim

David Kim

Dennis Kim

Daniel Kim

Walter Klein

Shawn Koh

Han Koh

Ja Eun Koo

Ja Eun Koo

Kamal Kotak

Reed Krause

Rajagopal Krishnan

Van La

Dima Lababidi

Rodrigo Do Lago

Jeremy Lam

Howard Lan

Wilson Lao

Alan Lau

Kin-Hing William Lau

Andrea Lee

Sonny Lee

James P. Larsen

Timothy Lee

Brian Lee

Stephen Lee

Steve Lee

Scott Lee

Paul Leonor

Sophia Li

Reed Liang

Nikhil Limaye

Samuel Limbong

Michael Lin

Jen-Gu Lin

Eugene Liu

Jia-Yia Liu

Takkin Lo

Ronald Lo

Andrew Logan

Evelyn Lomarda

Wen Long

Lawrence K. Loo

Jose Lozano

Jennifer Magalong

Edward Maharam

Masood Mahmood

Asef Mahmud

Kanwaljeet K. Maken

Ariel Malamud

Priya Malik

Nirav M. Mamdani

Ramesh Manchanda

Krish Manchandia

Ravi Mandapati

Stacy Mandras

Neel Mann

Monoucher Manoucheri

Axa I. Martell

J. Todd Martell

Ashley Masih

Katherine Mattison

Michael Matus

Stephen McDonald

James McMillan

Leonidas Mejia

Luis Isea Mercado

Alan Michel

Jonathan Min

Hamid R. Mirshahidi

Saied Mirshahidi

Hamid Mirshahidi

Aarti Nikki Mittal

Subburaman Mohan

Ioana Moldovan

Pamela Lobo Moreno

Dafne Moretta

Ali Motabar

Marriyam Moten

Seema Mukadam

Gayathri Nagaraj

Raul Nakamatsu

Melin Narayan

Daniel Nash

Brandon Nathaniel

Taranjit Natt

Neil Nedley

Christopher Ng

Phat Ngo

H. Bryant Nguyen

Mike C. Nguyen

Khoa Nguyen

Hoa Nguyen

Douglas Nguyen

Sunil Nowrangi

Ndi Nyah

Albert Nyanga

William Ochoa

Edmond Ohanian

Snorri Olafsson

Cassandre Oscar

Ganiyu Oshodi

Takahiro Otsuka

Surya-Rao Pakalapati

Zahra Pakbaz

Dennis Palmer

Neha Pandey

Olivia Papacostea

Petru Papacostea

James M. Pappas

Purvi Parwani

Jay Patel

Mark Patuszynski

Daniel Pearce

Luon Peng

Mario Perez

Kimerey Van Perre

Jon Persichino

Anh Tuan Pham

Dan Pham

Eileen Pham

Prashant Phatak

Donald Portocarrero

Vinoy Prasad

Gregory Price

Tiffany Priester

Nishant Puri

Lakshmi Puvvula

Xue Zhong Qin

Gulnara Rackauskas

Murli Raghaven

Samira Rahmanian

Vinutha Rajesh

Mina Rakoski

Purushotham Ramaiah

John Rambharose

Rungwasee Rattanavich

Venkataramana Reddy

Michael Ree

Surakshya Regmi

Rhodes L. Rigsby

Suzanne Rizkalla

Mark Robinson

Daniel K. Rogstad

Thomas Romano

Philip Roos

Giorgio Roveran

Daren Rudisaile

Charles Rundle

Vandad Saadat

Gergette Sacay

Seyed-Ali Sadjadi

Prem Sahasranam

Leena Sahay

Antoine Sakr

Huma Samar

Vaneet K. Sandhu

Matheni Sathananthan

David Saunders

Amy Schill-Depew

Brian Schwartz

Lyndetta Schwartz

Roger Seheult

Craig Seheualt

Ahmed Seliem

Khaled Selim

Cynthia Serabyn

Steve Serrao

Shivang Shah

Tahseen Shareef

Mohammad Sharif

Michael Shaw

Wei Shen

Matilda Sheng

John Shin

Shant Shirvanian

John Shrader

Richard Shu

Danish S. Siddiqui

Raman Sidhar

Vasthi Silva

Helme Silvet

Lusine Simonyants

Ajeet Singhvi

Ambika Sivanandam

Wasseem Skef

Lynetta Skoretz

Robert Smith

Pejman Solaimani

Hae-Young Song

N. Leonard Specht

Malathy Sriskandarajah

Liset N. Stoletniy

Debra Stottlemyer

Richard Strong

Donna Strong

David Stultz

Prajan Subedi

Julia Suh

Christine Sun

Made Sutjita

Thomas Sweeney

Drew Tadiarca

Mitali Talsania

Daniel Tambunan

Ellen Tambunan

Laren D. Tan

Shirley Tan

Xiaolei Tang

Shahriyar Tavakoli

Siegmund Teichman

Samuel Tekeste

Douglas Teller

Rhonda Tetz

Suman Thapamagar

Mie Mie Thinn

Hok-Ming Thio

Nikhil Thiruvengadam

Gary Thompson

Jonathon Thorp

Conny Tirtaman-Sie

Bhoodev Tiwari

Duc To

Karina D. Torralba

Denise Townsend

Joshua Trabin

Nancy Tran

Diane Tran

Anita Trikha

H. Tam Troung

James Y. Tsai

Leah A. Tudtud-Hans

Michael Ulrich

Anna Leigh Ursales

Thien Van

Jennifer Veltman

Rafael Villicana

Michael L. Volk

Michael Walter

John H. Wang

Destry Washburn

Samiksha Wasnik

Arthur Weinstein

Mark A. Welch

Bruce Weng

Leonard S. Werner

Rachel White

Shammah Williams

Angela Williams

Raymond Y. Wong

John Wong

Sammy Wong

Brian Wong

Jeffrey E. Wonoprabowo

Michael Woo

Andrew Wright

Patrick Wu

Weirong Xing

Yi David Xu

Pamela Yamanishi

Dennis Yang

Minho Yu

Jandark Yuseif

Yasmin Yusufaly

Manila Zaman

Zhiwei Zhang

Yan S. Zhao

Xin Zheng

Secondary faculty

Alismail Abdullah

Abigail Benitez

Vince Cacho

Justin Calvert

Carlos A. Casiano

Francis D. W. Chan

Kay Chea

Camille Clarke

Marc J. Debay

Vi Dinh

Philip Edelman

Rosemarie Florian

Gary E. Fraser

Nancy J. Heine

Kathy A. Herzberger

Christopher Jacobson

Sharon Jamie

Selma Khan

Donna Lien

Pushpa Nowrangi

Sunitha Nune

Jeffrey Olson

David Puder

Mark Reeves

Joan Sabate

Lawrence Sandberg

Tamara M. Shankel

Rebekah Bartos Specht

Gary R. Stier

Sigve K. Tonstad

Chad J. Vercio

Chi Viet

Andrew Wai

Alan Wei

Sean M. Wilson

Timothy Wong

Emeritus

David Bland

Ingrid Bloomquist

Charles Brinegar

Stanley Condon

Glenn Foster

Philip Gold

Walter Graf

George Grames

Terri Granillo

Guen David Jang

Edwin Krick

Irvin Kuhn

Francis Lau

Paul Levine

Terence Lewis

Robert Marsa

J. Lamont Murdoch

Sudha Pai

Stewart Shankel

Robert Soderblom