Our Expert Team

Leadership

Glenn D. Braunstein MD Chairman, Department of Medicine James R. Klinenberg, MD Chair in Medicine Director, Cedars-Sinai Thyroid Cancer Center Associate Director, Cedars-Sinai's Center for Androgen Related Research and Discovery	Michael H. Weisman MD Director, Division of Rheumatology
Mark O. Goodarzi MD, PhD Director, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Site Director, Endocrine Fellowship Program	Mark Ault MD Director, Division of General Internal Medicine Assistant Chairman for Clinical Affairs of the Department of Medicine
Stanley C. Jordan MD Director, Kidney Transplantation and Transplant Immunology, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Center Director, Division of Pediatric and Adult Nephrology	Zab Mosenifar MD Medical Director, Women's Guild Lung Institute
Jerome Rotter MD Director of Research and Co-Director, Medical Genetics Institute Director, Division of Medical Genetics Board of Governors Chair in Medical Genetics	Prediman K. Shah MD Director, Division of Cardiology Director, Oppenheimer Atherosclerosis Research Center Shapell and Webb Family Chair in Clinical Cardiology Professor, Cedars-Sinai Professorial Series
Stephan R. Targan MD Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center Director, Division of Gastroenterology Feintech Family Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease

• H. Phillip Koeffler MD
  Director, Division of Hematology/Oncology
  Mark Goodson Chair in Oncology Research
  
• Lyle Kurtz MD
  Clinical Chief, Department of Medicine
  

Cardiology

C. Noel Bairey Merz MD, FACC Director, Women's Heart Center Director, Preventive and Rehabilitative Cardiac Center Women's Guild Chair in Women's Health	Bojan Cercek MD, PhD Director, Coronary Care Units Co-Director, Atherosclerosis Research Center Eleanore and Harold Foonberg Chair in Cardiac Intensive Care
Sumeet S. Chugh MD, FACC, FHRS, FAHA Associate Director for Genomic Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Section Chief, Electrophysiology Drvyopm Pauline and Harold Price Chair in Cardiac Electrophysiology Research Professor of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Professorial Series	Kuang-Yuh Chyu MD, PhD Cardiology
Lawrence Czer MD Medical Director, Heart Transplant Program Director, Transplantation Cardiology Co-Director, Mechanical Support Program	Swaminatha V. Gurudevan MD, FACC, FASE, FSCCT Cardiology
Saibal Kar MD Director, Cardiovascular Intervention Center Research	Sanjay Kaul MD, FAHA Associate Director, Clinical Research, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Director, Vascular Physiology and Thrombosis Research Laboratory at the Burns and Allen Research Institute
Robert Kraus MD Director, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catherterization Laboratory	Raj Makkar MD Director, Interventional Cardiology and Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory
Eduardo Marban MD Director, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute	Michael Shehata MD, FACC Co-Director of the Mechanical Support Program Associate Program Director, Fellowship Training in Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology
Takahiro Shiota MD Associate Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory	Robert Siegel MD Director, Cardiac Non-Invasive Laboratory Rexford S. Kennamer, MD Chair in Cardiac Ultrasound
Kirsten Tolstrup MD Assistant Director, Cardiac Noninvasive Laboratory	Ronald Victor MD Director, Cedars-Sinai Center for Hypertension Associate Director, Clinical Research, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute Burns and Allen Chair in Cardiology Research
Xunzhang Wang MD Director, Cardiac Electrophysiology Laboratory and Complex Arrhythmia Service, Division of Cardiology

Endocrinology - Metabolism

Vivien Bonert MD Clinical Coordinator, Pituitary Center	Glenn D. Braunstein MD Chairman, Department of Medicine James R. Klinenberg, MD Chair in Medicine Director, Cedars-Sinai Thyroid Cancer Center Associate Director, Cedars-Sinai's Center for Androgen Related Research and Discovery
John D. Carmichael MD Attending Physician, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism	Ning-Ai Liu MD, PhD Attending Physician, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism
Basil Rapoport MBChB Director, Thyroid Autoimmune Disease Unit	Run Yu MD, PhD Co-Director, Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Program

• Wendy Sacks MD
  Endocrinology
  

Gastroenterology

Jeffrey Conklin MD Medical Director, Esophageal Center	Simon K. Lo MD Director, Pancreatic and Biliary Diseases Program Director, GI Endoscopy
Dermot McGovern MD, PhD Director, Translational Medicine, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center and Immunobiology Research Institute Joshua L. and Lisa Z. Greer Chair in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics	Gil Melmed MD Director, Clinical Trials, Cedars-Sinai Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center
Mark Pimentel MD, FRCPC Director, GI Motility Program Director, GI Motility Laboratory	Fred Poordad MD Chief, Liver Disease and Transplant Center
David Q. Shih MD PhD Assistant Director, Basic Research, Inflammatory Bowel and Immunobiology Research Institute	Tram T. Tran MD Medical Director, Liver Transplantation
Eric Vasiliauskas MD Associate Clinical Director, Inflammatory Bowel Disease Center

General Internal Medicine

Amanda Ewing MD Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Training Program	Robert I. Goodman MD Staff Physician
Dani Hackner MD Associate Chair, Department of Medicine Director, Transitional Critical Care Services	Mehrnaz Hadian MD, MS Staff Physician, Procedure Center and Intensive Care Unit
Brian D. Kan MD, MS Director, Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Training Program	Lawrence Maldonado MD Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit
Peggy Miles MD Associate Director, Division of General Internal Medicine Medical Director, Faculty Service, Department of Medicine Medical Director, Employee Health Service Medical Director, Internal Medicine Clinics	Mark Noah MD, FACP Medical Director, Graduate and Continuing Medical Education Director, Medicine Residency Training Program Melvin Brody, MD Chair in Medical Education
Alexis Peraino MD Internal Medicine	Bradley T. Rosen MD, MBA Medical Director, Inpatient Specialty Program
Adrienne Youdim MD Medical Director, Cedars-Sinai Weight Loss Center

• Joya Favreau MD
  Staff Physician, Division of General Internal Medicine
  Member, Saul and Joyce Brandman Breast Center
  
• Leon Henderson MD
  Staff Physician
  
• Claude Killu MD
  Staff Physician, Procedure Center and Intensive Care Unit
  
• Philip Ng MD
  Director, Procedure Center
  

Hematology-Oncology

M. William Audeh MD, MS Medical Director, Samuel Oschin Cancer Center Medical Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program	Leland W. K. Chung PhD Director, Uro-Oncology Research Program Professor of Medicine
Bekir Cinar PhD Assistant Professor	Wen-Chin Huang PhD Assistant Professor
Angela M Lopez MD Hematology/Oncology	Ronald B. Natale MD Medical Director, Clinical Lung Cancer Program
Gregory Sarna MD, FACP Medical Oncologist	Edward M. Wolin MD Co-Director, Carcinoid and Neuroendocrine Tumor Program

Medical Genetics

Ora Karp Gordon MD, MS Director, GenRISK Adult Genetics Program Genetics Director, Wasserman Breast Cancer Risk Reduction Program

Nephrology

Alice Peng MD Associate Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Center	Rafael Villicana MD Associate Director, Kidney Transplantation, Comprehensive Transplant Center
Ashley Anh Vo Pharm. D. Administrative Director, Transplant Immunotherapy Program

Pulmonary Care

David Balfe MD Medical Director, Pulmonary Stepdown Unit	George E. Chaux MD Medical Director, Lung Transplant Center
Jeremy A. Falk MD Associate Director, Lung Transplant Center

• Michael I. Lewis MD
  Director, Respiratory Intensive Care Unit
  Co-Director, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
  

Rheumatology

Mariko L Ishimori MD Rheumatology