Full Name with credentials Role in training program Description of involvement 1. Jose Aliling, Clinical Instructor Available daily in Thousand Oaks outpatient clinic, teaches 2. Roy Altman, Emeritus of 3. Ernest Brahn, Training Program Director; of Immediate past Editor of Seminars in Arthritis and Rheumatism and currently editor of Osteoarthritis and Cartilage. Available to teach fellows 3 days per week and has monthly reviews of the ACR Slide collection with all the Fellows. He is a Master of ACR. Available in one ½ day clinic a week, teaches in the Fellow s clinic and 2 to 3 rotations a year on the inpatient consultative service. Heads Rheumatology Grand Rounds which is designed to train fellows in the fundamentals of Rheumatology practice and sciences. He Chairs the Committee on Fellowship Selection. Conducts quarterly interviews with each fellow, twiceyearly meetings of the fellowship committee, annual retreat to discuss fellowship. 4. Christina Charles,, MS Associate of Clinical Investigator. Available to teach one ½ day clinic a week, 1 to 2 inpatient rotations a year, teaches in Fellow s Clinic. Received MS from the UCLA Masters Program in Clinical Investigation. Supported by ACR- REF Clinical Investigator Fellowship Award and Arthritis Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship and NIH R01. 5. Pojen Chen, PhD Emeritus of 6. Soo Choi, Assistant Clinical of 7. Benedict Chou, Assistant Clinical 8. Philip Clements, Emeritus of Bench Research in anti-phospholipid. Has participated in training of two current faculty members. Is training two postdoctoral students and a medical student. Clinician Educator. Available daily in outpatient clinics and teaches inpatient consultation in rheumatology and in Fellow s Clinic. Available to teach in outpatient clinic and inpatient rotations. Clinical Research/Clinician. Works every day on scleroderma clinical investigations and teaches in clinics he supervises. Fellows frequently elect one or more months in his scleroderma clinical trial group. Co-editor of the textbook Systemic Sclerosis.
9. Alan Gorn, Clinical of Clinician Educator. Available daily in outpatient clinics and teaches Weekly lectures to fellows, residents, and medical students in rheumatology. Director of Fellow s Continuity Clinic. 10. Jennifer Grossman, Clinical ; Director, Lupus Clinical Investigation Available to teach 4-½ day clinics a week, 2 to 3 inpatient rotations a year, teaches in Fellow s Clinic. Director of Lupus Clinical Trials Group. 11. Meika Fang, Clinical of 12. John FitzGerald,, PhD Acting Chief of Rheumatology, Director, Rheumatology Medical Group; Clinical of 13. Daniel Furst, Emeritus of 14. Bevra H. Hahn, Emeritus of 15. Suzanne Kafaja, Assistant Clinical 16. Marian Kaldas, Assistant Clinical Clinician Educator. Based at West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. Trains Fellows in ½ day clinic at VA each week and on multiple rotations on inpatient consultations at the VA per year. Also coordinates the Fellows outpatient rotation through the VA s. Teaches in the Fellow s clinic. Mentored 3 fellows in the ACR Guidelines for the Treatment of Gout project and 2 fellows for the Evidence Report for the ACR Guidelines on Musculoskeletal Ultrasound. Has trained 3 current faculty in which all 3 completed Master s degree program in Clinical Investigation, Comentored 1 fellow who received the Southern California Scleroderma Foundation Fellowship Award and mentored 3 fellows on the ACR Task Force Panel on Evidenced Based Guidelines on Using Biologics in RA and update of the RA Guidelines. Currently mentoring 3 Junior Faculty who completed UCLA fellowship program in RA and Scleroderma clinical investigation. Co-editor of the textbook Systemic Sclerosis. Teaches in fellows clinic.. Available for advanced clinical training in SLE research and bench training in immune tolerance and autoimmune T cell biology. Currently training two Junior Faculty who completed fellowship at UCLA one in bench research and two in clinical investigation. Editor of Dubois SLE Textbook, past president of ACR and ACR Gold Medal recipient. Available to teach two ½ day clinics in Westwood. Clinical/bench research. Attends Fellow s Clinic monthly. Clinical and Bench Scleroderma Researcher Clinician Educator. Available for ½ day clinic once weekly in Westwood and teaches inpatient consultation in rheumatology and in Fellow s Clinic.
17. George Karpouzas, Associate of Chief of Rheumatology at Harbor/UCLA. Works with Fellows when they rotate on inpatient and outpatient services, covers 1/3 of clinic and inpatient consult rotations at Harbor during the year. Received Arthritis Foundation Meyers Award for bench research in systemic lupus. 18. Tanaz Kermani, Assistant Clinical of 19. Jennifer King, Assistant Clinical Available daily in Santa Monica outpatient clinic, teaches Bench Research in Systemic Lupus Erythematosis. Recipient of Rheumatology NIH T32 Training Grant and the ACR Physician Scientist Fellowship Award. Available to teach one ½ day clinic a week, and teaches in Fellow s Clinic. During her fellowship training at UCLA, she was on the ACR National Fellows Committee that helped create the Roadmap for Fellows resource tool, available on the ACR website. In 2009, she was also selected as one of the ACR Distinguished Fellows. 20. Antonio La Cava,, in Residence of Bench Research in molecular immunology. Has PhD established a laboratory in autoimmunity in animal models of SLE and diabetes. Gives journal clubs, research conferences, available for training fellows in bench/translational research. 21. James Louie, Emeritus of Available to teach two ½ day clinic a week and teaches in Fellow s Clinic. He is a Master of the ACR. 22. Megan Lynch, Clinical Instructor Available daily in Santa Monica outpatient clinic, teaches 23. William Martin, Assistant Clinical 24. Maureen McMahon,, MS Associate Clinical 25. Gopika Miller, Assistant Clinician 26. Masoom Modi, Assistant Clinical 27. Geraldine Navarro, Assistant Clinical Available to teach in Santa Monica outpatient clinic, teaches Clinical/Bench Investigator. Available to teach one ½ day clinic a week, 2 to 3 inpatient rotations a year, teaches in Fellow s Clinic. Received MS from the UCLA Masters Program in Clinical Investigation. Supported by ACR Lupus Research Investigator Fellowship Award and is the recipient of 2006 Arthritis Foundation Arthritis Investigator Award and NIH K23 Award, and now NIH R01. Available to teach in outpatient clinic and inpatient rotations at Harbor. Teaches in Fellow s Clinic. Available to teach ½ day clinic a week in Westwood. Teaches in Fellow s Clinic.
28. Harold Paulus, Emeritus of 29. Jay Persselin, Clinical of Works most days on RA clinical investigation, teaches in the Fellow s clinic, mentors 2 current junior faculty in RA clinical and health services investigation. Heads the Western Consortium of Practicing Rheumatologists and established the RA response criteria which were later adapted as the ACR 20/50/70. He is a Master of the ACR. Chief of Rheumatology at West Los Angeles VA Medical Center. Clinician educator. Covers ½ of clinics at VA and ½ of inpatient clinical rotations per year. Compiles reading list and reviews ACR teaching slides with Fellows. Supervises training program in Rehabilitation. 30. Veena Ranganath,, MS Associate Clinical Clinical Investigator. Available to teach one ½ day clinic a week, 2 to 3 inpatient rotations a year, teaches in Fellow s Clinic. Received MS from UCLA Masters Program in Clinical Investigation. Supported by ACR ASP Junior Career Development Award in Geriatric and ACR Clinical Investigator Award. Current support includes NIH K award. 31. Rania Shammas, Assistant Clinical; Available daily in Burbank outpatient clinic, teaches 32. Man Shim, Clinical Instructor Available daily in Beverly Hills outpatient clinic, teaches 33. Ram Raj Singh, of, Bench research. Mentored/mentoring 5 rheumatology Pathology, and of fellows, 1 pediatric rheumatology fellow, 4 graduate Interdepartmental students, 1 /PhD (Medical Scientist Training Molecular Toxicology; Program) and over 30 postdoc researchers, who have Director of Rheumatology garnered over 50 grant/research awards in the last three Translational Research years, including NIH K01, K08, K12, R03, F31, F30, Reentry and Diversity Supplement training grants, NIH T32, Program Rheumatology Research Foundation Investigator Award and Rheumatology Scientist Development Award, Arthritis Foundation Fellowship and Clinic-To-Research- Transition Awards. 34. Brian Skaggs, PhD Adjunct Associate of Bench Research. Basic science research in monocytes in rheumatic disease.
35. Mihaela Taylor, Clinical of Clinician. Co-Director of Clinical Rheumatology, UCLA- Santa Monica Hospital. Available daily in outpatient clinics, teaches inpatient consultation in rheumatology and musculoskeletal ultrasound. 36. Elizabeth Volkmann, Assistant Clinical Clinical Investigator. Available to teach two ½ day clinics. Does 2 Inpatient rotations per year, and Fellow s Clinic. 37. Melissa Wang, Clinical Instructor Available daily in Torrance outpatient clinic, teaches 38. Ari Weinreb,, PhDAssociate Clinical of 39. Ralph Yachoui, Assistant Clinical 40. David Yu, Emeritus of Clinician Educator and Bench Research. Based at West Los Angeles VA. Completed STAR program with PhD in Genetics in 1999. Has an independent lab in genetics of atherosclerosis at VA. Trains Fellows in ½ day clinic at VA each week and on multiple rotations on inpatient consultations at the VA per year. Available daily in Santa Monica outpatient clinic, teaches Available to teach one ½ day clinic weekly. Presents Rheumatology Grand Rounds several times a year.