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CTSI Summer Program 2015 Mentor List sorted by category
Category
Name
Title
Area of Interest
General
Internal
Medicine
Michael K. Ong, MD, PhD
Associate Professor in
Residence
Improving the delivery of
mong@mednet.ucla.edu
appropriate and efficient
health care by general
internal medicine
physicians. Hospital-based
care, mental health, tobacco
control, and heart failure
General
Internal
Medicine
Keith Norris, MD
Professor of Medicine
Chronic kidney disease,
Hypertension, Health
disparities, Spirituality and
health
kcnorris@mednet.ucla.edu
310-794-2292
General
Internal
Medicine
Martin Shapiro, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine and
Chief of the Division of
General Internal Medicine
and Health Services
Research, UCLA
HIV/Chronic
Diseases/Health Services
mfshapiro@mednet.ucla.edu
(310) 7942284
General
William E. Cunningham,
MD, MPH
Professor
HIV/Chronic
Diseases/Health Services
wcunningham@mednet.ucla.edu
(310)794-3556
pourat@ucla.edu
(310)7942201,
(310)794-0909
Public Health Nadereh Pourat, PhD
Current as of:
Friday, January 09, 2015
Adjunct Associate Professor Access to Care of
Underserved Populations,
Disparities in Outcomes of
Disease Management,
Patient Outcomes within
Safetynet System
Email
Phone
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Category
Name
Public Health Roshan Bastani, PhD
Title
Area of Interest
Email
Phone
Professor, UCLA Fielding
School of Public Health;
Director, UCLA Kaiser
Permanente Center for
Health Equity; Director,
Cancer Disparities
Research and Associate
Director, Cancer Prevention
and Control, Jonsson
Comprehensive Cancer
Center
Access to care in
underserved groups,
community-partnered
collaborative intervention
research to mitigate
disparities
Bastani@ucla.edu
(310) 2069266
Professor
Substance abuse,
particularly in groups with
high rates of HIV
prevalence.
SShoptaw@mednet.ucla.edu
Dtarn@mednet.ucla.edu
Family
Medicine
Steve Shoptaw, PhD
Family
Medicine
Derjung Mimi Tarn, MD, PhD Associate Professor
Physician-patient
communication using a
combination of qualitative
and quantitative
methods.(focus on
medications and dietary
supplements)
Family
Medicine
Sean Young, PhD, MS
Assistant Professor InResidence
Designing and evaluating
sdyoung@mednet.ucla.edu
ways to use social mobile
technologies (e.g., social
media) for health behavior
change. Our work has been
focused primarily on HIV
prevention and addiction
medicine among high-risk
populations.
Family
Medicine
Rose C. Maly, MD, MSPH
Associate Professor
Quality of life, quality of
care, survivorship issues,
and patient-physician
communication among lowincome breast cancer
patients
Current as of:
Friday, January 09, 2015
rmaly@mednet.ucla.edu
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Category
Name
Title
Family
Medicine
Gerardo Moreno, MD, MSHS Assistant Professor in
Residence
Language barriers to care,
gemoreno@mednet.ucla.edu
physician workforce, older
Latinos and diabetes,
medication
management/polypharmacy
(310) 7943938
Family
Medicine
Michael Rodriguez, MD,
MPH
Access and quality of care
in treatment of chronic
disease with Latinos
mrodriguez@mednet.ucla.edu
310-794-0394
community-based research
collaborations, increasing
physical activity and
preventing disability among
underserved older adults,
improving quality of life
among frail older adults.
csarkisian@mednet.ucla.edu
(310) 8258253
Professor of Psychiatry and
Biobehavioral Sciences
Mental Health/Health
Services
mirandaj@ucla.edu
(310) 7943710
Assistant Professor,
Psychiatry and
Biobehavioral Sciences;
Senior Behavioral Scientist;
Assitant Dean for Academic
Affairs
Research on
decisionmaking processes,
ethnographies of health
care, and the integration of
qualitative and quantitative
methodologies.
gery@rand.org
Faculty Associate ;
Professor
Catherine A. Sarkisian, MD, Professor
Aging,
MPH
Center for
Health
Improvement
of Minority
Elderly
Aging,
Jeanne Miranda, PhD
Gery R. Ryan, PhD
Aging,
Center for
Health
Improvement
of Minority
Area of Interest
Email
Phone
CDU
David M. Carlisle, MD, PhD
President and CEO of
Charles Drew University
health disparities and
access to care
davidcarlisle@cdrewu.edu
CDU
Theodore Friedman, PhD
Chairman, Department of
Internal Medicine Chief,
Division of Endocrinology,
Metabolism and Molecular
Medicine Endowed
Professor of CardioMetabolic Medicine Lead
Physician
Obesity, diabetes,effect of
drugs of abuse on the
endocrine system
theodorefriedman@cdrewu.edu
Current as of:
Friday, January 09, 2015
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Category
Name
Title
Area of Interest
Email
Pediatrics
Rebecca Dudovitz, MD,
MSHS
Assistant Professor
Improving academic
performance in school age
children and she is
interested in better
understanding the
relationship between health
and education and on
finding ways to improve
educational outcomes for
students in high-risk
populations.
RDudovitz@mednet.ucla.edu
Pediatrics
Tumaini Rucker Coker, MD, Assistant Professor
MBA
Socioeconomic disparities
in child health and
healthcare; practice-level
delivery system design;
preventive care pediatrics.
tcoker@mednet.ucla.edu
Pediatrics
Elizabeth Barnert, MD
Clinical Instructor
The intersection between
health and juvenile
incarceration
Ebarnert@mednet.ucla.edu
Nursing
Dorothy Wiley, PhD, RN,
FAAN
Associate Professor
Research: Men's and
dwiley@sonnet.ucla.edu
women's health as it relates
to sexuality and sexually
transmitted diseases; HIV
infection, including risk
factors for disease
progression; HPV infection,
including population
surveillance for cervical,
oropharyngeal and anal canc
Nephrology
Jenny Shen, MD,
Assistant Professor of
Medicine - LA BioMed at
Harbor-UCLA
Assessing and improving
jshen@labiomed.org
the outcomes of the chronic
dialysis population. Racial
and ethnic disparities in
care, peritoneal dialysis,
and medication use.
Current as of:
Friday, January 09, 2015
Phone
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Category
Name
Title
Area of Interest
Nephrology
Amy Waterman, PhD
Associate Professor of
Medicine
For both adult and pediatric AWaterman@mednet.ucla.edu
patients, how best to
expand access to
transplant, reduce racial
disparities in transplant,
ensure informed decisionmaking, ensure transplant
adherence, promote paired
donation, and increase living
Dentistry
Francisco Ramos-Gomez,
DDS, MS, MPH
Professor
Pediatric dentistry with
frg@dentistry.ucla.edu
specific focus and research
in the areas of early
childhood caries (ECC)
prevention, oral disease risk
assessment, and
community health with an
emphasis on underserved
populations.
Dentistry
Francesco Chiappelli, PhD,
MA
Professor, AAAS Fellow &
Fulbright Specialist &
Scholar
Mind-body interaction ,
fchiappelli@dentistry.ucla.edu
pathways that regulate and
modulate cellular immune
surveillance, and the pursuit
of excellence in the
research methodology of
the new science of research
synthesis for evidencebased health care
Dentistry
Tara Aghaloo, MD, DDS
Assistant Dean of Clinical
Research, an Associate
Professor and the Predoctoral Director in the
Division of Oral and
Maxillofacial Surgery
Bone biology and
regeneration strategies at
the basic, translational, and
clinical levels
Dentistry
Diana Messadi, DDS,
MMSc., DMSc.
Professor, Chair of the
Section of Oral Medicine &
Orofacial Pain
Oral diagnosis, oral
dmessadi@dentistry.ucla.edu
medicine, and oral oncology
Current as of:
Friday, January 09, 2015
Email
Phone
taghaloo@mednet.ucla.edu
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Category
Name
Title
Psychiatry & Sheryl Kataoka, MD, MSHS Professor
Biobehavioral
Sciences
Infectious
Disease
Current as of:
James McKinnell, MD
Friday, January 09, 2015
Assistant Professor, LA
BioMed at Harbor-UCLA
Area of Interest
Email
Phone
Improving the access to and skataoka@mednet.ucla.edu
quality of mental health care
for ethnic minority children
and their families, especially
through schools and school
based health centers;
posttraumatic stress,
depression, mental health
integration with primary care.
Health outcomes related to
antibiotic utilization and
infection.
dr.mckinnell@yahoo.com
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