Adam Schwartz, MD, MS
Chief/Chairman, Department of Emergency Medicine

Residency Training: Maricopa Emergency Medicine
Interests: Management of Clinical Information--Big Data, ED operations, Low-risk chest pain, Basketball, Tennis, Fitness, All things 'water', Modern architecture, Cars, Taking care of my 100 pound puppy 'Gus'

Jonathan Kei, MD, MPH, FACEP
Assistant Program Director 
Director of Airway Management

Residency Training: UC Davis Emergency Medicine
Interests: Airway management, resuscitation, public health/epidemiology, golf, fly fishing, photography.

Donald MebusT, MD
Clerkship Director

Residency Training: UCLA Emergency Medicine
Interests: Medical education, Hiking, Surfing, Softball, Jogging and raising my family.

Stephanie Diebold, MD
Assistant Clerkship Director

Residency Training: Denver Health
Professional Interests: Med Ed Education, Innovative didactics development, Medical Documentation, Patient Communication, Practice Efficiency
Personal Interests: Running, surfing, yoga, biking (road and mountain), paddle boarding, swimming, cooking, baking, gardening, DIY projects

Jeff Lapoint, DO
Director of Medical Toxicology

Residency Training: SUNY Upstate Medical University
Fellowship Training: Toxicology, NYC Poison Control Center/Bellevue
Interests: Technology in medical education, emerging drugs of abuse, envenomations, surfing, and photography.

Dasia Esener, MD, MS
Ultrasound Fellowship Director

Residency Training: Baystate Medical Center Emergency Medicine
Fellowship Training: Emergency Ultrasound, Baystate Medical Center
Professional Interests: Nerve blocks, TEE, ultrasound gel and sound waves.
Personal Interests: I love dogs, travel, and pretty much doing whatever it is that my kids' schedule dictate I must be doing at any given time.

Brent Lorenzen, MD, MA
Director of Research & PI

Residency Training: Carolinas Medical Center
Fellowship Training: University of Az. Clinical Informatics Fellow
Professional Interests: Informatics, Evidence Based Medicine, Medical Decision Making
Personal Interests: Skiing, Swimming, Outdoors, Travel

Chelsea Tafoya, MD
Assistant Director of Research and PI

Residency Training: Highland/ Alameda Health System
Professional Interests: Research, QI, global health and disparities
Personal Interests: Travel, running, cycling, yoga, gardening, cooking/baking, home improvement projects, exploring tidepools with my kids 

Katy Welker, MD
Faculty Advisor, Toxicology Rotation Director

Residency Training: Medical College of Wisconsin
Fellowship Training: Toxikon Consortium (Cook County / University of Illinois / Illinois Poison Center)
Professional Interests: Toxicology and opioid use disorder, also, pimple popping :)
Personal interests: pimple popping :), sleep, kids, dogs, traveling (with kids), hiking

Vanessa Hsieh-Park, MD
Faculty Advisor, Director of Resident QI

Residency Training: UCLA/ Olive View-UCLA Emergency Medicine
Professional Interests: QI/ peer review, resource management (especially radiology), mentoring, Women in EM, patient care experience
Personal Interests: Travel, skiing, hiking, ski and soccer mom to 2 teenage boys, non-medical nonprofit work.   

Charles Chiang, MD
Director of Simulation, SCPMG Regional ED Coding Champion

Residency Training: USC/LA County Emergency Medicine
Interests: Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Hyperrealistic Simulation, Resident Finance, Family, Volleyball.

Christina Matulis, MD
Assistant Director of Simulation

Residency Training: Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital 
Fellowship/Postgrad Training: Simulation Fellowship, Yale University/Yale Center for Healthcare Simulation
Professional Interests: Simulation, innovative medical education, interprofessional team- based training, mentorship
Personal Interests: running, reading, soaking up year-round beach weather 

Jon Van De Leuv, MD
FACULTY ADVISOR

Residency Training: NYU/Bellevue, New York City
Professional Interests: quality, mentorship
Personal Interests: hiking, scuba, travel, golf

Kristel Choy, MD, MS
Faculty Advisor

Residency Training: Kaiser Permanente, San Diego 
Professional Interests: Medical Education, Women in Medicine
Personal Interests: Tacos and finding other delicious things to eat that aren't just tacos. Cooking both tacos and non taco foods :). Picking up heavy things just to put them back down again (although with less fervor than pre-residency days). And of course, maintaining the illustrious KPEM Dog Page!  

• Eric Abrams, MD

• Mette Adkisson, MD

• Nicholas Aldridge, MD

• Cesar Avila, MD

• Paulo Berger, MD

• Eduardo Borquez, MD

• Kyle Brodmann, MD

• Joe Bradley, DO

• Darnell Cain, MD

• Sonia Callejas, MD

• Quetzalsol Chacon-Lopez MD, MPH (Ringside MD, Faculty Advisor for Diversity Cmte)

• Kristel Choy, MD, MS

• Alison Celis, MD

• Ian Chong, MD (Assistant Chief)

• Jenny Chua-Tuan, MD, MBA (Assistant Chief, Diversity Cmte)

• Andrew Ciennik, MD

• Rich Comeaux, MD

• Kathy Cooper, DO (Toxicology)

• Chad Correa (Diversity Cmte)

• Spencer Darlin, MD

• Rebecca Deross, MD (Disaster Director)

• Michael Del Valle, MD

• Paul Dohrenwend, MD

• John Edwards, MD (Assistant Chief)

• Jacob Gessin, MD

• Stacy Gomez, MD

• Vik Gulati, MD

• Kyle Hersh, MD

• Robert Husband, DO

• Wender Hwang, MD

• Vanessa Hsieh-Park, MD

• Deana Kantartzis, MD

• Christian Kelly, MD

• Steven Kohler, MD

• Ryan Krause, DO

• Joanna Law-Courter, MD

• Sari Lahham, MD

• Hien Le, MD

• Daniel Lee, MD

• Bryan Maltby, MD

• Christina Matulis, MD

• Jonathan Mau, MD RDMS

• Cameron McFarland, MD

• Tina McGovern, MD

• Mark Meyer, MD

• Connie B. Miller, MD

• Bhavesh Mody, MD

• David Neison, MD (Assistant Chief)

• So Onishi, MD

• Sam Ontiveros, MD (Toxicology)

• Elizabeth Owen, MD (Undersea and Hyperbarics)

• Angela Pham, MD

• Kristina Pfeiffer, MD

• Matthew Poliakoff, DO

• Gabe Rose, DO (Ultrasound Division Co-Director)

• Peter Sacci, MD

• Saema Said, MD

• Anthony Salazar, MD (QI Director)

• Tim Saylor, MD

• Christopher Scott, MD (EMS Director)

• Mashal Shamel, MD

• Michael Shaheen, MD

• Michelle Shaprut, MD

• James Smithson, MD

• Jen Soifer, MD

• Jessica Stern, MD

• Andrew Stolle, MD

• Clifford Swap, MD, MS

• William Swanson, MD

• Chelsea Tafoya, MD

• Ashley Tarchione, MD

• Jack Taras, MD

• Ben Trevias, MD

• Emily Utschig, DO

• Jon van de Leuv, MD (Resident QI)

• Jose Vega, MD

• Katy Welker, MD (Toxicology)

• Michael Young, DO (Toxicology)

• Randall Young, MD, MMM

• Carl Youngs, MD (Wilderness Med)

• Jon Zackary, MD

• Reka Zsilinszka, MD