David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA - Notable Faculty

Notable Faculty

• Michelle Bholat MD, MPH is Associate Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Co-Founder and Director of the UCLA IMG Program (for International medical graduate) and received the Rising Star Award 2008 by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Chair of the Public Health Commission from Los Angeles County Department of Public Health from 2007 to present.
• Ronald W. Busuttil, MD, PhD is the Chairman of the Department of Surgery, and Chief of Liver and Pancreatic Transplantation. He established the liver transplant program at UCLA, and is a world-renowned expert in liver transplantation.
• Bruce Dobkin, MD is the Director of Neurological Rehabilitation and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neurorehabilitation and Neural Repair.
• Patrick Dowling MD, MPH is the Chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the UCLA IMG Program (for International medical graduate) and received the title of NHSC Ambassador by the National Health Service Corps.
• Gerald Finerman is the chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery.
• David Fish is a physiatrist and an editor of a popular PM&R handbook, PM&R Pocketpedia.
• Michael Gottlieb was one of the first physicians to report a case of AIDS taking credit for the ideas of a medical intern, Robert Wolf, who initially raised the question. Frank Apgar, MD was the another faculty member and was the ICU attending who initially suggested PCP be worked up in what turned out to be the first identified patient with AIDS at UCLA and asked that the housestaff work up this possibility.
• Louis Ignarro is a Nobel Laureate.
• Ira Kurtz is Chief of the Division of Nephrology and head of the Membrane Transporter Research Center.
• Joshua Prager is the president of North American Neuromodulation Society.
• Lauren Pinter-Brown is the Director of the Lymphoma Program in the Division of Hematology-Oncology at the David Geffen School of Medicine.
• William G. Plested is a cardiothoracic surgeon and past president of the American Medical Association.
• Arnold B. Scheibel is a professor of Neurobiology and Psychiatry and former Director of the Brain Research Institute (BRI) at UCLA.
• Arya Nick Shamie is a professor of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery and Neurosurgery. President, American College of Spine Surgery. Pioneer in the field of minimally invasive spine surgery and recently named on the list of Top Ten Academic Spine Surgeons in the US.
• Carl Stevens is a Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine at the Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.
• Ronald H. Stevens is Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, & Molecular Genetics and is Director of the UCLA IMMEX Project.
• Arthur W. Toga is a Professor of Neurology, Director of the Laboratory of Neuro Imaging, noted for developing brain atlases in human and non-human species, and was a founding editor of the journal NeuroImage.
• Jeffrey Wang is an orthopaedic surgeon.
• Susan Perlman is a Professor in the Department of Neurology
• Babak Larian is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery, Otolaryngology.
• Christopher Cooper is a Professor of Medicine and Physiology. He is Medicial Director of the UCLA COPD Program and of the Clinical Exercise Physiology Laboratory. He is also Director of the UCLA Exercise Physiology Research Laboratory.
• Robert Cameron is Chief of Thoracic Surgery, Director of General Thoracic Surgery, Surgical Director of the Thoracic Oncology Program, and an Assistant Professor of Surgery.