Each member of  our Family Medicine program faculty was chosen for his or her energy and experience in mentoring  residents, supporting innovative didactics and garnering quality patient outcomes in their own practices. Our caring faculty will help guide our incoming, first-year residents in the transition from medical student to physician. 

By supporting your research and answering your every question, faculty will help you develop a holistic skill set, from clinical skills to practical techniques and bedside manner.  Our interactions will also equip you with skills you will need to maintain a healthy balance in your lives. Faculty will engage with you and with our patient population with the humankindness you would only find from Dignity Health.

Program Administration

Core Faculty

• Anthony Slade, DO
• Brandon Jones, MD
• Hadass Fuerst, DO
• Hadia Khan, MD
• Mario Tempe, DO
• Laila Younes, MD

Faculty

• Sara Mavis, MSW, LCSW 
• Theron Liddell, PhD
• Vidhya Kumbera, MD

Preceptors

• Paul Steinberg, MD
• Umar Iqbal, MD - Family Medicine

Rotation Directors

Required Rotations

• Adebayo Atolagbe, MD - Outpatient Pediatrics
• Dan Belen, DO – Critical Care Medicine
  
• Bill Halmi, MD – Dermatology
• Ryan Adkins, DO – Emergency Medicine
• Clarence E. Clark, MD - General Surgery
• Shawn Abreu, MD – Geriatrics  / Hospice and Palliative Medicine
• Yonas Geda, MD - Geriatric Neurology
• Mahmood Shahlapour, MD - Inpatient Medicine
• Shannon Kearl, MD - Neonatology
• Charles Boag, DO - Obstetrics (Outpatient OB/GYN and Inpatient L&D)
• Cliff Jones, MD – Orthopedics
• Yash J. Bhatt, MD –Pediatrics (Inpatient)
• Kaleena Patel, MD - Pediatric Emergency Medicine
• Stephanie Horton, DO - Radiology
  
• Afzal Khan, MD - Sports Medicine
  
• Anthony Nuara, MD - Dermatology
  
• Uchenna Onyia, MD - Outpatient Pediatrics
• Wael Youssef, MD - Gastroenterology

Elective Rotations

• Shabeena Shaik, MD – Endocrinology
• Onyemaechi Okolo-Taku, MD - Hematology/Oncology
• Ashish Pershad, MD - Cardiology
• Sujatha Nott, MD – Infectious Disease
• Jerilynne Merrill, MD - Addiction Medicine
• John Anwar, MD - Urban Medicine
• Curtis Cook, MD - Maternal Fetal Medicine
• Jonathan Hodgson, DO – Neurology
• James Reidy, DO - Otolaryngology
• Daniel Merrill, MD – Psychiatric Consults
• James Reidy, DO - Otolaryngology
• Onyemaechi Okolo-Taku, MD - Hematology/ Oncology
• Sankalp Choudhri, MD – Pulmonology
• Pratik Patel, MD – Urology
• John Anwar, MD - St. Vincent de Paul
• Hiral Thakrar, MD - Allergy & Immunology
• Timothy Sanford, MD - Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
• Hiral Thakrar, MD - Allergy & Immunology