Alumni
Our residents have gone on to do amazing things! Click on each of the classes to get a sense for where our graduates go after residency.
Jeremy Flores, M.D.
UCLA-VA Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
Mary Youssef, M.D., Ph.D.
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at UCLA
Anya Bershad, M.D., Ph.D.
Physician Scientist, UCLA Department of Psychiatry
Hua Chau, M.D., Ph.D.
UCLA/VA Academic Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship
Conisha Cooper, M.D.
Private Practice, Adelpha Psychiatric Group
Andrew Corse, M.D.
Adult Outpatient Practice, Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula
Jennifer Ghandhi, M.D., Ph.D.
UCLA Counseling and Psychological Services Fellowship
Angela Goddard, M.D.
Private Practice
Jesse Li, M.D.
Forensics Fellowship
Bryson Lochte, M.D.
Private Practice
Karen Mendez, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Fellowship, UCLA
Collin Price, M.D.
VA MIRECC Research Fellowship; UCLA Mood Disorders Fellowship
Danielle Taubman, M.D.
Private Practice, UCLA Partial Hospitalization Program
Rahael Gupta, M.D., M.S.
Child and Adolescent Fellowship, UCLA
Ashley Hite, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Fellowship, UCLA
Alex Sones, M.D.
Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship at UCLA
Brittany Tarrant, M.D., M.S.
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at UCLA
Erika Hsu, M.D.
Faculty, UCLA Department of Psychiatry
Mahta Baghoolizadeh, M.D.
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at UCLA
Brittany Booth, M.D., M.P.H.
Mood Fellowship at UCLA, Staff Psychiatrist in the UCLA Perinatal Program, CalPsychiatry
Ann Crawford-Roberts, M.D., M.P.H.
Community Psychiatrist, Federally Qualified Health Center south of San Diego, Teaching UCSD Residents
Jenny Manegold, M.D., M.S.
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at UCLA
Sir Norman Melancon, M.D.
Group Private Practice with Cal Psychiatry in San Jose/Palo Alto
John Horton, M.D.
Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at UCLA
Ellen Charles, M.D.
West Los Angeles VA, Inpatient Attending
Don Wei, M.D., Ph.D.
Faculty, UCLA-Harbor
Trevor Shaddox, M.D., Ph.D.
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at UCLA
Danny Duel, M.D.
Medical Director, Telepsychiatry Addiction Startup
Adesewa Adelekun, M.D., M.P.H.
Faculty, UCLA Department of Psychiatry
Kazandra De La Torre, M.D., M.P.H.
Psychiatrist
Sophie Feller, M.D.
Inpatient Attending, UCLA-Olive View
Shannon Ordon, M.D.
NYU Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
Sophie Rosseel, M.D.
Private Practice, Volunteer Clinical Faculty – UCLA
Richie Loeb, M.D.
NYU Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship
Evelyn Nelson, M.D.
Kaiser Permanente – Everett, Washington
Michael Mensah, M.D., M.P.H.
National Clinician Scholars Program – Yale
Wenqi Feng, M.D., M.S.
Group Private Practice – Regeneration Psychiatry
Samuel Lee, M.D., M.B.E.
Atascadero State Hospital
Jobert Poblete, M.D.
Group Private Practice – Regeneration Psychiatry
Liz Fisseha, M.D., M.S.
Community Psychiatrist – Federally Qualified Health Center
Andrew Davidowitz, M.D.
Office of Diversion and Reentry – Health Services, Los Angeles County
Annika Burnett, M.D.
Psychiatrist – CalPsychiatry
Greg Gabrellas, M.D., M.A
Child/Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – Columbia/Cornell
David Zhang, M.D.
Psychiatrist – Correctional Health Services
Justin Key, M.D.
Group Private Practice – Regeneration Psychiatry
Laura Obler, M.D.
UCLA Outpatient Psychiatrist, Psychiatrist at Victory Wellness Center
Dax Volle, M.D.
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Wendi Benalt, M.D.
Private Practice, Volunteer Clinical Faculty – UCLA
Maya Smolarek, M.D.
Private Practice, Volunteer Clinical Faculty – UCLA
“Gaby” Maria Gabriela Aguilera Nunez, M.D.
Attending Physician – WLA VA
Nicolás Barceló, M.D.
National Clinician Scholars Program – UCLA
Keerthan Somanath, M.D.
Mood Disorders Fellowship – UCLA
Juliet Edgcomb, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Aryeh Goldberg, M.D.
Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Katharine Marder, M.D.
Attending Physician, Clinical Instructor – UCLA
Nikhil Nadkarni, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Lindsey Law, M.D.
Private Practice – Berlin, Germany
Gil Hoftman, M.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Clinical Instructor – UCLA
Pratik Mehta, M.D.
Los Angeles County Departmental of Mental Health
Isabella Morton, M.D.
Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship – UCSF
Laura Halpin, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Alpna Agrawal, M.D.
Attending Physician – WLA VA, UCLA
David Bresler, M.D.
Private Practice – West Los Angeles
Richard Cockerill, M.D.
Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Nichole Goodsmith, M.D.
National Clinician Scholars Program – UCLA
Adrienne Grzenda, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Research Fellowship – UCLA
John Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar, Attending Physician – UCLA, WLA VA
Elizabeth Moore, M.D.
National Clinician Scholars Program – UCLA
Erin Samplin, M.D.
ER Psychiatry Attending – Martinez, CA
Thomas Carter (TC) Scotton, M.D.
Attending Physician—Kaiser Permanente
Sonya Shadravan, M.D.
Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Kyle Smith, M.D.
Private Practice
Melanie Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Scholar – UCLA
Adnan Majid, M.D., Ph.D.
Mood Disorders Fellowship – UCLA
Brigitta Miyamoto, M.D., Ph.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – Cambridge Health Alliance
Katie Unverferth, M.D.
Private Practice, Attending Physician – UCLA
Emily Wood, M.D., Ph.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Ashley Covington, M.D.
Integrative Medicine Fellowship, Private Practice, Volunteer Clinical Faculty – UCLA
Jonathan Heldt, M.D.
Faculty, UCLA Department of Psychiatry
Margaret Distler, M.D.
Faculty, UCLA Department of Psychiatry
Stuart Downie, M.D.
Geriatric Fellowship, Duke University
Harrison Lyu, M.D.
Private Practice, Volunteer Clinical Faculty – UCLA
Brandon Schneider, M.D.
Private Practice, Telepsychiatry
Uchenna Okoye, M.D., M.P.H.
ER Psychiatry Attending
Siddarth Puri, M.D.
UCLA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Karen Lai, M.D., M.P.H.
UCLA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Sadhana Nayak-Young, M.D.
UCLA Harbor Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Jude McElroy, M.D., Ph.D.
UCLA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
PJ Bonavitacola, M.D.
National Health Services Corps
Michael Zito, M.D.
VA MIRECC Research Fellowship
Leilani Sharpe, M.D.
Duke Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Sharlena Wilson, M.D.
Didi Hirsch
Daniel Inouye, M.D.
Private Practice
Cheryl Hendricks, M.D.
Los Angeles County Departmental of Mental Health
Pilar Abascal, M.D.
Public Psychiatry Fellowship – UCSF
William Connor Darby, M.D.
Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Michael Gandal, M.D.
Faculty, Department of Psychiatry – UCLA
Heather John, M.D.
Main Line Health – Exton, Pennsylvania
Sara Hyoun, M.D.
The People Concern – Los Angeles
Viet Nguyen, M.D.
Global Health Fellow – UCSF
Neil Paterson, M.D.
Kaiser Permanente – Hollywood
Aaron Siani, M.D.
Attending Physician – WLA VA
Christopher Archangeli, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – University of Vermont
Elana Miller, M.D.
Private Practice, Zen Psychiatry – Los Angeles
Zev Wiener, M.D.
Attending Physician, Clinical Instructor – UCLA
David Hermiz, M.D.
San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center
Yelena Koldobskaya, M.D.
Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Erik Paschall, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Sherry Yao, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – New York-Presbyterian Hospital
Sibylle Delaloye, M.D.
Kaiser Permanente – Lomita, CA
Jason Jalil, M.D.
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA (Now Faculty at UCLA)
Michael Mirbaba, M.D.
Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Eric Noble, M.D.
Private Practice, Clinical Instructor – UCLA
Lynn Yudofsky, M.D.
Faculty, Department of Psychiatry – Stanford University
Hannah Roggenkamp, M.D.
MIRECC Research Fellowship – Seattle, WA (Now Attending Physician, WLA VA)
Daqiang (Frank) Sun, M.D.
Attending Physician – WLA VA
Alaina Burns, M.D.
Staff Psychiatrist – UCLA
Benjamin Bloxham, M.D.
Private Practice – Encino, CA
Thomas Blair, M.D.
Kaiser Permanente – Downey, Volunteer Clinical Faculty – UCLA
Galya Rees, M.D.
Kaiser Permanente – West Los Angeles
Daniel Bonnici, M.D., J.D.
Attending Physician – WLA VA
Christopher Fischer, M.D., M.S.
Forensic Psychiatry Fellowship – UC Davis
Jared Greenberg, M.D.
MIRECC Research Fellowship – WLA VA
Micah Hoffman, M.D.
Attending Physician – Cedars-Sinai, Intermountain Healthcare, Traditions Behavioral Health
Scott Hunter, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Julia Krankl, M.D.
Kaiser Permanente – Ventura, CA
Andrew Mitton, M.D.
UCLA Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship
Ariel Seroussi, M.D.
Faculty, Department of Psychiatry – UCLA
Douglas Russell, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Garth Terry, M.D., Ph.D.
MIRECC Research Fellowship – Seattle, WA
Kristen Thompson, M.D.
Private Practice, Clinical Instructor – UCLA
Rebecca Van Horn, M.D., M.A.
Geriatric Psychiatry Research Fellowship – UCLA
Akemi Watkins, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – UT Dell Medical School
Assistant Professor – UCLA
Staff Psychiatrist – UCLA
Private Practice and Community Mental Health
Community Mental Health – Edelman
Private Practice and Community Mental Health – Orange County
MIRECC Research Fellowship – VA
Private Practice and Community Mental Health – Philadelphia, PA
Private Practice and Community Mental Health
Private Practice and Community Mental Health, Volunteer faculty at UCLA
Addiction Fellowship – UCSF
UCLA Mood Fellow, UCLA Borderline Personality Fellow, Private Practice, Community Mental Health
Community Mental Health
MIRECC Research Fellowship – VA
Attending psychiatrist, Lifeways, Inc, Hermiston, Oregon
Clinical Instructor, UCLA. Attending Psychiatrist, UCLA Behavioral Health Associates
Private practice, Jack Wu and Associates, Encino CA. Member of Volunteer Clinical Faculty
Assistant Professor, UCLA. Associate Director, UCLA Anxiety Disorders Clinic. Attending Psychiatrist, UCLA OCD Intensive Outpatient Program
Clinical Instructor, UCLA. Associate Director, UCLA Consultation Liaison Service
Private practice, Jack Wu and Associates, Encino CA. Member of Volunteer Clinical Faculty
Fellow, VA National Quality Scholars Program, West LA VA and UCLA
Fellow, UCSF Addiction Psychiatry
Clinical Fellow in the UCLA Borderline Personality Disorder Initiative. Staff physician at UCLA Motion Pictures and Television Fund Wasserman Campus in Woodland Hill. Private practice
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow, University of Pennsylvania
Forensic Psychiatry Fellow, USC
Research Fellow, Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Health Administration, West Los Angeles
Geriatric Psychiatry Fellow, UCLA
Child Psychiatry Fellow, UCLA
Psychobiology Postdoctoral Research Scholar, UCLA; Clinical Fellow for the Borderline Personality Disorder Initiative, UCLA; Clinical Instructor of Psychiatry, UCLA
Child Psychiatry Fellow, Columbia University
Recently moved to Maryland, awaiting proper licensure to practice
Child Psychiatry Fellow, Stanford
Director at the Center for Women’s Behavioral and Mental Health, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
Director of the Dual Diagnosis Program, UCLA
Director of Emergency Department Psychiatry, UCLA
Private Practice Adult Psychiatrist, Los Angeles
Director of Residency Education – UCLA
Salvador Echeverria, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Private Practice Psychiatry, Los Angeles; Attending in the Women’s Life Clinic, UCLA
MIRECC Fellow, Veterans Health Administration, West Los Angeles
Post-doctoral Research Fellow, UCLA Department of Family Medicine
Private Practice Adult Psychiatrist, Los Angeles
Inpatient Attending, West Los Angeles VA
Adult Psychiatrist at Edelman County Mental Health Clinic, West Los Angeles
Private Practice Adult Psychiatrist, Beverly Hills; Clinical Fellow, UCLA Borderline Personality Disorder Initiative
Private Practice Child, Adolescent, and Adult Psychiatry, Beverly Hills
Psychiatrist at the Village for Families, Hartford, Connecticut
Integrated Sleep Medicine and Psychiatry Practice, Providence Medical Center, Portland
Private Practice Adult Psychiatrist, Ventura
Psychiatrist at the Asian Pacific Counseling and Treatment Center and San Fernando Valley Community Mental Health Center
Psychiatrist at the Simms/Mann UCLA Center for Integrative Oncology; Consultation Liaison Psychiatrist at Santa Monica UCLA Hospital
Rodney Reid, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – Oregon Health and Science University
Rachel Rittman, M.D.
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship – UCLA
Staff Psychiatrist at Augustus Hawkins Los Angeles County Mental Health Clinic
Psychiatrist at the Sutter Center for Psychiatry, Sacramento
Private Practice Adult Psychiatrist, Los Angeles
Private Practice Adult Psychiatrist, Los Angeles