Faculty

DEPARTMENT OF ANESTHESIOLOGY

Department Officers

Robert D. Martin, MD
Chairman
Professor of the Floyd S. Brauer Chair in Anesthesiology
LLUFMG Chief Financial Officer

Stanley Brauer, MD
Professor, Anesthesiology
Vice Chair, Anesthesiology
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Chief Financial Officer, Anesthesiology

John Lenart, MD
Associate Professor
Chief Operations Officer, Anesthesiology
General Anesthesiology Division Head
Medical Director of OR Anesthesiology
Medical Director Critical Care Specialty Team
Neuroanesthesiology

General Anesthesiology

Shelley Abdel-Sayed, MD
Instructor

Donald Anderson, MD
Associate Professor

Sherif Azer, MB ChB
Associate Professor

Kristen Bandy, MD
Assistant Professor

Brent Barker, MD
Assistant Professor

Amanda Chao, MD
Assistant Professor

Carl Collier, DO
Assistant Professor

Jennifer Cristall, MD
Assistant Professor
Assistant Director, Medical Stimulation

Hilcias Duran-Gheorghe, MD
Assistant Professor

Thomas Engel, MD
Associate Professor

Sandra Fortner, MD
Assistant Professor

Garvanovic, MD
Instructor, Anesthesiology

Tiffany Hadley, MD
Assistant Professor

Mohammad Hassanian, MD
Instructor

Carlos Neumann, MD
Assistant Professor

Monica Neumann, MD
Associate Professor

Lowell Reynolds, MD
Professor

David Sanner, MD
Assistant Professor
Alternative, CSFAC 2 Year Term

Alexander Santillan, MD
Instructor, Anesthesiology

Linda Wat, MD
Associate Professor

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Michael Benggon, MD
Assistant Professor
Director of Adult Anesthesiology QI

Stanley Brauer, MD
Professor, Anesthesiology
Vice Chair, Anesthesiology
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Chair, Clinical Competency Committee
Chief Financial Officer, Anesthesiology

Ihab Dorotta, MD
Associate Professor, Critical Care
Cardiac Anesthesiology
Director, Critical Care Center
Associate Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology
Chief of Quality & Patient Safety
Director, Critical Care Medicine
Representative, CSFAC 2 Year Term

Jason Gatling, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Program Director, Anesthesiology Residency
Cardiac Anesthesiology
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Vice Chair, Clinical Competency Committee
Chair, Education Committee
Medical Staff President, LLUMC

Justin Horricks, MD
Assistant Professor
Cardiac Anesthesiology
Pediatic Anesthesiology

Huayong Hu, MD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Critical Care Medicine
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Director, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Intensive Care Unit

Uoo Kim, MD
Assistant Professor
Associate Director, Liver Transplant

Ryan Lauer, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Associate Compliance Officer, Institution
Division Chief, Anesthesiology Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Pediatric Anesthesiology

Carin Mascetti, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Medical Student Education
Director, Adult NORA
Director, Pediatric Post-Anesthesia Care Unit

Melissa McCabe, MD, MSCR
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Program Director, Cardiothoracic
Anesthesiology Fellowship

Kenneth Neff, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Adult PACU

Davinder Ramsingh, MD
Associate Professor
Chair, Research and Technology
Chair, Scholarship Oversight Committee Director of Clinical Research and Perioperative Ultrasound

Gary Stier, MD, FACP, MBA, CPE
Professor, Anesthesiology
Cardiac Anesthesiology
Critical Care Anesthesiology
Internal Medicine
Program Director, Combined Anesthesia/ Medicine Residency
Director, Perioperative Surgical Home
Medical Director, Loma Linda University
Health Preoperative Clinic

Teresa Thompson, MD
Assistant Professor

Critical Care Medicine

Melody Chang, MD
Associate Director, SICU
Fellowship Program Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology
Associate Residency Program Director, Anesthesiology

Huayong Hu, MD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Critical Care Medicine
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Director, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Intensive Care Unit

Edward McCluskey, MD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Ioana Pasca, MD
Assistant Professor

Nitin Shah, MD
Professor

Ryan Tone, MD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Carolyn Abbasi, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Peds NORA

Stanley Brauer, MD
Professor, Anesthesiology
Vice Chair, Anesthesiology
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Chief Financial Officer, Anesthesiology

Harmony Carter, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia
Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology QI
Representative, CSFAC 2 Year Term

Michael Scott Carver, MD
Assistant Professor

Elizabeth Ghazal, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Associate Program Director, Pediatric
Anesthesiology Fellowship

Ryan Lauer, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Associate Compliance Officer, Institution
Division Chief, Anesthesiology Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Pediatric Anesthesiology

Patrick Leiter, MD
Assistant Professor

Kristel Magsino, MD
Assistant Professor

Linda Mason, MD
Professor, Anesthesiology
Program Director, Pediatric Anesthesia
Fellowship
Pediatric Anesthesiology Division Head

Deborah McIvor, MD
Assistant Professor

Shannon Mulder, MD
Assistant Professor

Paul Nguyen, MD
Assistant Professor

Katherine Nurkse, MD
Instructor, Anesthesiology

Emilie Selleck, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Pediatric Sedation
Director, Pediatric Post Anesthesiology Care Unit

Whitney Sullivan-Lewis, MD
Assistant Professor

Joseph Tran, MD
Assistant Professor

Michele VandenHoven, MD
Assistant Professor

Michelle Woodfin, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Medical Simulation Center
Assistant Director, OB Anesthesiology

Liver Transplant

Joseph Soo, MD
Associate Professor
Director of Liver Transplant

Uoo Kim, MD
Assistant Professor
Associate Director of Liver Transplant

Michael Benggon, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Adult Anesthesiology QI

Melody Chang, MD
Associate Director, SICU
Fellowship Program Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology
Associate Residency Program Director, Anesthesiology

Carin Mascetti, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Medical Student Education
Director, Adult NORA
Director, Pediatric Post-Anesthesia Care Unit

Kenneth Neff, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Adult PACU

Neuroanesthesia

Rashmi Vandse, MBBS
Associate Professor
Director, Neuroanesthesia

Obstetric Anesthesiology

Daniela Karagyozyan, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, OB Anesthesia

Michelle Woodfin, MD
Assistant Professor
Director, Medical Simulation Center
Assistant Director, OB Anesthesiology

Susan Cosgrove, MD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology

Research

Perioperative Pain Management

Davinder Ramsingh, MD
Associate Professor
Chair, Research and Technology
Chair, Scholarship Oversight Committee
Director of Clinical Research and Perioperative Ultrasound

Baher Boctor, MD
Assistant Professor
Director of Acute Pain and Perioperative Pain Management Services

Carl Collier, MD
Assistant Professor

Lowell Reynolds, MD
Professor

Leonard Soloniuk, MD
Assistant Professor

Perioperative Surgical Home

Gary Stier, MD, MBA
Professor, Anesthesiology
Cardiac Anesthesiology
Critical Care Anesthesiology
Internal Medicine
Program Director, Combined Anesthesia/ Medicine Residency
Director, Perioperative Surgical Home
Medical Director, Loma Linda University
Health Preoperative Clinic

Melody Chang, MD
Associate Director, SICU
Fellowship Program Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology
Associate Residency Program Director, Anesthesiology

Ryan Tone, MD
Assistant Professor

Donna Lien, MD
Instructor, Anesthesiology
Instructor, Internal Medicine
Associate Medical Director of PACE Clinic

Ioana Pasca, MD
Assistant

Leonard Soloniuk, MD
Assistant Professor

Anesthesiology Newly Onboarded

Categorical Anesthesiology Residency Program

Melody Chang, MD
Associate Director, SICU
Fellowship Program Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology
Associate Residency Program Director, Anesthesiology

Internal Medicine - Anesthesiology Combined Residency Program

Sonny Lee, MD, FAAP, FACP
Associate Professor, Internal Medicine,
Pediatrics
Program Director of Internal Medicine
Associate Program Director, Combined Program
Associate Chair, School of Medicine

Donna Lien, MD
Instructor, Anesthesiology
Instructor, Internal Medicine
Associate Medical Director of PACE Clinic

Cardiothoracic - Anesthesiology Fellowship Program

Melissa McCabe, MD
Assistant Professor, Anesthesiology
Program Director, Cardiothoracic
Anesthesiology Fellowship

Critical Care - Anesthesiology Fellowship Program

Melody Chang, MD
Associate Director, SICU
Fellowship Program Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology
Associate Residency Program Director, Anesthesiology

Ihab Dorotta, MD
Associate Professor, Critical Care
Cardiac Anesthesiology
Associate Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology
Director, Critical Care Center
Chief, Quality & Patient Safety
Director, Critical Care Medicine
Representative, CSFAC 2 Year Term

Pediatric - Anesthesiology Fellowship Program

Linda Mason, MD, FASA
Professor, Anesthesiology
Program Director, Pediatric Anesthesia
Fellowship
Pediatric Anesthesiology Division Head

Elizabeth Ghazal, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Associate Program Director, Pediatric
Anesthesiology Fellowship

Adeline Kim, MD
Instructor, Anesthesiology
Division: Pediatric Anesthesiology

Simona Lupu, MD
Instructor, Anesthesiology
Division: Critical Care

Nadia Nathan, MD
Associate Professor, Anesthesiology
Division: Cardiac Anesthesiology