Faculty | LLU Anesthesiology

DEPARTMENT OFFICERS

Richard L. Applegate ll, MD

Department of Anesthesiology Chair
Professor of the Floyd S. Brauer Chair in Anesthesiology

Stanley Brauer, MD

Department Vice Chair

Department Chief Financial Officer

Department Secretary

LLU ATTENDING FACULTY

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Carolyn Abbasi, MD

Assistant Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Director, Pediatric NORA

Donald Anderson, MD

Associate Professor

General Anesthesiology

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Sherif Azer, MD

Associate Professor

General Anesthesiology

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Kristen Bandy, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Associate Director of Obstetric Anesthesiology

Michael Benggon, MD

Assistant Professor

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Director of Adult Anesthesiology QI

Adult Personnel Director

Baher Boctor, MD

Assistant Professor

Regional Anesthesiology

Pain Medicine

Director of Acute Pain and Perioperative

Devin Borna, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

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Harmony Carter, MD

Associate Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Director, Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia

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Jose Cesar, MD

Assistant Professor

Perioperative Pain Management

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Samuel Chambi, MD

Assistant Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

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Amanda Chao, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Jennifer Cristall, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesia

Assistant Director, Medical Simulation

Director of Ambulatory Services for LLU Outpatient Surgery Center

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Christopher Cullom, MD

Assistant Professor

Associate Program Director of Adult Cardiothoracic Anesthesia Fellowship

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Director of Adult NORA

Hilcias Duran-Gheorghe, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

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Thomas Engel, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

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Stephanie Frank, MD

Clinical Instructor

General Anesthesiology

Farzad Farrokhi, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

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Samantha Garvanovic, MD

Assistant Professor

Director of Liver Transplant

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Jason Gatling, MD

Program Director, Anesthesiology Residency

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Associate Professor, Anesthesiology

Elizabeth Ghazal, MD

Associate Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Program Director Pediatric Anesthesia Fellowship

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Service Chief, Children's Hospital

Tiffany Hadley, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

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Richard Hall, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Director of East Campus

Andrew Hallmark, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Mohammad Hassanian, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Justin Horricks, MD

Assistant Professor

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Joyce Hsiao, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Daniela Karagyozyan, MD

Assistant Professor

Obstetric Anesthesiology

Director, Obstetric Anesthesiology

Uoo Kim, MD

Associate Professor

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Associate Residency Program Director

Director of Adult PACU

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Ryan Lauer, MD

Associate Professor
Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Chief Compliance Officer, LLU FMG
Division Chief, Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Medical Director of the Operating Room

John Lenart, MD

Associate Professor

General Anesthesiology

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Patrick Lieter, MD

Assistant Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Pediatric Anesthesiology Accoiate Program Director

Associate Service Director of Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesiology

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Linda Martin, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Robert D. Martin, MD

Professor of the Floyd S. Brauer Anesthesiology

LLU FMG Chief Financial Officer

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Linda Mason, MD

Professor
Past Pediatric Anesthesiology
Program Director, Pediatric
Anesthesia Fellowship

Melissa McCabe, MD

Associate Professor Anesthesiology
Program Director, Cardiothoracic
Anesthesiology Fellowship

Director of Research

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Deborah McIvor, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

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Margaret Pitts, MD

Assistant Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

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Alexander Santillan, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Veit Trinh, DO

Instructor

General Anesthesiology

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Shannon Mulder, MD

Assistant Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Carlos Neumann, MD

Assistant Professor

Obstetric Anesthesiology

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Davinder Ramsingh, MD

Associate Professor

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

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Lowell Reynolds, MD

Professor

Perioperative Pain Management

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John Stewart, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Victoria Vo, MD

Assistant Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Regional Anesthesiology

Director of Pediatric Acute Pain

Director of Medical Student Education

Geovany Siguenza, MD

Assistant Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

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Michelle Woodfin, MD

Associate Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Anesthesia Director of Medical Simulation Center

Associate Residency Program Director

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Monica Neumann, MD

Associate Professor

General Anesthesiology

Phillip Pearson, MD

Assistant Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Director of Pediatric Anesthesiology QI

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Harry Sanner, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

David Sanner, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Regional Anesthesiology

Chief Medical Information Officer

Chair of Technology Committee

Director of Anesthesiology Perioperative Informatics

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Whitney Sullivan-Lewis, MD

Assistant Professor

Pediatric Anesthesiology

Rashmi Vandse, MD

Associate Professor

Director Neurosurgical Anesthesia

Associate Residency Program Director

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CRITICAL CARE FACULTY

Ihab Dorotta, MD

Assistant Professor, Critical Care

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Director, Critical Care Center

Associate Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology

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Melody Chang, MD

Assistant Professor

Critical Care Anesthesiology

Co-Director, Surgical Intensive Care unit

Fellowship Program Director, Critical Care Anesthesiology

Associate Residency Program Director, Anesthesiology

Huayong Hu, MD

Assistant Professor

Critical Care Medicine

Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology

Director, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Intensive Care Unit

Edward McCluskey, MD

Assistant Professor

Critical Care Anesthesiology

RUHS ATTENDING FACULTY

Gary Stier, MD, FACP, MBA,CPE

Professor

Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine

Critical Care and Neurocritical Care

RUHS Anesthesiology Chair

Carl Collier, DO

Assistant Professor

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

RUHS Vice Chair of Anesthesiology

Burgdorff, Courtney MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

Anesthesiology (Neurophysiology)

Justin Calvert, MD

Assistant Professor

Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine

Director of Preoperative Medicine

Michael Douglas, MD

Assistant Professor

Anesthesiology and Internal Medicine

Associate Program Director of Perioperative Clinical Informatics

Co-Director of Perioperative POCUS

Matthew Holsclaw, MD

Clinical Instructor

General Anesthesiology

Ioana Pasca, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Critical Care, and Neurocritical Care

Associate Program Director

Ming Haung, DO

Assistant Professor

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine

Director of Pain Medicine Rotation

Dennis Propp, MD

Clinical Instructor

General Anesthesiology

Director of Outpatient Surgery

Director of NORA

Benjamin Kuo, MD

Clinical Instructor

General Anesthesiology

Regional Anesthesiology

Acute Pain Medicine

Director of Regional and Acute Pain Rotation

Donna Lien, MD

Associate Professor

General Anesthesiology

Dylan Rivera, MD

Clinical Instructor

General Anesthesiology

Director of PACU

Charles Schoepflin, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Medical Student Rotation Coordinator

Co-Director of Preoperative POCUS

Catrissa Lightfoot- Siordia, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Sinha, Ashish, MD,PhD, DABA, MBA, FASA

Professor

General Anesthesiology

RUHS Residency Program Director

Leonard Soloniuk, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

Addiction Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pain Medicine, and Obstetric Anesthesiology

Director of Obstetric Anesthesiology

Khoa Truong , MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

VA HOSPITAL ATTENDING FACULTY

Jihye Yoo, MD

Associate Professor

General Anesthesiology

Martin Le, MD

Assistant Professor

General Anesthesiology

David Kim, MD

Associate Professor

General Anesthesiology

Thomas Edell, MD

Associate Professor

General Anesthesiology