Department of Health Services (DHS) Mentors

Hal Yee, M.D., Ph.D. Chief Medical Officer and Chief Deputy Director, Clinical Affairs, LAC-DHS

Evan Raff, M.D. Director, Specialty Care, LAC-DHS

Lauren Daskivich, M.D. Director, Eye Health, LAC-DHS

Erin Saleeby, M.D. Director, Women’s Health, LAC-DHS

Amy Towfighi, M.D. Director, Neurological Services, LAC-DHS

Anshu Abhat, M.D. Director, Care Transitions, LAC-DHS

Brad Spellberg, M.D. Chief Medical Officer, LA General Medical Center

Anish Mahajan, M.D. Chief Medical Officer, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

Phillip Gruber, M.D. Chief Medical Information Officer, LAC-DHS

Charles Coffey Jr., M.D. Associate Chief Medical Officer, LA General Medical Center

Dong Chang, M.D. Medical Director, Critical Care Services, LA General Medical Center

University of Southern California (USC) Mentors

Behavioral Economics

Jason Doctor, Ph.D. Professor and Chair of Health Policy and Management, USC

Dissemination & Implementation Science

Albert Farias, Ph.D., M.P.H. Assistant Professor of Clinical Preventive Medicine, USC

Brian Mittman, Ph.D. Research Scientist, Health Services Research and Implementation Science, Kaiser Permanente Southern California – specializes in complex interventions and dissemination

Jennifer Tsui, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Population and Public Health Sciences, USC

Barbara Turner, M.D. MSED MACP Clinical Professor of Medicine, USC

Systems Engineering

Shinyi Wu, Ph.D., M.S. Associate Professor of Social Work and Industrial & Systems Engineering, USC

Data and Analytics

Sarah Axeen, Ph.D., Director of Data and Analytics, USC Schaeffer Center
Assistant Professor, Division of Emergency Medicine Research, Keck School of Medicine of USC

Program Evaluation

Thomas Valente, Ph.D., Professor in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences, Division of Health Behavior Research, Institute for Prevention Research, Keck School of Medicine of USC

Kaiser Permanente Bernard J. Tyson School of Medicine Mentors

Michael K. Gould, M.D., M.S. Professor and Faculty Director of Research,
Department of Health Systems Science

Paul J. Chung, M.D., M.S. Professor and Chair, Department of Health Systems Science

Ashwini Lakshmanan, MD., M.S., M.P.H. Associate Professor, Department of Health Systems Science

Healthcare in Action

Sonali Saluja, M.D., M.P.H. Medical Director and Vice President of Population Health