Resident Profiles
Maryann Abiodun Situ
Department: Pediatrics
Year: PGY1
Undergrad Insitution & Major: Stanford University
Medical School: UCSF Medical School
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
When will you finish your training program? 2014
Career / Research Interests
Urban underserved, community health, family centered care, primary care, neonatology.
Marissa Aillaud, MD
Department: Pediatrics
Year: PGY1
Undergrad Insitution & Major: San Diego State University/Cell and Molecular Biology
Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine
Hometown: Tijuana/San Diego
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
When will you finish your training program? June 2013
Career / Research Interests
Childhood obesity, insulin resistance (from the biochemical to the clinical features).
Liz Barnert
Department: Pediatrics
Year: PGY-2
Undergrad Insitution & Major: UC Berkeley - Integrative Biology
Medical School: UCSF
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
When will you finish your training program? 2012
Career / Research Interests
Primary care pediatrics with an emphasis on providing care for medically underserved children.
Melynda Barnes
Department: Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Year: PGY 3
Undergrad Insitution & Major: Stanford University; Biological Sciences, Spanish Literature
Medical School: The Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Hometown: Roswell, GA/ Los Angeles, CA
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
When will you finish your training program? 2013
Career / Research Interests
Neuroprotective agents on the recovery of the facial nerve after crush injury in mice.
JoEY Bazan, MD, MS
Department: Radiation Oncology
Year: PGY 3
Undergrad Insitution & Major: Stanford University; Mathmatics and Human Biology
Medical School: Stanford University
Hometown: Mission, TX
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
When will you finish your training program? 2013
Career / Research Interests
Squamous cell carcinoma of the anal canal; PET imaging parameters as prognostic factors in various malignancies; Childhood malignancies.
Natalia Isaza
Department: Anatomic and Clinical Pathology
Year: First Year
Undergrad Insitution & Major: UC San Diego, Biomedical Engineering
Medical School: Stanford School of Medicine
Hometown: Carlsbad, CA
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
When will you finish your training program? 2016
Career / Research Interests
Biomedical device design.
Sidharth Mahapatra, MD, PHD
Department: Pediatrics
Year: R2
Undergrad Insitution & Major: Knox College, Biology
Medical School: Rosalind Franklin Unviersty of Medicine and Science
Hometown: Bangkok, Thailand
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
When will you finish your training program? June 2012
Career / Research Interests
As young as 5, science fascinated me. That's likely why Peter Parker was my favorite teen-turned-superheor, SpiderMan. It all began in college. As an undergarduate, I spent 3 years working on the effects of heat shock on cellular physiology in plants. I took a hiatus for a year during medical school after which I studied the sweet taste receptor on taste buds over a summer fellowship. That experience was rewarding enough for me to make a switch from a 4-year MD program to an 8-year MD/PhD. Over the next 4 years, I generated a protein that has the potential to arrest cell death in Alzheimer's disease. Having spent the last 3 years consolidating a residency, I am once again on the lookout for a clinical research focus. I am likely going to start a project investigating what genetically predispose some children who suffer an RSV infections to be admitted to the PICU while others are well enough to go home. My heart remains full with fascination for science, and I will continue to find ways to fufill my childhood passion.
David McCall
Department: Orthopedic Surgery
Year: PGY 4
Undergrad Insitution & Major: University of Virginia, B.S. in Biochemistry
Medical School: Howard University
Hometown: Vienna, Virginia
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
When will you finish your training program? June 2012
Career / Research Interests
Interests in Chondrosarcoma treatment outcomes and arthroscopic approaches to the hip.
Osita Onugha, MD
Department: Surgery
Year: PGY4
Undergraduate Insitution & Major: UC Davis, Neurobiology, Physiology, & Behavior
Medical School: UCLA School of Medicine
Hometown: Los Angeles
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
When will you finish your training program? 2014
Career / Research Interests
Designing and implementing medical technology and health innovation to improve health care delivery in the developing world.
Melissa Sims
Department: Department of Radiology
Year: PGY-4
Undergrad Insitution & Major: Harvard University, Psychology concentration, pre-medical track
Medical School: Stanford University School of Medicine
Hometown: Manila, Philippines & Los Angeles, CA
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
Career / Research Interests
Transitional Year Internship, 2007-2008
Radiology Residency, 2008-2012
Musculoskeletal Radiology Fellowship, 2012-2013
Mediget Teshome
Department: Surgery
Year: PGY-5, R3
Undergrad Insitution & Major: UCLA, Physiological science (minor - public policy)
Medical School: University of Michigan Medical Schoole
Hometown: Los Angeles, CA
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
When will you finish your training program? June 2013
Jasmine Waipa
Department: Pediatrics
Year: PGY3
Undergrad Insitution & Major: Harvard, Sociology
Medical School: Stanford School of Medicine
Hometown: Honolulu, HI
Would you be willing to be contacted? Yes
When will you finish your training program? July 2011
Career / Research Interests
Childhood obesity, prevention and intervention; cultural sensitivity and diversity in medicine; public service.
