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 Harbor-UCLA Internal Medicine Residency: The Department of Medicine Program Leaders Program Director Darryl Y. Sue, MD Associate Program Directors Mallory D. Witt, MD Janine R.E. Vintch, MD Brad Spellberg, MD Dong Chang, MD Department Chair: William W. Stringer, MD  Darryl Y.
Sue, M.D., Program Director, Department of Medicine Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine Associate Chair, Department of Medicine Director, Medical ICU Co-Chair, Nutrition Committee Vice-Chair, Ethics Committee California Thoracic Society, Clinical Problems Committee Undergraduate Institution: UCLA Medical School: UC San Francisco Residency Training: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Fellowship: Pulmonary and Critical Care, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Clinical Interests: Critical Care Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine Special Awards: Kouichi R. Tanaka Distinguished Teaching Award, 2005 Clinical Educator Award from the American Thoracic Society’s Clinical Problems Assembly, 2009 Serge and Yvette Dadone Clinical Teaching Award from UCLA School of Medicine Recent Publication: Sue DY. Excess ventilation during exercise and prognosis in chronic heart failure. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2011;183:1302-10. Biography: Dr. Sue attended UCLA and then UC San Francisco School of Medicine, followed by internal medicine training and pulmonary medicine fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He joined the faculty in 1979 as Director of Respiratory Therapy and Director of the Medical ICU. He has published papers in the area of cardiopulmonary exercise testing, asthma, pulmonary gas exchange, and lung disease. He is a co-author for five editions of "Principles of Exercise Testing and Interpretation," co-editor and co-author of three editions of "Current Diagnosis and Treatment in Critical Care," and co-editor of "Current Essentials of Critical Care." Dr. Sue was on the editorial boards of CHEST and the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Outside of medicine, he is proud of building a 12.5" Dobsonian-style reflecting telescope with microprocessor-based setting circles. He is also an amateur radio operator and has started learning some social ballroom dancing, including a little bit of salsa, waltz, bolero, and samba. His wife practices infectious disease in Los Angeles and San Gabriel. They have two daughters, both graduates of UC Berkeley.  Mallory
Witt, M.D.,Associate Program Director, Department of Medicine Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of HIV Medicine Associate Chief, Division of HIV Medicine Medical Director, HIV Clinics Intern Selection Committee Ethics Committee, Harbor-UCLA Ethical Issues in Research, LABiomed Pharmacy & Therapeutics Committee Antibiotic Review Committee Medical Legal Committee Quality Improvement Committee, Department Medicine Undergraduate Institution: UC-Berkeley Medical School: Stanford University Residency Training: UC-San Francisco Fellowship: Infectious Diseases, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Clinical Activities: Attends on Infectious Diseases Consult Service, HIV Consult Service, Inpatient Medicine Wards Editorial Services: Clinical Infectious Diseases, AIDS, Annals of Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, Infections in Medicine, Journal of AIDS, AIDS Reader, Journal of Infectious Diseases Special Awards: Kouichi R. Tanaka Distinguished Teaching Award Biography: Dr. Witt graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Zoology, pursued her M.D. at Stanford University, then completed her Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at UC San Francisco. She left Northern California for Los Angeles in order to pursue fellowship training in Infectious Diseases at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. She currently serves as the Director of the Harbor-UCLA HIV Clinic where comprehensive medical care is provided to over 1000 patients at all stages of disease. Her research interests include complications of HIV infection, from opportunistic infections and malignancies to cardiovascular and metabolic complications. She attends regularly on the inpatient HIV consult service, the Infectious Diseases consult service, and the medicine wards. Her outside interests include hiking, bird watching, gardening, traveling, and cooking. She is married to Roger Lewis, MD, PhD, who is also a faculty member at Harbor-UCLA and Vice Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine. They have two children in college and have (tried to) replace them with a large number of pets.  Janine R.E.
Vintch, M.D.Associate Program Director, Department of Medicine Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine Medical Liaison, Anticoagulation Subcommittee of the P & T Committee Assistant Editor, Proceedings of UCLA Healthcare Undergraduate Institution: UCLA Medical School: University of Southern California Residency Training: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; Chief Resident, Harbor-UCLA Fellowship: Pulmonary and Critical Care, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Clinical Activities: Attends on: General Medicine Outpatient Clinic, Pulmonary Consult Service, Bronchoscopy Service, Pulmonary Clinic, General Medicine Consultation Service, Pre-Operative Assessment Clinic, Medical ICU, Inpatient Wards Special Awards: Kouichi R. Tanaka Distinguished Teaching Award, Attending, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Distinguished Teaching Award, Fellow, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Biography: Dr. Vintch graduated from UCLA with a BS in Biology and then completed her MD degree at USC. She went on to complete her Internal Medicine Internship, Residency, Chief Medical Residency, and Pulmonary / Critical Care Fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. After completing her fellowship training, she pursued additional experience in the area of Sleep Medicine and is board certified by both the ABSM (American Board of Sleep Medicine) and the ABIM (American Board of Internal Medicine) in this specialty. In addition to her role in the program, Dr. Vintch also serves on a number of hospital committees. She recently completed a 3-year term as the Professional Staff Association President or “Chief of Staff” for the hospital. Currently, she is the Associate Chief of Administrative Affairs for the Division of General Internal Medicine. In addition to attending on the inpatient ward service and in the outpatient ambulatory clinics, she also attends in the Medical ICU, the Pulmonary Consultation and Bronchoscopy service, as well as on the General Medicine Consultation service that helps provide care for patients during the perioperative period. Her outside hobbies include camping, fishing, motorcycle riding, and reading non-medical related books. She enjoys going on long walks with her boys and their dog. She is an avid sports fan and enjoys attending her son's sporting activities, including baseball and football. One of her favorite things to do is to sit, watch movies, and eat popcorn with her boys on their family movie nights.  Brad
Spellberg, M.D.Associate Program Director, Department of Medicine Associate Professor of Medicine Division of General Internal Medicine Associate Medical Director, Inpatient Services Undergraduate Institution: UC Berkeley Medical School: UCLA Residency Training: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Fellowship: Infectious Disease, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Clinical Activities: Attends on: Inpatient Wards. Special Awards: Stafford Warren award, UCLA School of Medicine; Teaching Award for Subspecialty Fellow, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; Kouichi R. Tanaka Distinguished Teaching Award, Attending, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Recent Publication: Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Spellberg B, Blaser M, Guidos RJ, Boucher HW, Bradley JS, Eisenstein BI, Gerding D, Lynfield R, Reller LB, Rex J, Schwartz D, Septimus E, Tenover FC, Gilbert DN. Combating antimicrobial resistance: policy recommendations to save lives. Clin Infect Dis. 2011 May;52 Suppl 5:S397-428 Biography: Dr. Spellberg is Associate Medical Director for Inpatient Services at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He also works as an academic hospitalist, attending on the inpatient medicine wards. His research is diverse, ranging from basic immunology and vaccinology to pure clinical research and outcomes research. His laboratory research has focused on developing a vaccine that targets the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus and the fungus Candida; the vaccine is undergoing clinical development. Dr. Spellberg is currently working on the immunology and vaccinology of highly resistant Acinetobacter infections. He also has served as the PI of a multi-centered, randomized, double-blinded placebo controlled study of iron chelation adjunctive therapy for mucormycosis. More recently, Dr. Spellberg has begun research programs in infection prevention, using a novel disinfectant technology, and healthcare policy research focusing on medical education and medical documentation. Dr. Spellberg serves as Medical Director for Clinical Research Solutions, a clinical trials unit which supports conduct of clinical research at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center.  Dr.
Spellberg has worked with the Infectious Diseases Society of
America (IDSA) to bring attention to the problems of
increasing drug
resistance and decreasing new antibiotics. His
research regarding new drug development has been a
cornerstone of
the IDSA’s white paper, Bad Bugs, No Drugs, and has been
cited
extensively in
medical literature and on Capitol Hill. He
is a Fellow in the IDSA and joined the IDSA’s
Antimicrobial
Availability Task Force (AATF) to continue working on this critical
problem. As a member of the
AATF, he has
first-authored numerous IDSA position papers and review
articles relating to public policy of antibiotic resistance and
antibiotic
development. Finally, Dr. Spellberg
is
the author of Rising Plague,
which he wrote to inform
and educate the public about the crisis in antibiotic resistant
infections and
lack of antibiotic development.
Dong Chang,
M.D. Biography: Dr.
Chang graduated from UCLA with a BA in Communications Studies and then
completed his
MD degree at UCLA. He was an intern and resident, then Chief Resident
at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He completed his fellowship in
pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Washington,
Seattle, WA, then joined the teaching staff at Kaiser Sunset Medical
Center before returning to Harbor-UCLA.  William
W. Stringer, M.D.Chairman, Department of Medicine Professor of Medicine Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine Undergraduate Institution: University of California, San Diego Medical School: University of California, San Diego Residency Training: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center; Chief Resident, Harbor-UCLA Fellowship: Pulmonary and Critical Care, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Research Interests: Mechanisms to improve exercise tolerance in COPD Data collection, analysis, and database management of the Hospitalist program at Harbor, Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing. Recent Publications: Sun XG, Hansen JE, Stringer WW. Oxygen uptake efficiency plateau: physiology and reference values. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2012;112:919-28 and Sun XG, Hansen JE, Stringer WW. Oxygen uptake efficiency plateau best predicts early death in heart failure. Chest 2012; 141:1284-94. Biography: Dr. Stringer graduated from the University of California, San Diego with a BA in Biochemistry. He completed his MD degree at UCSD in 1984 and performed his Internal Medicine internship, residency, Chief Residency, and pulmonary /critical care fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, California. He is currently a Professor of Medicine at the Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the Chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. He is active in medical teaching, patient care, research, information systems, and administrative activities at Harbor-UCLA. His research interests include cardiopulmonary exercise testing and pharmacologic interventions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Dr. Stringer is past president of the California Thoracic Society (2010-11), and served on the California Thoracic Society Blood Gas, Electrolyte and CO-OX Committee between 1993 and 1995. He has been a Member, Vice Chair, and Chair of the Pulmonary Physiology, Function, and Rehabilitation Network Committee for the American College of Chest Physicians. His wife is an anesthesiologist in Long Beach (Laura Russell, MD), and they have 4 children. His interests outside of medicine include classical and bluegrass music, history, and scuba diving. |
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