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Program Leaders
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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 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 Third Year Student, Site Director 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 May 15;183(10):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 the four editions of Principles of Exercise Testing and Interpretation (5th Edition in-press), co-editor and co-author of the 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 digital setting circles. He is also an amateur radio operator and has started learning some social ballroom dancing, including a little bit of salsa, Argentine tango, Viennese Waltz, and samba. His wife practices infectious disease in Los Angeles and San Gabriel. They have two daughters.  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 and then completed her M.D. degree at Stanford University. She then completed her Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at UC-San Francisco, followed by an Infectious Diseases fellowship 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. 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.  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 President, Professional Staff Association, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Chair, PSA Medical Executive Committee Chair, PSA Credentials Committee Medical Liason, 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 then completed her Internal Medicine Internship, Residency, Chief Medical Residency, and Pulmonary / Critical Care Fellowship at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. 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 and 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 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, Infectious Disease Consult 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:
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W. Stringer, M.D.Chairman, Department of Medicine Professor of Medicine Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Physiology and Medicine Treasurer, California Thoracic Society 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 Publication: Sun XG, Hansen JE, Stringer WW. Oxygen uptake efficiency plateau: physiology and reference values. Eur J Appl Physiol. 2011 Jun 22. 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 Medical 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 has served on the California Thoracic Society Blood Gas, Electrolyte and CO-OX Committee between 1993 and 1995 and 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. |
Dr.
Spellberg has worked with the Infectious Diseases Society of
America (IDSA) to attempt to bring attention to the problems of
increasing drug
resistance and decreasing new antibiotics.© Department of Medicine, Harbor UCLA Medical Center
