California Chapters News

Congratulations to California Chapter Members on National Awards

(October 2024) We are pleased to announce that Raminder S Gill, MD MACP, Mark S Noah, MD MACP, Rajesh Gulati, MBBS MACP, Daniel I Kim, MD MBA MACP, Charles G Goldberg, MD MACP, Bruce J Kimura, MD MACP, Holly B Yang, MD MACP are recipients of Mastership. Joel C Diamant, MD MACP is the recipient of the Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teach Award.

The first MACP in the College was presented in 1923 to Dr. James M. Anders, who served the College as President for two terms. He was recognized for extraordinary service to the College and for being one of the most outstanding internists and medical teachers of his day.

The Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teach Award is bestowed upon a FACP or MACP who has demonstrated the ennobling qualities of a great teacher as judged by the accomplishments of former students.

Please join me in congratulating them and celebrating this accomplishment at Internal Medicine Meeting 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. To view the full list of national awardees, click here.

2024 ACP SoCal Chapters Narrative Medicine Competition Results

(October 2024) Congratulations to our winners!

Narrative Medicine Winners

Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

California Northern

Alia T Tuqan, MD FACP

California Southern 1

Ramez Ethnasios, MD FACP
Yusuke Tsugawa, MD PhD FACP

California Southern 2

Denise Lynn Townsend, MD FACP
Andrew T Truong, MD FACP

California Southern 3

Julian P Lichter, MD FACP

(September 2024) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.

2024 Chapter Excellence Award-Gold Level Winner

(August 2024) We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2024 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 59 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet 20 Bronze criteria, 14 Silver criteria and multiple Gold level activities. Criteria include such activities as having a legislative action plan or agenda, holding a volunteerism/community service activity, holding multiple stand-alone meetings, having revenue sources outside of dues and meeting registration fees, implementing a strategic plan, implementing a formal recruitment and retention plan and measuring outcomes, conducting various activities for Medical Students, Residents and Early Career Physicians. We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.

Empower Your Advocacy: Introducing Our Comprehensive Toolkit

(August 2024) We are excited to announce the launch of our Advocacy Toolkit: Using Your Voice as a Physician Advocate, a powerful resource designed to equip medical students and physicians with the skills and knowledge needed to become effective advocates for health care in their communities. This toolkit comprises five self-contained and independent modules, each presented as engaging voice-over PowerPoint presentations. Whether you're a seasoned advocate or new to the field, these modules offer valuable insights and practical guidance.

Module Highlights

Physician as Advocate

Discover advocacy tips and real-life examples that showcase how physicians can use their voice to drive positive health outcomes in their communities. This module emphasizes the pivotal role of physicians in advocating for public health.

Legislative Advocacy

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the legislative process at both state and federal levels. Learn about the opportunities available for physician advocacy within this process and how to navigate the legislative landscape effectively.

Print Media Advocacy

Explore the various types of print media, their audiences, and their scope in the realm of advocacy. This module provides insights into crafting compelling messages that resonate with readers and drive change through traditional media channels.

Social Media Advocacy

Delve into the dynamic world of social media and its potential as a powerful advocacy tool. Learn about the key features of different social media platforms and how to leverage them to amplify your advocacy efforts and engage a broader audience.

Audio Media Advocacy

Understand the motivations and uses of audio media in advocacy. This module focuses on the unique advantages of podcasts, radio, and other audio formats, offering strategies to effectively communicate your advocacy messages through these channels.

Each module begins with a standard introduction and overview, followed by an in-depth exploration of the topic, and concludes with a concise one-page outline to reinforce key points.

Toolkit: Using Your Voice As A Physician Advocate

By integrating these modules into your advocacy efforts, you will be better equipped to influence public health policy and drive meaningful change. Empower yourself and your community with the tools and knowledge provided in our Advocacy Toolkit.

Together, let's make a difference!

State Health Advocacy August Recess Grassroots Mobilization Challenge

(August 2024) Members of Congress are returning home to their districts during the August congressional recess. During this time, ACP is calling on internal medicine physicians to engage their representatives on important issues we need Congress to act on before the end of 2024.

To incentivize participation in this grassroots mobilization, the Advocates for Internal Medicine Network (ACP grassroots network) is challenging members to see which states will have the highest engagement. Advocates can score points for their states by choosing to take one or more advocacy actions identified in the campaign.

Access the August Recess Grassroots Mobilization Challenge Now!

Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

California Northern

Vijay Kumar Bodukam, MD FACP
Sara Choudhry, MD FACP
Alexander Ote Mallari, MD FACP
Arvindselvan Mohanaselvan, MD FACP
Jessica A Murphy, DO FACP
William G Ochoa, MD FACP
Maria C Rojas D'Croz, MD FACP
Douglas L Souvignier, MD FACP
Vincent Wong, DO FACP
Jinoos Yazdany, MD FACP

California Southern 1

Megana Ballal, MD FACP
Todd W Engstrom, MD FACP
Kin Wai Hung, MD FACP
Tony Kamel, MD FACP
Shazia S Khan, MD FACP
Alexander E Morf, MD FACP
Tony M Ohn, MBBS FACP
Samir Souleiman Salameh, MD FACP

California Southern 2

Chizobam Ani, MD FACP
Camellia Kani, MD FACP
Ajay Moganti, MD FACP
Sadia F Moinuddin, MD FACP
Imran M Siddiqui, MD FACP
Almira J Yang, DO FACP

California Southern 3

Brian K Kwan, MD FACP
Ryan J Moran, MD FACP

(July 2024) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.

Call for Spring 2025 Resolutions

(July 2024) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you would like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.

Initiating a resolution provides ACP members an opportunity to focus attention at the ACP national level on a particular issue or topic that concerns them. Participating in the Board of Governors resolutions process provides the ACP grassroots member a voice and allows you to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine.

Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. The ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members is available to download and will help, too. The Guide was created to provide members a short overview of the resolutions process essentials and highlights critical ACP online resources you must use.

Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval is required to move resolutions forward to ACP national. Although not official ACP policy, a resolution becomes property of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Spring 2025 Board of Governors Meeting is September 27, 2024.

Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution.

Congratulations California Southern 3 Laureate Award Winners

Happy Anniversary to our Chapter Members!

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5 Years

Ajaipal A Gill, MD
John W Peabody, MD FACP
Jacqueline M Poggi, MD
Anna Harte, MD
Mark D Carvalho, MD
Nivedita Bansal, MBBS
Gagandeep Kaur, MBBS
Margaret W Leung, MD
Mark G Shapiro, MD FACP
Vidya Nagaraju, MD
Mai-Khanh Bui-Duy, MD
Kathleen Doo, MD FACP
Robert Lerrigo, MD
Lauren Carol-Worth Gannon, MD
William B Smith, II
Tiffany Cho Kenison
Alexandra E Shawo, MD FACP
Sharmila Prabhakar Amolik, MD
Joseph D Cooper, MD
Young Do Song, MD
Khashayar Khosraviani, MD
Qi Quan Leong, MD
Anita Corradetti, MD FACP
Ryan S Satovsky, MD
Steven Wu, MD
Amanda S Lam, MD
Vincent Wong
Tony Cun, MD
Kavitha Chidambaram, MD
Laurie Nakahira, DO
Michael Goldrich, MD
Fei Liang, MD
Raphael B Stricker, MD
Colleen Caprio
Scott M Holmes, DO
Han-Cheng Chen, DO
Kirth A Cucueco, MD
Neelam A Chaudhary, MD
Reiner Estrada Viamontes
John Landefeld, MD
Ahmed Taha, MD FACP
Maria N Marmol, MD FACP
Karamjit Dhaliwal-Binning, MD
Swati Patel, MD
Maribeth Ruiz
Lorena I Rasquin, MD
Yoseph C Elala, MD
Muzo WuLauren Yokomizo, MD FACP
Namphuong T Tran, MD
James Tamesis, MD
Diego Fernandez
Tim Muldoon, MD FACP
Indu Michael
Palvasha A Shah, MD
Saverio Roberto
Adrianna D'Mello, MBBS MD
Carl Swanson
Emily Wistar, MD
Elizabeth Murphy, MD FACP
Priti S Parekh, MD
Lindsay Mazotti, MD FACP
Elizabeth L Alexander, MD
Stephany Sanchez, MD
Corinne N Lee-Guzman, DO
Jonathan g Sun, MD
VLADIMIR Y MEDINA, MD
James w Boozer, MD
Susan Gamble, MD
Steven Yuen, MD
Amtinder S Batth, MD
Jeffrey Hom, MD FACP
Michelle Lo, MD
James S Kastelman, MD
Balbir S Brar, MD
Augustine E Iluore, MD FACP
Spencer R Adams, MD
Traci A Honaker-Williams, MD
Jason Chu, DO
Haris Ali, MD FACP
Ashley A Busuttil, MD
Robert M Williams, MD PhD
Digish D Shah, MD
Nitya A Nathwani, MD FACP
Estebes Hernandez, MD
Edward S Lee, MD
Wendy M Simon, MD
Amar C Nawathe, MBBS
Linda K Czypinski, MD FACP
Richard G Shu, MD
Shazia S Khan, MD
Alexandra Milin Glaeser, MD
Hong Fa Yang, MD
Christine I Bishop, MD FACP
Quynh Huynh, MD
Patrick Bui, MD
Ramandeep Brar, MD
Kasey LaiArsen Osipov, MD FACP
Karine Yeghoyan, MD
Lisa M Singh, MD
Rushabh H Shah, MD
Michael F Ayoub, MD FACP
Zar C Chan, MBBS
Maryanne M Chumpia, MD
Mia Mattioli, MD FACP
Gabriel N Waterman, MD
Ishaque A Syed, MD
Cesar Palana, MD
Daniel Karlin, MD
Julie E Magorien, MD FACP
Vindeep Bhandari, DO
Shelley Schwartz, MD
Samir Bhalla, MDP
eter H Nguyen, MD
Janette N Zara, MD FACP
Christine Sun, MD
Tina Patel Kapadia, DO
Mahi Sadeghi, MD
Benjamin J Hassan, MD
John P Carmody, MD
Adam Solis-Cohen
Gary Slesing Feigenbaum, MD
Christopher Dagher, MD FACP
Ariana Wilkinson, MD
Seyedehsan Navabi, MD FACP
Swetha Gogineni, MD FACP
Daniel Puneky
Camellia Babaie, MD
Michelle Neely, MD
Tyler B Larsen, MD FACP
Utibe R Essien, MD FACP
Salim F Ahmed, MD FACP
Diane Reed, MD
Ruchi Jain, DO
Sean Delshad, MD FACP
Rong Hu, MD
Aleksey Korolyov, MD
Rahul Vasavada, MD
Sewon Oum, MD
Amit Levi, MD FACP
Lakshmi C Sadasivam, MBBS
Jessica Jaddaoui, MD
Chaddy Elhawary, MD
Manisha Perera
Sergio Rubio, MD
Norka M Quillatupa, MD
Sarah Goldgar, MD
Nima Golzy, MD FACP
Casey S Yamashita, MD
Michelle Withee, MD
Bryan G Lopez, MD FACP
Hani Hazani, MD
Daniel L Saddick, DO
Jessie X Zhou, MD
Jason Gilbert, DO FACP
Toshie Rajput
Arineh S Y Melkonian, MD
Doris M Rivas, MD
Novie o Gonzales, MD
Ebrahim Mirakhor, MD
Joey Tu, MD
Alanna Chau, MD FACP
Jiyeon Monica Jeong, MD
Mohammad Shahshahan, DO
Christian Zayek, MD
Deep C Desai, MD
Shey Mukundan, MD
Sunita R Hassamal, MD FACP
Aram Srapyan, MD FACP
Sheila Loharuka, DO
Starleen Frousiakis, MD FACP
Elias Ballat, DO
Samir Souleiman Salameh, MD
Sheree Chen, MD
Alexandra Morath, DO
Margaret Wei, MD
Maureen Yu, MD
Cindy H Su
Nuria M Pastor-Soler
Dillan Chai, MD
Niceto Lopez, MD
Rishi Patel, DO
Ebrahim Sajedi, MD
Gerald Y Ho, MD
Hripsime Gharibjanyan, MD FACP
Luciano M Castaneda, MD
Grace P Huang, MD FACP
Joshua Mansour, MD
Joseph Elterman, MD
Emmanuel D Jung, MD
Howard N Hodis, MD
Rasha Kuran, MD
Maria Marian, MD
Theodore G Rose, Jr, MD FACP
David E Wong, MD
Sarah Chae, MD
Jesus M Valadez-Herrera, MD
Naeem N Abu-Shehab, MD
Nory Jun L Cabanilla, MD
Denise Lynn Townsend, MD
John E Sy, MD
Neil N Parikh, MD
John Joseph, MD
John Agtuca
Shawn Kaye
Jerry F Tsai, MD
Michael T. Ulrich, Jr, MD FACP
Saif Al Yaseen, MD,MBChB
Andrew T Truong, MD
Nyra Khetarpal
Bryan Nam, MD
Nyein A Tint, MD
Jan Nguyen
Angela Whitaker, DO
Wesley Babaran, MD
Christine Mikhail, MD
Hiroshi Yamagata, MD FACP
Sohaib Basharat, MD
Alex Chehrazi-Raffle
Farid K Abdelmalak, MD
Andrew Sou, DO
Anna Swoboda
Huong Duong, MD
Samuel G Abarte, MD
Hossein Tabriziani, FACP MD
Adrienne A Nassar, MD FACP
Varinthrej Pitis, MD
Kendell R Anderson, DO
Alan Sit, MD FACP
John Arcilla, MD
Manveen K Bassi, MD
Ryan J Moran, MD
Michael T Pham, DO
Bao Ho
William E Toppen, MD FACP
Shannon K Cheffet, DO
Carlos a Lago Hernandez, MD FACP
Aneesh Kuruvilla, DO FACP
Maria Lourdes S Mara, MD
Yawen Cheng, MD
Justin Schneider
Alexander Meilan, DO
Ruth Abeles, MD FACP
Sankar Sridaran, MD
Guillermo A Cantu-Reyna, MD
Carrie L Cardenas, MD
Janice Park, MD

10 Years

Linet R D'Morias, MD
Eliza L Chin, MD MACP
Ross A Pirkle, MD
Lily Chu, MD
Leslie M Brocchini, MD
Nava Nasr, MD
Anthony Bhe, MD FACP
Kaylund Chan, MD
Justin P Lee, MD FACP
Talia S Gracer, MD
Reiker J Schultz, MD
Rita Pandya, MD
Kevin J Burnham, MD FACP
Gaurav Gulati, MD FACP
Satinder Singh, DO FACP
Jennifer A Abrams, MD
Rajarathinam Subramaniam, MD
Lifang Zhang, MBBS
Manoj K Ray, MBBS FACP
Shraddha Jatwani, MBBS FACP
Julie Wadhavkar, MD
Brandon Boesch, DO
Hoang Pham, MD
Jennifer Tinloy, DO FACP
Anita S Chang, MD
Amanda V Thornton, MD
Mohammed Gafar Elhassan, MD FACP
Amit Chadha, MD
Aamir Akmal, MD
Neeladri Misra, MD FACP
Waqas Aslam, MD FACP
Nadia Ali, MD FACP
Dennis Whang, MD FACP
Hetvi K Joshi, MD FACP
Heather Romine, MD
Zabihullah S Wardak, MD
Hazel Mae A Abraham, MD
Sergio A Torres, MD
Sanyogeeta Bhaway, MBBS
Timothy E Burger, MD
Rajni Khaira, MD
Kelly Lee Wong, MD
Lindsay Klein, MD FACP
Triveni Abburi, MD FACP
Maninder Singh Sanghera, MD FACP
Hongtao Wang, MD FACP
Than Soe, MD FACP
Sarah F Alvord, MD
Michelle E Hauser, MD FACP
Naw Aye Aye Aung, MD
Isira Perera, MBBS
Melissa Frederick, MD
Andrew Ng, MD
Loreta Kalish, MD
Stephen O Aglubat, MD FACP
Quinn Li, MD FACP
James C Yang, MD FACP
Vernon H Lackman, MD FACP
Byong-Wha E Lee, MD FACP
Michael A Sanchez, MD FACP
Bahman Chavoshan, MD FACP
Lou Ellen Wilson, MD
Miguel Lizama, MD
Malena S Law, MD FACP
Jong Charles Lee, MD
Yalda Azarmehr, MD FACP
Payam Rohani, MD FACP
Yoonjee Lee, MD
Sue Y Chung, MD FACP
Antonio M Pessegueiro, MD FACP
Casey Y Kaneshiro, MD FACP
Emily Cantor, MD FACP
Jessica L Gould, MD
Olga Garshyna, MD
Anita Batra, MD
Abigail Kopecky, MD FACP
Michael C Estes, MD FACP
Rigved V Tadwalkar, MD FACP
Ergys Andoni, MD
Gurcharan S Khera, MBBS FACP
Soe Soe Win, MD FACP
Preetivi Ellis, MD FACP
Angela Aboutalib, MD FACP
Nicandro Castaneda, MD
Alexander E Morf, MD
Ramandeep Bains, MD
Sarfaraz A Mansuri, MBBS FACP
Olivia A Arreola-Owen, MD FACP
Bryce R Holderness, MD FACP
Emmeline Chan, MD FACP
Thi Thi Aye, MD
Win Naing, MD, MBBS FACP
John A Uyanne, MBBS FACP
Alaleh Sareh, MD
Sophie K Chwa, MD FACP
Tevan Ovsepyan, DO FACP
Clement C Yang, IV, MD FACP
Elizabeth L Goodman, MD
Emilie L Chow, MD
Shahrooz Bemanian, MD FACP
Puri Lorena A Pascual, MD
Nancy Love, MD
Linh H Khuu, MD
LT Bruce A Bornfleth, MD
Nina Swadener, MD
Masoumeh Ghaffari, MD FACP
Shauna McGinnis, DO
Sahar E Lashin, MD PhD
Kristen Lew, MD FACP
Pranav Barve, MBBS
Mehran Rouhani Sisan, MD
Kathie Huang, MD FACP
Edward Juhn, MD FACP
Peter Csapoczi, MD
Mark D Mosson, MD FACP
Meredith B Barnes, MD PhD FACP
Benjamin Hulley, MD
Mahnaz Taremi, MD FACP
Brenda B Watts, MD
Enma M Alvarado, MD

15 Years

Henry B Moon, MD
Sidney Yassinger, MD FACP
K S Rajan, MD
Clare C Siu, MD
Deborah B Adey, MD FACP
Bassam Saffouri, MD FACP
Michelle Shute, MD FACP
Deborah M Kado, MD
George D Mitchell, MD FACP
Galicano C Andal, MD
Nicholas J Kenyon, MD FACP
Ani A Ketabgian, MD
Bryan H Ristow, MD FACP
Masha M Nakelchik, MD
Manjula V Gunawardane, MD
Christopher C Wong, MD
Matthew M Watson, MD
Anuruddh K Misra, MD FACP
Kevin Chen, MD FACP
Caroline Lin, MD
Patrick J Macmillan, MD FACP
Savitri G Aguiar, MD
Michael Hwa, MD FACP
Mohammed F Siddiqi, MD FACP
Supreet S Manesh, MD
Puneet Gupta, MD FACP
Sara Choudhry, MD
Mujtaba S Sarwar, MD FACP
Anitha Raghavan, MD
Adedotun A Adewusi, MD
Vipulkumar B Rana, MD FACP
Son Nguyen, MD FACP
Tatyana L Reznik, MD FACP
Yong Liu, MD PhD
Erika Leemann Price, MD
Chwen-Yuen A Chen, MD FACP
Katherine L Lupton, MD FACP
Ranaganthan G Madhavan, MD
Jaskaram Vir S Sandhu, MD
John Justin Murphy, MD
Sandar Win, MD
Charanjit Singh Bains, MD
Chrishanthie J Karalakulasingam, MD
Alan Silver, MD FACP
Meir M Yaron, MD
Allen D Rosen, MD
Osamah A Elattar, MD
Patricia P Ibarra, MD FACP
Andrew S Rhinehart, MD FACP
Arun K Softa, MD FACP
Pawan K Juneja, MBBS MD FACP
Kimberly B Tilley, MD
Seth A Politano, DO FACP
Linda A Hillier, DO FACP
Vahid Mahabadi, MD FACP
Elias Khawam, MD FACP
Mara S Gobovic, MBBS
Elizabeth S Iskander, MD
Jasleen K Duggal, MBBS FACP
Nicole D Schneider, MD
Kamoltip Sinthawanarong, MD FACP
Sorin Buga, MD FACP
Mabel Vasquez, MD
Arek Jibilian, MD
Brad Spellberg, MD FACP
Dennis P Haghighat, MD FACP
Pamela E Yamanishi, MD FACP
Andrew P Corr, MD FACP
Edgard M Vera, MD FACP
Christopher Sun, FACP MBChB
Minho Yu, DO FACP
Ali Parand, MD
Manisha Goel, MD
Marcela S Espinosa, MD
Carmen M Mendez, MD
Yolanda Reid Chassiakos, MD FACP
Thuyhan Thi Tran, MD MPH
Cinda L Nauertz, MD
Simon Cheung, MD
J Todd Martell, MD FACP
Dottie Ann D Sazon, MD
Dayna G Arnstein, MD
Akber M Safi, MD
Michelle C Higginson, MD FACP
Richard T Nguyen, MD FACP
Josef A Bauer, MD
Kimberly A Maxon, MD
Miguel A Pena Ruiz, MD FACP
Soyoung I McFarland, MD
Kasim M Kasim, MD FACP

20 Years

Morton A Rosenblum, MD FACP
John E Tysell, Jr, MD FACP
John F Simmons, Jr, MD FACP
Lawrence Litt, MD FACP
Steven McGlocklin, MD
Raymundo S Bautista, MD
Alfred M Lerner, MD
Jed Ira Weissberg, MD FACP
Sandra Ellen Goldstein, MD
Abdul Wahab Wali, MD FACP
Madeleine C Blaurock, FACP FHM MD
William J Black, MD FACP
Dwight D Lim, MD
Lynn X Liu, MD
Ronald T Zimmerman, MD
Yong J Sohn, MD
Marina Roytman, MD FACP
Selina Shah, MD FACP
Lawrence B Crane, MD FACP
Brett C Farley, MD
Soma Mandal, MD
Neeta Milasincic, MD FACP
Arash Foroutani, MD
Shuichi Kobayashi, MD
Andrew H Chang, MD
Yuji Saito, MD PhD FACP
Alan H Man, MD
Rose B Dao, MD
JoAnne Lombardi, MD
Maya Mitchell Land, MD FACP
Monica M Manga, MD FACP
Surekha N Reddy, MD
Vona W Lorenzana, MD
Jeanette Aviles, MD
James E Shepard, MD FACP
Seymour R Levin, MD FACP
Elliott Hinkes, MD
Allan S Lew, MD FACP
Gustavo A Machicado, FACP
Chester D Zahn, MD FACP
Rubencio Quintana, MD FACP
Scott P Layne, MD FACP
Hung Q Nguyen, MD
Edwin M Posadas, MD FACP
Firooz Pak, MD FACP
Akiko Suzuki, MD FACP
Thomas W Yoo, MD
Azhar Majeed, MD FACP
Stan Mathioulakis, MD
Amy K Weimer, MD FACP
Yanfei Chen, MD
Janna Oganessian, MD
Smita Subramaniam, MD FACP
Philip W Chung, MD
Quynh-Van T Vuong, MD
Suchaya Jinamornphongs, MD
Michael D Wang, MD FACP
Tsuyoshi M Okawa, MD
Massoud Maleki, MD FACP
Evert A Bruckner, MD
Tenzing Wangyal, MD
Sabry Fahmy Ghaly, MD
Fernando H Austin, MD
Julie M Kuniyoshi, MD
Joseph C Preston, MD
Walter Jones, MD FACP
Julie Hwynn, MD FACP
Amy L Underwood-Jolly, MD FACP
Sonny C Lee, MD FACP
Grace Lozinski, MD FACP
Iyad G Houshan, MD FACP
Sidney S Wu, MD FACP
Ky Tran, MD
Mercedes Tomioka, MD FACP
Jack Middlebrooks, MD
Judy Kwan, MD
Allison L Klein Foley, MD FACP
Dominic G De Cristofaro, MD
Jess Mandel, MD MACP
Lalitha P Aiyer, MD
Anita A Walton, MD
Sangeetha Murthy, MBBS
Unna Albers, MD
Farhad F Shadan, MD PhD FACP
Kekoa C Ede, MD
Annie Jacob Sanque, MD

(May 2024) Your ACP Chapter thanks you for your continued Membership and all you do every day to serve your patients and support the future of internal medicine. We’re proud that you’ve chosen us as your professional home, and we’re committed to remaining by your side—advocating for and supporting your professional journey.

BOR Action on Spring 2024 BOG Resolutions

(May 2024) A summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Spring 2024 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.

If you have an idea you would like to suggest to ACP, consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or local ACP chapter. Visit the advocacy section of your ACP chapter website for more information on how to propose a resolution.

2024 John Tooker Evergreen Awards

(April 2024) The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides opportunities to recognize the valuable contributions of ACP Chapters as they strive to enrich, educate, and engage membership. In 2024, ACP recognized ten winning chapters. Our Chapters received the 2024 John Tooker Evergreen Award for our initiative, Narrative Medicine Collaboration (California Southern I, II, III) and Live Your Best Life Program (California Southern III, a joint program with the North Carolina Chapter.

Narrative Medicine Collaboration

New narrative medicine programming and scholarly activities have generated excitement and engagement from all membership classes across Southern California Chapters. We capitalized on this to create a supportive and welcoming community for those that enjoy the power of stories, reflections, and creativity through a narrative medicine competition in conjunction with the 2022 Southern California Chapters’ Annual Meeting. The Chapter has threaded narrative medicine events throughout the year to incorporate distinguished faculty and well-being champions as judges, mentors, and collaborators. Unique partnerships and collaborations with published authors and faculty have opened up wonderful opportunities for mentorship, publication, workshops, and discussion for competitors (particularly for MS, RFM, and ECP members) within Southern California and beyond it.

Live Your Best Life Program

The Live Your Best Life (LYBL) Program utilized sessions and created a platform to promote leadership development, communication skills, professionalism, mentorship (including peer mentorship), networking opportunities, and promotion of well-being for nearly 60 invited Resident/Fellow and Early Career Physician members from across 23 Chapters. Educational content and mentorship were provided through nine separate sessions by a group of expert physician coaches, Well-being Champions, national, and local ACP leaders. This program focused on building skill sets, tools, and resources to help RFM and ECP members navigate transitions and significant decisions within their professional and personal lives. In addition, we were able to build a safe and supportive space to foster belonging, connection, and a sense of community among all participants through virtual and in-person meetings. 100% respondents to our survey would recommend The Live Your Best Life program to a colleague and 100% agreed or strongly agreed that it provided an opportunity to reflect on professional development and improved their understanding of how to use personal strengths and values to design a fulfilling career. Future plans include continuing development of the program and expansion of the LYBL community to include those at different career stages and intentional inclusion of additional membership groups.

For more information on the John Tooker Evergreen Awards, contact Dana Acord.

Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

California Northern
Pooja Jaeel, MD FACP
Herprit K Mahal, MD FACP

California Southern 1
Geoffrey W Cho, MD FACP
Sabitha Eppanapally, MD FACP
Zeinab A Hussein-Dabbah, MD FACP
Warren Christopher Lee, MD FACP
Joy L Montes, MD FACP

California Southern 3
Lewis H Self, MD FACP

(April 2024) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.

Member Feedback is Requested on Spring 2024 Resolutions

(February 2024) Twenty-one (21) resolutions will be considered at the Spring 2024 Board of Governors (BOG) Meeting. With the exception of Resolution 9-S24, which will not be debated because this resolution is slated for adoption as a reaffirmation, please review each resolution and then indicate your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by the deadline your ACP Chapter Governor has requested or by midnight March 13, whichever comes first.

Your comments will be forwarded to your Governor to be used as part of his/her testimony on behalf of the chapter. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Giampietro, BOG Administrator, at chapter@acpmembership.org. Thank you for your input.

(NOTE: Proposed resolutions should be considered confidential information and are intended to be viewed by ACP members only. Under no circumstances should proposed resolutions be shared with the news media or social networking media, nor should they be shared with other individuals and organizations. Proposed resolutions do not represent ACP policy.)

Call for Fall 2024 Resolutions

(February 2024) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you'd like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.

Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. The just released ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members is now available to download and will help, too. The Guide was created to provide members a short overview of the resolutions process essentials and highlights critical ACP online resources you must use.

Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval is required to move resolutions forward to ACP national. Although not official ACP policy, a resolution becomes property of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Fall 2024 Board of Governors Meeting is March 29, 2024.

Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution.

Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

California Northern
Usman Ali, MD FACP
Vernon Giang, MD FACP
Jeffrey Hom, MD FACP
Rajesh Kunadharaju, MBBS FACP
Bruce Ovbiagele, MD FACP
Sohrab Amiri, MD FACP
Lisandra Franco, MD FACP
Lawrence Ku, MD FACP
Brian S Lee, MD FACP
Caterina Yuan Liu, MD FACP
Ni Mo, DO FACP
Ogochukwu Molokwu, MD FACP
Kevin D Ouma, MD FACP
Michael A Sansait, DO FACP
Vivek Singh, MBBS FACP
Saad Tariq, MD FACP

California Southern 1
Cheng-Wei Huang, MD FACP
Maralee Kanin, MD FACP
Johnathan Kao, MD FACP
Lara T Kose, MD FACP
Adrian Mayo, MD FACP
Nathaniel E Meyer, MD FACP
Kyaw Khaing Soe, MBBS MD FACP

California Southern 2
Kinnar Bhavsar, MD FACP
Mariam Gilmore, DO FACP
Smita Kohli Kalra, MD FACP
Hana Kazbour, MD FACP
Benjamin W Ware, MD FACP

California Southern 3
Stuti J Jaiswal, MD FACP
Alan Moazzam, MD FACP
Brett K Mullin, MD FACP
Laura J Nicholson, MD FACP
Dan H Tong, MD FACP
Carlos a Lago Hernandez, MD FACP
William E Toppen, MD FACP
Nathan Yung, MD FACP

(February 2024) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.

Southern California Region 3 Delegation to Internal Medicine Meeting 2024

(January 2024) The early deadline to save on individual registration ends on January 31, 2024. Register here to take advantage of the Early Bird Registration Rate of $782.00 for ACP Members. We also are pleased to offer a special opportunity for you to join a SoCal III group coordinated by Dr. Candace Sprott for an additional $125 savings - $657 is the lowest possible rate for ACP Members. Resident/Fellow and Medical Student members are not eligible to join this group. Please send an email to socalregion3@gmail.com before 1/30/24 if you would like to join this group and you will be sent further instructions. Non-members are eligible too. Please do not register for the meeting individually if you plan to join the group. Note: you will need to pay the entire registration fee to Dr. Sprott via Zelle or Venmo as part of the group registration process.In order to allow enough time for coordination and processing, the deadline to join the SoCal III group is Tuesday, JANUARY 30, 2024 at 8 pm Pacific time. Hope to see you in Boston for a fantastic meeting and a superb educational experience!

Chapter Speakers at Internal Medicine Meeting 2024

(December 2023) We’d like to bring attention to our local chapter members who will be presenting as faculty at ACP’s Internal Medicine Meeting 2024 in Boston, Massachusetts this April. Early-bird registration is available through January. For a full schedule or for more information on the meeting, click here.

California Northern	Paul	Aronowitz	Case-Based Learning	Clinical Images to Improve Your Knowledge Base and Refine Your Clinical Reasoning Skills	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Northern	Paul	Aronowitz	Case-Based Learning	Clinical Images to Improve Your Knowledge Base and Refine Your Clinical Reasoning Skills	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Northern	Paul	Aronowitz	Panel	Teaching and Coaching in the Inpatient Setting	Friday, April 19, 2024
California Northern	Maja	Artandi	Clinical Skills Center	Teaching Bedside Clinical Skills in the 21st Century
California Northern	Sam	Brondfield	Meet the Professor	Carcinoma of Unknown Primary: A Case-Based Approach	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Northern	Jonathan	Chen	Panel	Applying Augmented Intelligence and Machine Learning in Your Practice	Friday, April 19, 2024
California Northern	Gurpreet	Dhaliwal	Workshop	Stump the Professor	Saturday, April 20, 2024
California Northern	Amanda	Downey	Meet the Professor	Primer on Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Northern	John	Inadomi	Update	Update in Gastroenterology	Saturday, April 20, 2024
California Northern	Anjlee	Mahajan	Meet the Professor	Outpatient Management of VTE	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Northern	Ashley	McMullen	Panel	Humanism in Medicine: Re-emphasis on Human-to-Human Interactions	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Northern	Karly	Murphy	Case-Based Learning	Partnering for Depression Care: Evidence-based Care of Major Depression	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Northern	Karly	Murphy	Case-Based Learning	Partnering for Depression Care: Evidence-based Care of Major Depression	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Northern	Roxanna	Pourmirzaie	Clinical Skills Center	POCUS for Beginners
California Northern	Lisa	Rotenstein	Panel	Making the EHR Work for Us, Not Vice Versa	Saturday, April 20, 2024
California Northern	Linda	Rudolph	Panel	How Environmental Exposures Harm Patients and What Physicians Can Do About It: From Air Pollution to Toxic Substances	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Northern	Matthew	Sakumoto	Panel	Optimizing Team-Based Telehealth	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Northern	Carlin	Senter	Clinical Skills Center	Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Shoulder
California Northern	Carlin	Senter	Clinical Skills Center	Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Knee
California Northern	Eric	Widera	Pre-course	Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine for Internal Medicine Physicians	Tuesday, April 16, 2024
California Southern 1	Carolyn	Crandall	Update	Update in Women's Health	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Southern 1	Carolyn	Crandall	Panel	More News You Can Use: Current Clinical Guidelines in COVID-19 and Type 2 Diabetes	Friday, April 19, 2024
California Southern 1	Akira	Ishiyama	Meet the Professor	Otology for the Internal Medicine Physician	Saturday, April 20, 2024
California Southern 2	Jaesu	Han	Pre-course	Primary Care Psychiatry: Practical Skills for Internal Medicine Physicians	Wednesday, April 17, 2024
California Southern 2	Heather	Hofmann	Panel	Are SOAP Notes Clean or Dirty?	Friday, April 19, 2024
California Southern 2	Robert	McCarron	Pre-course	Primary Care Psychiatry: Practical Skills for Internal Medicine Physicians	Wednesday, April 17, 2024
California Southern 2	Deepti	Pandita	Panel	Applying Augmented Intelligence and Machine Learning in Your Practice	Friday, April 19, 2024
California Southern 3	Michal	Hose	Clinical Skills Center	Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Shoulder
California Southern 3	Michal	Hose	Clinical Skills Center	Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Knee
California Southern 3	John	Kelso	Meet the Professor	Clinical Features and Management of Chronic Urticaria and Angioedema	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Southern 3	John	Kelso	Meet the Professor	Office-Based Allergy Testing for the Primary Care Physician	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Southern 3	Sean	Kenmore	Clinical Skills Center	The Patient Will Be YOU Now
California Southern 3	Andrea	Kossoudji	Clinical Workshop	A Brief Military History: The Key to Good Health Care for Veterans in Your Practice	Thursday, April 18, 2024
California Southern 3	Khanh	Le	Clinical Skills Center	The Patient Will Be YOU Now
California Southern 3	Melissa	Le Roux	Clinical Skills Center	Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Shoulder
California Southern 3	Melissa	Le Roux	Clinical Skills Center	Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Knee
California Southern 3	Jess	Mandel	Update	Update in Pulmonary Medicine	Saturday, April 20, 2024
California Southern 3	John-Michael	Maury	Clinical Workshop	Medical Improv: Novel Method to Improve Communication Skills with Empathy	Friday, April 19, 2024
California Southern 3	Anna	Quan	Clinical Skills Center	Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Shoulder
California Southern 3	Anna	Quan	Clinical Skills Center	Diagnosis-Driven Physical Examination of the Knee
California Southern 3	Candace	Sprott	Meet the Professor	Life Hacks for Better Time Management (Session not eligible for CME credit.)	Friday, April 19, 2024

BOR Action on Fall 2023 BOG Resolutions

(December 2023) A summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Fall 2023 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.

Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

California Northern

Michael Kim, MD FACP

Ramya Akella, MBBS FACP

Sharon J Jones, MD FACP

Mrinmayee V Naik, MBBS FACP

Manisha Yadav, MBBS FACP

California Southern 1

Angela Aboutalib, MD FACP

Alanna Chau, MD FACP

Bryan G Lopez, MD FACP

Seyedehsan Navabi, MD FACP

Joon S Park, MD FACP

Janette N Zara, MD FACP

John H Baird, MD FACP

Manuel Hakimi, MD FACP

Samar Hazzan, MD FACP

Arun S Karlamangla, MD FACP

Manvel Kondradzhyan, MD FACP

California Southern 2

Samia Faiz, MD FACP

Brandon L Nathaniel, MD FACP

Shawna Rinker, MD FACP

Steve Serrao, MD FACP

California Southern 3

Ruth Abeles, MD FACP

Adam R Pacal, MD FACP

Meredith B Barnes, MD PhD FACP

William T Tseng, MD FACP

(November 2023) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP^® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.

2023 Chapter Excellence Award

We would like to extend a special thanks to those chapter members who assisted us in all of these endeavors! For their hard work and dedication, we received this award.

Bronze Winner - California Northern

We are pleased to announce that our chapter is in receipt of the Bronze Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes chapters that achieve basics in chapter management. In order to achieve the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria. Criteria include such activities as being involved in advocacy activities, communicating with members, having a chapter/regional scientific meeting along with a planning committee, having a sound financial structure in place, recruiting and advancing members and having an awards committee that identifies candidates for local or national awards.

Gold Winners - Southern California Region 1, Southern California Region 2, Southern California Region 3

We are pleased to announce that our regions are in receipt of the Gold Level of the 2023 Chapter Excellence Award! The award recognizes truly extraordinary chapters that surpass excellence in chapter management. We are in the company of 54 other outstanding chapters. In order to achieve the Gold Level of the Chapter Excellence Award, chapters must meet nineteen Bronze criteria, seventeen Silver criteria and multiple Gold level activities. Criteria include such activities as having a legislative action plan or agenda, holding a volunteerism/community service activity, holding multiple stand-alone meetings, having revenue sources outside of dues and meeting registration fees, implementing a strategic plan, implementing a formal recruitment and retention plan and measuring outcomes, conducting various activities for Medical Students, Residents and Early Career Physicians.

The DEI Scholars Program for Visiting Medical Students

(August 2023) The DEI Scholars Program aims to provide financial support and mentorship for underrepresented and historically marginalized medical students completing an Internal Medicine (IM) elective in San Diego hospitals or clinical settings. This grant program seeks students committed to upholding and expanding diversity, equity, and inclusion within health care. Students will also be eligible to access mentors in San Diego.

Grant and Eligibility Information and link to application can be found here

We Request Your Feedback on the Proposed Fall 2023 Board of Governors Resolutions

(August 2023) We would like to request your feedback regarding resolutions that will be considered at the Fall 2023 Board of Governors Meeting. With the exception of Resolution 3-F23 which was accepted as a reaffirmation and will not be debated, please review the balance of the slate and then indicate your support or opposition by completing the resolutions electronic response form by August 30th.

After considering the intent of each resolution and how it fits with the College’s Mission and Goals, please provide your feedback on each resolution and indicate your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by August 30. Your input will be used as part of testimony on behalf of the chapter.

Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to provide comments regarding these resolutions. By providing your feedback on the Board of Governors resolutions, you have helped to shape College policy that impacts the practice of internal medicine.

Congratulations New Chapter Fellows

California Northern

Abhishek Gulati, MD FACP
Umer Hayyat, MD FACP
Matthew R Sakumoto, MD FACP
Mark G Shapiro, MD FACP

California Southern 1

Haris Ali, MD FACP
Utibe R Essien, MD FACP
Meghana K Frenchman, MD FACP
George Ishak, MD FACP
Nitya A Nathwani, MD FACP
Sharif Tarazi, MD FACP

California Southern 2

Joan M Fishman, MD FACP

California Southern 3

Sean Kenmore, MD FACP
William Mobley, MD

(July 2023) Congratulations to the Chapter's new Fellows. Fellowship in the College is an honor. Being an FACP^® is a distinction earned from colleagues who recognize your accomplishments and achievements over and above the practice of medicine. The most important considerations for ACP Fellowship are excellence and contributions made to both medicine and to the broader community in which the internal medicine physician lives and practices.

Call for Spring 2024 BOG Resolutions

(July 2023) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you'd like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.

Not sure how to begin drafting a resolution? Researching the College's position on an issue can give you a start. The recently released ACP Board of Governors Resolutions Guide for ACP Members is now available to download and will help, too. The Guide was created to provide members a short overview of the resolutions process essentials and highlights critical ACP online resources you must use.

Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval to move resolutions forward to ACP national is required. A resolution becomes a resolution of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Spring 2024 Board of Governors Meeting is October 16, 2023.

Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution.

BOR Action on Spring 2023 BOG Resolutions

(June 2023) summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Spring 2023 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.

California Southern III Region Receives the Mary Bieter Evergreen All Stars Award

(May 2023) The Mary Bieter Evergreen All-Star Awards recognized exceptional and sustained chapter-initiated programs that supported and adapted to the Internal Medicine landscape in the United States and around the world. ACP Members were asked to review and select All-Star nominations they believed were worth of recognition. The California Southern III Region received the Mary Bieter Evergreen All-Star Award for their initiative, The DEI Shift Podcast, Changing the Way We Think, Talk and Practice Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

The DEI Shift Podcast, Changing the Way We Think, Talk and Practice Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

The DEI Shift podcast was created to change the practice of diversity, equity, and inclusion within medicine. It is intentionally led and produced by an extremely diverse team from pre-medical students to attending physicians from various racial, ethnic, religious, linguistic, geographic, and specialty backgrounds. Monthly team meetings facilitate educational and professional development opportunities as well as sense of belonging and inclusion.

Over four seasons, a global audience has downloaded over 18,250 podcast episodes across 6 continents, in 81 countries and nearly 2000 cities. A wide range of topics and guests have been featured in enduring learning materials increasing awareness, advocacy, cultural humility, and empathy. This innovative educational platform has led to multi-Chapter, cross-specialty, and interdisciplinary collaborations as well as increased member engagement, mentorship, connections, and leadership development. It has successfully promoted the goals, core values, and DEI-related strategic priorities of the American College of Physicians and the ACP Southern California Region III Chapter.

California Southern III Region Receives the 2023 John Tooker Evergreen Award

(May 2023) The John Tooker Evergreen Awards Program provides recognition and visibility to chapters that have successfully implemented programs to increase membership, improve communication, encourage member involvement, enhance diversity, foster careers in internal medicine or improve chapter management. The California Southern III Region received the 2023 John Tooker Evergreen Award for their initiative, Wellness Wave.

Wellness Wave

It empowered the students to connect with mentors, experts, and their colleagues locally and nationally and allowed the creation of a platform for them to share the fruits of their labor and hard work.

The Southern California Region III's Wellness Wave was a "for us, by us" student-driven initiative led by the Council of Medical Students to empower medical students to connect with mentors, experts, and their colleagues locally and nationally to develop 38 student-led interview videos and a separate Wellness Wave website. It was created to engage medical students/residents to decrease feelings of isolation, burn out, anxiety, depression, imposter syndrome, and perfectionism. Local and national faculty, leaders, and mentors were interviewed on their journeys in medicine, asked about career advice, and best practices on creating and maintaining wellness. The Chapter collaborated with three additional ACP chapter to accomplish the Wellness Wave strategy.

Chapter Members Elected to ACP Fellowship

(March 2023) We would like to congratulate our chapter members on election to Fellow of the American College of Physicians. The distinction recognizes achievements in internal medicine.

California Northern

Kathleen Doo, MD FACP

Babikir OMA Kheiri, MBBS MD FACP

Maria N Marmol, MD FACP

Tim Muldoon, MD FACP

Ahana Sandhu, MD FACP

Heather Nye, MD PhD SFHM FACP

Hongtao Wang, MD FACP

Lauren Yokomizo, MD FACP

Theresa Duong, MD FACP

Diane M McGrew, MD FACP

Amit Saini, MD FACP

Berhanu C Tesfaye, MD FACP

California Southern 1

Sarah Blake, DO MBA FACP

Starleen Frousiakis, MD FACP

Jason Gilbert, DO FACP

Swetha Gogineni, MD FACP

Nima Golzy, MD FACP

Sunita Hingorani, MD FACP

Randy Luu, MD FACP

Mia Mattioli, MD FACP

Arsen Osipov, MD FACP

Aram Srapyan, MD FACP

Matt Welzenbach, MD FACP

Anshu R Abhat, MD FACP

Christine I Bishop, MD FACP

Christopher Brown, MD FACP

Christopher Dagher, MD FACP

Nimy John, MD FACP

Marie I Montoya, MD FACP

Salim F Ahmed, MD FACP

Omar Aly, MD FACP

Michael F Ayoub, MD FACP BG

Wossen Belachew, MD FACP

Jeffrey Chung, MD FACP

Hripsime Gharibjanyan, MD FACP

Grace P Huang, MD FACP

Tyler B Larsen, MD FACP

Amit Levi, MD FACP

Julie E Magorien, MD FACP

California Southern 2

Nikhil Ghatnekar, DO FACP

Puja Gupta, MBBS MD FACP

Lucas Akihiko Puttock, DO FACP

Babak Gachpaz, MD FACP

Kathleen L Keating, DO FACP

California Southern 3

Aneesh Kuruvilla, DO FACP

Alan Sit, MD FACP

Andrew Busby, MD FACP

Susan D Heifetz, MD FACP

Arsenio I Jimenez, MD FACP

Bruce J Kimura, MD FACP

Siu Ming J Geary, MD FACP

Kenton O Smitherman, MD FACP

Fellowship is elected upon the recommendation of peers and the review of ACP’s Credentials Subcommittee. They may now use the letters “FACP” after their name in recognition of this honor. Please join me in congratulations!

Chapter Speakers at Internal Medicine Meeting 2023

(March 2023) We would like to draw your attention to our Internal Medicine Meeting 2023 local speakers.

Paul	Aronowitz	Napa	California Northern	Clinical Workshop	Clinical Images to Improve Your Knowledge Base and Refine Your Clinical Reasoning Skills	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Paul	Aronowitz	Napa	California Northern	Clinical Workshop	Clinical Images to Improve Your Knowledge Base and Refine Your Clinical Reasoning Skills	Friday, April 28, 2023
Jonathan	Chen	Palo Alto	California Northern	Panel	Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning: Practical Applications in Medicine	Friday, April 28, 2023
Helen	Chew	Davis	California Northern	Update	Update in Oncology	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Eliza	Chin	Piedmont	California Northern	Panel	Harnessing Mentoring Relationships for Women	Friday, April 28, 2023
Gurpreet	Dhaliwal	San Francisco	California Northern	Workshop	Stump the Professor	Friday, April 28, 2023
Randall	Edson	Larkspur	California Northern	Clinical Pearls	Clinical Pearls: Women's Health & Infectious Diseases	Thursday, April 27, 2023
Kimberly	Hardin	Sacramento	California Northern	Meet the Professor	Sleep Disorders in Primary Care: This Lecture Is a Snoozer	Thursday, April 27, 2023
Nazia	Hasan	Oakland	California Northern	Meet the Professor	Pancreatobiliary Disease for the Internist	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Michelle	Hauser	Sunnyvale	California Northern	Meet the Professor	Food for Thought: What Should I Eat and When?	Friday, April 28, 2023
Manu	Hegde	Belmont	California Northern	Meet the Professor	Seizures and Epilepsy Management Basics for the Hospitalist	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Steven	Lane	Palo Alto	California Northern	Panel	Caring About Sharing: Maintaining Patient Privacy While Improving Communication through the Electronic Health Record	Thursday, April 27, 2023
Sei	Lee	San Francisco	California Northern	Clinical Triad	Clinical Triad: Prognosis, Cancer Screening, and Deprescribing: When Should We Stop?	Friday, April 28, 2023
Bernard	Lo	Berkeley	California Northern	Meet the Professor	Reducing Disparities in the Care of Patients With Critical Illness	Friday, April 28, 2023
Samuel	Louie	Davis	California Northern	Meet the Professor	Newer Biologics for Patients With Severe Asthma	Thursday, April 27, 2023
Heather	Nye	San Francisco	California Northern	Meet the Professor	Hospitalists as Consultants: Best Communication Practices in a Team-Based Care Approach	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Douglas	Owens	Palo Alto	California Northern	Panel	News You Can Use: Current Clinical Guidelines In Treatments for Depression and COVID-19	Thursday, April 27, 2023
Matthew	Sakumoto	San Francisco	California Northern	Panel	Optimizing EHRs: How to Make the EHR Work for You and Your Patients	Friday, April 28, 2023
Jorge	Salinas	Palo Alto	California Northern	Clinical Triad	Clinical Triad: Infectious Diseases: Clostridium difficile, Positive Blood Cultures, and Urinary Tract Infections	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Christian	Sandrock	Sacramento	California Northern	Meet the Professor	COVID-19 Vaccination on the National and Global Scale	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Urmimala	Sarkar	San Francisco	California Northern	Panel	Leveraging Digital Health Tools to Support Equity	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Eleanor	Schwarz	Sacramento	California Northern	Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind	Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Infectious Diseases, Women’s Health, General Internal Medicine	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Bradley	Sharpe	San Francisco	California Northern	Update	Update in Hospital Medicine	Friday, April 28, 2023
Louise	Walter	San Francisco	California Northern	Clinical Triad	Clinical Triad: Prognosis, Cancer Screening, and Deprescribing: When Should We Stop?	Friday, April 28, 2023
Eric	Widera	San Francisco	California Northern	Clinical Triad	Clinical Triad: Prognosis, Cancer Screening, and Deprescribing: When Should We Stop?	Friday, April 28, 2023
Theodore	Wun	Sacramento	California Northern	Update	Update in Hematology	Thursday, April 27, 2023
Natalie	Bello	Los Angeles	California Southern 1	Meet the Professor	Hypertension in Women: Special Considerations Across a Woman's Lifespan	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Rachel	Brook	Los Angeles	California Southern 1	Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind	Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Cardiology, Pulmonary Medicine, Neurology	Thursday, April 27, 2023
William	Carroll	Los Angeles	California Southern 1	Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind	Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Infectious Diseases, Women’s Health, General Internal Medicine	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Chidinma	Chima-Melton	Palos Verdes Estates	California Southern 1	Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind	Multiple Small Feedings of the Mind: Cardiology, Pulmonary Medicine, Neurology	Thursday, April 27, 2023
Carolyn	Crandall	Los Angeles	California Southern 1	Panel	More News You Can Use: Current Clinical Guidelines in Treatments for Osteoporosis and Acute Pain	Friday, April 28, 2023
Obidiugwu	Duru	Los Angeles	California Southern 1	Meet the Professor	High-Value Management of Back Pain: Lumbar-ing Along	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Kari	Franson	Los Angeles	California Southern 1	Meet the Professor	Getting Into the Weeds on Cannabis	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Kim	Gregory	West Hollywood	California Southern 1	Meet the Professor	The Well-Woman Exam: Update From the Women's Preventive Services Initiative	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Brian	Hurley	Los Angeles	California Southern 1	Clinical Workshop	Motivational Interviewing for the Busy Clinician	Friday, April 28, 2023
Peter	Marshall	Los Angeles	California Southern 1	Meet the Professor	Acute Dyspnea: Etiology, Evaluation, and Management	Friday, April 28, 2023
Peter	Marshall	Los Angeles	California Southern 1	Meet the Professor	Shock: Approaches to Diagnosis and Management	Friday, April 28, 2023
Jason	Napolitano	Los Angeles	California Southern 1	Meet the Professor	In-Flight Emergencies: Is There a Doctor on the Plane?	Friday, April 28, 2023
David	Reuben	Los Angeles	California Southern 1	Meet the Professor	Managing Older Adults With Frailty and Multimorbidity	Thursday, April 27, 2023
Zaldy	Tan	LOS ANGELES	California Southern 1	Meet the Professor	Dementia Diagnosis and Management in Primary Care	Thursday, April 27, 2023
Scott	Allen	Riverside	California Southern 2	Panel	Caring and Advocating for Patients Involved in the Justice System: The Internal Medicine Physician's Many Roles	Thursday, April 27, 2023
Danielle	Belardo	Newport Beach	California Southern 2	Workshop	Food as Medicine	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Diana	Ramos	Laguna Beach	California Southern 2	Panel	Providing Women’s Healthcare in a Post-Dobbs America: What Internal Medicine Needs to Know	Friday, April 28, 2023
Timothy	Fernandes	San Diego	California Southern 3	Meet the Professor	Pulmonary Embolism for the Hospitalist	Saturday, April 29, 2023
Andrea	Kossoudji	San Diego	California Southern 3	Clinical Workshop	A Brief Military History: The Key to Good Health Care for Veterans in Your Practice	Thursday, April 27, 2023
Brett	Lindgren	San Diego	California Southern 3	Meet the Professor	Shock: Approaches to Diagnosis and Management	Friday, April 28, 2023
John-Michael	Maury	San Diego	California Southern 3	Clinical Workshop	Medical Improv: Novel Method to Improve Communication Skills with Empathy	Saturday, April 29, 2023
David	Wetherhold	La Jolla	California Southern 3	Panel	Optimizing EHRs: How to Make the EHR Work for You and Your Patients	Friday, April 28, 2023
Tony	Yaksh	LA Jolla	California Southern 3	Meet the Professor	Dr. Ananda Prasad Lecture in Physiology: The Physiology of Pain (Note: This session is not designated for CME credit.)	Friday, April 28, 2023

If you’re attending IMM23, please join us at our ACP California/Arizona and Hawaii Chapters Reception, Friday, April 28, 2023 from 6:00-7:30pm at the Half Door Brewery. Please RSVP to IM 2023 Reception.

Member Feedback is Requested on Spring 2023 Resolutions

(March 2023) Fourteen (14) resolutions will be considered at the Spring 2023 Board of Governors (BOG) Meeting. Please review each resolution and then indicate your support or opposition by completing the electronic response form by the deadline your ACP Chapter Governor has requested or by March 22, whichever comes first.

Your comments will be forwarded to the Chapter Governor to be used as part of their testimony on behalf of the chapter. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Giampietro, BOG Administrator, at chapter@acpmembership.org. Thank you for your input.

Call for Fall 2023 Resolutions

(February 2023) Are you concerned about a practice or clinical issue or have an idea you'd like to suggest? If so, you might consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or chapter council.

Once drafted, members must submit resolutions to their Governor and/or chapter council. Chapter council approval to move resolutions forward to ACP national is required. A resolution becomes a resolution of the chapter once the chapter council approves forwarding it to national. If effecting change interests you, the deadline for submitting new resolutions to be heard at the Fall 2023 Board of Governors Meeting is March 30, 2023.

Share your good idea with us. Draft a resolution.

Board of Regents Action on Fall 2022 BOG Resolutions

(November 2022) A summary of Board of Regents (BOR) actions on resolutions debated at the Fall 2022 Board of Governors (BOG) meeting is now available. Resolutions initiated by ACP members and endorsed by a chapter council and the BOG become ACP policy when adopted by the BOR.

If you have an idea you'd like to suggest to ACP, consider submitting a resolution to your Governor or local ACP chapter. Visit your ACP chapter website for more information on how to contact your Governor or chapter staff about proposing a resolution.

Contracts: Everything You Wanted to Never and Never Thought to Ask

Here is the recording of our recent Zoom meeting on contracts.

New Advocacy Resources Available to ACP Members and Chapters

(August 2022) We would like to make you aware of two new advocacy resources available to ACP members and chapters.

Understanding Advocacy and Why We Do It - A Comprehensive Toolkit for Chapters

ACP has created an advocacy best practices toolkit to support engagement in and the efficacy of chapter-level advocacy at the state and federal level. This comprehensive toolkit breaks down the different methods and mediums for advocacy engagement and highlights all the programs and resources offered by ACP to make the most of chapters’ advocacy efforts. This toolkit is only accessible to ACP members.

Reproductive Health Toolkit Now Updated

ACP's toolkit for chapters to utilize in navigating issues surrounding abortion rights and related policies in their states following the overturning of Roe v. Wade has been updated. The toolkit now includes sample letters that chapters can use to advocate with state officials and information on recent federal activity.

For questions regarding these toolkits, please submit all requests through this questionnaire to ensure we can track inquiries and respond in the most timely and efficient manner."

Are you a member of the Advocates for Internal Medicine Network (AIMn)? Learn more here.

Chapter Members Elected to ACP Fellowship

(November 2022) We would like to congratulate our chapter members on election to Fellow of the American College of Physicians. The distinction recognizes achievements in internal medicine.

Northern California

Kausalya N. Chennapragada, MBBS, FACP
Anita Corradetti, MD, FACP
Lindsay Mazotti, MD, FACP
Alexandra E, Shawo, MD, FACP

Southern California Region I

Jessica M. Adkins, MD, FACP
Kelley Chuang, MD, FACP
Linda K. Czypinski, MD, FACP
Sean Delshad, MD, FACP
Reece R. Doughty, MD, FACP
Sonali L. Iyer, MD, FACP
Ramzy Jandali, MD, FACP
Matthew Jung, MD, FACP
Khushboo Kaushal, MD, FACP
Jane Ma, MD, FACP
Yuri Matusov, MD, FACP
Satya Patel, MD, FACP
Jared T. Perrin, MD, FACP
Amna A. Rizvi, MD, FACP
Christopher J. Thrash, MD, FACP
Huynh Tran, MD, FACP
Kristopher K. Yoon, MD, FACP

Southern California Region II

Faraz Afridi, MD, FACP
Kanchana Keerthipala, MBBS, MD, FACP
Scott Kubomoto, MD, FACP
Michael T. Ulrich, Jr., MD, FACP
Chit Su Wai, MBBS, MD, FACP
Debralynne Zickafoose, MD, FACP

Southern California Region III

Kelley L. Hagerich, MD, FACP
Jennifer L. Poast, DO, FACP

One of the goals of the American College of Physicians is to “recognize excellence and distinguished contributions to internal medicine.” As a way of achieving this goal, the College offers 21 awards and a number of Masterships each year. Annually, awardees and Masters are honored at the Convocation ceremony held during the Internal Medicine meeting.

Congratulations to Chapter Members on Receiving National Awards or Mastership

(October 2022) We are excited to share that the Mastership and Awards Committees and the Board of Regents have approved the following chapter members to receive an award recognition during the 2023 Internal Medicine Meeting in San Diego, California.

Jane F. Desforges Distinguished Teacher Award

Lawrence K. Loo, MD, MACP, Southern California Region II

The award is bestowed upon a Fellow or Master of the College who has demonstrated the ennobling qualities of a great teacher as judged by the accomplishments of former students. These students should have been inspired by the nominee and achieved positions of influence in the field of medical education, primarily as teachers. If the awardee has not previously been elected to Mastership, it will be awarded when elected.

Masterships

ACP Bylaws state that Masters shall be Fellows who have been selected because of “integrity, positions of honor, impact in practice or in medical research, or other attainments in science or in the art of medicine.” Masters must be highly accomplished persons demonstrating impact in practice, leadership, or in medical research. Evidence of their achievements can come from many types of endeavors, such as renown within their field and/or ACP chapter, research, education, health care initiatives, volunteerism, administrative positions, care of patients, and service to their community.

Daniel S. Anderson, MD, MACP, Southern California Region III
Robert H. Brook, MD, MACP, Southern California Region I
Joel C. Diamant, MD, MACP, Southern California Region III
Simerjot K. Jassal, MD, MACP, Southern California Region III
Shagufta Yasmeen, MBBS, MACP, Northern California