Education

Faculty Mentors

Daniel Lesser, MD

•  Director, Pediatric Pulmonary Training Program
•  Supervises pediatric residents during inpatient and outpatient clinical activities
•  Participates in case conferences and the morning report with medical students and interns
•  Presenter at monthly Pediatric Pulmonary Case Conferences for residents and students

Gabriel G. Haddad, MD

•  Participates in Professor’s Rounds with pediatric residents and students
•  Mentors/advises four postdoctoral fellows
•  Advisor for two graduate students
•  Teaches weekly Research-in-Progress seminars in the laboratory
•  Organizes a bi-weekly seminar involving a group of investigators and their labs at UCSD (Extreme O2 group, EOG
•  Teaches bi-weekly Journal Club
•  Weekly hospital rounds and bi-weekly pulmonary rounds
•  Organizes the medical students/pharmacy students (year 1) course (with Albert La Spada) in medical genetics/genomics and teaches in it

Julie Ryu, MD

•  Participates in Clinical Leadership. Administrative/ Management, Program Development and Education
•  Supervises pediatric residents during inpatient and outpatient clinical activities
•  Faculty Advisor for 2 pediatric residents
•  Mentor, advisor, thesis committee member for graduate students
•  Presenter, bimonthly case conferences with medical students and interns
•  Presenter at monthly Pediatric Pulmonary Case Conferences for residents and students
•  Presenter at local Research in Progress and Journal Club meetings

Kathryn Akong, MD, PhD 

•  Supervises pediatric residents during inpatient and outpatient clinical activities
•  Participates in case conferences and the morning report with medical students and Presenter at monthly Pediatric Pulmonary Case Conferences for residents and students interns

Kelan Tantisira, MD 

• Mentors trainees and post doctoral scientists at all levels
• Research in asthma pharmacogenomics, epidemiology, and therapeutics
• Leads RECOVER COVID Initiative, NIH initiative to understand pediatric Long COVID

Matejka Cernelc-Kohan, MD 

•  Supervises pediatric residents during inpatient and outpatient clinical activities
•  Participates in case conferences and the morning report with medical students and interns
•  Presenter at monthly Pediatric Pulmonary Case Conferences for residents and students

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWS

Sophia Karandashova, MD, PhD

Amanda Khoury, MD

Danielle Munce Leverone, MD