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New UCSD Clinical Faculty - May 2010

UCSD Medical Center welcomes the following new clinical faculty who have joined our practice in the past six months. Please click on each name to view an online profile of the physician.

Also, we are proud to announce the new partnership between CSSD, Rady's Children Hospital, and UC San Diego Health System. Please click here to view the list of clinical faculty involved in this important partnership.

Anesthesiology

• Beverly Newhouse, MD

Cancer

• Santosh Kesari, MD, PhD  (Neuro-oncology)

Dermatology

• Robert A. Lee, MD
• Michael Lerner, MD
• Joseph Lillis, MD 

Emergency Medicine

• Michael Nielsen, MD
• Jeremy Peay, MD
• Amy Zheng, MD

Family Medicine

• Christine Keays, MD

Hospitalists/Internal Medicine

• Graham E. Abra, MD
• Erica C. Boettcher, MD

Nephrology

• Jerry Meng, MD
• Mita M. Shah, MD
• Kumar Sharma, MD

Nurse Midwifery

• Erica T. Vu

Pathology

• Linda Ellis, MD
• Henry Krous, MD
• Denise Malicki, MD
• Robert Newbury, MD
• Katayoon Shayan-Tabrizi, MD

Psychiatry

• Katie P. Hirst, MD (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)
• Jeanne Hong, MD
• Fiza Singh, MD

Pulmonary Disease

• Philippe Montgrain, MD (Pulmonary Disease / Critical Care Medicine)
• David R. Riker, MD, FCCP (Interventional Pulmonology)
• Xavier Soler, MD, PhD (Pulmonary Disease / Critical Care Medicine)

Radiology

• Reena Chopra, MD
• Keith C. Edwards, MD
• Lucas P. Hiller, MD

Radiation Oncology

• John P. Einck, MD

Reproductive Medicine

• Gina Frugoni, MD (Obstetrics and Gynecology)
• Erin Gross, MD (Obstetrics and Gynecology)
• Irene Su, MD (Reproductive Endocrinology)

Surgery

• Bob S. Carter, MD, PhD (Neurosurgery)
• Eugene Golts, MD (Cardiothoracic Surgery)
• Elisabeth McLemore, MD (Colorectal Surgery) 

* Please note that, while every attempt is made to ensure the accuracy of this list, it may not represent all new clinical faculty.  If your department would like to have their new faculty listed in future announcements, please send your requests to Casey Murphy at cmurphy@ucsd.edu.  She will assist you in setting up an online profile and add the new physician to the future announcements. She will also facilitate updates to existing profiles.

This page will be updated every six months to announce new physicians to the UCSD Faculty Group.