About Our Faculty

Albert Yuh-Jer Shen, MS, MD, FACC
Program Director

Dr. Shen received his MD degree in 1988 from China Medical College in Taiwan . He received a Master’s degree in Anatomy and Cell Biology from USC (1991). He then completed Internal Medicine residency training at LAC-USC (1994), General Cardiology (1997), and Interventional Cardiology (1998) training at LAMC. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Interventional Cardiology. He is Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCLA and Director of the CCU and Medical Telemetry units at LAMC. His research interest is in general cardiology, echocardiography and cardiac resynchronization therapy. He is a reviewer for the American Journal of Cardiology.

Michael B. Jorgensen, MD, FACC
Assistant Program Director

Dr. Jorgensen received his MD degree from UCLA, and completed Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology training at LAMC. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Interventional Cardiology. He served as program director from 1994 through June 2004. He is also an Assistant Area Medical Director at LAMC and Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA. He is a reviewer for the journal Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions and is the recipient of numerous awards.

Adam Kotlewski, MD, PhD, FACC
Chief of Cardiology

Dr. Kotlewski received his BA in 1967 and PhD in Physics in 1974, both from Columbia University . He then received his MD in 1978 from the University of Miami . He completed Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship at LAC-USC. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology. He is a Clinical Asst Prof of Med at UCLA.

David Blumfield, MD, FACC

Dr. Blumfield received his MD degree from University of Oregon Health Sciences Center and completed Internal Medicine internship and residency at University of Wisconsin Center for Health Sciences in Madison . He completed his Cardiology training at UCLA/Wadsworth VAMC and stayed on for a staff year at UCLA devoted to Nuclear Cardiology training. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology, and Nuclear Cardiology. He is director of the Nuclear Cardiology Lab and is an Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA.

Adam Howard, MD

Dr. Howard received his MD degree from UCSF in 1990 and did his internship and residency in internal medicine at Stanford University from 1990 to 1993. He completed a research and clinical fellowship at Emory University in 1998 and is board certified in cardiovascular disease. He was in private practice in Kansas City until joining SCPMG in 2001. Dr. Howard is director of cardiac transplantation and is an assistant clinical professor of medicine at UCLA. His research interests are in echocardiography, heart failure, and heart transplantation.

Anne Ichiuji, MD, FACC

Dr. Ichiuji received her MD degree from the UCLA School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine residency and Cardiology fellowship training at the UCLA-San Fernando Valley Program. She then served as a member of the faculty in the Division of Cardiology at the UCLA-Olive View Medical Center where her research interests were in racial differences in heart disease and women’s health until she joined SCPMG in the spring of 2005. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology and is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.

Steven Khan, MD, FACC

Dr. Khan received his MD from Rush Medical College in Chicago , did his residency in Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles , and then did his Cardiology fellowship and a year as a research fellow at the UCLA/West Los Angeles VA hospital program. After fellowship, he joined the cardiology faculty at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center from 1987-2004 initially as a full time faculty attending in the Cardiac Surgery Intensive Care unit and then as Director of the Advanced Heart Failure Program. He was appointed Director of Cardiology Clinical Trials at Cedars and was principal investigator on over 30 clinical trials and also served as a member and chair of the Cedars IRB. He joined the KPMG faculty in January 2005. He is the author of over 50 peer reviewed papers, 20 book chapters and review articles and has served as a manuscript reviewer for Circulation, JAMA, JACC, JTCVS, and AJC among other journals. He served as a member of the American Heart Association Heart Failure and Transplantation Committee from 2003-2005 and on the American College of Cardiology Educational Programs Committee from 2003-2005. His primary research and clinical interests include heart failure and echocardiography.

Stephen H Lebowitz, MD, FACC

Dr. Lebowitz received his MD degree from the Pritzker School of Medicine at the University of Chicago , and completed his Internal Medicine and Cardiology training within the UCLA system. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases. He is Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Dr. Lebowitz is medical director of the Cardiac Rehabilitation program at the Kaiser Los Angeles Medical Center , and Chairman of the Hospital Shock and Resuscitation Committee. His current interests include Echocardiography, Cardiac Rehabilitation, Cardiac Care Unit duties and invasive diagnostic procedures in the Regional Cath Lab.

 

Regional Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory

Vicken J. Aharonian, MD, FACC, FCCP, FSCAI
Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship 

Dr. Aharonian completed his Internal Medicine residency training in  New Jersey and his Cardiology Fellowship training at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland , Ohio . He is currently Director of the Regional Cardiac Cath Lab at Kaiser, Los Angeles Medical Center , and is a Clinical Asst. Professor of Medicine at UCLA. His research interest is in Interventional Cardiology.

Prakash W. Mansukhani, MD, FACC
Assistant Director

Dr. Mansukhani received his medical degree from Bombay University , India . He completed his Internal Medicine training at Coney Island Hospital in New York , and his Cardiology Fellowship at Kaiser LAMC. He is board certified in Internal medicine, Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology. His research interest is in interventional cardiology.

Naing Moore, MD

Dr. Moore received his MD degree from Burma. He completed internal medicine residency in New Jersey, and both Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology fellowship at Kaiser LAMC. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular diseases, and interventional cardiology.

 

Regional Electrophysiology Service

Nigel Gupta, MD
Director

Dr. Gupta received his MD degree from the University of California , Irvine and then completed his Internal Medicine residency at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles . He completed his general Cardiology fellowship training at LAMC, followed by Electrophysiology fellowship at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center . He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiology.

Jonathan Doris, MD
Assistant Director

Dr. Doris received his MD degree from Albany medical college, then completed Internal Medicine residency at Brown University . He completed his general Cardiology fellowship training at LAMC, followed by Electrophysiology fellowship at West Los Angeles VA hospital/UCLA. His research interest is on cardiac resynchronization therapy.

Navneet Dullet, MD, FACC

Dr. Dullet obtained her MD from Punjabi U. med school in India . She completed Internal Medicine residency at LAC-USC and Cardiology fellowship at UC Irvine. She then received EP training at UCSF. She is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiology and Cardiac Electrophysiology. Her research interests are in Women’s health and catheter ablation.

Maged F Nageh, MD  

Dr. Nageh received his MD degree from Cairo university/Egypt, then completed Internal Medicine residency and general Cardiology fellowship training at Baylor College of Medicine, followed by Electrophysiology fellowship training at Hahneman-MCP University . He has been awarded NIH grant support for research in molecular genetics during his cardiology fellowship training, and received awards from NASPE/HRS for his research/presentation. His research interests include mechanisms and therapies of ventricular arrhythmias.