Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Program Director Welcome Clinical Rotations How to Apply Faculty & Program Contacts Meet Our Fellows Faculty & Program Contacts Home Research Research: Clinical Departments Medicine: Home Medicine: Divisions Medicine: Hospital Medicine & Palliative Medicine Medicine: Hospital Medicine & Palliative Medicine > Education Medicine: Hospital Medicine & Palliative Medicine > Education > Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Medicine: Hospital Medicine & Palliative Medicine > Education > Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship > Faculty & Program Contacts Program Director Shiho Ito, MD Professor — Division of Hospital Medicine & Palliative Medicine, Medicine Program Director — Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship, Medicine Training Site Contacts Samantha Lau, MD Site Director Hoag Hospital Robert Nguyen, MD, MPH, HMDC Medical Director VITAS Healthcare David Ashen-Garry, DO Medical Director, Perinatal and Pediatric Palliative Care MemorialCare Miller Children's & Women's Hospital Long Beach Jessica Humphreys, MD Section Chief, Hospice and Palliative Care VA Long Beach Healthcare System Other Faculty Michael Nisco, MD – UCI Health, Director of Palliative Care Service Sunita Puri, MD – UCI Health, UC Irvine Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Associate Program Director Lucas Puttock, DO – UCI Health Physician Jeffrey Wong, MD – UCI Health Physician Chalat Rajaram, MD – VITAS Healthcare, UCI Health Volunteer Adam Kendall, MD – VITAS Healthcare, UCI Health Volunteer Bishen Bedi, MD – VITAS Healthcare, UCI Health Volunteer Ala Arafa-Price – VITAS Healthcare, UCI Health Volunteer Amy Sun, MD – VA Long Beach, UCI Health Volunteer Lara Weiss, MD – VA Long Beach, UCI Health Volunteer Ramy Sidhom, MD – VA Long Beach, UC Irvine Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship Associate Program Director Kara Kerns, MD – Hoag, UCI Health Volunteer Vincent D. Nguyen, DO, CMD – Hoag, UCI Health Volunteer