Graduate Medical Education Associate Dean's Message Leadership & Staff Graduate Medical Education Committee Training Programs Training Sites Application Information Information & Resources Residents & Fellows Resources Residents & Fellows Salary, Benefits, Policies Verification and Certification Requests Contact Us Graduate Medical Education Committee Home Education Medical Education Graduate Medical Education GME Graduate Medical Education Committee Members (GMEC) 2026-27 Graduate Medical Education Committee Member List GMEC Leaders Kyle Ahn, MD, MBA, Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education/DIO, GMEC Chair David Donaldson, MD, Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education, GMEC Co-Chair Michael O'Leary, MD, Director for Clinical Learning Environment Khanh-Van Le-Bucklin, MD, Vice Dean for Medical Education Courtney Strayer, Director for Graduate Medical Education Program Leadership Voting Members Afshan Baraghoush, MD, Program Director, Internal Medicine Bi-Ying Yeh, MD, Program Director, PM&R Brian Smith, MD, Program Director, Surgery Dawn Lombardo, MD, Associate Program Director, Cardiovascular Disease Gregory Rafijah, MD, Program Director, Hand Surgery John Hann, MD, Program Director, Family Medicine John Luo, MD, Program Director, Psychiatry John Scolaro, MD, Program Director, Orthopaedic Surgery Julia Bregand-White, MD, Program Director, OB/GYN Karen Tran-Harding, MD, Program Director, Radiology Kate McCartney, MD, Program Director, Anesthesiology Kira Molas-Torreblanca, DO, Program Director, Pediatrics Maki Yamamoto, MD, Associate Program Director, Surgery Mari A. Perez-Rosendahl, MD, Program Director, Pathology Masaki Nagamine, MD, Program Director, Neurology Matthew Dolich, MD, Program Director, Surgical Critical Care Miles Pfaff, MD, Program Director, Plastic Surgery Shannon Toohey, MD, Program Director, Emergency Medicine Program Coordinator Voting Members Linh Nguyen, MEd, Program Coordinator, Family Medicine Quality and Patient Safety Representative Voting Members Lauren Gibson, Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Officer, UCI Health Quality and Safety Office Resident Voting Members Alexis Geich, MD, Pediatrics, PGY 2 Anthony Nazaryan, DO, PM&R, PGY 3 Brandon Nguyen, MD, Neurology, PGY 3 Catherine Wu, MD, Plastic Surgery, PGY 5 Charlotte Christ, MD, Internal Medicine, PGY 3 Delaney Sztraicher, MD, OBGYN, PGY 4 Ellis Jang, MD, Emergency Medicine, PGY 2 Gabrielle Barajas, MD, Psychiatry, PGY 4 James Seokgyu Hong, MD, Pediatrics, PGY 2 Jeremy Johnson, Radiology, MD, PGY 5 Karl Schlaht, MD, Anesthesiology, PGY 3 Kenny Vongbunyong, MD, Cardiology, PGY 5 Michael de Virgilio, MD, Surgery, PGY 4 Michael Tian, MD, Family Medicine, PGY 3