Meet Our Scholars Cedars-Sinai Skip to content Close Select your preferred language English عربى 简体中文 繁體中文 فارسي עִברִית 日本語 한국어 Русский Español Tagalog English English عربى 简体中文 繁體中文 فارسي עִברִית 日本語 한국어 Русский Español Tagalog Translation is unavailable for Internet Explorer Cedars-Sinai Home 1-800-CEDARS-1 1-800-CEDARS-1 Close Find a Doctor Locations Programs & Services Health Library Patient & Visitors Community My CS-Link Education clear Go Close Academics Academics Faculty Development Community Engagement Calendar Research Research Areas Research Labs Departments & Institutes Find Clinical Trials Research Cores Research Administration Basic Science Research Clinical & Translational Research Center (CTRC) Technology & Innovations News & Breakthroughs Education Graduate Medical Education Continuing Medical Education Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Professional Training Programs Medical Students Campus Life Office of the Dean Simulation Center Medical Library Program in the History of Medicine About Us All Education Programs Departments & Institutes Faculty Directory Clinical Scholars Program Back to Clinical Scholars Program Curriculum Application Information Grant Application Meet Our Scholars Meet Our Clinical Scholars We are privileged to represent such a breadth of academic, scientific and clinical achievement among our Clinical Scholars every year. Each class consists of doctors and doctoral-level professionals with significant accomplishments in almost every discipline of human disease-related research. Current Scholars Jun Gong Jun Gong, MD is a medical oncologist and researcher of the Gastrointestinal and Neuroendocrine Malignancies and Urologic Oncology Program at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Pedro Sanchez Pedro A. Sanchez, MD, MSCE, FAAP, FACMG is the Director of the Clinical Genetics Program in the Department of Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center... VIEW FULL PROFILE Pedro Sanchez Pedro A. Sanchez, MD, MSCE, FAAP, FACMG is the Director of the Clinical Genetics Program in the Department of Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Sanchez is actively involved in clinical research utilizing 3D facial imaging for syndrome recognition as well as molecular genomic approaches for clinical diagnostics. Alan Kwan Alan Kwan, MD, is a second year cardiology clinical fellow specializing in cardiac imaging. Born in Seattle, went to med school at University of Washington, cardiac imaging research at NIH, residency at Johns Hopkins. Courtney Penn Courtney Penn is a gynecology oncology fellow at Cedars-Sinai. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan and attended medical school... VIEW FULL PROFILE Courtney Penn Courtney Penn is a gynecology oncology fellow at Cedars-Sinai. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan and attended medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. at Stanford University. She is interested in outcomes research and in targeted therapies for gynecologic cancers. Tanyalak Parimon Tanyalak Parimon is a faculty member of the pulmonary and critical care division. Her current research interest is lung fibrosis. Tanyalak is studying the role of extracellular vesicles... VIEW FULL PROFILE Tanyalak Parimon Tanyalak Parimon is a faculty member of the pulmonary and critical care division. Her current research interest is lung fibrosis. Tanyalak is studying the role of extracellular vesicles in fibrosis pathogenesis using a murine bleomycin lung injury model. Santhosh Nadipuram Santhosh Nadipuram, MD, is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and a physician-scientist. He joined Cedar-Sinai in 2018 and is now studying in the Arditi Lab with the goal of understanding... VIEW FULL PROFILE Santhosh Nadipuram Santhosh Nadipuram, MD, is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and a physician-scientist. He joined Cedar-Sinai in 2018 and is now studying in the Arditi Lab with the goal of understanding the host response to Toxoplasma infection, specifically in immune-privileged compartments, such as the brain and the eye (chorioretinitis), using experimental mouse models of acute and chronic toxoplasma infections. Nadipuram is also an active clinician, caring for pediatric patients in the hospital and clinic settings, and is involved in clinical translational research with Kawasaki disease patients. Akbarshakh Akhmerov Akbarshakh Akhmerov, MD attended Emory University for his undergraduate degree and completed his medical school training at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Asha Pathak Asha Pathak, MD, joined the Cedars-Sinai Division of Endocrinology faculty in August of the 2018-2019 academic year. She is a member of the Pituitary Research Program directed... VIEW FULL PROFILE Asha Pathak Asha Pathak, MD, joined the Cedars-Sinai Division of Endocrinology faculty in August of the 2018-2019 academic year. She is a member of the Pituitary Research Program directed by Dr. Melmed and her primary role is in research studying the mechanisms underlying pituitary tumorigenesis. Haider Aldiwani Haider Aldiwani, MD is a fellow in Internal Medicine at Cedars-Sinai in the Women's Heart Center. 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