Leadership

Scripps Clinic Medical Group – Board of Directors

TITLE	DIRECTOR NAME
President	Richard Walker, MD
Executive Vice President	Joel Diamant, MD
Vice President of Medicine Services	Gary Williams, MD, PhD
Vice President of Primary Care	Siu Ming Geary, MD
Vice President of Surgery Services	Chris Marsh, MD
Vice President of Diagnostic Services	Michael Quigley, MD
Chair, Department of Family Medicine	Michael Van Buskirk, MD
Chair, Department of Internal Medicine	Greg Babikian, MD
Chair, Department of Medicine	John Rogers, MD
Chair, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology	Ronald Salzetti, MD
Chair, Department of Orthopedic Surgery	Steven Copp, MD
Chair, Department of Pathology	Julie Steele, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatric Medicine	Eric Hogen, MD
Chair, Department of Radiology	Ross Christensen, MD
Chair, Department of Surgery	Amy Day, MD
Chair, Department of Academic Affairs	James Mason, MD
Chair, Department of Graduate Medical Education	Carrie Costantini, MD

Department Chairs

DEPARTMENT	DEPARTMENT CHAIR NAME	DEPARTMENT VICE CHAIR
Department of Family Medicine	Michael Van Buskirk, MD	Luigi Simone, MD
Department of Internal Medicine	Greg Babikian, MD	Harry Albers, MD
Department of Medicine	Gary Williams, MD, PhD	James Mason, MD
Department of OB/GYN	Ronald Salzetti, MD	Dina Fainman, MD
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery	Steven Copp, MD	James Bruffey, MD Inpatient Lorenzo Pacelli, MD, Outpatient
Department of Pathology	Julie Steele, MD	Kik Thorson, MD
Department of Radiology	Ross Christensen, MD	Robin Quazi, MD
Department of Pediatric Medicine	Erik Hogen, MD	Gurinder Dabhia, MD
Department of Surgery	Christopher Marsh, MD	Walter Biffl, MD

Department of Medicine

DIVISION	DIVISION HEAD NAME
Division of Allergy & Immunology	Katherine Woessner, MD
Division of Cardiovascular Diseases	Paul Teirstein, MD
Division of Chest & Critical Care	Jacqueline Chang, MD
Division of Dermatology	Arash Izadpanah, MD
Division of Diabetes/Endocrinology	James Mc Callum, MD
Division of Gastroenterology/Hepatology	Walter Coyle, MD
Division of Gerontology	Katrina DeLeon, MD
Division of Hematology/Oncology	James Mason, MD
Division of Hospital Medicine	Liesbet Joris-Quinton, MD Co-Division Head – Farhad Shadan, MD
Division of Infectious Diseases	Miguel Goicoechea, MD
Division of Integrative Medicine	Christopher Suhar, MD
Division of Nephrology	Andrew King, MD
Division of Neurology	Joshua Alexander, DO
Division of Radiation Oncology	Ray Lin, MD
Division of Rheumatology	Peter Weis, MD
Division of Urgent Care/Rancho Bernardo	Kimberly Longmire, MD
Division of Urgent Care/Torrey Pines	Thomas Kozak, MD

Department of Family Medicine

DIVISION	DIVISION HEAD NAME
Division of Family Medicine at SC Carmel Valley, Del Mar & Liberty Station	Christen Benke, DO
Division of Family Medicine at SC Encinitas	Luigi Simone, MD
Division of Family Medicine at SC Rancho Bernardo	Denise Coyle, MD
Division of Family Medicine at SC Rancho San Diego & Santee	David Hawkins, MD
Division of Family Medicine for SH Express Clinics	John Dawkins, MD

Department of Internal Medicine

DIVISION	DIVISION HEAD NAME
Division of Internal Medicine at SC Carmel Valley	Gregory Babikian, MD
Division of Internal Medicine at SC La Jolla & Torrey Pines	Melissa Wolinski, DO
Division of Internal Medicine at SC Mission Valley & Rancho San Diego	Sankar Sridaran, MD
Division of Internal Medicine at SC Rancho Bernardo	Mohammed Shaker, MD
Division of Internal Medicine for SC Private Internal Medicine Clinics	TBD

Department of OB/GYN

DIVISION	DIVISION HEAD NAME
Division of General OB/GYN	Dina Fainman, MD
Division of Gynencology Specialties	Varuna Raizada, MD
Division of Maternal & Fetal Medicine	Sean Daneshmand, MD

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

DIVISION	DIVISION HEAD NAME
Division of Pain/Anesthesia	Steven Copp, MD
Division of Foot & Ankle	Cameron Barr, MD
Division of Spine Surgery	Robert Eastlack, MD
Division of Lower Extremity Reconstruction & Total Joint Arthroplasty	William Bugbee, MD
Division of Sports Medicine	Daniel Keefe, MD
Division of Hand, Upper Extremity && Microvascular Surgery	Lorenzo Pacelli, MD

Department of Pathology

DIVISION	DIVISION HEAD NAME
Division of Anatomical Pathology	Pamela Boswell, MD
Division of Clinical Pathology	Micheal Quigley, MD, PhD
C.L.I.A Laboratory, Scripps Green Hospital	Emma Du, MD
C.L.I.A Laboratory, Scripps Memorial Hospital La Jolla	Edward Kane, MD
C.L.I.A Laboratory, Scripps Memorial Hospital Encinitas	Paul Gibbs, MD
C.L.I.A Laboratory, Scripps Clinic	Michael Quigley, MD, PhD

Department of Radiology

DIVISION	DIVISION HEAD NAME
Division of In-patient Interventional Radiology	S. Bradford Hulse, MD
Division of In-patient Diagnostic Radiology	Mina Zakhary, MD
Division of Out-patient Diagnostic Radiology	Symphorosa Williams, MD
Division of Out-patient Interventional Radiology	Anshu Bansal, MD

Department of Surgery

DIVISION	DIVISION HEAD NAME
Division of General Surgery	Amy Day, MD
Division of Head & Neck Surgery and Otology	John Saad, MD
Division of Neurosurgery	Christopher Uchiyama, MD
Division of Organ Transplantation	Christopher Marsh, MD
Division of Ophthalmology, Optometry	Victor Zablit, MD Associate Division Head Ophthalmology – Quang Nguyen, MD
Division of Plastic Surgery	Salvatore Pacella, MD
Division of Trauma, Critical Care Surgery	Walter Biffl, MD
Division of Urology	Jeffery Zeitung, MD
Division of Vascular & Endovascular Surgery	David Frankel, MD

Advanced Practice Clinician Department Leads

DEPARTMENT	APC DEPARTMENT LEAD
Department of Family Medicine	Jenna Roberts, PA
Department of Internal Medicine	Michelle Carter, PA
Department of Medicine	Jonathan Jaseniuk, PA
Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology	Joyce Finlay, NP
Department of Orthopedic Surgery	Andrew Myerson, PA
Department of Pathology	Karen Ron, PA
Department of Pediatric Medicine	Samantha Galvan, NP
Department of Radiology	Kim Berry-Divingracia, PA
Department of Surgery	Victoria Vincent, PA

Scripps Clinic Medical Group – Administration

The day to day business operations of SCMG are overseen by the President and his core team, working in careful collaboration with Scripps Health Corporation to assure excellence in Clinic and Medical Group operations. The members of the SCMG Office team are as follows:

TITLE	NAME
President	Richard Walker, MD
Executive Vice President	Joel Diamant, MD
Sr. Vice President & CFO	Mike Gelin
Senior Director, Finance	Tim Brandt
Senior Director, Human Resources	Michelle Setterberg
Manager, Physician Resources	La Venda Jackson
Manager, Payroll	Vanessa Wessel
Financial Analyst	Eva Brusko
Executive Assistant	Kathy Sauquillo

Board Committees and Task Forces

The following committees and task forces guide and support the SCMG Board in its directives and obligations to serve its teams, patients, and its collaboration with Scripps Health.

TITLE	NAME
Executive Management	Richard Walker, MD*
Joint Management	Richard Walker, MD*
PSA Negotiation	Joel Diamant, MD & Mike Gelin*
Professional Standards	Joel Diamant, MD*
GME Funding & Alignment	Carrie Costantini, MD*
Graduate Medical Education	Carrie Costantini, MD*
Officer Evaluation & Recruitment	Joel Diamant, MD
Income Distribution/Compensation	Dale Mitchell, MD
Retirement Savings Plan	Ed Kane, MD
Strategic Planning	Andrew King, MD
Strategic Growth	Gary Williams, MD, PhD
CME	James Mason, MD
Research & Innovation	James Mason, MD & Chris Marsh, MD
Website and Marketing	Chris Marsh, MD
Pharmacy & Therapeutics	Darren Sigal, MD
Medical Review	Ronald Simon, MD
Minimum Work Standards	Joel Diamant, MD
Revenue Cycle	Richard Walker, MD
Task Force on SCMG Governance	Larry Sakas, MD
Task Force on Member Services	Joel Diamant, MD
Task Force on Committee Structure	James Mason, MD
Accountable Care Organization	Richard Walker, MD*
Medical Ethics	Carrie Chun, MD
Physician Well-being	Jonathan Fisher, MD

*denotes closed committee

Graduate Medical Education

SCMG has a long-standing commitment to promoting excellence in medical education and physician training. The following team oversees our programs, including one core residency, nine ACGME accredited fellowships, and eight non-ACGME accredited fellowship training programs.

ACGME-ACCREDITED PROGRAMS

TITLE	NAME
Director, Allergy & Immunology	Joel Andrew White, MD
Program Director, Congestive Heart Failure Fellowship	Thomas Heywood, MD
Program Director, Endocrinology Fellowship	Matt Levine, MD
Program Director, Gastroenterology Fellowship	Frank Tsai, MD
Program Director, General Cardiology Fellowship	Malhar Patel, MD
Chair, Graduate Medical Education (GME) and ACGME Designated Institutional Officer (DIO)	Carrie Costantini, MD
Program Director, Hematology/Oncology Fellowship	Carrie Costantini, MD
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency	Biraj Shah, MD
Program Director, Interventional Cardiology Fellowship	Curtis Stinis, MD
Program Director, Micrographic Dermatological Surgery Fellowship	Hugh Greenway, MD
Program Director, Rheumatology Fellowship	Nicole Gunn, MD

NON-ACGME PROGRAMS

TITLE	NAME
Program Director, Advanced Cardiac Echo Imaging Fellowship	Mike Smith, MD
Program Director, Laparoscopic General Surgery Fellowship	William Fuller, MD
Program Director, Laparoscopic Gynecological Surgery Fellowship	Bruce Kahn, MD
Program Director, Lower Extremity Reconstruction Fellowship	William Bugbee, MD
Program Director, Organ Transplantation Surgery Fellowship	Christopher Marsh, MD
Program Director, Orthopedic Sports Medicine Fellowship	Jan Fronek, MD
Program Director, Spine Surgery Fellowship	Greg Mundis, MD
Program Director, Structural Interventional Cardiology Fellowship	Paul Teirstein, MD

Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center

Since 2016, Scripps Health has been in a strategic partnership with the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, TX, called Scripps MD Anderson Cancer Center (SMDACC). In 2017, Scripps Clinic Medical Group joined that partnership to assure state-of-the-art cancer care at Scripps Clinic and for SCMG’s patients in Scripps hospitals, adding the benefits of MD Anderson treatment protocols, research protocols, and know-how for our patients and physicians. The following individuals lead that effort:

TITLE	NAME
SMDACC Medical Director	Tom Buchholz, MD
Medical Oncology Service Line Director	James Mason, MD
Radiation Oncology Service Line Director	Prabhakar Tripuraneni, MD
Surgical Oncology Service Line Director	Chris Marsh, MD
Oncologic Pain Management & Critical Care Service Line Director	Gary Williams, MD, PhD
Oncologic Pathology Service Line Director	Julie Steele, MD
Oncologic Radiology Service Line Director	Nik Patel, MD
Oncologic Internal Medicine & Survivorship Service Line Director	Ann Kuo, MD
Blood & Marrow Transplantation Program Director	James Mason, MD
Breast Oncology Program Director	Ray Lin, MD
Cutaneous Oncology Program Director	Hugh Greenway, MD
Genitourinary (GU) Oncology Program Director	Ramdev Konijeti, MD
GI & Pancreatic Oncology Program Director	Darren Sigal, MD
Hepatocellular Cancer (HCC) Program Director	Jennifer Au, MD
Gynecology-Oncology Program Director	Jo Marie Janco, MD
Head & Neck Oncology Program Director	Brendan Gaylis, MD
Malignant Hematology Program Director	Anuj Mahindra, MD
Musculoskeletal (MSK) Oncology Program Director	Anna Kulidjian, MD
Neurologic Oncology Program Director	Faith Barnett, MD
Thoracic Oncology Program Director	Michael Kosty, MD