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Internationally recognized faculty. Two fellows per year. No anonymity.

Program leadership and core faculty you'll know by name — individualized learning plans, weekly contact, and feedback that actually compounds across rotations. You'll be known from your first week.

Leadership

PD · 2 APDs · 1 Asst PD

Current fellows

Affiliated faculty

CHI · DBMI · Health IT

Alumni

Multiple cohorts

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Program leadership

Program Director

Brian Kwan, MD MS FAMIA

Emergency Medicine • Clinical Informatics
UC San Diego Health

Residency:Emergency Medicine, Highland Hospital, Alameda Health System, Oakland

Fellowship:Clinical Informatics, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Program Director of the UCSD Clinical Informatics Fellowship. Oversees program design, ACGME accreditation, recruitment, and fellow progression. Focus areas include ED informatics, AI/ML in clinical workflows, and fellowship pedagogy, with a particular interest in medical education informatics.

Emergency Medicine AI/ML in workflows Medical education informatics

Associate Program Director

Brian Clay, MD

Hospital Medicine • Clinical Informatics
UC San Diego Health
Faculty Affiliate, Jacobs Center for Health Innovation (JCHI)

Residency:Internal Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville

Associate Program Director with longstanding leadership in UCSD Health's informatics enterprise. Focus areas include inpatient workflow, clinical documentation, and EHR-based quality measurement.

Internal Medicine Hospital Medicine Documentation Quality measurement

Associate Program Director

Robert El-Kareh, MD MPH MS

Hospital Medicine • Clinical Informatics
UC San Diego Health

Residency:Internal Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital / Brown University

Fellowship:Research Fellowship in Biomedical Informatics, Brigham & Women's Hospital

Associate Program Director with deep expertise in clinical decision support, diagnostic error, and the implementation science of CI interventions.

Internal Medicine Hospital Medicine CDS Implementation science

Assistant Program Director

Christian Dameff, MD MS

Emergency Medicine • Clinical Informatics
Medical Director of Cybersecurity, UC San Diego Health
Co-Director, Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity

Residency:Emergency Medicine, Maricopa Medical Center, Phoenix (chief resident)

Fellowship:Clinical Informatics, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Emergency physician, clinical informaticist, and security researcher — a national voice on healthcare cybersecurity and patient safety. Co-founder of the CyberMed Summit and co-director of the UC San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity; his work spans the clinical impact of ransomware, medical-device security, and 911/EHR vulnerabilities.

Emergency Medicine Cybersecurity Patient safety Emergency medicine informatics

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Core faculty

Beyond program leadership, a group of core faculty teach, precept, and mentor fellows week to week — the people you'll actually build alongside across rotations and scholarly projects.

Core Faculty · Clinical Informatics

Mario Bialostozky, MD FAMIA

VP, Chief Medical Information Officer • Associate Chief Quality Officer, Rady Children's Hospital San Diego
Assistant Clinical Professor, Pediatrics, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Residency:Pediatrics, Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Pediatrician and clinical informaticist serving as Chief Medical Information Officer at Rady Children's Hospital San Diego. His published work centers on EHR-based quality improvement — standardizing pediatric medication reconciliation, measuring clinician EHR workload — and on training clinicians through clinical informatics education.

Pediatrics Emergency Medicine Quality improvement Informatics education

Core Faculty · Research Informatics

Michael Hogarth, MD FACMI

Professor of Medicine • Biomedical Informatics
UC San Diego Health

Residency:Internal Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine

UCSD's inaugural Clinical Research Information Officer and a two-decade veteran of medical informatics, elected to the American College of Medical Informatics. Deep expertise in terminologies and NLP, research data infrastructure, and public-health informatics — including statewide systems like California's integrated vital records.

Internal Medicine Terminologies & NLP Data infrastructure Public health informatics

Core Faculty · Health Information Exchange

James Killeen, MD

Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine • Director of ED Information Technology Services, UC San Diego Health
Chief Medical Officer, San Diego Health Connect

Residency:Emergency Medicine, Charity Hospital / Louisiana State University, New Orleans

Emergency physician and health-information-exchange architect, and founding director of the UC San Diego Clinical Informatics Fellowship. Designed and built UCSD Health's first HIE linking community clinics to UCSD for shared records, the San Diego EMS Hub that streams EMS patient records and EKGs to hospitals in real time, and served as lead architect for the ONC-funded San Diego Beacon Project behind the regional HIE. Continues as Chief Medical Officer of San Diego Health Connect.

Emergency Medicine Health information exchange EMS informatics Patient throughput

Core Faculty · Primary Care Informatics

Ammar Mandvi, MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Family Medicine • Primary Care Informatics
UC San Diego Health
Faculty Affiliate, Jacobs Center for Health Innovation (JCHI)

Residency:Family Medicine, PIH Health Whittier (chief resident)

Fellowship:Clinical Informatics, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Family-medicine physician working on AI in primary care — physician attitudes toward clinical AI, EHR-integrated dementia-care algorithms, and In Basket workload. His work spans the operational side of informatics too, using CDS and EHR optimization to streamline workflows with the end user always in mind. Grounds fellows in what it takes to bring informatics tools into a busy primary-care practice.

Family Medicine Primary-care AI CDS & EHR optimization Workflow optimization

Core Faculty · Ambulatory Informatics

Marlene Millen, MD

Clinical Professor of Medicine • Chief Medical Information Officer • Primary Care Informatics
UC San Diego Health

Residency:Internal Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Clinical Professor and primary-care informatics leader focused on ambulatory workflow, patient–clinician communication, EHR usability, and physician well-being. Has led work on AI-drafted patient messages and In Basket burden — the day-to-day realities of making the EHR work for clinicians.

Internal Medicine Ambulatory informatics EHR usability Clinician well-being

Core Faculty · Perioperative Informatics

Jeff Reeves, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor of Surgery • Medical Director, Peri-operative Informatics & Innovation
UC San Diego Health

Residency:General Surgery, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Fellowship:Minimally Invasive Surgery, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Minimally-invasive and bariatric surgeon who directs peri-operative informatics, and co-directs surgical quality for UC San Diego Health and the Surgical Quality & Informatics Fellowship; Jeff brings a critical surgical perspective to informatics.

General Surgery Surgical outcomes Emerging tech in the OR

Core Faculty · Chief Health AI Officer

Karandeep Singh, MD MMSc

Jacobs Chancellor's Endowed Chair in Digital Health Innovation • Associate Professor, Biomedical Informatics
Associate Clinical Professor, Division of Nephrology–Hypertension, Department of Medicine
UC San Diego Health

Residency:Internal Medicine, UCLA Medical Center (chief resident)

Fellowship:Nephrology, Brigham & Women's Hospital / MGH, Boston

Inaugural Chief Health AI Officer for UC San Diego Health, leading AI strategy and governance for the health system and AI initiatives within the Jacobs Center for Health Innovation. A national voice on the safe evaluation and deployment of predictive and generative models — from sepsis prediction to LLMs — and the faculty anchor for fellows working on clinical AI.

Nephrology Biomedical Informatics Model governance Predictive & generative AI

Core Faculty · Population Health Informatics

Amy Sitapati, MD

Clinical Professor, School of Medicine • Lawrence S. Friedman Professor of Population Health (Endowed Chair)
Executive Director, Institute for Applied Health Intelligence • Interim Chief, Division of Biomedical Informatics
Chief Medical Information Officer, Population Health • Co-Principal Investigator, California Integrated Vital Records System
Site Principal Investigator, UCSD NIH All of Us • Primary Care Internist, Division of General Internal Medicine
UC San Diego Health
Faculty Affiliate, Jacobs Center for Health Innovation (JCHI)

Residency:Internal Medicine, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Clinical Professor whose work centers on population health informatics, precision medicine, and using the EHR to close gaps in care and equity. Long track record building registries, quality-measure pipelines, and clinically integrated data programs — the operational side of informatics fellows learn to run.

Internal Medicine Population health Precision medicine Quality measurement

Core Faculty · Healthcare Cybersecurity

Jeff Tully, MD

Associate Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology • Clinical Informatics
Co-Director, Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity, UC San Diego Health

Residency:Pediatrics, Phoenix Children's Hospital

Residency:Anesthesiology, UC Davis School of Medicine

Anesthesiologist and security researcher focused on the intersection of medical technology and patient safety. Co-director of the UC San Diego Center for Healthcare Cybersecurity and co-founder of the CyberMed Summit; his research spans HL7 exploitation, compromised-device simulation, and the clinical fallout of ransomware and IT outages.

Anesthesiology Cybersecurity Patient safety Med-device security

Core Faculty · Clinical Informatics

Nathan Yung, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine • Hospital Medicine • Clinical Informatics
UC San Diego Health

Residency:Internal Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago

Fellowship:Clinical Informatics, UC San Diego School of Medicine

Hospitalist and clinical informaticist working at the intersection of inpatient care and machine learning — from deep-learning models for physiological deterioration to AMIA work on inclusive language in biomedical informatics. An active mentor in the hospital-medicine and informatics education pipeline.

Internal Medicine Hospital medicine Predictive models Mentoring

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Current fellows

2025–27 Cohort

Year II Fellow · 2025–27

Ruth Laverde, MD

General Surgery Resident • Clinical Informatics Fellow
UC San Diego Health

Undergraduate:Florida International University (Biochemistry, summa cum laude)

Medical School:UC San Francisco

Residency:General Surgery, UC San Diego

A proud first-generation college graduate, born in Peru and raised in Miami, Ruth found her calling in equity-driven care while working as a Patient Navigator at a free clinic and conducting preventive health research. At UCSF she co-founded a medical Spanish elective, helped develop the Global Surgery & Health Equity curriculum, and researched with the Center for Health Equity in Surgery and Anesthesia (CHESA) — work spanning pediatric surgical access, health systems strengthening, and social vulnerability indices in surgical outcomes. Her informatics interests center on leveraging data to advance perioperative equity, surgical quality improvement, and documentation efficiency, with a focus on EHR-integrated risk stratification tools and embedding language concordance and social drivers of health into surgical workflows. Outside the hospital she enjoys weightlifting, creating art, sewing, hiking, and exploring.

General Surgery Perioperative equity Surgical quality Risk stratification Social drivers of health

2026–28 Cohort

Year I Fellow · 2026–28

Ayesha Khan, MD

Family Medicine • Clinical Informatics Fellow
UC San Diego Health

Undergraduate:PECHS College (Pre-Med)

Medical School:Dow University of Health Sciences

Residency:Family Medicine, Charleston Area Medical College (GVMC)

Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, Ayesha trained at Dow University of Health Sciences before moving to the United States and completing her family medicine residency in West Virginia. She co-founded OneClinic, a telemedicine company expanding access to care in rural communities, and helped develop a patented telemedicine platform and remote examination kit — work that earned a USDA grant and recognition from the governor of Ohio. Having worked across outpatient clinics, emergency departments, and inpatient units, she is especially interested in optimizing primary care workflows at scale, with interests spanning artificial intelligence, clinical decision support, workflow optimization, health equity, and timely access to care. Outside medicine she enjoys traveling, discovering memorable food, and spending time with her daughter — her favorite things about San Diego are its beaches and finding the perfect meal after a day by the ocean.

Family Medicine Primary care workflows Clinical decision support Health equity Telemedicine

Year I Fellow · 2026–28

Mohanad Alhumayed, MD MAS

Diagnostic Radiology / Neuroradiology • Clinical Informatics Fellow
UC San Diego Health

Hometown:Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Medical School:King Saud University College of Medicine

Residency:Diagnostic Radiology, UC San Diego

Fellowship:Neuroradiology, UC San Diego

Graduate:MAS, Leadership of Healthcare Organizations

Mohanad is from Saudi Arabia and earned his MD from King Saud University College of Medicine. He completed his diagnostic radiology residency and a neuroradiology fellowship at UC San Diego, along with a Master's in the Leadership of Healthcare Organizations (MAS), and is now a Clinical Informatics fellow at UCSD. He was drawn to informatics after realizing that some of the biggest gains in patient care come not from reading one more scan, but from improving the systems and workflows behind every order and interpretation. His interests include responsible AI in healthcare, imaging informatics, clinical decision support, and health data governance. Outside of work, he'll take San Diego's weather, coastline, and food scene any day.

Neuroradiology Responsible AI in healthcare Imaging informatics Clinical decision support Health data governance

Year I Fellow · 2026–28

Yash Huilgol, MD MS

General Surgery Resident • Clinical Informatics Fellow
UC San Diego Health

Hometown:San Diego, CA

Medical School:UC San Francisco

Residency:General Surgery, UC San Diego

Yash's path into informatics began at Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs, where he studied how federal reimbursement policy differentially shaped hospital uptake of emerging technologies such as telemedicine. His subsequent work at UCSF in breast surgical oncology centered on clinical trial management and a patient-facing digital decision aid, and a degree from the UC Berkeley School of Public Health further integrated his interests in informatics, policy, and decision making. His fellowship work focuses on improving how patients and surgeons make decisions in the perioperative space using clinical informatics tools — including wearable devices and ambient monitoring — with the goal of improving the efficacy of perioperative care at UC San Diego Health. An avid photographer, he is drawn to San Diego's stunning landscapes and also enjoys hiking, graphic design, winetasting, and the region's beaches and food.

General Surgery Perioperative informatics Wearables & ambient monitoring Shared decision making Health policy

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Recent graduates · where they went

Two fellows graduate each year and step into academic, clinical, and operational informatics roles — many of them staying on as UC San Diego faculty. Below: where recent graduates are now.

Eileen Kim

2024–26

Clinical Faculty · UC San Diego — General Internal Medicine

Zach Pope

2024–26

Medical Director of Quality and Informatics · Gold River Family Medicine

Marshall Frieden

2023–25

Clinical Faculty · Baylor College of Medicine — Family Medicine

Nico Kahl

2023–25

Academic Faculty · UC San Diego — Emergency Medicine

Scott Ogan

2021–23

Clinical Faculty · Maimonides Medical Center, SUNY Downstate College of Medicine

Brian Kwan

2021–23

Academic Faculty · UC San Diego — Emergency Medicine

Nathan Yung

2020–22

Academic Faculty · UC San Diego — Hospital Medicine

Ammar Mandvi

2020–22

Academic Faculty · UC San Diego — Family Medicine

Brian Khan

2019–21

Executive Medical Director, Digital Health and Wellness · UChicago Medicine AdventHealth

Jeremy Bass

2018–20

Medical Director, Behavioral Health · TriWest | Founder, Texas Magnetic Stimulation

Christian Dameff

2017–19

Academic Faculty · UC San Diego — Emergency Medicine & Computer Science

Katherine Holman

2014–16

San Diego

Gilbert Ramirez

2014–16

Academic Faculty · UC San Francisco — Fresno

Adel Al-Marshad

2013–24

Advisor to the Minister of Economy & Planning Lead · Health Ecosystem Reform Office, Saudi Arabia

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Program coordination & support

Program Coordinator

Maeve-Anne (Mae) Malong

Fellowship Coordinator. Day-to-day program operations, ERAS application support, fellow onboarding, scheduling, and ACGME paperwork. The first person you'll speak to during the application process.

phone · (619) 543-4627
email · mmalong [at] health [dot] ucsd [dot] edu

Prospective applicants

Questions before you apply?

Reach the program coordinator for eligibility questions and application logistics. The Apply page has the full timeline and FAQ.

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AY 2026–27 · Applications Open

Want to meet us?

Interviews happen in the fall after ERAS opens. Questions before then? Reach the program coordinator.

Start ERAS application → Contact the program

Application

ERAS · opens July 2026

Match

AMIA · Dec 2026 (tent.)

Positions

2 per academic year

Eligibility

Any ABMS specialty

Start

July 2027