Medical Director, USA
A board-certified family medicine physician, clinical leader, and experienced telemedicine physician with expertise spanning primary care, urgent care, hospital medicine, post-hospitalization care, and healthcare operations. He completed his family medicine residency at UCLA and has practiced medicine in Southern California for more than a decade.
He has extensive experience delivering care in both in-person and virtual settings. His telemedicine practice has provided him with a comprehensive understanding of the clinical, operational, and communication considerations essential to delivering safe, effective, and patient-centered care remotely. His experience includes appropriate patient selection, virtual clinical assessment, continuity of care, care coordination, and collaboration with multidisciplinary healthcare teams.
His clinical background includes comprehensive primary care, same-day care, post-hospitalization follow-up, and urgent care. He has also held leadership roles focused on care coordination, life care planning, and clinical coding, contributing to improved quality, efficiency, and continuity across the healthcare system.
Previously served as Medical Director for Employee Health at Martin Luther King Community Hospital, where he oversaw professional staffing and departmental operations. His broader clinical experience includes hospital medicine, skilled nursing facility care, and the development of post-discharge clinical services.
Committed to medical education and physician development, he has served as voluntary faculty with the UCLA International Medical Graduate Program. He has delivered educational lectures on a broad range of clinical topics and has presented at UCLA on primary care, hospital medicine, geriatrics, diabetes, heart failure, alcohol withdrawal, and other areas of clinical practice.
As Medical Director, he combines frontline clinical expertise, telemedicine experience, physician leadership, and healthcare operations knowledge to advance safe, accessible, efficient, and patient-centered virtual care models. His experience across outpatient, virtual, urgent care, inpatient, and post-acute settings gives him a comprehensive perspective on the continuum of care and the evolving needs of patients and healthcare organizations.
Fluent in English and Spanish, including medical and technical terminology, he dedicated to expanding access to high-quality healthcare and improving outcomes for diverse and underserved communities.
