Featured STARs
Featured Alumni STAR Awardees
UCLA STAR encourages you to lead rather than to follow and that's the path that most awardees take. They choose to reach for the stars rather than sit back and admire them.
Tamer Sallam, MD, PhD, STAR Program Executive Co-Director
Linda Liau, MD, PhD
Professor & Chair,
UCLA Department of Neurosurgery
Dinesh Rao, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
UCLA Department of Pathology
Jennifer Malin, MD, PhD
Staff Vice President,
Clinical Strategy Anthem Inc.
Jocelyn Kim, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor,
UCLA Department of Infectious Diseases
Oliver Dorigo, MD, PhD
Director and Associate Professor,
Division Gynecologic Oncology
Stanford Women's Cancer Center
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Karen Reckamp, MSCR
Co-Director and Associate Professor of Medicine,
Lung Cancer and Thoracic Oncology Program
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
Joseph C. Wu, MD, PhD
Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute
Professor, Department of Medicine/Cardiology & Radiology
Kathleen Sakamoto, MD
Professor, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Pediatrics Stanford University School of Medicine
Sanaz Memarzadeh, MD, PhD
Director, G.O. Discovery Laboratory
Associate Professor,
UCLA Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Rick Fairhurst, NIH, MD, PhD
Chief, Malaria Pathogenesis and Human Immunity Unit,
Laboratory of Malaria and
Vector Research
Director, NIH MD/PhD Partnership Training Program
NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Susanne Nicholas, MD, MPH, PhD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Director, Fellowship Training Program
Division of Nephrology
Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Hypertension
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Co-Director, AXIS Technology Core
Department of Research
Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
As the first Infectious Diseases fellow in the UCLA STAR Program, I was strongly encouraged to customize my training to fit my interests and develop my career.
Rick Fairhurst, MD, PhD, National Institutes of Health
Featured Current STAR Awardees and Recent Graduates
Peter Hanna, MD
Chief STAR Fellow
Division/Track: Cardiology, Basic Science
Cherie Blair, MD, MPH
Chief STAR Fellow
Division/Track: Infectious Diseases, Health Services Research
Amy Cummings, MD
Division/Track: Hematology Oncology, Basic Science
Tasha Lin, MD
Division/Track: Hematology Oncology, Basic Science
Jason Hong, MD, MPH
Division/Track: Pulmonary, Basic Science
Ana Costa-Monteiro, MD, PhD
Division/Track: Pulmonary, Postdoctoral Research
Iheanacho Emeruwa, MD, MBA
Division/Track: Pulmonary, Health Services Research
Joshua Sasine, MD
Division/Track: Hematology Oncology, Basic Science
The STAR Program provides an excellent balance of integrated clinical training with a strong focus on research. The flexibility and support for researchers to pursue their interests is unparalleled.
Joshua Sasine, MD PhD