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Credential verification is done by the individual programs. Please note we cannot verify postgraduate training for individuals enrolled at our affiliated institutions.

You may contact our affiliates directly by visiting the following websites:

  1. Harbor-UCLA 
  2. VA West Los Angeles
  3. Olive View-UCLA Medical Center
  4. For verification of medical school, please contact the DGSOM Registrar

Listed below are the UCLA program personnel responsible for verification of credentials. You may fax them your request for verification.

UCLA Residency Coordinators

Program: Name: Fee: Fax #:
Anesthesia Wayne Hasby

$50 standard form
$75 form filled out by program director

310-267-3766
Emergency Medicine Jennifer Cassidy  $50 (payable by check only) 310-794-0599
Family Medicine Christine Morguen $50 standard form and/or letter of verification 
$100 standard form including request for hospital seal
$125 notarized

310-453-5106
FM-Sports Medicine Christine Morguen

$50 standard form and/or letter of verification 
$100 standard form including request for hospital seal
$125 notarized

310-453-5106
Internal Medicine Libby Shin $50  
IM-Allergy/Immunology Giovanna Alvarado   310-825-9832
IM-Cardiology Desiree Valeriano $75 310-206-9133
IM-Dermatology Hanna Lambertson   310-825-3613
IM-Endocrinology Jayamalee De Silva   310-312-0546
IM-Gastroenterology Teresa Olivas

$50 standard form
$100 custom verification letter

310-267-1861
IM-Geriatrics Alina Pogorelova   310-794-2199
IM-Hematology/Oncology Ira Sarian $75 for outside agencies and institutions 310-206-3289
IM-Hospice & Palliative Robin Catino 310-268-4818
IM-Infectious Diseases Izumi Shitoma   310-825-3632
IM-Nephrology Reggie Mateo $100 for outside agencies and institutions 310-825-6309
IM-Preventive Medicine Madeline Haley   310-267-3840
IM-Pulmonary/Critical Care Heather Draper

$50 standard form
$75 form filled out by program director

310-206-8622
IM-Rheumatology Gabriel Valdivia

 

310-206-8606
IM-Sleep Medicine Heather Draper

$50 standard form 
$75 form filled out by program director

310-206-8622
Medicine-Pediatrics Libby Shin 310-267-3840
Neurology (Residency) Rebecca Bernstein
$50 for outside agencies and institutions 310-206-4733
Neurology (Fellowship) Jennifer Martinez
OB/Gyn (Residency) Nicole Santos

$50 standard form 
$75 form filled out by Program Director 
$100 notarized

310-206-7186
OB/Gyn (Fellowship) Yissel Rojas

$50 standard form 
$75 form filled out by Program Director 
$100 notarized

310-206-7186
Ophthalmology Debbie Sato   310-825-4617
Orthopaedic Surgery Connie Sams $50 310-825-1311
Pathology (Residency) Annetta Pierro $30 standard letter
$40  filled out by the program director
$50 notarized
310-267-2058

Path - Bloodbanking/Transfusion Medicine

Path - Hematopathology

Xiajian (Jayne) Lu $30 standard letter 
$40  filled out by the program director 
$50 notarized

Path - Cytopathology

Path - Dermatopathology

Path - Molecular Genetic Pathology

Path - Neuropathology

Heidi Merkin $30 standard letter 
$40  filled out by the program director 
$50 notarized
Pediatrics (Residency) Jacquelyn Voet $50 310-267-3842
Pediatrics (Fellowships) Laura Guerrero $50 310-825-6394

Pediatric Neurology (Child Neurology, Peds Epilepsy, BrainSport)

Raquel Gallegos 310-825-5834
Psychiatry (Residency & Fellowships) Denise Aguinaldo

 

310-825-0340
Radiation Oncology Kathy Rose   310-794-1984
Radiology (Residency & Fellowships) Evelyn Velasco $50 standard letter
$100 filled out by the program director
$150 notarized
310-267-2059
Surgery-General Chi Quach $75 310-267-0369
Surgery-Head & Neck Nicole Santos  

310-794-8492

 

Surgery-Neurosurgery Colleen Bruton $30 program coordinator signature 
$50 program director signature 
$50 hospital seal 
$60 custom letter
310-267-2707
Neurology Critical Care (Fellowship) Myrna Gonzalez
Surgery-Plastic Bryan Carrigan   310-825-5582
Surgery-Thoracic Desiree Valeriano   310-267-0369
Surgery-Vascular Maria Velasco $50 for outside agencies and institutions 310-267-0189
Urology (Residency) Nicole Santos

$50 standard form 
$75 form filled out by Program Director 
$100 notarized

310-206-7186
Urology (Fellowship) Yissel Rojas

$50 standard form 
$75 form filled out by Program Director 
$100 notarized

310-206-7186
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