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11301 Wilshire Blvd, Rm 3240, Mail Code 111G
Los Angeles, CA, 90073
Office: 310-268-3002
Email: maceledon@mednet.ucla.edu
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Manuel Amando Celedon, MD

Assistant Chief of Emergency Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System

I currently serve as Assistant Chief of Emergency Medicine at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System. I am primarily interested in teaching students how to approach undifferentiated patients and increasing their exposure to critical care. All physicians will be the "doctor on a plane" and may need to respond to medical emergencies. My other academic interests include emergency management of substance use disorder, addiction, emergency cardiology, and quality improvement.

I was born in Guadalajara, Mexico but spent my childhood in Mazatlan. My life in the US began in San Diego, specifically Eastlake (Chula Vista). I am a UCSD Triton and a DGSOMer (class of 2012). I completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA, after which I pursued the DGSOM Medical Education Fellowship Certificate Program in Innovations in Curriculum Design & Evaluation. I am a fantasy football fanatic and enjoy the occasional pickup basketball game (I miss my Wooden days). Every year, I strongly believe the Chargers will win the Super Bowl, and yet they find incredibly creative ways not to win it. I am fluent in Spanish.


Education & Training

  • BA – University of California, San Diego
  • BS – General Biology, UC San Diego 
  • MD – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  • Residency – Harbor-UCLA Emergency Medicine Residency
  • Fellowship – Certificate Program in Innovations in Curriculum Design & Evaluation, UCLA DGSOM Medical Education

Positions

  • Assistant Chief of Emergency Medicine, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
  • Health Sciences Assistant Clinical Professor of Emergency Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  • Educator For Excellence, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
  • Site Director, DGSOM Early Authentic Clinical Experience, West Los Angeles VA Emergency Department
  • ED Opioid Safety Initiative Consultant, VA National Academic Detailing
  • Clinical Faculty, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center Department of Emergency Medicine

Publications

  • Retained gallstones: an elusive complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy. BMJ Case Rep. 2020 Dec 13; 13(12). Jung J, Basrai Z, Celedon M, Grock A. PMID: 33318258.
  • Man with altered mental status. J Am Coll Emerg Physicians Open. 2020 Jun; 1(3):302-303. Blair TE, Bae WIS, Celedon MA. PMID: 33000052.
  • Clinical effects from household insecticide: pyrethroid or organophosphate toxicity? BMJ Case Rep. 2019 Nov 21; 12(11). Basrai Z, Koh C, Celedon M, Warren J. PMID: 31753823.
  • Heritability of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. Gastroenterology. 2009 May; 136(5):1585-92. Schwimmer JB, Celedon MA, Lavine JE, Salem R, Campbell N, Schork NJ, Shiehmorteza M, Yokoo T, Chavez A, Middleton MS, Sirlin CB. PMID: 19208353.
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