Medical Staff Leadership

Each year members of the Medical Staff of USC Arcadia Hospital are elected and/or appointed to specific medical staff leadership roles. Refer to the list below for this year’s officers, as well as the chairs and representatives for the various departments, sections, and committees.

OFFICERS OF THE MEDICAL STAFF:

• Jose Tandoc, MD, Chief of Staff
• Christian Ochoa, MD, Vice Chief of Staff
• Hsin Yi Grace Huang, MD, Secretary/Treasurer
• Kenneth Wogensen, MD, Immediate Past Chief of Staff

DEPARTMENT/SECTION CHAIRS:

EMERGENCY MEDICINE DEPARTMENT

• Veronica Vasquez-Montez, MD

MEDICINE DEPARTMENT

• Sevag Balikian, MD Chair
• Atia Shah, MD, Vice Chair
• Raymond Gritton, MD, Third Department Representative / Past Chair

Medicine Section/Specialty Chairs/Representatives

Cardiology	Taqui Ali, MD, Chair
Gastroenterology	Hanson Lee, MD, Chair
Critical Care Committee	Rajan Garg, MD, Co-Chair/Medicine Department
Radiology	Jose Tandoc, MD, Department Representative

OB/GYN/PEDS DEPARTMENT

• Cindy Chou, MD, Department Chair (Ob/Gyn Section Chair)
• Nirupama Madduri, MD, Department Vice Chair, (Peds Section Chair)

SURGERY DEPARTMENT

• Magdi Alexander, MD, Chair
• Gregory Withers, MD, Vice Chair

Surgery Section/Specialty Chairs/Representatives

Anesthesia	Marcel Pidoux, MD, Chair
ENT	Ted Shen, MD, Chair
Cardiothoracic	John Chen, Chair
Critical Care Committee	Karan (Kris) Manchandia, MD, Co-Chair/Surgery Dept.
Gen/Vas. & Cardiothoracic	Karan Manchandia, Chair
Neurosurgery	Gregory Withers, MD, Chair
Ob/Gyn	Anya Rose, MD, Department Representative
Ophthalmology	Elson Lai, MD, Chair
Oral Surgery	W. Frederick Stephens, DDS, Chair
Orthopedic	James O’Dowd, MD, Chair
Pathology	Roger Der, MD, Department Representative
Plastic Surgery	Christopher Tiner, MD, Chair
Podiatry	Shelley Gath, DPM, Chair
Urology	Eric Kau, MD

COMMITTEE CHAIRS

Bioethics	Alan Fisher, MD, Chair
Bylaws	Elizabeth Lee, MD, Chair
Cancer	Henry Wang, MD, Chair
CPOE Standardization	David Ratto, MD, Chair
CQIS	Christian Ochoa, Chair (Vice Chief of Staff)
Credentials & IDP	Marcel Pidoux, MD, Chair
Critical Care	Rajan Garg, MD, Medicine Co-Chair
	Karan (Kris) Manchandia, MD, Surgery Co-Chair
Health Information & Technology	David Ratto, MD, Chair
Infection Control	Hua Jiang, MD, Chair
Institutional Review Board	Luis Huerta, MD, IRB Representative
Medical Education	Jose Tandoc, MD, Chair
Nominating	Kenneth Wogensen, MD, Chair (Immediate Past COS)
Peer Review	Stephen Soldo, MD, Chair
Pharmacy & Therapeutics	David Ratto, MD, Chair
Radiation Safety	Brian Lee, MD, Chair
Utilization Management & T&T Review	Roger Der, MD, Chair
Well Being/Mentoring	Jay Shah, MD, Chair