LMG Faculty

Course Chair

Dan Osterweil, MD, FACP, CMD (also course faculty)

Clinical Professor of Medicine/Geriatric Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA; CALTCM Past-President; Retired Vice President and Medical Director, SCAN Health Plan; Los Angeles, CA


Course Faculty

Romilla Batra, MD, MBA
Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Premera Blue Cross. 
Serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center of Health Care Management
and Health Policy at the Paul Merage School of Business at UC Irvine; Irvine, CA

Darin Buxbaum, MBA
Co-founder & COO, Wider Circle; Lecturer at the Stanford Center for BioDesign, Redwood City, CA

Joshua Chodosh, MD, MSHS, FACP
Michael L. Freedman Professor of Geriatric Research
Professor of Medicine in the Division of Geriatric Medicine and Palliative Care
Department of Medicine, NYU Grossman School of Medicine; New York, NY


Alfredo Czerwinski, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Lawson & Associates, Sacramento, CA


Rebecca Ferrini, MD, MPH, CMD
Medical Director Edgemoor DP SNF, Behavioral Health Services
Health and Human Services Agency, County of San Diego, CA

Janice Hoffman-Simen, Pharm.D., EdD, APh, BCGP, FASCP
CALTCM Immediate Past-President; Moorpark, CA


Dominic Lim, MPH
Seasoned health care executive with over 19 years of proven expertise in leading
strategic initiatives focused on large-scale business and technology transformation,
managed care operations, and regulatory compliance; Los Angeles, CA

Dan Osterweil, MD, FACP, CMD
Clinical Professor of Medicine/Geriatric Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA;
Past-President, CALTCM; Retired Vice President and Medical Director, SCAN Health Plan; Los Angeles, CA

Kemi Reeves, DNP, MBA, RN, GNP-BC
Director, Nursing Health Care Equity, UCLA Health System;
Associate Director, UCLA Alzheimer’s and Dementia Care Program; Los Angeles, CA

Sarguni Singh MD, FHM
Assistant Professor, Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine
Physician Advisor, University of Colorado Hospital
University of Colorado, Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO

Karl E. Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC
Past-President of PALTmed; CALTCM Vice-President and Past-President;
Chief Medical Officer of Mariner Health Care & Beecan Health; San Diego, CA

Michael Wasserman, MD, CMD
Retired Geriatrician; CALTCM Parliamentarian and Past-President; Los Angeles, CA