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

Pouya Afshar, MD, MBA
Chief Executive Officer, Presidium Health; San Diego, CA


Romilla Batra, MD, MBA
Lecturer, 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
Director, Postgraduate Residency Program, Jewish Home for the Aging
Associate Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration
Western University of Health Sciences College of Pharmacy;
CALTCM President; Moorpark, CA


Dominic Lim, MPH
Senior Director of Provider Integration at SCAN Health Plan; Masters in Public Health
with a focus in Health Management from the Yale School of Public Health and a Bachelor
of Arts in Integrative Biology from the University of California, Berkeley; Long Beach, 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, RN, MSN, GNP-BC
Dementia Care Specialist, UCLA Alzheimer's and Dementia Care Program;
Assistant Clinical Professor-Volunteer, UCLA School of Nursing;
Coach and Mentor, CALTCM SNF 2.0® Training 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 AMDA: The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine;
CALTCM BOD member; Chief Medical Officer of Mariner Health Care & Beecan Health; San Diego, CA


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