Class of 2009
I graduated from CV in 2009 and attended college with the goal of pursuing a career in medicine but I was always interested in the social and public health aspects of health. When I realized that medical school would not be a good fit for me after undergrad, I took a gap year and applied to an MPH program to pursue public health more seriously. Since graduating with my MPH, I’ve worked in clinical and public health research at USC and CHLA.. Most recently, I have been working as an Epidemiologist with the state health department on COVID-19 related projects and plan to pursue a DrPH degree starting in Fall 2023.
Dr. JESSICA KIM MA, Pharm.D
UC RIVERSIDE, B.S. IN BIOLOGY, ‘13
LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY, PHARM.D., '18
West Virginia University, Pharmacy Residency 2018-2019
UC Davis Health, Pediatric Pharmacy Residency 2019-2020
Currently working at UC Davis Health in Sacramento
I graduated from CVHS in 2009 and went to University of California Riverside to major in Biology. I graduated from UCR in 2013 and worked as a pharmacy technician at CVS for 1 year until I began pharmacy school at Loma Linda in 2014. I received my Doctor of Pharmacy in 2018 and continued to receive additional training for 2 additional years to specialize in pediatrics. I am currently a Pediatric Clinical Pharmacist at UC Davis Health Medical Center. My day to day tasks include working up patients, identifying interventions to be made, and making plans with a multidisciplinary team for the patient. Working with the pediatric population is such a rewarding experience. Despite how ill they are when we first see them, they are so resilient and bounce back very quickly.
I am so grateful for all the guidance and mentoring that the Academy of Science and Medicine has provided me when I was in high school. Without their continued support, I would not be where I am today.
I am so grateful for all the guidance and mentoring that the Academy of Science and Medicine has provided me when I was in high school. Without their continued support, I would not be where I am today.
Class of 2008
SUsan Lee, D.O., MPH
CV CLASS OF 2008 VALEDICTORIAN
BS, HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION - UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
MPH - TOURO UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA
DOCTOR OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE- TOURO UNIVERSITY, CALIFORNIA - COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE
RESIDENCY -ASCENSION LOURDES HOSPITAL, BINGHAMTON, NEW YORK
STAFF - MEMORIAL CARE IN ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Growing up, I always dreamed of becoming a physician, and the Academy of Science and Medicine catapulted my dreams even further. After graduating first in my class at CV, I started USC as a Biological Sciences major but switched to Health Promotion and Disease Prevention in order to enable me to take more public health courses. I also began getting clinical exposure through various programs in university and graduated in the top 2% of my class at USC. I went on to medical school and decided on a family medicine residency to further develop my love for continuity of care and ensuring optimal health outcomes for various patient populations. After completing my residency in New York, I returned to my true home of Southern California to begin practicing primary care full-time.
Class of 2007
andrea wong
BA, Biology, Occidental College
PhD Student in Molecular Microbiology, Tufts university
My thesis project is investigating a virus-host (phage-bacterium) receptor interaction at the genetic, biochemical and structural levels. Last year our lab published a paper showing the presence of both ICP2 phage and Vibrio cholerae escape mutants in rice-water stools from cholera patients. Many of the escape mutants contained missense or duplication mutations in the regions encoding two extracellular loops in ompU, which is a major outer membrane porin. Our lab later isolated ICP2 "suppressor" mutants that could plaque on specific ompU point mutants. I plan to further elucidate the interaction between ICP2 and OmpU and investigate the impact of the "suppressor" mutations on ICP2 phage fitness.
Artin galoosian
A Dolores Zohrab Liebmann Fellow M.D., M.A.
George Washington University - School of Medicine & Health Sciences 2017
RESIDENT, CA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
After graduating from UC Berkeley with a Bachelor of Arts in Public Health from the School of Public Health, I completed a my Master of Arts degree at Boston University School of Medicine. I then went on to complete my Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree at The George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences in Washington, D.C with a focus on Medical Education. I was also the recipient of the prestigious Dolorez Zohrab Liebmann fellowship during medical school. I am now an internal medicine resident at California Pacific Medical Center, where I was lucky enough to be named one of three chief residents.
Class of 2006
Teo soleymani
University of California, los angeles - b.a Evolutionary Biology
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Irvine - school of medicine
NYU fellowship dermatopharmacology
Stanford University School of Medicine - residency
Dr. Soleymani’s tertiary education journey began in the year 2006, when he enrolled in UCLA to pursue a degree in evolutionary biology. “It was during that time I became interested in translational research, particularly in the fields of molecular and cellular biology,” says Dr. Soleymani.
“During my undergraduate days, I worked in the lab of [Associate Professor] Dr. Andrea Hevener at UCLA, studying the molecular mechanisms of inflammatory pathways and signaling cascades that regulated inflammation, insulin resistance, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.” says the researcher.
“I owe much of my interests in research to her mentorship and the fruitful research conducted in her lab,” he says of his adviser Dr Hevener who in 2013 was recognized as one of the 12 outstanding women of Los Angeles by the National Women’s Political Caucus Los Angeles.
One of his proudest accomplishments while working with Dr. Hevener was when their research was published in the April 13, 2016, issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine. “This was work that took over seven years to complete, with 33 different authors across 16 different departments in three continents!” he exclaims.
Upon completion of his degree, the researcher attended the School of Medicine at University of California, Irvine, to continue his medical education, where he received numerous academic awards and distinctions. “I would say my single most successful accomplishments during medical school was when I was nominated and inducted into the renowned Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society (AOA), the most prestigious and coveted academic honor bestowed in medical school in the United States, reserved for only the top tier of graduating medical doctors,” says Dr. Soleymani.
He completed his post-graduate training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the largest hospital in the western United States, and continued on to NYU where he completed a fellowship in dermatopharmacology and clinical trials at the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology. He then entered the prestigious Department of Dermatology at the world-renowned School of Medicine at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, where he currently undergoes his residency training.
“During my undergraduate days, I worked in the lab of [Associate Professor] Dr. Andrea Hevener at UCLA, studying the molecular mechanisms of inflammatory pathways and signaling cascades that regulated inflammation, insulin resistance, diabetes and cardiovascular disease.” says the researcher.
“I owe much of my interests in research to her mentorship and the fruitful research conducted in her lab,” he says of his adviser Dr Hevener who in 2013 was recognized as one of the 12 outstanding women of Los Angeles by the National Women’s Political Caucus Los Angeles.
One of his proudest accomplishments while working with Dr. Hevener was when their research was published in the April 13, 2016, issue of the journal Science Translational Medicine. “This was work that took over seven years to complete, with 33 different authors across 16 different departments in three continents!” he exclaims.
Upon completion of his degree, the researcher attended the School of Medicine at University of California, Irvine, to continue his medical education, where he received numerous academic awards and distinctions. “I would say my single most successful accomplishments during medical school was when I was nominated and inducted into the renowned Alpha Omega Alpha medical honor society (AOA), the most prestigious and coveted academic honor bestowed in medical school in the United States, reserved for only the top tier of graduating medical doctors,” says Dr. Soleymani.
He completed his post-graduate training at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, the largest hospital in the western United States, and continued on to NYU where he completed a fellowship in dermatopharmacology and clinical trials at the Ronald O. Perelman Department of Dermatology. He then entered the prestigious Department of Dermatology at the world-renowned School of Medicine at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, where he currently undergoes his residency training.
Tadeh vartanian
pharm d., clinical pharmacist at cha hollywood presbyterian medical center
I gained a greater level of appreciation for the Academy of Science and Medicine, and Crescenta Valley High School in general, when I started my undergraduate studies at UCLA in 2006. The couresework for my two bachelor degrees, Chemistry and Biology, were challenging, but I felt prepared going in. Thanks also to the Academy's focus on experiential training and my volunteer work at the USC Verdugo Hills Hospital outpatient pharmacy, I knew pharmacy was for me early on, so I wasted no time and began my graduate school studies at USC in 2010. Since graduating in 2014, I focused on the inpatient hospital world by working at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center and Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Both give me different experiences with regards to patient demographics, company culture, etc. I feel the work I do as a pharmacist is diverse and constantly changing, and I look forward to more opportunities to come
