Current Residents

PGY4

Curren Giberson, MD, Chief Resident

Hometown: Santa Cruz, California
Internship: KPC Global Transitional Year – Hemet
Medical School: California Northstate University
Undergraduate School: California Polytechnic State University – San Luis Obispo
PM&R Interests: Sports medicine, spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury
Personal Interests: Mountain biking, camping, road trips, gardening

Kashif Malik, MD

Hometown: Atlanta, Georgia
Internship: Wellstar Kennestone Transitional Year – Marietta, Georgia
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia
Undergraduate School: Augusta University
PM&R Interests: Interventional pain medicine, MSK ultrasound, multimodal analgesia, sports medicine
Personal Interests: Ultimate Frisbee, weightlifting, spending quality time with family and friends

Matthew Ballard, MD

Hometown: Salem, Oregon
Internship: Abrazo Hospitals, Phoenix, Arizona
Medical School: Loyola University Chicago
Undergraduate School: Brigham Young University
PM&R Interests: Sports and spine, interventional pain
Personal Interests: Golf, pickup basketball, skiing, following pro sports, trying new restaurants

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PGY3

Brian Vu, MD

Hometown: Los Angeles, California
Internship: Harbor UCLA Medical Center Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of Colorado School of Medicine
Undergraduate School: University of California, Los Angeles
PM&R Interests: Pain medicine, Interventional spine/sports, sports medicine
Personal Interests: Discovering new restaurants, weightlifting, cars, Shiba Inus

Cindy Ye, MD

Hometown: Vancouver, Canada
Internship: Riverside Community Hospital Transitional Year
Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate School: University of California, Berkeley
PM&R Interests: Neuromuscular/MSK, cancer rehabilitation, ultrasound
Personal Interests: Gardening, hiking, water sports, cooking (and eating too much), sewing

Alvin Chang, MD

Hometown: Smithtown, New York
Internship: Bassett Medical Center, Cooperstown, New York
Medical School: SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Graduate School: Tufts University School of Medicine
Undergraduate School: Vassar College
PM&R Interests: General physiatry, interventional pain, MSK, sports, regenerative, TBI
Personal Interests: Hiking, basketball, golfing, snowboarding, video games, board games, and sometimes just hanging out watching Netflix. (Also fun fact: I'm unfortunately a Jets and a Knicks fan.)

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PGY2

Hunter Goldsmith, MD

Hometown: Huntington, New York
Internship: Riverside Community Hospital
Medical School: University of Vermont
Undergraduate School: Stony Brook University
PM&R Interests: Interventional pain medicine, regenerative medicine, traumatic brain injury
Personal Interests: Hiking, camping, cooking, kayaking, fishing, foreign films

Richard Martirosian, MD

Hometown: Burbank California
Internship: St. Mary Medical Center, Long Beach, California
Medical School: University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson
Undergraduate School: University of California, Riverside
PM&R Interests: General rehab, interventional pain, sports medicine
Personal Interests: Basketball, Brazilian jiu-jitsu

Emmanuel Villalpando, MD

Hometown: Santa Clara, California
Internship: Adventist Health White Memorial
Medical School: University of California, Los Angeles
Undergraduate School University of California, San Diego
PM&R Interests: General rehab, sports medicine, regenerative medicine
Personal Interests: Football, MMA, working out, salsa and cumbias, trying new places to eat

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Past Graduate Destinations

Class of 2024

Preston Hatch, DO
General Physiatry, Renown Health, Reno, Nevada

Edward Anton, MD
Brain Injury Fellowship, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science, Rochester, Minnesota

Nathan Camp, MD
Interventional Spine/MSK Medicine Fellowship, OSS Health, York, Pennsylvania

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Class of 2023

Neha Dhadwal, DO
Brain Injury Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania

James Lieu, DO
Interventional Spine/MSK Medicine Fellowship, OSS Health, York, Pennsylvania

Christopher Manik, MD
General rehabilitation, Pomona, California

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Class of 2022

Jeffrey Badday, MD
Pain Management Fellowship, Manhattan Restorative Health Sciences, Comprehensive Spine and Pain Center, Manhattan, New York

Elliott Block, DO
General Physiatry, Casa Colina Hospital and Centers for Healthcare, Pomona, California

Lindy Gunawan, DO
Kessler SCI Fellowship, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, Neward, New Jersey

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Class of 2021

Jason Wei, DO
UCLA Interventional Spine Fellowship, Los Angeles, California

Adam Burton, DO
Post-acute Care, Denver, Colorado

Nicholas Gularte, DO, MS
Bodor Clinic Sports & Spine Fellowship, Napa, California

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Class of 2020

Karthikeyan Bhuvaneswaran, DO
Loma Linda University Neuromuscular Fellowship - Loma Linda, California

Thomas Kim, DO
Integrative Physiatry - Long Beach, California

Zair Shah, DO
Synnovation Pain Management Fellowship - Pomona, California