People

Jodie Totten

Daniel Ballew

Chelsea Williams

Matthew Fuller

Jane Yee, MD

GH Program Director

Lucy Unger

Michael Morgan

Matthew Stewart

Mathew Fuller

Carl Seger

Branden Skarpiak

Parveen Parmar, MD, MPH

Associate Chair, Emergency Population Health and Innovation

Harbor UCLA Medical Center

Parveen Parmar, MD, MPH, is the Associate Chair of Emergency Population Health and Innovation for the Department of Emergency Medicine at Harbor UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, CA, and a Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles. In her current role, Dr. Parmar navigates the continuum between population health and acute emergency care, leading emergency department efforts to innovate healthcare delivery models and optimize patient care efforts. During the first 16 years of her career, Dr. Parmar's research focused on the study of health and human rights violations in refugees and internally displaced populations. Dr. Parmar has worked in multiple settings on issues such as emergency care deliver, maternal and child health, gender-based violence, and primary care provision. She coordinated the investigation of the Rohingya genocide with Physicians for Human Rights in 2018, and most recently has worked to extend care for non-communicable disease to Syrian refugees living in Jordan and internally displaced persons in Myanmar. She also has conducted research on morbidity and mortality among individuals detained in ICE detention facilities nationwide. Dr. Parmar was the Chief of the Division of Social and Global Emergency Medicine at the University of Southern California Keck School of Medicine for 8 years prior to joining Harbor UCLA.

Heather Brown

Daniel Baker

Carly Brady, MD, MSc

Unit Head, Emergency Medicine

Kamuzu University of Health Sciences

Michele Groden

Maria Wormley

Priya Arumuganathan

Maham Munawar, DO

Joseph Leanza, MD, MPH

Dr. Joseph Leanza is an attending physician in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Boston Medical Center and is an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Leanza main academic interest is in global health with a special focus on emergency medicine specialty development, policy, and humanitarian emergencies. He works mainly in Iraq, with additional projects in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Uganda, and Ecuador. Dr. Leanza is also quite interested in the intersection between climate change and health.