Our investigators come from many fields: epidemiology, biostatistics, clinical trials, health services research, and behavioral research. We partner with clinical collaborators from dozens of specialties and sub-specialties. Through these partnerships, we’ve built a research program that makes a difference in real-world health care.
Senior Scientific Director

Dr. Benjamin Broder is the interim executive director of research for the Department of Research & Evaluation and a practicing family medicine physician at the Kaiser Permanente Baldwin Park Medical Center. He leads work that strives to improve the quality of clinical care. He is the regional assistant medical director ...
Clinical Trials Research
- William Towner, MD, FACP, FIDSAPhysician Director
- Aakash D. Batra, MD
- Gary L. Buchschacher Jr., MD, PhD
- Robert Cooper, MD
- Ahmed Dehal, MD, MPH, FACS, FSSO, FRCS
- Nigel Gupta, MD
- Vivienne S. Hau, MD, PhD
- Steve S. Lee, DO
- Scott E. Lentz, MD, FACS
- Shawn A. Menefee, MD
- Helen Moon, MD
- Sujatha Murali MD, MS
- John N. Nguyen, MD
- Joan J. Ryoo, MD, MSHS
- Amandeep Sahota, MD
- Navdeep Sangha, MD
- Devansu Tewari, MD, MBA
Clinician Research
- Bechien U. Wu, MD, MPHPhysician Director
- Armen Aboulian, MD
- David E. Bronstein, MD, MS
- Raymond Chen, MD, DPhil
- Fu-Sheng Chou, MD, PhD
- David S. Cohen, MD
- Ahmed Dehal, MD, MPH, FACS, FSSO, FRCS
- Rachid Elkoustaf, MD, MPH
- Michael Fassett, MD
- Kimberly Ferrante, MD, MAS
- Monique George, MD, FAAFP
- Ali Ghobadi, MD
- Vivienne S. Hau, MD, PhD
- Cheng-Wei Huang, MD
- Dennis Hwang, MD
- Steve S. Lee, DO
- Mingsum Lee, MD, PhD
- Conrad Liang, MD, PhD
- Shawn A. Menefee, MD
- Bobeck S. Modjtahedi, MD
- Casey K. Ng, MD
- Chileshe Nkonde-Price, MD, MS, FACC
- Chunyuan Qiu, MD, MS
- Joan J. Ryoo, MD, MSHS
- Navdeep Sangha, MD
- Javed Sheikh, MD
- John J. Sim, MD
- Richard M. Treger, MD
- Emily L. Whitcomb, MD, MAS
- Hui Xue, MD, MMSc
Epidemiologic Research
- Kristi Reynolds, PhD, MPHDirector
- Annette L. Adams, PhD, MPH
- Jaejin An, PhD
- Chun Chao, PhD, MS
- Wansu Chen, PhD, MS
- Darios Getahun, MD, PhD, MPH
- Reina Haque, PhD, MPH
- Rulin Hechter, MD, PhD, MS
- Nehaa Khadka, PhD, MPH*
- Matthew T. Mefford, PhD
- Amrita Mukherjee, PhD, MPH*
- Rudy A. Patrick, PhD, MPH*
- Emily Rayens, PhD, MPH*
- Annette Regan, PhD, MPH
- Sara Y. Tartof, PhD, MPH
- Hung Fu Tseng, PhD, MPH