Isabel Chin, MD
Pronouns: she/her
Languages Spoken: English, Spanish (proficient)
Hometown: South Pasadena, CA
Undergrad: Brown University
Medschool: Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Hobbies: pilates, yoga, running, reading, going to the beach, attempting to learn to surf, hiking
Fun Fact: I have a twin and also have younger teen sisters who are twins too!
Why LAGMC/USC? I am from LA county and love Angelenos. I am so happy to be home for residency and caring for this community. I worked at LA County Department of Health Services prior to medical school and loved working in the public health care system and my colleague’s dedication to working for the most disenfranchised members of our community. I was and continue to be very inspired by and aligned with the Med Peds program’s values of justice, compassion, advocacy, and anti-oppression practices and politics. Nowhere I’d rather be!
Plans after residency: I’m open to seeing where residency takes me, but I have an interest in med/peds primary care, street medicine, LGBTQ health and gender affirming medicine.
Mariam Ghattas, MD
Pronouns: She/ Her
Languages spoken: English and Arabic and Spanish (some 😊)
Hometown: Giza Egypt and San Fernando Valley, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Medical School: California University of Science and Medicine
Hobbies: Binge Watching TV (don’t underestimate the power of 2x speed), swimming, Barree and Pilates, cooking a feast for family and friends and developing my own recipes.
Fun Fact: My first word as a child was water followed by mangos and watermelons. All I can say my lovely parents were raising a hungry monster.
Why LAGMC/USC? The amazing people that are so driven to make the world a more equitable place. I did a rotation during my fourth year of med school and had the amazing opportunity of getting to know the residents and faculty Members and seeing the amazing work the program is invovled with in the community. I was comforted by how down to earth everyone is and the extend they go out of their way to help one another. I am also very blessed to come back and serve a community that welcomed me and my family many years ago. It is also so good to be closer to my family <3. Plus what is there not to love about sunny LA. Did I forget to mention, LA has the best food from all around the world at your fingertips.
Plans for after residency: Combined MICU/PICU is the Dream but who knows , lets see what the next four years hold.
Crystal Gianvecchio, MD
Pronouns: she/her
Languages Spoken: English, Mandarin Chinese
Hometown: Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
Undergrad: UCLA
Medschool: FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Hobbies: Reading, cozy Nintendo Switch games, hiking, birdwatching, playing the ukulele or piano, making beverages, trying beverages, checking out obscure museums, traveling, and most recently yoga/tennis!
Fun Fact: I’ve helped give a spotted hyena an EGD
Why LAGMC/USC? This program is made up of people who practice what they preach and I’m proud to be a part of it! Making genuine impacts on the community in/out of the hospital and providing compassionate care for the underserved are shared passions amongst the residents here. I also love all of the diverse little pockets there are in LA, there are a million things to do and see.
Plans after residency: primary care working w/ patients with developmental disabilities, maybe extensivist medicine?
Irene Goo, MD
Pronouns: she/her
Languages Spoken: English, Korean
Hometown: Boca Raton, FL
Undergrad: Penn State
Medschool: University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Hobbies: catching up with friends, exploring new coffee shops/restaurants, cooking, drawing/painting, making niche playlists, karaoke, traveling
Fun fact: I've kept every handwritten card I've ever received since I was a kid
Why LAGMC/USC? I wanted to train at a county hospital with opportunities to address community level health. The USC Med Peds program was the only program that included community members in the interview process and I loved hearing about their experiences working with the residents here. Also LA has a diverse population with an interesting medical landscape and health insurance system that helps with understanding systems level issues.
Plans after residency: Still deciding but generally im big P little M, interested in transitions of care, pediatric complex care, primary care, GI, heme/onc
Henry Steyer, MD
Pronouns: he/him
Languages Spoken: English, a decent amount of Spanish
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Undergrad: Harvard University
Medschool: Keck SOM of USC
Hobbies: Running, weightlifting, reading and writing historical fiction, concerts of any kind, finding hotter and hotter hot sauces, crying on airplanes to pixar movies, stretching the definition of pescatarian
Fun fact: When I was a child I looked a lot like the actor that played young Anakin Skywalker and people would approach me to ask for autographs
Why LAGMC/USC? The people, inside and outside of the program. It’s easy to become overwhelmed by the hardship we witness on a daily basis, so I wanted to surround myself with people who stick by their ideals and offer up hope in a world that can be so unfair.
Hyunho Yoon, MD
Pronouns: he/him
Languages Spoken: Korean, English, a little bit of Spanish and French, trying to learn more Swahili
Hometown: Seoul, Korea
Undergrad: Carnegie Mellon University
Medschool: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Hobbies: Reading, writing, film photography, driving, camping
Fun Fact: When I was in elementary school I was the model in an advertising campaign for a major Korean bank. No one asked me for an autograph though.
Why LAGMC/USC? I was so struck by the pride that the residents here have for the work that they do in serving the underserved and fighting alongside them for their rights. The nicest people here become the fiercest advocates when the need arises. I felt that I could learn so much from my peers and collectively make a huge difference in the lives of the patients we work for. I also felt that working on a day-to-day basis with multilingual, multicultural communities that are medically/politically/socially neglected would in many ways better prepare me for a career in global health than a few electives abroad here and there, although those opportunities are available as well.
Plans after residency: International humanitarian work doing a combination of inpatient+outpatient for all ages. I’m particularly interested in helping alleviate the many injustices that people face in refugee camps.