Faculty.

Meet our core leadership and clinical faculty team.

Meet Our Team

Leadership Team.

​​Jenica Ryu, MD
Program Director
(She/Her)

LaShonda Spencer, MD
Program Co-Director
(She/Her)

Revery Barnes, MD 
​Associate Program Director
​(She/Her)

Christian Takayama, MD
​Associate Program Co-Director
Director of Clinical Education 
​(He/Him)

Jerry Gates, PhD
Director & Principal Investigator
 AIDS Education and Training Center of USC Keck School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
​​(He/Him)

Shanna Livermore, MPH
Director of Operations
Co-Director, AETC of USC
​ Keck School of Medicine, Dept. of Family Medicine
​​(She/Her)

Ghislaine Archer, MPH
Operations Assistant
Project Assistant, AETC of USC
​ Keck School of Medicine, Dept. of Family Medicine
​​(She/Her)

Clinical Team.

Eddie Sattah, MD
Internal Medicine/Infectious Disease
Hepatitis C Co-Infection Lead
​​(He/Him)

Lauren Wolchok, MD
​HIV Primary Care
​Family Medicine
​​(She/Her)

Hrishikesh Belani, MD
​Internal Medicine/ HIV Primary Care
Addiction Medicine
​​(He/Him)

Jessica Schneider, MD
Medicine-Pediatrics
​​(She/Her)

Kevin Tangonan , MD
HIV Primary Care
​​(He/Him)

Katherine Gardner, MD 
Gender Affirming Care​
(She/They)

Research Team.

Ali Bearden, MD
​Clinical Research Lead
LAC + USC Maternal Child Adolescent Clinic
​​(She/Her)

Katya Corado, MD
Clinical Research Mentor
LA County ​DHS, Lundquist Institute
​​(She/Her)