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)

Shanna Livermore, MPH
Director of Operations, HCLP
Co-Director, AETC
 AIDS Education and Training Center of USC Keck School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine
​​(She/Her)

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

Clinical Team.

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

Carolyn Levin, MD
​Family Medicine
​​(She/Her)

Gigi Simmons, MD
​Family Medicine/ Addiction Medicine
​​(She/Her)

Jessica Schneider, MD
Medicine-Pediatrics/ ​HIV Primary Care
​Correctional Health
​​(She/Her)

Kevin Tangonan, DO
Family Medicine/ HIV Primary Care
​​(He/Him)

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

Ali Bearden, MD
​Medicine-Pediatrics / HIV Primary Care
​Clinical Research Lead
​​(She/Her)

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

Katya Corado, MD
Infectious Disease/ HIV Primary Care
​Clinical Research Mentor
​​(She/Her)