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Robert Huizenga, author, team physician for the Los Angeles Raiders, and contributor on multiple reality television shows; Joseph Stevens Jones, 1843, playwright and actor; Charles Krauthammer, 1975, political columnist.who won the Pulitzer Prize for his work in The Washington Post; Pam Ling, cast member on The Real World: San Francisco [9]
James Duval Phelan (1861–1930), civic leader and banker; mayor of San Francisco 1897–1902; U.S. Senator 1915–1921; central to effort to bring Hetch Hetchy and municipal water to San Francisco [637] Dean Preston (born 1969/70), San Francisco Supervisor; Anthony Ribera (born 1945), Chief of San Francisco police department [638]
He was also instrumental in the development of the Los Angeles County Fire Department's Paramedic program in 1969. [ 2 ] He is an authority on cardiac hemodynamics, cardiac auscultation, cardiac catheterization, and valvular heart disease.
Also in 1969 his patient Kenneth Hahn, a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, persuaded the Supervisors to approve a pilot program to train county firefighters as "Mobile Intensive Care Paramedics". A change in state law was necessary to allow personnel other than doctors and nurses to render emergency medical care.
From 1906 to 1910, Dr. Sarah Vasen, the first Jewish female doctor in Los Angeles, acted as superintendent. [18] In 1910, the hospital relocated and expanded to Stephenson Avenue (now Whittier Boulevard), where it had 50 beds and a backhouse containing a 10-cot tubercular ward. [ 17 ]
In 2009, he was the second-ever recipient of the American College of Cardiology’s highest honor, the Lifetime Achievement Award.{[13]} Additional honors include Cable News Network's 10 Medical Scientists to Watch (1989), the Leon Goodman Award for excellence in laser research, the Distinguished Scientific Achievement Award of the American ...
(Myung J. Chun / Los Angeles Times) The signs at Sunday's rally protesting the eviction of Little Tokyo's Suehiro Cafe offered a full menu of the different ways a community can be angry.
It is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine, and is a member of UCLA Health. The hospital provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to pediatric patients aged 0–21 [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] throughout California .