Virtual Medicine | Cedars-Sinai

Leadership Team

Brennan M. Spiegel, MD, MSHS
Director of Health Services Research, Cedars-Sinai
Director, Virtual Medicine Program
Brennan Spiegel, MD, MSHS, is director of Health Services Research for Cedars-Sinai and Director of the Cedars-Sinai Master's Degree Program in Health Delivery Science. He directs the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE), a multidisciplinary team that investigates how digital health technologies; including wearable biosensors,...
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Omer Liran, MD, MSHS
Co-Director, Virtual Medicine Program, Cedars-Sinai
Omer Liran, MD, MSHS, is a physician-innovator and Assistant Professor at Cedars-Sinai, where he co-directs Virtual Medicine and provides expert care through the psychiatry consult and liaison service. With a deep background in programming and a passion for healthcare transformation, Dr. Liran explores how emerging technologies such...
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Research Team

Karisma Suchak, MD, MHDS
Project Scientist
Karisma Suchak, MD is a project scientist at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE). Here she helps manage and coordinate multiple NIH and non-NIH, virtual reality (VR) focused clinical trials. Closely collaborating with experts from multiple healthcare fields as well as the patients themselves,...
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Jan Ballesteros, PhD
Project Scientist
Jan Ballesteros is a project scientist at Cedars-Sinai’s CS-CORE lab. He specializes in the social determinants of health, healthcare disparities, and community-based research. He uses qualitative and quantitative research methods to explore the intersection of social structures and health outcomes. His work focuses on advancing equitable healthcare...
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Carine Khalil, PhD
Project Scientist, CS-CORE
Carine Khalil is a health services researcher at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE) and an associate professor in management and information systems at Paris Descartes University. She earned her PhD in management and information systems at Telecom ParisTech in France. Her research interests...
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Samuel Eberlein, MHDS
Clinical Research Data Specialist I, CS-CORE
Samuel Eberlein joined the team at Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE) as a clinical research coordinator after graduating from Cedars‐Sinai’s Master's Degree in Health Delivery Science program in the summer of 2019. He received his BS in biomedical engineering at Johns Hopkins University in...
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Beverly Yang, MPH
Clinical Research Data Specialist I
Beverly previously worked on an analytic project that focused on the association between pandemic-onset disorders of gut-brain interaction and race/ethnicity. She is working on several projects that focus on public health prevention interventions, for example, an educational website design for Crohn's perianal fistula. Her broad research interests...
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Allistair Clark, MA
Clinical Research Data Specialist II
Allistair received their MA in quantitative, qualitative and psychometric methodology whereupon they joined CORE. They are involved in the analysis of virtual reality and Fitbit user metadata and the creation and iterative testing of novel virtual reality software. Their focuses include methodology in mixed methods applications, data...
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Zoe Krut, MSHS,
Clinical Research Coordinator II
Zoe Krut received her BS in Biochemistry and Public Health from Roanoke College and her MS in Health Systems from Cedars-Sinai. As a CRC II, Zoe manages several NIH studies utilizing virtual reality for various chronic pain conditions, including chronic lower back pain, gastrointestinal cancer, and IBS....
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Ella Tetrault, BS
Clinical Research Associate I, CS-CORE & CTSI

Ella Tetrault is a clinical research associate at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE) & Clinical Translational Science Institute (CTSI). She received her BS specializing in Health Disease (Human Biology) and Nutritional Sciences from the University of Toronto while competing as a Varsity Athlete...
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Tom Norris
Patient Advisor
Collaborators

Lindsey Ross, MD
Faculty Neurosurgeon, Cedars-Sinai
Fadi Alhatem, MD
Pain Management Program, Cedars-Sinai
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Itai Danovitch, MD
Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Associate Professor, Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences
Cedars-Sinai
Itai Danovitch, MD, MBA, specializes in the assessment and treatment substance use disorders, as well as the integration of medical and mental health services. His current research is funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI). Dr. Danovitch is...
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Beth Darnall, PhD
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Stanford University
Beth Darnall, PhD is Director of the Stanford Pain Relief Innovations Lab. She leads NIH and PCORI-funded clinical trials that broadly investigate behavioral medicine for acute and chronic pain, including a $9M multi-state trial on voluntary patient-centered prescription opioid reduction that is funded by PCORI. She serves...
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Andrew Hendifar, MD
Medical Director, Pancreatic Cancer
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Cedars-Sinai
The current research focus of Andrew Hendifar, MD, is on developing new therapies for pancreatic cancer and neuroendocrine tumors. Dr. Hendifar has helped form multidisciplinary teams that specialize in the treatments of pancreatic cancer, and carcinoid and neuroendocrine tumors. Dr. Hendifar is the primary investigator for several...
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Scott Irwin, PhD, MD
Director, Patient and Family Support Program
Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
Cedars-Sinai
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Mariko Ishimori, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine
Interim Director, Division of Rheumatology
Cedars-Sinai
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Joseph Tu, MD
Pain Management Program, Cedars-Sinai
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Swamy Venuturupalli, MD, FACR
Founder of Attune Health
IM/Rheumatology
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Mark Vrahas, MD
Levin/Gordon Distinguished Chair in Orthopaedics in honor of Myles Cohen, MD
Professor, Orthopaedics
Chair, Orthopaedics
Cedars-Sinai
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