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
Co-Director, Virtual Medicine Program, Cedars-Sinai
Omer Liran, MD, MHDS is an Assistant Professor at Cedars-Sinai where he co-directs Virtual Medicine and cares for patients on the psychiatry consult and liaison service. Academically, Dr. Liran is studying how to leverage the unique properties of virtual and augmented reality (XR) technologies to improve outcomes...
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Research Team

Taylor Dupuy
Clinical Research Data Specialist I, CS-CORE
Taylor Dupuy has been working with Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE) for more than four years. During this time, Taylor has worked on many different research projects with a focus on digital health. Taylor has assisted in VR for pain reduction clinical trials as...
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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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Rebecca Gale, MPH
Clinical Research Data Specialist II, CS-CORE

Rebecca Gale is a clinical research data specialist at the Cedars-Sinai Center for Outcomes Research and Education (CS-CORE). In 2016, Becca graduated from Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine with her masters of public health in epidemiology. Her past work has included fieldwork in...
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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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Kate Makaroff, MD Candidate
Clinical Research Associate I, CS-CORE
Karma McKelvey, PhD, MPH
Director of Research, Department of Orthpaedic Surgery, Cedars-Sinai
Karma McKelvey, PhD, MPH, is an associate professor and director of health services research in the Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedic Surgery Department. Her work focuses on healthcare delivery, intervention, and best practices, including perioperative opioid usage, patient-reported outcomes, and surgeon satisfaction – ultimately to improve clinical practice, increase patient...
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Xiaoyu Liu, MPH
Clinical Research Data Specialist I, CS-CORE
Xiaoyu Liu, MPH, is a clinical research data specialist at CS-CORE and recent graduate of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health where he received his master's degree of public health from the Department of Health Policy and Management. He also received his bachelor of science degree...
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Tom Norris
Patient Advisor
Lindsey Ross, MD
Faculty Neurosurgeon, Cedars-Sinai
Jennifer Soares, MPH
Research Program Administrator, CS-CORE
Jennifer Soares completed her undergraduate degree at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her master of science degree in public health with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel hill. She moved to the West Coast upon completing her degree to pursue...
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Collaborators

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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