Edward Lee, MD and Casey Y. Kaneshiro, MD Appointed to DoM/VA GLA Leadership Roles in Education
The UCLA Department of Medicine (DoM) is pleased to announce the appointment of Edward Lee, MD, as the incoming associate chief of medical service for education at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System and Casey Y. Kaneshiro, MD as the site director for the UCLA Internal Medicine Program at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System (VA GLA).
Dr. Lee is a health sciences associate clinical professor in the DoM. He joined the faculty in 2011 after completing his residency and a chief resident year at UCLA. He began his career as a hospitalist and has since pursued his strong interest in medical education, becoming an associate program director of the UCLA Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2013. Dr. Lee is also the director for 4th year medical student electives for the DoM. He played an important role during the integration of the UCLA and VA internal medicine training programs and attends on the general medicine teams at the VA Greater Los Angeles, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medican Center, and the UCLA Santa Monica Medical Center.
His academic interests include medical simulation and he regularly teaches in the UCLA Simulation Center. Dr. Lee helped develop the current residency simulation curriculum and co-leads the simulation instructor course at the UCLA Simulation Center as well as Team STEPPS, an evidence-based training curriculum on communication and teamwork. Health care workers from across the country, and occasionally from around the world, come to UCLA to participate in this program.
Dr. Lee will work closely with VA leadership and our VA-based faculty to build on the solid foundation of educational excellence for our trainees, as well as faculty. Dr. Lee will continue in his role as associate program director of the UCLA Internal Medicine Residency Program. We look forward to an even stronger partnership between the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.
Dr. Kaneshiro is a health sciences associate clinical professor at UCLA and a staff physician in the hospitalist division at the VA Greater Los Angeles Health System. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Hawai’i John A. Burns School of Medicine, where he was also inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He completed his internship, residency and chief residency at the combined Cedars Sinai/Greater Los Angeles VA Internal Medicine Residency Program where he was a two-time awardee of the Leo G. Rigler Resident of the Year Award. He subsequently joined the UCLA Department of Medicine faculty in 2015.
For three years, Dr. Kaneshiro served as an associate program director for the Cedars Sinai Internal Medicine Residency Program before becoming an associate program director for the UCLA Internal Medicine Residency Program in 2019. He has received numerous awards for his teaching, service and mentorship. Among these awards and honors include being a three-time recipient of the DGSOM Golden Apple Teaching Award. He also serves as the director of the Night Hospitalist Service at the VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System.
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