Faculty & staff

Faculty

Over 100 full-time faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine are involved in the teaching program. All faculty members at each of the three teaching hospitals have appointments at Loma Linda University School of Medicine. The staff includes general internists and internists in the subspecialties of adolescent medicine, allergy, cardiology, clinical pharmacology, critical care, endocrinology, gastroenterology, geriatrics, hematology, infectious disease, intensive care medicine, nephrology, oncology, pulmonary medicine, and rheumatology.

Daniel I. Kim, MD, MBA, FACP welcome
Program Director

Dr. Kim graduated from Drexel University School of Medicine in 1994. He completed residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center in Internal Medicine from 1994 to 1997 and then served as Chief Resident in 1997-1998. He served as a hospitalist in 1998-1999 in LLUMC. He continued at Riverside County Regional Medical Center as Chief of the Division of Ambulatory Care and also serves as an inpatient hospitalist. He added an MBA in health care from UC Irvine in 2005. He completed his undergraduate degree at University of California, Riverside in 1989.

Debra Craig, MD
Associate Program Director (Loma Linda University Medical Center)

Dr. Debra Craig graduated from Loma Linda University School of Medicine. After completing her internal medicine residency at Loma Linda she was the Chief Medical Resident at the J. L. Pettis Memorial VA Medical Center. Dr. Craig has added qualifications in geriatrics and has a master's degree in biomedical and clinical ethics. Dr. Craig is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Loma Linda and is, in addition, the Director of Clinical Ethics. She is the Medical Director of Case Management and has been active on several medical center administrative committees.

Samuel Baz, MD
Associate Program Director (VA Medical Center)

Dr. Baz graduated from Yale University in 1990. He attended Medical School at USC from 1993-1997. He completed his residency in internal medicine in 2000 and served as Chief Medical Resident at RCRMC during the 2000-2001 academic year.

Gary Thompson, DO
Associate program director (Riverside County Regional Medical Center)

Dr. Gary Thompson graduated from Western University of Health Sciences/College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in 2001. He completed his internal medicine residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center in 2004, and then served as Chief Resident at Riverside County Regional Medical Center (RCRMC) from 2004 to 2005. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Loma Linda University School of Medicine and continues to practice at RCRMC as a general internist and hospitalist.

Francis Chan, MD
Associate Program Director (Program Director, Med-Peds Residency Program)

After graduating from Loma Linda University School of Medicine in 1994, Dr. Francis Chan successfully completed his residency in combined internal medicine-pediatrics in 1998. After serving as a Chief Resident in pediatrics from 1998 to 1999, he was named the Associate Program Director. In 2001, he assumed his current role as Program Director of the combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program.

Staff

Maggie Hallas
Residency coordinator
Email: mhallas@llu.edu

Jacque Britton
Assistant to the residency coordinator
Email: jbritton@llu.edu

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