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Center for Advanced Lung Disease at Keck Medicine of USC

1500 San Pablo Street

Los Angeles, CA 90033

323-442-5100 Visit Website Get Directions

Toby Maher

Center Director

650-278-0058 toby.maher@med.usc.edu
Kavitha Bagavathy

323-409-7184 kavitha.bagavathy@med.usc.edu
Debbie Benitez

Nurse Practitioner

debbie.sabater@med.usc.edu
Amy Kong, NP

323-865-9854 Amy.kong@med.usc.edu

Research Interests
Asthma
COPD
Smoking cessation/lung CA screening
Pulmonary nodules
COVID sequelae
ILD/IPF
Sarcoidosis

Board Certifications
ANCC Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner Board Certified

Education

MSN: Adult Gerontology Primary Care Nurse Practitioner from California State University of Los Angeles
BSN: Loma Linda University
BA in Art History with minor in Biological Sciences from University of California, Irvine
Lynn Fukushima

Research Coordinator

323-409-7180 Lynn.Fukushima@med.usc.edu

Education
Masters
Karina Alvarenga LVN

323-865-9854 Karina.Alvarenga@med.usc.edu
Mary Lester RRT

323-442-5323 Mary.Lester@med.usc.edu

Education
Bachelor's
Lorelie Evangelista LCSW

Lorelie.evangelista@med.usc.edu

Education
Masters
Carina Palacios, MSW

Support Group Leader

323-442-8358 Carina.palacios@med.usc.edu

Education
Masters
Alex Lopez RD

323-442-5308 Alexis.lopez2@med.usc.edu

Education
Masters
Joshua Wang, PharmD