Fellows

Simon Allo, MD grew up in Dallas, Texas. He graduated from University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Exercise Science and a minor in music. He has previously been trained at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, TX for medical school and Charles Drew University for general psychiatry residency. Outside of work, he enjoys music, fitness, and sports.

Dr. Victoria Agee is one of our first-year child fellows. She attended medical school and psychiatry residency at Loma Linda University. She matched into our Child Combined track after discovering her passion for mentoring adolescents while teaching at a local middle school. Her psychiatry interests include treatment of childhood trauma and eating disorders. In her free time, she enjoys taking her bunnies, Cookie and Mochi, for walks, going on adventures with friends, or staying home with a good TV show and plenty of munchies.

Dr. Katie Cho was born and raised near Seattle, WA before heading to University of Southern California for her bachelor’s degree and Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine for her medical degree. She completed her general psychiatry residency at University of Nevada Las Vegas prior to returning to southern California to pursue a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship at Loma Linda University. Her interests within psychiatry include treatment resistant mood/anxiety disorders, trauma and resilience, mental health through early life stages, and integration of neurobiology/psychotherapy in treatment. Outside of work, her interests include health and wellness activities, cooking family recipes, board game nights, admiring nature through hikes/camping, and spending time with friends and family.

Inez Garzaniti MD is a first-year fellow in child and adolescent psychiatry at Loma Linda University; some of her interests include psychotherapy, medical humanities, literature, poetry, and narrative medicine. She completed undergraduate education at Michigan State University where she majored in Neuroscience and minored in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science. During college some of her activities included serving as a student co-lead lab researcher in the Digital Humanities and Literary Cognition Lab with Dr. Natalie Phillips, hosting weekly poetry workshops as president of the Slam Poetry Team, and working as a psychiatric care worker at University of Michigan. She attended medical school at Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine in Rochester, MI. Some of her medical school activities included volunteering on a suicide crisis hotline, organizing film nights that fostered discussion between psychoanalysts and medical students, and attending a one-year fellowship in psychodynamic psychotherapy through the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute. She completed general psychiatry residency at University of Michigan where she was honored with the award for "Outstanding Resident in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy". In her free time, she enjoys going for walks with her husband and their three tiny dogs, writing, reading, visiting art museums, but most of all - sharing good food and deep talks among friends.

Lisa Fayard was born and raised in Loma Linda. After high school, she moved to Argentina to the town her family lived and her parents met. There she spent the next 7 years studying medicine at La Universidad Adventista Del Plata, Ciencias de la salud, in a program that combined medicine and college. After graduation, she returned to the US and was overjoyed to join the Loma Linda Psychiatry residency program in their child focused track. Her passion for children, families and mental health stemmed from volunteering to work with special needs children during medical school. She is now excited to continue her education in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry in the Loma Linda Fellowship. In her spare time she loves spending time with her husband and 2 cats, painting cards, and going out for walks with friends

Originally from Northern California, Dr. Elizabeth Ma completed her undergraduate degrees at UC Berkeley, double majoring in Molecular Cell Biology and Psychology, with a minor in Music.  She then pursued her MD/PhD at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, with a PhD in Nutrition Sciences. During her time there, she served in multiple leadership positions, including the OSR, the LCME accreditation board, Learning Communities Executive Board, founding the Integrative and Alternative Medicine Interest group, and leading multiple acts and projects for the Best Medicine Show. She returned to CA for her General Psychiatry Residency at Loma Linda University, and is now specializing in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Her particular interests are in depression and suicidality, as well as trauma and trauma-related sequelae, including eating disorders, conversion disorder, and substance use disorders. She is also interested in herbal medicine and global health, and is currently an APA/APAF SAMHSA Minority Fellow, aiming to increase mental health awareness for Chinese and Taiwanese American communities. In her spare time, she enjoys playing the violin and piano, watching anime/reading manga/webtoons, and other forms of creative expression.

Dr. Strada returned to Southern California for her residency training at Loma Linda University after completing her undergraduate degree in biology at Georgetown University in Washington, DC and her medical training at Creighton University in both Omaha, NE and Phoenix, AZ. During residency, she served the program as Wellness Chief and continued to pursue her passion for fitness. In her free time she enjoys shopping, singing and spending time with her husband, daughter and Sheepadoodle, Mookie.

Sumedha Sinha, MD completed her medical school training at UC Riverside and then General Psychiatry residency at Harbor UCLA Medical Center. Outside of work, she enjoys cooking, hiking, traveling, doing arts and crafts, and spending time with family and friends.