Faculty Bios

Mary went to medical school at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt. She completed her family medicine residency at Riverside County Regional Medical Center (RCRMC) in California. Mary’s interests are in women’s health and inpatient medicine. She is married and has 2 kids. Mary enjoys travelling, spending time with her family, and doing interior design and home decor.

Being in love with medicine her whole life, Ecler began at only age 17 her medical school at The Lutheran University of Brazil. Fascinated with the comprehensive care of all ages and the continuing care of the individual and family, she naturally embraced and pursued her focus in Family Medicine. While studying for her USLME steps, she worked as a Clinical Documentation Specialist at a hospital in Northern California, where she learned medical coding and how to properly evaluate clinical documents. After completing a Family Medicine Residency at Loma Linda University Health (LLUH) and being chief resident during her last year of training, she decided to specialize in Geriatric Medicine at UCLA. Soon after completing her fellowship in LA, she returned to Loma Linda to pursue her passion for teaching residents caring for her family and geriatric patients.

Additionally, she had the opportunity to complete the Lifestyle Medicine Board and the Obesity Medicine Board certification while working as an Assistant Professor at Loma Linda University Family Medicine Residency. She finished her MBA with a track in strategic leadership and was promoted to LLUH Family Medicine Residency Associate Program Director. She is happily married and has a little girl named Celine. She can often be seen singing loudly in her car around campus in her free time. She also enjoys reading and hiking with her family, traveling, and playing volleyball.

Tyler attended medical school at the University of Michigan. He went on to complete his family medicine residency at Rose Medical Center in Denver, Colorado where he served as chief resident. After one year as faculty at Rose, he made the move to Loma Linda. Since that time he has enjoyed working with residents in the clinic and on their inpatient service. Since October 2020, he has also been supervising the care of family medicine patients on Labor & Delivery. He has two dogs named Bruno and Duchess. Outside of medicine he enjoys coffee, running, Michigan Football, and spending time with his family.

Hoby went to medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He completed his family medicine residency at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He was a chief resident there and completed an Academic Faculty Development Fellowship with a focus on creating a Global Health Track for interested family medicine residents. As part of his residency and fellowship, he traveled to Uganda and Ghana. He is married and has a rescued, Pekingese dog named "Jacob". He loves drinking coffee, listening to music, learning, playing golf, watching sports, traveling, and of course, training new family docs!

Kelly is a full professor at Loma Linda University in both the departments of Family Medicine and Psychology. She received her Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University in Lifespan Developmental Psychology. She has published numerous research articles, given hundreds of professional presentations and conducted many regional and federal grant projects. She teaches in the residency program and supervises research projects and curriculum development grants. She also teaches developmental psychology and research to clinical psychology doctoral students. Her current research interests include team-based care as well as NIA funded research relating to stress and religion effects on mental and physical health outcomes.

Brenda completed her education at Loma Linda University Health and has remained as faculty with primary roles in family, preventive, and lifestyle medicine residency and medical school education. Brenda finds her greatest purpose and meaning when integrating lifestyle medicine and spirituality into the patient and provider educational experience. Brenda advocates for whole-person care and strives to model these principles personally. When not at work, she enjoys being active with her husband, experiencing new whole food plant-based eateries, and providing mission relief work in Guam.