Meet Us

Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Geriatric Medicine Division
 

Rotation Director, Internal Medicine Geriatric Rotation
 

Liaison, Inpatient Geriatric Services
 

Dr. Danji is the Program Director for the LLUHEC Geriatric Medicine Fellowship and Rotation Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program Geriatric Education, with over a decade of experience in geriatrics and clinical education. Her internal medicine residency training was completed at UPMC Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, and a geriatric fellowship at NYU Langone Health. She then served and taught as a faculty at Harvard Medical School for ten years. She also has extensive Medical Director experience in the post-acute care setting. In addition to her work at skilled nursing facilities, she has helped establish the geriatric in-patient consult service at Loma Linda Medical Center.

Medical Director, Department of Physician Assistant Sciences
 

Dr. Wessam Labib is an established and highly skilled family and geriatric medicine physician and has been with Loma Linda University Health since 2009. Dr. Labib served as Medical Student Education Director for Family Medicine from 2009 – 2019. He is the current Chief of the Division of Geriatric Medicine and continues practicing family and geriatric medicine at LLUH. Dr. Labib completed residency at the University of Illinois and a geriatric medicine fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Labib is active in the community and donates his time and expertise to further the mission of LLUH.

Associate Program Director, Family Medicine
 

Ecler Ercole Jaqua is an associate professor of Family and Geriatric Medicine and the Associate Program Director of the Loma Linda University Family Medicine Residency. She completed her family medicine residency at Loma Linda University and her geriatric medicine fellowship at the University of California Los Angeles. In addition, she is board certified in lifestyle medicine and obesity medicine. Dr. Jaqua also recently finished her Master of Business Administration with a track in strategic leadership.

Physician Lead, Extended Care Services, Division of Geriatric Medicine
 

Assistant Professor, Loma Linda University School of Medicine
 

Dr. Najarro graduated from Universidad Evangelica de El Salvador and completed family medicine residency training at RUHS and geriatrics fellowship at UCLA. Dr. Najarro speaks fluent Spanish. He has a special interest in nursing home care and practice management. He loves working with the Loma Linda faculty and staff. He strives to establish relationships with the elder population of San Bernardino County and teach others to care for the elders of our community. Outside the hospital, he enjoys spending time with his family and experiencing different cuisines.

Dr. Richelin Dye is a clinical neuropsychologist who graduated with her PhD in clinical psychology from Loma Linda University, then specialized in geropsychology and neuropsychology at the Geriatric Psychiatry Division at UCLA. She returned to Loma Linda University in 2019, holding a joint faculty appointment in the Department of Psychiatry and the Department of Psychology. Clinically, she specializes in the neuropsychological evaluation of aging adults and enjoys collaborating with the geriatric medicine team in patient care. She also teaches psychology doctoral students in the neuropsychological evaluation of adult and geriatric patients. She recently began a program at Loma Linda University that provides cognitive training for older adults with memory concerns due to normal aging or mild cognitive impairment. She also collaborates in clinical trials examining whether lifestyle changes and cognitive exercises can help mitigate cognitive decline in patients at risk for dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease.