Case Studies / Recent Fellows
EMA-USC Fellow 2007
Tina Wu, M.D., MMM
Dr. Wu received her Bachelor’s Degree and Graduate Degree from New York University and her Doctorate of Medicine from the University of Buffalo. She served as the Resident Trauma Director at NYU/Bellevue and her teaching experience at NYU/Bellevue includes being the Morning Report Case Based Discussion Lecturer, Resident Education Lectures including Blunt Trauma, Shock and Resuscitation, Vertigo, Trauma Conference: Non-operative Management of Blunt Abdominal Trauma, Morbidity, and Mortality conference. She also served as an Assistant Instructor of Advanced Cardiac Life Support at the Emergency Care Institute at Bellevue Hospital. Her affiliations include the Emergency Medicine Resident’s Association, American College of Emergency Physicians, American Medical Association, and Society for Academic Emergency Medicine.
EMA-USC Fellow 2008
James de la Torre, M.D., MMM
Dr. de la Torre graduated from UCLA with a B.S. in Biochemistry and received his medical doctorate from Harvard University, where he was awarded the SAEM excellence in emergency medicine for medical students. After completing medical school, Dr. de la Torre did an internship in internal medicine at UCLA-Olive View Medical Center. He recently completed his residency in emergency medicine at Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center. During residency, he published a review article on coccidioidomycosis for emedicine, presented and reviewed a trauma case on Emergency Medicine Reviews and Perspectives (EM:RAP), did research on occult pneumothoraces, wrote several chapters on cardiology errors in emergency medicine and coordinated the journal club at L.A. County. Currently, he is also an ACLS instructor and participates in Catalina chamber call for diving accidents.
EMA-USC Fellow 2009
Christopher Major, M.D., MMM
Dr. Major received his Bachelor's Degree from Emory University and his Doctorate of Medicine from Boston University. He completed a preliminary medicine internship at Harbor/UCLA. Dr. Major is currently a Resident Clinical Instructor at LAC-USC and his teaching experience includes Grand Round Lectures on Electrolytes and Atrial Fibrillation, a chapter on Widened QRS-Complex Emergencies, and Senior Presenter at LAC-USC Emergency Medicine Journal Club. Dr. Major is also an Instructor of Advanced Cardiac Life Support at the USC Center for Life Support Training. He has research experience in Neuronal Modeling and Nuclear Quadrapole Spectroscopy. His affiliations include the Emergency Medicine Resident’s Association, American College of Emergency Physicians, and American Association of Emergency Physicians.
EMA-USC Fellow 2010
Randall Young, M.D., MMM
Dr. Young received his Bachelor of Science in Psychology from UC Davis. He then migrated south to complete a Master of Science in Physiological Sciences at UCLA before returning back to UC Davis where he attended medical school and served as co-president of his class. He completed an internship at Stanford University/Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital in pediatrics before changing his focus to emergency medicine at Washington University in Saint Louis/Barnes-Jewish Hospital. During his residency he was heavily involved in medical student education as an instructor for the Washington University School of Medicine Practice of Medicine course for 1st and 2nd year medical students. He is the co-founder of the UC Davis Health Professions Saturday Academy, a medical student collaborative dedicated to provide outreach to underserved youths in the Sacramento. He is a recipient of the 2003 American Medical Association Foundation Leadership Award and currently serves on the CAL/AAEM Board of Directors.