Meet Our Clinical Scholars

Pedro A. Sanchez, MD, MSCE, FAAP, FACMG is the Director of the Clinical Genetics Program in the Department of Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. Dr. Sanchez is actively involved in clinical research utilizing 3D facial imaging for syndrome recognition as well as molecular genomic approaches for clinical diagnostics.

Courtney Penn is a gynecology oncology fellow at Cedars-Sinai. She completed her residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan and attended medical school at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. at Stanford University. She is interested in outcomes research and in targeted therapies for gynecologic cancers.

Tanyalak Parimon is a faculty member of the pulmonary and critical care division. Her current research interest is lung fibrosis. Tanyalak is studying the role of extracellular vesicles in fibrosis pathogenesis using a murine bleomycin lung injury model.

Santhosh Nadipuram, MD, is a pediatric infectious diseases specialist and a physician-scientist. He joined Cedar-Sinai in 2018 and is now studying in the Arditi Lab with the goal of understanding the host response to Toxoplasma infection, specifically in immune-privileged compartments, such as the brain and the eye (chorioretinitis), using experimental mouse models of acute and chronic toxoplasma infections. Nadipuram is also an active clinician, caring for pediatric patients in the hospital and clinic settings, and is involved in clinical translational research with Kawasaki disease patients.