Faculty

TCLA’s outstanding faculty includes graduates from the nation’s top universities. 

Our faculty have advanced degrees in the fields they teach and years of experience in their respective fields, many with appointments at other colleges and universities in the Los Angeles area.

SHAHRAM BAKHTIARI 
M.D., Tehran Azad University, Iran

ANDREW BRAGIN
B.A., Brandeis University
J.D., University of California, Berkeley
LL.M., New York University 

IRINA BRAGIN
B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles

AARON BROWNSTEIN
B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Ph.D., University of Southern California

NIAZ COHEN
B.Sc., Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, UK
Ph.D. DIC, Imperial College School of Medicine, London, UK

HOWARD FORMAN
B.S., Pennsylvania State University
M.B.A, George Washington University
Ph.D., Temple University 

DAVID GADISH
B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., University of Guelph, Canada

BRUCE GORMAN
B.S., California State University, Los Angeles

NATARAJAN GUNASEKARAN 
B.S., Madras University, Madras, India,
M.S., Madras University, Madras, India
Ph.D., Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Post-Doc., University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana

MORGAN HAKIMI
M.S., Ph.D. California School of Professional Psychology
M.B.A., Touro University Worldwide

DAPHNA HOLLANDER
B.A., University of Redlands
M.A. Psy.D., Ryokan College

AFSOUN LOUEIZADEH
A.A. Liberal Science, Santa Monica College
B.S., California State University, Dominguez Hills
M.S., University of the Southwest

DANIEL MARGOLIS
B.S., University of Southern California
M.Sc., London School of Economics
J.D., Yale Law School

ANA BLAZQUEZ MEDELA
MS Biology, University of Salamanca
MS Biochemistry, University of Salamanca
PhD Physiology, University of Salamanca

AMIR OVEISI  
BS, University of California, Los Angeles 
MS, California State University, Long Beach 

TAMAR ROTHENBERG
B.A., Fairleigh Dickinson University
M.S., California State University, Los Angeles

ELI SHOFF
B.S., Yeshiva Gedolah of Waterbury, CT
Ordained by R. Zalman Nechemia Goldberg, Chief Justice of Jerusalem Supreme Court
Ordained by Rabbi Noah Weinberg, Aish Hatorah Jerusalem

AVI STEWART
M.S., Johns Hopkins University
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MENACHEM STULBERGER
B.A., Touro College Los Angeles 
M.A., Touro University Worldwide

SHIRLEY TRAUM 
B.S., M.S., University of Southern California