Join us to honor Dr. Mark Getelman and Dr. Michael Hochman. By purchasing a ticket for the Inaugural Healthcare Leadership Dinner on April 22nd, you are supporting JFEDLA’s vital work.

For more information, please contact Kassie Jeffers at (323) 761-8327 or email Healthcare@JewishLA.org.

 

 

Dr. Mark H. Getelman is a distinguished orthopedic surgeon at the Southern California Orthopedic Institute (SCOI), specializing in arthroscopic and minimally invasive surgery of the knee and shoulder. Renowned for his clinical excellence and leadership, he is a member of the Hall of Fame for Los Angeles Super Doctors and has been recognized as a Castle Connolly Top Doctor — an honor reserved for the top 5% of physicians nationwide, acknowledging both exceptional clinical expertise and outstanding patient care.

Originally from Miami, Dr. Getelman earned his Bachelor of Science degree from Tulane University and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Florida. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at Boston University, followed by a fellowship in Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine at SCOI.

Since joining SCOI, Dr. Getelman has served as Co-Director of the institute’s prestigious Sports Medicine Fellowship, training more than 140 fellows and advancing the next generation of orthopedic surgeons. As Managing Partner of SCOI, he has played a key role in expanding the practice and leading its strategic affiliation with UCLA Health.

A prolific author and educator, Dr. Getelman co-authored a leading textbook on shoulder arthroscopy and has lectured internationally, sharing his expertise with physicians around the world. He has also served for over a decade on the Board of Directors of the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), the largest subspecialty society in orthopedics, and was elected by his peers to serve as President from 2021 to 2022.

Dr. Getelman has been happily married to his wife, Karen, for 37 years, and together they are proud parents of three children.

 

Michael Hochman, MD, MPH, is a board-certified internist who graduated from Harvard Medical School in 2006 and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Cambridge Health Alliance. During his medical training, he completed a month-long rotation at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem, supported by a grant from Combined Jewish Philanthropies.

He previously served as Medical Director for Innovation at AltaMed Health Services — the nation’s largest independent Federally Qualified Health Center. From 2015 to 2021, he was the inaugural Director of the USC Gehr Center for Health Systems Science and Innovation at the Keck School of Medicine.

From 2021 to 2024, Dr. Hochman was the founding CEO of Healthcare in Action, which grew to become the largest homeless healthcare provider on the West Coast, operating 18 mobile medical teams across six California counties. In 2024, he launched Starfield Primary Care, a clinician-led medical group that provides mobile medical services to homeless and housing-insecure patients, frail homebound older adults, as well as office-based primary care in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

Dr. Hochman is the founding series editor of 50 Studies Every Doctor Should Know, published by Oxford University Press, and has authored more than 50 peer-reviewed medical publications. Since moving to Los Angeles, he has been an active member of the Healthcare Network of Jewish Federation Los Angeles and currently serves as its co-chair.

Dr. Hochman is a proud member of both Chabad of Studio City and Valley Beth Shalom Synagogue. He lives in Studio City, with his wife and three children, and remains a loyal (and unapologetic) Boston sports fan.

 

Dr. Felicia Marie Knaul is the associate of the chancellor at UCLA, a distinguished professor of medicine, and a senior advisor to both the dean of the David Geffen School of Medicine and the president of UCLA Health. She is also director of global health of the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center.

She is internationally recognized for her transformative research in global health, health systems, and health economics. Before coming to UCLA, Dr. Knaul served as director of the Institute for Advanced Study of the Americas and director of the Office of Hemispheric and Global Affairs at the University of Miami, and was a professor at the university’s Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine. Dr. Knaul previously served as director of the Harvard Global Equity Initiative and associate professor at Harvard Medical School. She earned a master’s and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, and her bachelor’s in international development from the University of Toronto.

Dr. Knaul maintains an active presence in Mexico, where she serves as president of Tómatelo a Pecho, the nonprofit she founded. Tómatelo a Pecho originally focused on breast cancer but has now expanded its mandate to include women’s health and health system strengthening. She has published two books chronicling her own cancer journey. Dr. Knaul is an elected member of the Mexican National Academy of Medicine, an inducted Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, and an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Nursing. She has served on several Lancet commissions and currently co-chairs two commissions on violence against women and children and cancer and health systems.

 

 

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