Our Faculty and Staff

Dr. McLaughlin is Program Director and Clinical Skills Instructor for UCR MS1. He graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University SOM and completed family medicine residency training at University of Illinois at Chicago. His special interests include medical education and mentoring, evidence-based medicine, inpatient medicine, reproductive health access, and serving as medical director for Riverside Free Clinic. He loves his job because it offers a wide range of roles in full spectrum family medicine with colleagues at both RUHS and UCR SOM. He believes that the education of future physicians is critically important and has the invaluable experience of following learners from first year medical school through residency graduation. Outside of medicine, Dr. McLaughlin is enthusiastic about woodworking, rock climbing, and spending time in the mountains.

Dr. Yang serves as Associate Program Director and Core Faculty. She attended University of California, Irvine, SOM and completed family medicine residency training through RUHS. She is interested in physician wellness, community medicine and outreach, women’s health, and preventative and lifestyle medicine. She speaks fluent Mandarin and fluent Spanish. She loves to work with the patient populations of Riverside County and utilize community resources to maximize patient care. Outside of medicine, Dr. Yang enjoys meditation, trail running, yoga, playing with her dogs, and hiking.

Dr. Bajwa is director of Community Health & Social Medicine at RUHS/UCR Family Medicine Residency program and associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine at the University of California Riverside. He uses the principles of community-oriented primary care to lead the programs in health advocacy, street medicine, and global health. Dr. Bajwa is director of the Longitudinal Ambulatory Care Experience (LACE) at UCR School of Medicine, an integrated primary care clerkship that promotes professional identity formation through courses on public health, social medicine, clinical reasoning, and health systems science.

Dr. Jukaku serves as a Core Faculty for RUHS Family Medicine Residency Program. He attended medical school at JJM Medical College in Davangere, Karnataka state, India. After which he completed basic Surgical training with focus on Orthopedics in NHS in the UK. He, then completed a general surgery internship at St. Johns Hospital in Detroit, Michigan, and family medicine residency through RUHS. He is board certified in Wound care Management and Hospice & Palliative medicine. He has completed mini-fellowship in Geriatrics at UCLA and Primary pain management at UC Davis. Also obtained X waiver certification. His special interests include wound care, primary care procedures and Addiction medicine. He speaks Hindi and Urdu. He loves to work with the underserved population and believes that this program gives unlimited opportunity to grow clinical and leadership skills from the very beginning. Outside of medicine, Dr. Jukaku enjoys traveling, playing tennis, practicing religion/spirituality, and taking care of his many children.

Dr. Kim is core faculty for the RUHS FM program and an assistant clinical professor at UC Riverside. She received her BA in Biology at the University of Guam, then moved to Honolulu, Oahu to complete for MS in Physiology and MD in John A Burns school of Medicine. She also did one year of post-baccalaureate training in the Imi Ho’ola program and one year of fellowship at UC Irvine in Psychiatry – adult primary care track. She was born and raised in Seoul, Korea, and is fluent in Korean. Lived most of her life in Guam until she moved to California. Her special interests related to medicine include mental health/wellness including physician wellness, using food/nutrition to help with chronic conditions, resident teaching, and preventative/lifestyle medicine. She also volunteers at the Riverside Free Clinic in her free time. Outside of medicine, Dr. Kim enjoys spending time with her son/ husband/family/dog, volunteering in the church praise team, piano, hanging out with friends, looking for and eating good food, traveling, and watching movies/shows (fav genre includes horror, comedy, Korean variety shows, psychological thrillers, and mysteries).

Dr. Tsang went to St. George’s University School of Medicine and completed residency training at Riverside University Health System. Prior to medicine, she completed her Master’s in Public Health from Boston University in complex humanitarian emergencies and worked at the CDC in Atlanta. Dr. Tsang’s interests include upstream thinking, population health, performance improvement, lean culture, and clinical excellence. She loves how residents and medical students bring energy and new ideas to the program and health system. Outside of medicine, she enjoys spending time with her husband and playing with her 2 children, traveling to new places, and learning about new cultures.

Dr. Leung serves as RUHS Ambulatory Medical Director and Riverside County Public Health Officer. He graduated from Baylor College of Medicine, and completed his residency training at Kaiser Orange County. Dr. Leung is a former residency program director, and his interests include Ambulatory Care, Public Health, Patient Education, and Health Care Policy. He is passionate about improving care for underserved populations.