Stories from Your Dedicated Care Team

Giving More Than Just Exceptional Care

We are fortunate to have skilled, compassionate physicians, nurses and other care providers who give their time, money and passion to support Adventist Health White Memorial services and patients. Learn more in their remarkable stories.

Dr. Dominique Luckey, MD, OB/GYN

Gratitude for Maternity Care

Care Team

“Thank you! Donations to support maternity care at the Adventist Health White Memorial Charitable Foundation are exceptional and give our patients access to truly interdisciplinary care.”

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María Lozada

Nursing with Compassion: An Inspiring Path to A Calling

Care Team

Twenty-five years ago, María Lozada’s infant son, Jeremiah, developed a fever. At the time, Lozada was a 24-year-old wife and mother, juggling her work at the California Women, Infants and Children (WIC) Program with the classes needed to become an elementary school teacher. But as Jeremiah’s fever raged, he was…

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Rostam Kavoossi, MD

Healer, Father, Friend

Care Team

“Having an impact on his patients and being part of a community that needed help was one of the things he was very passionate about,” shared his wife, Ava Kavoossi. “So I am grateful we can have an impact to help Adventist Health White Memorial too.”

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 A. Paul Kurkjian, MD, Advisory Board Member

Giving Back to the Community: A Commitment to Mental Health Care and Prevention

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A. Paul Kurkjian, MD – or Dr. K, as he is known to his patients and his staff – is a man of many worlds. He is a child of Armenian heritage, grew up in Latino communities in Los Angeles and attended the prestigious St. Francis High School in La…

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