Southern California Alumni News
Meet our co-chairs
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Dr. Doron Kahana
TAU MD, Sackler School of Medicine, 2001
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Dr. Doron Kahana is a Pediatric Gastroenterologist and a Certified Clinical Nutrition Specialist who trained in Chicago, Israel, Minnesota, and California.
Currently, he is an assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center where he directs a specialty clinic for patients with non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH) and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). In October, 2011, he joined South Bay Gastroenterology in Torrance as a consultant for medical nutrition.
Dr. Kahana's research focuses on medical nutrition and dietary modification in GI disease, specifically GI inflammation. He has written several articles and book chapters on nutritional topics, and is a member of nutrition committees on the local and national levels. He also volunteers as a medical consultant to non-profit organizations, including the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America and What’s In Your Lunchbox, Inc.
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Clark Hoover
UCLA BA, Communication Studies, 1994
TAU Graduate Studies, Political Science, 2001-2005
UCLA Anderson School of Management, MBA, 2008
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Two experiences impacted me most as a new citizen of Israel: Serving in the IDF and being a graduate student at Tel Aviv University.
I moved to Israel in 1997, a few years after earning my BA from UCLA. Israel was full of opportunity and challenge, but very different from my Jewish upbringing in Indiana. TAU provided me a vital community and identity far beyond its academic offerings.
While in Israel, I worked for a tech start up ,and later as breaking news desk editor for Haaretz and Yedioth Ahronoth. In 2005, I returned to UCLA for MBA studies at the Anderson School of Management. After graduating I worked for Goldman Sachs before starting Acacia Blue Asset Management in 2010.
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Inspiring Alumni Spotlight
 Lior Geller
What and when did you study at TAU?
I completed my studies at the TAU Film Department in 2008.
What are you doing now professionally?
I'm a film writer and director currently working in Los Angeles. Since completing my graduate short film Roads at TAU, I sold my first feature script here in LA and am presently in development of two feature films.
What's your best TAU memory?
If I should choose one best memory at TAU, it would have to be the last day of production on my graduate film. Late into the night of an arduous sixteen-hour shooting day, within the narrow alleys of Yaffo's Ajami neighborhood, I look at my thirty fellow TAU film students — who have been tirelessly working for the past two weeks to help me complete my short film — and looking like a group who you would believe had just stormed the beaches of Normandy, they cried out in joy as we completed our last shot of the movie.
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UPCOMING ALUMNI EVENTS
Burbank, CA – To be determined
Cocktails and Classics
Cocktails with Stanley Gold, President and CEO of Shamrock Holdings, Inc., and a private tour of his classic car collection.
RECENT ALUMNI EVENTS
Beverly Hills, CA – April 7, 2011
Wine and Wisdom
A talk and a tasting with Prof. Asher Tishler of Tel Aviv University's Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration.
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Los Angeles, CA – March 31, 2011
Fabulous Films from TAU's Award-Winning Alumni
An elegant reception and a screening of short films written and directed by students of TAU's Department of Film and Television.
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