Clinical Partners
Mona Colianno, DO
Dr. Colianno currently practices at Providence Little Company of Mary in Torrance in the Emergency Department. She has previously been an attending physician at Olympia Medical Center, Naval Hospital Bremerton and Naval Hospital Guam.
Dr. Colianno did Internal medicine internship, followed by Emergency Medicine Residency at Naval Medical Center San Diego. As part of the tradition of emergency medicine residents in the US Navy, she served for 2 years in the Medical Corps of the United States Navy as the battalion surgeon for the US Marine Corps with the 13 th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU). During her service with the Marine Corps, she deployed with the Marines as Chief Medical Officer of the FRST (forward resuscitation surgical team) aboard the USS Denver as part of the MEU, special operations capable (SOC). The 13 th MEU, SOC was deployed to Iraq for a special mission in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Dr. Colianno also served at Naval Hospital Guam as an Emergency Medicine Physician in support of the forward deployed Naval Fleet.
Dr. Colianno attended medical school at Touro University California in San Francisco. She is board certified in the state of California by the American Board of Emergency Medicine.
On a personal level, she attempts find balance in her roles as a mother, family travel planner, emergency physician, softball coach, art teacher and business owner.
Michael Daignault, MD
Dr. Michael Daignault has served as a board-certified emergency physician since completing residency at Lincoln Medical Center in the South Bronx in 2015. He joined ESPMA at Providence Little Company of Mary in 2024.
Dr. Daignault is the Medical Contributor at Fox 11 News in Los Angeles. He is passionate about improving public health thru television news media, and has appeared as a consultant for multiple LA-based news outlets as well as nationally on CNBC. He is also a contributing writer at TIME magazine.
He studied Global Health at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service as an undergrad. Dr. Daignault served as a US Peace Corps Volunteer in the West Indies before starting his own NGO to facilitate access to HIV/AIDS treatment and care in the region.
Brett Goodfriend, MD
Dr. Goodfriend is a board-certified Emergency Medicine physician, born and raised in Los Angeles. He is a proud double Trojan (Fight On!), earning both his undergraduate and medical degrees from USC. He completed his residency at Advocate Christ Medical Center, a high-volume Level 1 Trauma Center on the South Side of Chicago, where he served as the Resident Director of the Ultrasound Program.
After completing his residency, Dr. Goodfriend joined a large democratic physician group in Milwaukee, where he provided care across eight local hospitals. His leadership extended to multiple committees, where he played a crucial role in advancing nursing, physician assistant, resident, and attending physician education.
Dr. Goodfriend then returned to serve his hometown of Los Angeles, joining ESPMA at Providence Little Company of Mary in Torrance in 2024. He has a strong clinical interest in point-of-care bedside ultrasound in the Emergency Department and has multiple first-author publications in Emergency Medicine, Orthopedic Surgery, and Neurosurgery.
Dr. Goodfriend is conversationally fluent in Spanish, enhancing his ability to connect with a diverse patient population. Outside of medicine, he is an avid international traveler, 20-year guitar player, scuba diver, stock options/futures trader, and a diehard LA sports fan.
Clayton Kazan, MD
Dr. Kazan grew up in the South Bay and graduated from Peninsula High School. From there, he did his undergraduate training at UCLA and medical school training at the Chicago Medical School. While in training, Dr. Kazan worked in EMS as an EMT, volunteer firefighter, dispatcher, and educator. He then thawed out while he did a transitional internship at the University of Hawaii before returning to UCLA and Olive View-UCLA for his Emergency Medicine Residency. After completing his training, he worked at St. Francis Medical Center in Lynwood, he was on the clinical faculty in Emergency Medicine at Harbor-UCLA, and he was a Medical Director for two paramedic programs. In 2010, he became the ED Chairman and Assistant Medical Director at St. Francis, and, over the next 5 years, he chaired or was a member of virtually every hospital committee. During that time span, St. Francis opened its STEMI Center, initiated Targeted Temperature Management in the ED, and opened its Primary Stroke Center. In 2015, Dr. Kazan left his full time ED work to become the Medical Director of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, which covers 4.1 million residents, 59 cities, and more than 900 patients daily. He continued working part time in the ED at St. Francis until February 2018, when he moved his ED practice to PLCMMCT. Dr. Kazan’s wife, Maria, has been
Han Park, MD
Dr. Han Park began practicing at Providence Little Company of Mary after spending more than a decade at the Queen’s Medical Center in Honolulu, Hawaii. He served in various administrative positions during his tenure in Hawaii, most notably serving as President of his Provider Group which comprised of more than 40 physicians, staffing two Emergency Departments Oahu. Prior to his time in Hawaii, Dr. Park also worked at Winthrop University Hospital (Now NYU Langone Hospital – Long Island). He completed his residency at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York City, and attended Columbia University for both College and Medical School. In his spare time, Dr. Park enjoys traveling and spending time with his wife and two daughters.
Elizabeth Scott, MD
Dr. Scott is a graduate of Harbor-UCLA Medical Center emergency medicine residency, USC-Keck School of Medicine, and University of California- Berkeley. She is passionate about delivering the highest quality of care, helping patients navigate the healthcare system, and trauma-informed practice.
She has received grants from the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM), presented and conducted research on the effect of the Harbor-UCLA Food Pharmacy on patient perceived health metrics, and served on educational/mentoring committees. Additionally, she created an outpatient ER to palliative care referral system and is interested in delivery of palliative care in the emergency department.
Outside of the hospital she is a competitive marathon runner who has run many sub-3 hour marathons and competed in the Boston marathon multiple times. She enjoys being outdoors, reading, drinking coffee, and spending time with her husband and daughter.
Kent Shoji, MD, FACEP
Dr. Kent T. Shoji is an internationally known emergency physician who is board certified in internal medicine, rheumatology and emergency medicine. He has been practicing emergency medicine for 50 years and has practiced emergency medicine at Providence Little Company of Mary Hospital Torrance (42 years) and San Pedro (6 years). He is the founder and President of Emergency Specialist Physicians Medical Associates, Inc. and served as Chairman and Co-Director of the Emergency Department for 21 years, Employee Health Physician for 31 years, ACLS Director for PLCMMCT, helped institute the Ningen-dock program for PLCMMCT, the Pediatric Emergency program, and served on multiple hospital committees. He is currently on the PLCMMCT Foundation Board. Dr. Shoji is currently involved with the integration of Providence Health Systems into the Playa Vista and neighboring communities.
Dr. Shoji has been an American Board of Emergency Medicine Oral Board Examiner for 46 years and currently participates on several ABEM committees and has previously served on several American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP) committees. He is currently Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine and Nursing at UCLA School of Medicine and School of Nursing and participates in the education of medical students and advanced practice nurses. Dr. Shoji has served on the Peninsula Education Foundation, American Heart Association, UCLA Alumni Scholarship Committee, Medical Director for Gerber Ambulance service and has been the Associate Medical Director of the Long Beach Grand Prix for the past 45 years. Dr. Shoji has been named “Top Doctor” in Emergency Medicine for multiple years.
Michael Tarnay, MD
Dr. Tarnay is an experienced emergency medicine physician with over 17 years of service in the South Bay area. He currently serves as Chief Medical Officer for a retail medicine clinic in Orange County and served as the medical director of a busy South Bay urgent care for many years. He has also trained fellow physicians as an attending at UCLA-Olive View Medical Center, and helped to develop an emergency medicine program at Nairobi Hospital in Kenya. Dr. Tarnay trained in emergency medicine at UCLA Medical Center and attended Georgetown University Medical School. Dr. Tarnay’s medical practice includes interests in disaster and tactical medicine with local law enforcement.
John Wallace, MD
Dr. Wallace is a double board-certified Emergency and Internal Medicine Physician. He has been a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians since 1998. After completing his undergraduate degree at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, he received his medical degree from the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He received his residency training in Internal medicine from Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena and in Emergency Medicine from USC-Los Angeles County Medical Center. After practicing at multiple level I trauma facilities, Dr. Wallace joined the ER staff of Little Company of Mary in 1987. He was a co-founder of ESPMA and served as treasurer from 1996 to 2000. As an ESPMA Board of Director’s member from inception until 2020, he served as CFO from 2005 to 2020 as chief financial strategist, contract negotiator and manager, and primary liaison for revenue cycle management and Malpractice Retention Group and Risk Management. In addition, he has served on the California ACEP Reimbursement Committee since 2012. Dr. Wallace currently serves as Treasurer and Board member for the Independent Emergency Physician Consortium (IEPC). He has authored multiple white papers and lecture presentations on the changing landscape of Health Care finances and its demands on practice management and provider quality of care with adaptive needs to improve efficiencies.
He co-founded and serves as CEO, CMO and Board Member for the Double Strand VHL Cancer Research Foundation, a non-profit with a mission to cure cancer through biotechnology. https://doublestrand.org/
In addition to Emergency Medicine, his professional areas of expertise include Sports Medicine, Anti-Aging, Concierge and Telemedicine and molecular cancer research. His charitable work includes serving on the Board of Directors of the VHL Alliance and Double Strand VHL Cancer Research Foundation as well as donations in time and support to PLCMMCT Foundation, Hermosa Beach Education Foundation, Leukemia and Lymphoma Foundation, American Cancer Society among many. Dr. Wallace current practice to serve his local community includes the emergency room, urgent care and telemedicine. He not only has a special mission as a physician to mentor patients on a healthy lifestyle but is an exercise enthusiast and has a personal commitment to training, nutrition and leading a healthy life. He is devoted to his family, wife Karynne and daughter Karli.