Program Leadership

Undergraduate Education: UCLA
Medical School: New York Medical College
Residency: White Memorial Medical Center, Los Angeles, California
Board Certification: American Board of Internal Medicine
Personal Interests: Family, Church, Basketball, Computers and Movies
Languages: English

Internal Medicine Hospitalist Physician
Director, Inpatient Adult Medicine Teaching Service
Chair, Department of Medicine
Assistant Professor of Clinical Internal Medicine
Partner, TriValley Medical Group

Jeff Edmunds has been practicing medicine for over 10 years with an emphasis on hospital medicine and caring for critically ill patients. Prior to this, he had a career as a private-practice dietitian as well as spending over 11 years as a nutrition and exercise-physiology teacher for undergraduate nutrition students in Texas and culinary students at the Art Institute of California. Jeff continues to enjoy employing his medical and nutrition knowledge coupled with extensive teaching experience to educate future physicians at Loma Linda University Medical Center – Murrieta where he is currently the Chair of the Medicine Department.

Viviana Pizano, MHA, is the program coordinator for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Loma Linda University Medical Center - Murrieta (LLUMCM). She joined the LLUMCM team in September 2025. Prior to her role at LLUMCM, Viviana has worked as a program coordinator at various institutions and as a health educator with San Bernardino County’s Department of Public Health team. Viviana has a master’s degree in healthcare administration from Loma Linda University and a bachelor of arts degree in public health policy from UC Irvine (UCI). At UCI, Viviana participated in the UC Education Abroad Program (UCEAP) where she studied in London, United Kingdom for four months. In her spare time, Viviana enjoys traveling, reading (horror, thriller, and romance novels), journaling, working out, finding new coffee spots, and eating out at restaurants with her partner. She hopes to continue to build her knowledge in Graduate Medical Education policies to help the LLUMCM IM program be the best it can be!