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, is a board-certified emergency medicine physician. He treats and cares for people in the emergency department and urgent care, including those with life-threatening or critical conditions. This care may include evaluation, resuscitation, stabilization and referring patients to appropriate specialty departments.
Tolia is medical director of the Emergency Department at UC San Diego Health, where he oversees operations of both emergency departments at UC San Diego Medical Center in Hillcrest and Jacobs Medical Center in La Jolla. He serves as director of the Emergency Department's Observation Unit and the Gary and Mary West Senior Emergency Care Unit (housed within the La Jolla Emergency Department), which is a state-of-the-art unit designed to enhance the care for older adults and meet the unique needs of seniors.
Tolia is also a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at UC San Diego School of Medicine. His research interests include patient safety, observation medicine and chest pain protocols.

Dr. Thierman is a physician executive in the LifeBridge Health system and President of the medical staff at Northwest Hospital. He started his career as an engineer and inventor, earning his PhD at MIT and then training in Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Johns Hopkins Hospital. In the past, he has worked to bring real-world clinical experience to the engineering and design of medical devices.

Ajsa Nikolic, MD, is board certified in both family practice and urgent care medicine, and serves as the Ochsner system chair of urgent care and occupational medicine. She is an expert on urgent care’s function within the health care industry and was an early adapter of telemedicine within her practice. 
Dr. Nikolic earned a medical degree from the University of Vienna Medical School in Austria. She completed a residency at East Jefferson General Hospital in Metairie, Louisiana.
She has worked at urgent care and after-hours clinics throughout south Louisiana. Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005, she has served as an emergency room physician in Thibodaux and Slidell. In 2007, she opened and operated two urgent care centers in downtown New Orleans. In 2017, she sold the centers to Ochsner and joined the health system as medical director of advanced practice providers. 
Dr. Nikolic speaks English, Croatian, French and German.