Dr. Dorian leads USC Verdugo Hills Hospital, part of Los Angeles-based Keck Medicine of USC, bringing two decades of experience as a board-certified emergency physician to a hospital that serves 18 zip codes, nine cities and three service planning areas. Under his leadership, the hospital’s emergency department nurses earned the Emergency Nurses Association’s “Lantern Award” in 2025 for the third consecutive time, and the hospital received an “A” Leapfrog hospital safety grade in 2025 and 2023. Its ICU earned the “GOLD Beacon Award for Excellence” from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses in 2025, and its nurse residency program received American Nurses Credentialing Center practice transition program accreditation in 2024. In 2025, the hospital also earned a three-year Intersocietal Accreditation Commission accreditation in adult transthoracic echocardiography, and in 2026 the Glendale Latino Association named it “Organization of the Year.” Dr. Dorian joined the hospital’s executive team in July 2018 as chief medical officer, a role he took on after serving as director and vice chair of the hospital’s emergency department and as interim CEO. He is a clinical professor of emergency medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, president of the hospital’s governing board, and a member of both the hospital’s foundation board and community advisory board.
