Reserve Officer Kenji Inaba, who has served as chief surgeon of the LAPD since June 2018, was honored by Chief of Police Michel Moore on June 23 for “the incalculable number of hours you’ve invested in facilitating the essential care of LAPD personnel who have experienced severe or catastrophic injury or illness,” including the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Level I reserve officer working Rampart Patrol, Dr. Inaba, MD, FRCSC, FACS, is a professor and vice chair of surgery at the Los Angeles County–University of Southern California (LAC–USC) Medical Center.