Pediatricians Bromberg, Shim Start Own Practice

After working together for 12 years at Palisades Pediatrics, Dr. Alisa Bromberg and Dr. Caroline Mimi Shim have created their own practice in the 970 Monument building (Suite 220), sharing space with another pediatrician, Etoile Davie, M.D.
“I have worked in Pacific Palisades since June 1999, when I joined Palisades Pediatrics (which now has new owners and a name change),” Bromberg told the Palisadian-Post. “Dr. Shim joined the practice in 2001.”
Bromberg and Shim offer the full spectrum of general pediatric care. Their office is open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., with Saturday coverage from 9 a.m. to 12 noon. Phone: (310) 454-2296.

A Palisades resident since 2002, Bromberg is married to Dr. Roy Shaked, a family physician at Kaiser Permanente in West L.A. They have two boys: Levy (8) and Micah (5).
“Living and working here has given me a unique familiarity with the families and lifestyle in Pacific Palisades,” Bromberg said, “and I feel extremely lucky to have this opportunity.”
After graduating from UC Berkeley, Bromberg attended the Northwestern University School of Medicine in Chicago and completed her three-year residency in pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. She worked in a pediatric office in the San Fernando Valley for three years before joining Palisades Pediatrics.
“A year later, in 2000,” said Bromberg, “my Aunt Geraldine (Weichman), who lives here in town, introduced me to my future husband and we were married in 2002. So the Palisades truly became a family affair for me.”

Shim and her husband, Dr. Hyun Bae, a spine surgeon at St. John’s and Cedars-Sinai, live in Santa Monica and have three girls: Sidney (10), Lexie (8) and Mia (5).
“We moved here from New York City in 2001, after our residency training,” said Shim, who earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Pennsylvania and her doctorate at the UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey. “We met in the pediatric ER during the consult of a patient when I was in residency at New York Hospital Cornell and Hyun was across the street in the orthopedic hospital.”
Shim and Bromberg said they are “truly excited to start this next adventure in our careers together. We really feel so fortunate to have this opportunity to stay in the Palisades and continue to care for the families/friends we have known for so many years.”
Dr. Davie, who originally moved to the Palisades in 1958 with her parents and two younger sisters, graduated from Paul Revere Middle School and University High. She attended medical school at the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and did her residency in pediatrics at UCLA.
“I started working at Palisades Pediatrics in 1994,” Davie told the Post. “At that time it was owned by Dr. Wesley Smith, who was a pediatric endocrinologist. Dr. Mike Martini was approaching retirement and was sharing office space with Dr. Smith. When Dr. Smith decided to retire shortly after Dr. Martini, he sold the practice to Dr. David Geller, also a pediatric endocrinologist. I decided it was time to go out on my own and opened my office on Monument in January 1999.”