The Public Relations Department at CHOC Children's is available to assist the media 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Members of the news media wishing to contact or interview a physician, patient and family members, and/or staff at CHOC, should contact one of the news representatives listed below during normal business hours (9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.) After-hours, on weekends, and during holidays, media should call the hospital's operator at (714) 997-3000 and ask for the on-call public relations representative.

Media Relations Contacts:

• Denise Almazan, Director, Public Relations
  phone: (714) 532-8680
  pager: (714) 275-1452
  email: dalmazan@choc.org


• Andrea Woodhouse, Public Relations Specialist
  phone: (714) 509-4183
  pager: (714) 275-1554
  email: awoodhouse@choc.org