Department of Medicine, Faculty
The Department of Medicine has 120 faculty members and 148 volunteer faculty representing general internal medicine and all internal medicine subspecialties. The chairman of the department is Guy L. Reed, MD, Professor of Medicine.
The department has a long history of excellence in the education of medical students, residents, and fellows. The department has also achieved national and international recognition for its clinical and basic science research activities. These endeavors range from the pathogenesis of connective tissue disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever to more clinically oriented problems such as hypertension, lipid disorders, health maintenance and prevention and clinical oncology trials. Residents have the opportunity to participate in the on-going research projects during research electives.
Division of Circulatory Diseases
Pranab Das, MD
Richard C. Davis, MD
Dwight Dishmon, MD
Howard Horn, MD
Santhosh Koshy, MD
Ahmad Munir, MD
Kevin Newman, MD
K.B. Ramanathan, MD
Guy Reed, MD
John Riddle, MD
Judith Soberman, MD
Yao Sun, MD
Karl, Weber, MD
Click here for an in depth look at our Cardiology faculty.
Division of Emergency Medicine
Tasha Ford, MD
Ethelynn Johnson, MD
Lisa Mahan, MD
Antonio Martinez, MD
Andrew Pierce, MD
Carlos Shammas, MD
Chantay Smartt, MD
Michelle Surbrook, MD
Division of Endocrinology
Samuel Dagogo Jack, MD
Joseph Fisher, MD
Ivan Gerling, MD
Thomas Hughes, MD
Abbas Kitabchi, MD
Cesar Magsino, MD
Ebenezer, Nyenwe, MD
Solomon Solomon, MD
Frankie Stentz, MD
Beverly Williams Cleaves, MD
Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Joel Bessoff, MD
Farees Farooq, MD
Faquelyn Fleckenstein, MD
Mohammad Ismail, MD
Barbara Kay Jackson, MD
Michael Levinson, MD
Myron Lewis, MD
Charles Mansbach, MD
Christopher Marino, MD
Claudio Tombazzi, MD
Bradford Waters, MD
Click here for an indepth look at our Gastroenterology and Hepatology faculty.
Division of General Internal Medicine
Patricia Adams-Graves, MD
Raza Askari, MD
James Bailey, MD
Asad Chaudhary, MD
Sandra Cohen, MD
Craig Dorko, MD
Jimmie Dotson, MD
Marion Dugdale, MD
Nabeel Farooqui, MD
Syed Haider, MD
Mohammad Hajjar, MD
Burton Hayes, MD
Lisa Jennings, MD
Suzanne Moore, MD
R. Edward Morrison, MD
Shelley Ost, MD
Mario Ray, MD
Kathryn Ryder, MD
Salman Sarwar, MD
Laura Sprabery, MD
Bruce Steinhauer, MD
Meghan Sullivan, MD
Natascha Thompson, MD
Catherine Womack, MD
Xin Zhang, MD
Click here for an indepth look at our General Internal Medicine faculty.
- Lee Schwartzberg M.D., FACP, Division Chief
- Al Weir, M.D., Fellowship Program Director
- Ron Lawson, M.D., Assistant Program Director
- Stephen Besh, M.D.
- Jason Chandler, M.D.
- Carolyn Chesney, M.D.
- Marion Dugdale, M.D.
- Moon Fenton, M.D.
- Salil Goorha, M.D.
- Robert Johnson, M.D.
- Amna Khattak, M.D.
- Ron Lawson, M.D.
- Daruka Mahadevan, M.D.
- Mike Martin, M.D.
- Harvey B Niell, M.D.
- Arnel Pallera, M.D.
- David Portnoy, M.D.
- Kurt Tauer, M.D.
- Gary Tian, M.D.
Division of Infectious Diseases
Susan Brewer, MD
Jeffrey Brint, MD
Kerry Cleveland, MD
Cathy Corbett, MD
Harry Courtney, MD
James Dale, MD
James Fleckenstein, MD
Michael Gelfand, MD
Cynthia King, MD
Mack Land, MD
John Norwood, MD
Ellen Whitnack, MD
Division of Nephrology
Ahmed Al-Absi, MD
William Bastnagel, MD
R. Brad Canada, MD
C. Robert Cooke, MD
Lekha George, MD
Christie Green, MD
Kim Huch, MD
Maung Mya, MD
Adnan Naseer, MD
Arif Showkat, MD
Barry Wall, MD
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Amado Freire, MD
John Griffin, MD
A. Stacey Headley, MD
G. Umberto Meduri, MD
Muthiah Muthiah, MD
Scott Sinclair, MD
Jose Yataco, MD
Muhammad Zaman, MD
Click here for an indepth look at our Pulmonary faculty.
Division of Rheumatology
Laura Carbone, MD
Andrew Kang, MD
Debendra Pattanaik, MD
Arnold Postlethwaite, MD
John Stuart, MD

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Internal Medicine Residency Program
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