Department of Internal Medicine

New Faculty 2006

Faculty appointed in 2006

• Christopher Adams, M.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Division of Endocrinology
  Clinical Focus: Disorders of the thyroid and general endocrinology.

• Jaspreet Chahal, M.D.
  Associate
  Division of Endocrinology
  Clinical Focus: Diabetes and general endocrinology

• Ann Curtis, M.D.
  Associate
  Division of General Internal Medicine
  Clinical Focus: Hospital Medicine and Palliative Care

• Wael El Maraachli, M.D.
  Associate
  Division of General Internal Medicine
  Chief Resident: 2006-07

• Dayna Groskreutz, M.D.
  Associate
  Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine
  Clinical focus: Asthma

• Isabella Grumbach, M.D., Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
  Clinical focus: General Cardiology

• Frances Johnson, M.D.
  Associate Professor (Clinical)
  Division of Cardiovascular Diseases
  Clinical focus: Heart Failure and Cardiac Transplantation

• Helena LaRoche, M.D.
  Associate
  Division of General Internal Medicine
  Clinical Focus: Primary Care Internal Medicine and Pediatrics

• Bruce Luxon, M.D., Ph.D.
  Professor
  Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  Clinical Focus: Hepatology, viral hepatitis autoimmune hepatitis

• Frances Meyer, M.D.
  Associate Professor (Clinical)
  Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  Clinical Focus: General gastroenterology, colon cancer screening

• Peter Mohler, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Division of Cardiovascular Diseases

• David Motto, M.D., Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Division of Hematology, Oncology & Blood and Marrow Transplantation

• Issam Nasr, M.D.
  Associate
  Division of General Internal Medicine
  Clinical Focus: Hospital Medicine and Consultative Internal Medicine

• Sirisha Perumandla, M.D.
  Assistant Professor (Clinical)
  Division of Hematology, Oncology & Blood and Marrow Transplantation
  Clinical Focus: Medical oncology and hematology

• Ioana Popescu, Ph.D.
  Associate
  Division of General Internal Medicine

• Antonio Sanchez, M.D.
  Assistant Professor (Clinical)
  Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology
  Clinical Focus: Hepatology, especially transplant hepatology 

• Gregory Schmidt, M.D.
  Professor
  Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Occupational Medicine
  Clinical focus: Critical Care

• Hendrik Schultz, M.D.
  Associate
  Division of Infectious Diseases
  Clinical focus: Infectious Diseases, Travel Clinic

• Michael K. Schultz, Ph.D.
  Associate
  Division of Cardiovascular Diseases

• Christine Schwab, M.D.
  Associate
  Division of General Internal Medicine
  Clinical Focus: Hospital Medicine and Consultative Internal Medicine

• Richard J.H. Smith, M.D.
  Professor
  Division of Nephrology

• Long Sheng Song, M.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Division of Cardiology

• Manish Suneja, M.D.
  Clinical Assistant Professor
  Division of Nephrology
  Clinical focus: Chronic renal disease, dialysis, endocrine disorders of renal failure.

• Mark Vander Weg, Ph.D.
  Associate Professor
  Division of General Internal Medicine

• Yi Xing, Ph.D.
  Assistant Proessor
  Program in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

• Nelson Yee, M.D.
  Assistant Professor
  Division of Hematology, Oncology & Blood and Marrow Transplantation
  Clinical Focus: Pancreatic cancer and gastrointestinal malignancies.