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Dr. Julia Akaah graduated from Wayne State University School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine/Pediatric residency training at the Detroit Medical Center, Wayne State University. She served as Chief Medical Resident at St. Joe's for the 2005-2006 academic year. She has great expertise in curriculum development, and her interests are in resident and medical student education.
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| Dr. Irina Burman completed her Internal Medicine residency training at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. She served as Chief Medical Resident and then joined the teaching faculty. Her interests include resident and medical student education and Primary Care Internal Medicine. |
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| Dr. Sarah Bonner is a graduate of Midwestern University's College of Osteopathic Medicine. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency training at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital and served as Chief Medical Resident at SJMH from 2011 to 2012. Her interests include medical student and resident education, critical care medicine, and cardiovascular medicine. |
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| Dr. Brian Chen graduated from The Ohio State University College of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine training at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Chen is currently a member of the academic core faculty at St. Joe’s. His professional interests include medical informatics, resident education, procedural practices and international medicine. |
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| Dr. Darrell Craig attended medical school at the University of Texas Medical Branch. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and his Geriatric fellowship at John L. McClellan VA Medical Center. Dr. Craig served as Medical Director on the Older Adult Unit from 1995 to 2000, he currently serves as Co-Medical Director at Heartland Health Care Center and as the Geriatric Section Head for the Department of Medicine at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. His interests include Geriatric Health Care, Palliative Care, Alzheimer’s Disease and other dementias. |
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| Dr. Aaron Daniel went to the University of Michigan for medical school. He then went on to complete his Internal Medicine and Pediatrics training at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, NY. He is currently a member of the outpatient core faculty group. His interests include resident education, evidence based medicine, and communication skills of physicians. |
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| Dr. Corey Dean attended medical school at Michigan State's College of Human Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency program at Baystate Medical Center, Tufts University Western Campus. Dr. Dean has special interests in primary care sports medicine as he finished his fellowship in Sports Medicine at Michigan State University before becoming faculty at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. |
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| Dr. Jessa Edelman is a graduate of Wayne State University School of Medicine. She completed her residency training at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital and did one year in Baltimore as a general Hospitalist. She then returned to round on the Cardiovascular Medicine Service and the Internal Medicine Consult service. She has an interest in medical billing and consult medicine. She works closely with the inpatient services in improving the quality of inpatient medicine. |
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| Dr. Lakshmi Halasyamani completed her Internal Medicine residency and chief medical residency at Harvard University in 1998. Prior to coming to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, she served as Internal Medicine faculty at the University of Chicago. Dr. Halasyamani has extensive experience as a hospitalist and currently is the Vice President of Quality. Her interests include quality improvement and residency education. She is extensively published, and is highly regarded in the field of Hospital Medicine. |
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| Dr. Brenda Herrera is a graduate of the Universidad Autonoma de Baja California, Tijuana medical school and completed her residency at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in 2009. She then served as a Chief Medicine Resident at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in 2009-2010. Upon joining the Core Faculty, she rounds on the Medicine Teaching Service and is a member of our Hospitalist Team. |
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Dr. Karen Kelley is a graduate of the Medical College of Ohio, Toledo. She completed her residency training in internal medicine at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in 2010, and then joined the teaching faculty as a Hospitalist. She has a PhD in Medical Sciences and has done extensive research in cancer biology with a focus on identifying novel targeting strategies for the treatment of ovarian and breast cancers. Her current interests include critical care medicine, vascular access procedures and resident education.
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| Dr. Albert Klemptner graduated from the University of Michigan Medical School. He completed his residency at the University of Michigan Hospitals in Internal Medicine, and then served as Chief Medical Resident at St Joseph Mercy Hospital. Dr. Klemptner maintains an active practice in the Ypsilanti area and his interests include outpatient primary care medicine and resident education. |
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| Dr. Shree Krishnan graduated form medical school at the University of the West Indies after completing a Bachelor of Science degree in Physiology from the University of California at Davis. He completed residency training at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital and was Chief Resident in 2006-2007. Dr. Krishnan has received awards and recognition from medical students and residents for his teaching abilities. His professional interests include inpatient resident education , mentoring, and hospital administration. |
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Dr. Tomas Lall graduated from the Wayne State University School of Medicine in 2006. He completed his residency training at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, where he stayed on for an additional year as Chief Resident 2009-2010. His interests include medical student and resident education, procedural practices and hospitalist medicine. Dr. Lall is also the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital site administrator for the Wayne State University School of Medicine, Physical Diagnosis course.
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| Dr. Eugene Liu is a graduate of the University of Alabama medical school and completed his residency at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. He also worked as a Chief Resident for one year before entering private practice. He returns to St. Joseph Mercy Hospital as a core faculty Hospitalist. Dr. Liu is also the medical director of our Physical Diagnosis Course. This series trains second year medical students from local medical schools in the important practice of physical diagnosis. |
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| Dr. Diana Nistor completed her residency in Psychiatry at the University of Michigan Medical Center. She is board certified in the subspecialty of Psychosomatic Medicine. In addition to being a member of the Internal Medicine academic core faculty, Dr Nistor serves as the Medical Director of the Psychiatric Access Center/Consultation Liaison Service at St Joseph Mercy Hospital. Her interests include the interface between medicine and psychiatry, cultural psychiatry and the history of medicine. |
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| Dr. Michelle Robida is a graduate of the Medical College of Georgia. She completed her residency training in internal medicine/pediatrics at the University of Michigan. She served as a Chief Medicine Resident at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in 2008-2009 and then joined the teaching faculty. She rounds on the Medicine Teaching Service and the Academic Hospitalist Service. She also works in the Pediatric Emergency Center. Her interests include residency education and transitions of care. |
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| Dr. Salas Sabnis attended medical school at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia as part of the combined BS/MD program with Penn State University. He completed his Internal Medicine residency and Geriatrics fellowship at St. Vincent's Hospital in Manhattan. Dr. Sabnis served as Medical Director of St. Joseph Mercy Saline ACE Unit 2004-2006, and is currently Medical Director of Huron Woods. He also rotates on the Palliative Care Service at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor. His interests include resident and medical student education, and inpatient care of elderly patients. |
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Dr. Bretton Schloesser completed medical school at the University of Michigan and finished Internal Medicine/Pediatrics residency at Ohio State University in 2004. He worked as a hospitalist in Cincinnati & now at St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor. His interests include transitions of care and inpatient medical care.
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| Dr. Geneieve Stewart completed medical school at the University of Michigan and Med-Peds residency at the University of North Carolina and the University of Michigan Program 1. She spent time in the Peace Corps and loves working with the underserved. She has a strong clinical background in both inpatient and outpatient medicine, and currently serves as an Academic Teaching Hospitalist. Her areas of particular interest include Transitions of Care and Anticoagulation. |
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| Dr. Twylla Tassava has a background as a dietitian with a Master’s degree in Nutrition. She then went on to complete her medical school training at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and residency at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. Dr. Tassava has experience as both a private hospitalist and teaching staff hospitalist. She currently runs the Academic Internal Medicine Consult service, and also rounds on the inpatient Medical Teaching Service. Her areas of expertise include Perioperative Medicine, Consultative Medicine, and anticoagulation. |
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| Dr. Phanibindu Uppala graduated from NTR University of Health Sciences. She completed her residency at St Joseph Mercy Hospital in 2011. Later she joined SJMHS as a hospitalist and became a member of academic faculty. Main interests include continuity of education and transitions of care between hospital and primary care physicians. |
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| Dr. John Watt attended medical school at the University of Cincinnati, and then Med-Peds residency in the combined University of Michigan/ St. Joe's program. He has served in numerous key roles within the residency program, including Chief Resident, Med/Peds Program Director, and Transitional Year Program Director. Currently, he serves as our hospital's Director of Medical Education, overseeing all medical student, resident, and faculty education. He practices as a teaching hospitalist, and has received multiple teaching awards. His main interests include improving resident teaching abilities and resident communication with patients. |
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