The Medicine Mentors Podcast

Peter Alperin, MD is a practicing internist at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and leads the growth of the HIPAA compliant physician messaging services at Doximity as the Vice President of Product. He has been the Founding Chair and a Member of Medical Advisory Board at Doximity, Inc. since 2011. He was previously the Vice President of Medicine and Products at Archimedes, a Kaiser Permanente b...

Kathleen Finn, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and the Senior Associate Program Director for resident and faculty development at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Finn completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania and studied at the University of Oxford as a Thouron Scholar where she obtained a Master of Philosophy in Social Anthropolo...

Gifty Kwakye, MD is a Clinical Assistant Professor for Surgery in the division of colorectal surgery at University of Michigan. Dr Kwakye completed her medical school from Yale University and holds a Masters in Public Health from Johns Hopkins. She completed her general surgery residency at the Brigham and Women's Hospital/Harvard Medical School and colorectal surgery fellowship at the University...

Irene Estores MD is an Associate Professor of the department of medicine and department of orthopedics at UF College of Medicine. She is also the Director of the integrative medicine program at University of Florida (UF Health). Dr. Estores completed her medical school at University of the Philippines and her residency in physical medicine & rehabilitation from Sinai Hospital - Johns Hopkins Hospi...

Andrew Tisser DO is a board-certified emergency physician and a physician career strategist. He is the Medical Director of Rochester Regional Health Urgent Care-Batavia and also works at the United Memorial Medical Center. Dr. Tisser earned his osteopathic medicine degree from the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine. He then completed a residency in Emergency Medicine...

Eduard Vasilevskis MD is the Chief of Hospital Medicine and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Vasilevskis completed his medical school at Oregon Health Sciences University followed by a residency and chief residency at the University of California San Francisco. He then completed a health services research fellowship at the Institute for Health Policy...

Bethany Pellegrino, MD, FACP, FASN, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Chief of the Section of Nephrology at West Virginia University. Dr. Pellegrino completed her medical school, residency in internal medicine, as well as her fellowship in nephrology from West Virginia University. She is currently Medical Director of the Renal Center of Keyser (WV) and the Renal Center of Moorefield (W...

Santhanam Lakshminarayanan MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Chief of the Division of Rheumatology at the University of Connecticut. He is also the program director for the rheumatology fellowship program and the director of the Rheumatology Fellow Journal Club at UConn health. Dr. Lakshminarayanan earned his medical degree from The Armed Forces Medical College in India. He then pur...

Susan Quaggin MD is the Charles Horace Mayo Professor of Medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the Director of the Feinberg Cardiovascular Research Institute and the Chief of the Division of Nephrology in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Quaggin completed her Medical school, residency in internal medicine, and fellowship in nephrology from the University of Toronto and th...

Elie Berbari, MD is a Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. Dr. Berbari graduated from St. Joseph Medical School and completed his residency in Internal medicine from the State University of New York Health Science Center before joining Mayo for a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases. His primary area of research interest is osteoa...

Dr Lisa Skinner is an Associate Professor of Medicine and the Internal Medicine Residency Program Director at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California Los Angeles. She completed her Medical school from Yale University School of Medicine and Residency in Internal Medicine from UCLA School of Medicine where she stayed on as a Chief Resident. She maintains an active clinica...

Thomas Russo MD is the Professor and Chief of Infectious Diseases at Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. Dr. Russo completed his Medical school at McGill University and Residency in Internal Medicine from Harvard-New England Deaconess Hospital. He then pursued a Fellowship in Infectious Disease from Tufts-New England Medical Center. He has an active, nationally funded translational...

Richa rd Bucala, MD is the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pathology, Epidemiology & Public Health, and Chief of Rheumatology, Allergy & Immunology at Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Bucala completed his Medical school at Weill Cornell and Residency at Brigham & Women's Hospital. He pursued a Fellowship in Rheumatology from the Hospital for Special Surgery. He studies the me...

Adam Atoot, MD  is currently the director for the transitional year resident training program at Hackensack Meridian Health Palisades Medical Center. Dr. Atoot earned his medical degree from the American University of Antigua and completed his residency in internal medicine from Staten Island University Hospital at Northwell Health. As one of the youngest program directors in the country, he takes...

Gailen Marshall, MD, PhD, FACP, FACAAI, FAAAAI, is The R. Faser Triplett Sr MD Chair of Allergy and Immunology, and a Professor of Medicine, Pediatrics, Pathology and Population Health Sciences at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. Dr. Marshall completed his medical school from University Of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and residency from University of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Ca...

Padmanabhan Premkumar, MD, is an Associate Program Director at the University of Connecticut - Hartford Hospital. He also serves as the Medical Director of Clinical Documentation. Dr. Premkumar was born in Southern India and migrated to Canada during high school. After graduating from The University of Toronto, Dr. Premkumar earned his medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine, and co...

Thomas De Fer MD is the Interim Chief of Medicine, the Associate Dean of Medical Student Education and a Professor of Medicine at Washington University School of Medicine. Dr. De Fer is passionate about medical education and has published extensively on topics of curriculum development in undergraduate and graduate medical education. He is the former president of the Clerkship Directors in Interna...

Stanley Schwartz MD, PhD, is the UB Distinguished Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics; and serves as the Division Chief of Allergy-Immunology- Rheumatology at Jacobs School of Medicine & Biomedical Sciences at the University at Buffalo. Before pursuing medicine, Dr Schwartz obtained a PhD in Cellular Biology from Univ of California San Diego.  He then completed his Medical school and Residency in...

Clyde Yancy, MD is the Vice Dean for Diversity and Inclusion and Chief of Cardiology in the Department of Medicine at Northwestern University. He is the Magerstadt Professor and Professor of Medical Social Sciences at Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Yancy completed his medical school at Tulane University and his residency in internal  medicine at Parkland Memorial Hospital. He pursued a Fellowshi...

Vijay Shah MD is the Chair of the Department of Medicine and Professor of Medicine & Physiology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Shah completed his undergraduate, medical, and residency training at Northwestern University. He then pursued a fellowship in gastroenterology and hepatology at Yale University. Dr. Shah has maintained an NIH funded program at Mayo Clinic for more than 22...

Troy Krupica MD is the Assistant Professor, Section Chief of Hospital Medicine at West Virginia University. Dr. Krupica completed his Medical school at Georgetown University School of Medicine and Residency in Internal Medicine from the WVU School of Medicine. After completing his education, he then joined as a faculty at WVU. He also serves as an associate program director for the Internal Medici...

Ronnie Fass MD is a Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University. He is the Director of the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, and Heads the Esophageal and Swallowing Center at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. Dr. Fass earned his medical degree from Ben-Gurion University Faculty of Medicine in Israel. He then moved to the United States and pursued a residency in Inter...

Kimryn Rathmell MD is the Physician-in-Chief at Vanderbilt Hospital, the Cornelius Abernathy Craig Professor of Medicine & Biochemistry and Chair of the Department of Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Rathmell completed her Medical school and Ph. D. in biophysics at Stanford University, completed internal medicine training at the University of Chicago and the University of Penn...

James de Lemos MD is a Professor of Medicine and holds the Sweetheart Ball-Kern Wildenthal, MD, Ph. D. Distinguished Chair in Cardiology at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Dr. de Lemos completed his Medical school at Harvard and Internal Medicine Residency at UT Southwestern, where he also served as Chief Medical Resident.  He completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine and served on the fac...

Aditi Singh MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Medicine. She also serves as the director of the internal medicine residency program. Dr. Singh completed residency and chief residency at the University of Nevada—Reno School of Medicine. She is an active member of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine, frequently presenting me...