The Medicine Mentors Podcast

Dr. Charles Wiener is the President of Johns Hopkins Medicine International and Professor of Medicine and Physiology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is the director emeritus of the Osler Internal Medicine Training Program and has previously served as chair of the committee that created the school of medicine's "Genes to Society" curriculum. Dr Wiener completed his Medical sc...

Amanda Clark, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Clark completed her medical school degree at the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and went on to the University of Alabama at Birmingham for residency and chief residency. She also serves as the Associate Vice Chair...

Dr. Seth Landefeld is the Chair, Department of Medicine and the Spencer Chair in Medical Science Leadership at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Prior to joining UAB, Dr. Landefeld founded and led the development of UCSF's Division of Geriatrics and ultimately served as Associate Chair of the Department of Medicine for Strategic Planning and Implementation. Dr. Landefeld completed his under...

Stephanie Detterline, M.D., FACP, is the Vice-Chair of Education and Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency program at MedStar Health Internal Medicine, Baltimore. She also is the Associate Designated Institutional Official (DIO) for the Baltimore programs in MedStar. Dr. Detterline received her medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis and completed in...

Sima Desai, MD, FACP, is a Professor of Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine, Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Medicine and Program Director of the Internal Medicine residency program at Oregon Health & Science University. Dr. Desai graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and pursued her residency at Oregon Health. Shortly after completing her chief residency...

Dr. Sanjay Saint is the George Dock Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan and Chief of Medicine at the VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System. Dr Saint completed his Medical school at UCLA and Residency and Chief Residency in Internal Medicine at UCSF. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of Washington where he also received his Masters in Public Health. H...

Rob Bradsher, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center. He completed his medical school at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and his Internal Medicine residency in the Osler Medical Training Program at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He practices hospital medicine and i...

Jed Gonzalo, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Medicine and the Department of Public Health Sciences. He is the Associate Dean of Health Systems Education at Penn State College of Medicine. Dr. Gonzalo completed his medical school from Penn State, and his residency in Internal Medicine from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. He completed his fellowship at the University of Pitts...

Sanjay Desai, MD, is a Myron Weisfeldt Professor of Medicine, Vice-Chair for Education and Director of the Osler Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Desai graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a Bachelor of Science in bioengineering, and a Bachelor of Economics from the Wharton School of Business in healthcare management. He earned his medical...

Laura Davisson, MD, MPH, FACP, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at West Virginia University. Dr. Davisson earned her medical degree and completed a residency in internal medicine at West Virginia University, where she also served as the chief resident. She then earned her Master's Degree in public health in West Virginia University's biostatistics and epidemiology track. Dr. Davisson is an ac...

Carmen Mendez, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, and the Internal Medicine Program Director at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. Dr Mendez completed her medical school from the University of California Davis School of Medicine and her residency  from Harbor - UCLA Medical Center, where she stayed on as chief resident before joining general internal...

Christine Bryson, DO, is an Associate Professor of Medicine, the Medical Director of Teaching Services in the Division of Hospital Medicine, and an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency program at the University of Massachusetts Medical School at Baystate Health. Dr. Bryson completed her medical school from Nova Southeastern University College of Osteopathic Medicine, and...

William Surkis, MD,  FACP, is the Associate Chief Academic Officer, Co-Vice President for Medical Affairs, Vice-Chair for Education and Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Lankenau Medical Center, part of Main Line Health in Philadelphia. Dr. Surkis attended Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, completed his medical school from MCP-Hahnemann School of Medicine (now known as Drexel...

Aashish Didwania, MD, is the Vice Chair of Education in the Department of Medicine, an Associate Professor of Medicine, and the Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Dr. Didwania completed his medical school at the University of Michigan, and his residency at Northwestern University. His clinical interests include genera...

Robert Finberg, MD is the Chair and Richard M. Haidack   Professor of Medicine at University of Massachusetts Medical School. Dr. Finberg completed his medical school from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and his residency in internal medicine from Bellevue Hospital. He pursued a research fellowship in pathology & medicine from Harvard Medical School. With more than 200 publications, Dr. Fi...

Jennifer Swails, MD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, the Co-Director of Interprofessional Education, and Program Director of the internal medicine residency program at McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. Dr. Swails received her bachelor's degree in biology from Davidson College, and her M.D. from Weill Cornell. She then comp...

Simerjot K. Jassal, MD, is the Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program at the University of California—San Diego, and practices as a primary care physician at the VA San Diego. Dr. Jassal completed medical school at UCSF school of medicine and residency in internal medicine from UCLA where she was also a chief resident. She has pursued a Master's in Advanced Studies in Clinica...

Kathlyn Fletcher, MD, MA, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine, and the Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Medical College of Wisconsin. Dr. Fletcher completed her medical school from University of Chicago and her residency in Internal Medicine from University of Chicago Hospitals. She then was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the Uni...

Hilary Ryder, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Medical Education and Director of the internal medicine residency program at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center. Dr. Ryder completed her medical school from Yale University School of Medicine and her internship and residency training in internal medicine at Dartmouth-Hitchcock before joining the faculty in the Section of Hospital Medicine...

Sherine Salib, MD, MRCP, FACP, is an Associate Professor of Internal Medicine at Dell Medical School at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the, Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of Internal Medicine. Dr. Salib attended medical school at The University of Bristol in England and went on to become a member of the Royal College of Physicians of London. Dr. Salib comp...

Richard Abrams, MD, is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Associate Dean of Learning Environments at Rush Medical College (Rush University). Dr. Abrams completed his Medical school from University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago and Residency from Rush University Medical Center, where he continued on as a chief resident. He practices as a general internist and hospitalist at Rush an...

Gopal Yadavalli, MD, FACP, is the Vice Chair of Education and Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency in the Department of Medicine at the Boston University School of Medicine. Dr. Yadavalli completed his medical school from Thomas Jefferson University, pursued a residency in Internal Medicine, followed by a fellowship in Infectious Diseases from Case Western Reserve University. At Ca...

Chadwick Flowers, MD, is an Assistant Professor of at the University of Miami as well as an Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Jackson Memorial Hospital—University of Miami. Dr. Flowers completed his medical school from Indiana University and a Med-Peds Residency from the University of Miami where he stayed on to become a Chief Resident. He is a Med-Peds hospitalist p...

John M. Flack, MD, MPH, is the Sergio Rabinovich Endowed Chair of Internal Medicine and the Professor and Chair, Department of Medicine as well as the Chief of Hypertension Specialty Services at the Southern Illinois University. He also serves as the President of the American Hypertension Specialist Certification Program. Dr. Flack received his internal medicine residency training as well as his m...

Jill Patton, DO, is the Chair of Internal Medicine and the Program Director of the Categorical Internal Medicine Residency Program at Advocate Health Lutheran General Hospital in Illinois. Dr. Patton completed her medical school from Michigan State University Osteopathic medical school and residency from Lutheran General Hospital, where she was also appointed as the chief resident. Having served i...