The Medicine Mentors Podcast

John McPherson, MD is a Professor of Medicine and the Vice-Chair for Education at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. A California native, Dr. McPherson received his medical degree from UCLA following undergraduate studies at Princeton. He then completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins and fellowships in cardiovascular medicine and interventional cardiology at the University...

Harvir Singh Gambhir, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Dr. Gambhir completed his medical school and residency in internal medicine from India.  He then came to the US and pursued residency in Internal Medicine from SUNY Upstate, where he also served as the Chief Resident, and...

Gregory Kane, MD, is the Chair of the Department of Medicine and the Jane & Leonard Korman Professor of Pulmonary Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Kane received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College, and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at Lankenau Hospital before returning to Jefferson for a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Dr. Kane'...

K.M. Venkat Narayan, MD, is the Ruth and OC Huber Chair of Global Health and Epidemiology at the Rollins School of Public Health, the Director of Emory Global Diabetes Research Center, and a professor of medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. He is the former chief of the diabetes, epidemiology, and statistics branch at the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention. With over 500...

Thomas McGinn, MD, is the Chair and Professor of Medicine at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell. He serves as the Director and Professor at the Institute of Health Innovations & Outcomes Research at the Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research. Dr. McGinn also holds the office of Senior Vice President and Executive Director of Medicine Service Line at Northwell...

Vineeth John, MD, MBA, is Professor and Vice Chair for Education in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth . John is also the Director of the Geriatric Psychiatry Section and is actively involved in various educational initiatives directed towards enhancing domain expertise among psychiatry residents. He received his medical training from Ch...

Kathryn Jobbins, MD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and the Associate Program Director of Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical School-Baystate. Dr. Jobbins completed her Medical school and  Residency in Internal Medicine at Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA where she also served as the Chief Resident. She also did a residency in surgery at The Clevel...

Stephen Knohl, MD, is a Professor of Medicine, Residency Program Director of Internal Medicine and Vice Chair of Education at SUNY Upstate Medical University. Dr. Knohl completed his medical school and residency in internal medicine and then pursued a fellowship in Nephrology from SUNY Upstate. Dr. Knohl's research interests include Genetic Hypercalciurias, Nephrolithiasis and Bone Disease in CKD....

Joseph Loscalzo, MD, PhD, MA, is the Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine and Soma Weiss MD Distinguished Chair in Medicine at Harvard Medical School,  Chairman of the Department of Medicine and Physician-in-Chief at Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Loscalzo completed his MD from the University of Pennsylvania and training in internal medicine and cardiology from Brigham and Wo...

Sarah Sofka, MD, FACP, is an Associate Professor and Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at West Virginia University. She completed her medical school and residency from West Virginia University. Dr. Sofka has a career devoted to mentorship from her role as Chief Resident during residency, to Associate Program Director, and now as Program Director. Dr. Sofka also chairs the...

Jane Liebschutz, MD, is the UPMC Endowed Chair of Translational Medicine and Research, the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine, a Professor of Medicine with Tenure, and the Director of the Center for Research on Health Care at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Dr. Liebschutz is a primary care internist whose clinical practice focuses on the care of underserved populations...

Jaspal Gujral, MD, serves as the Founding Director of the Anticoagulation Clinic and as a Professor of Medicine at Augusta University. He graduated from Maulana Azad Medical College, India,  and served in the Indian Army Medical Corps. He then worked in North Africa before moving to the UK to work in the United Kingdom National Health Service. He also obtained a diploma in internal medicine from t...

Monika Safford, MD is currently a Professor and the Chief of the division of General Internal Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. She received her medical degree from Weill Cornell and completed her residency in internal medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She previously served at the University of Alabama at Birmingham as the inaugural endowed professor of diabetes prevention and outcomes...

Robert Wachter, MD, is the Chair of the Department of Medicine at University of California—San Francisco. He is the Holly Smith Distinguished Professor in Science and Medicine as well as the Benioff Endowed Chair in Hospital Medicine. Dr. Wachter has authored six books and over 250 articles, and he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. Dr. Wachter considered to b...

Stephanie Call, MD, is the Associate Chair for Education and a Professor of Medicine at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, and recently started a new Internal medicine Residency Program at Mountain Area Health Education Center in North Carolina. Dr. Call is widely recognized for her work in graduate medical education, faculty/resident development in teaching, physician wellness a...

Michele Meltzer, MD, is currently the Associate Professor of medicine at Thomas Jefferson University. Dr. Meltzer earned her medical school degree from Drexel University College of Medicine and completed her residency from the Presbyterian Medical Center, Philadelphia. She then completed her fellowship from Temple University Hospital, Philadelphia. She also earned a Masters in Bioethics from the U...

Melissa Briones, MD, is the Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and a Rheumatologist at Loyola University. Dr. Briones was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs and attended Loyola's Stritch School of Medicine. She then stayed at Loyola to complete her Internal Medicine Residency, Chief Residency, and Rheumatology Fellowship training. She devotes much of her time...

Daniel Wolpaw, MD, is a Professor of Medicine, a Senior Consultant for Educational Innovation,  and Co-Director of the Junior Faculty Development Program at Penn State. He has a number of publications in the areas of health systems science, the humanities including communication and doctor-patient relationship. His areas of interest include curriculum development, critical and systems thinking, ad...

Steven Lee Berk, MD, is the Dean of the School of Medicine and Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center at Lubbock . Dr. Berk graduated from Boston University School of Medicine and completed his Internal Medicine residency and Infectious Disease fellowship at Boston City Hospital. He is the author or co-author of over 150 peer-reviewed publicat...

Danielle Jones, MD is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Emory University School of Medicine. She is the Medical Director of the Musculoskeletal Procedure Clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital. Additionally, Dr. Jones is an Associate Program Director for Emory's Internal Medicine Residency program with a primary focus on ambulatory education. Dr. Jones is a member of Emory's Academy of Medical Educ...

Niti Madan, MD, is currently a Professor of nephrology at UC Davis Medical Health Center. Dr Madan attended medical school at Punjab University, India, and then pursued residency at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She then obtained a fellowship in nephrology at the University of Texas at Houston. Dr Madan's research interests include: Glomerulonephritis, Hypertension, Critical Car...

Edward L. Barnes, MD is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at the University of North Carolina. Dr Barnes completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of North Carolina, where he also served as a chief resident. He completed his gastroenterology fellowship at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. While...

Dr. Yael Schenker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine and Director of the Palliative Research Center at University of Pittsburgh where she mentors numerous medical students, residents, fellows and junior faculty in clinical and research settings. Dr. Schenker completed her medical school, residency and fellowship in general internal medicine from the University of California, S...

Dr. Jeffrey Berger is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Surgery (on tenure track) with appointments in Cardiology, Hematology, and Vascular Surgery, and Director of Cardiovascular Thrombosis at New York University School of Medicine. During his training, he received a Master's degree in clinical research from the NIH K30 program at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He completed fellowships...

Javed Butler, MD, is a Professor and Chairman of The Department of Medicine at The University of Mississippi. Prior to joining the University of Mississippi, he was the Director of the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine and the Co-Director of the Heart Institute at Stony Brook University in New York. Dr. Butler served as the Director for Heart Failure Research at Emory University and Director of...