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Elizabeth Abernathy, MD
Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of North Carolina
Residency: University of North Carolina
Special Info: Dr. Abernathy joined the faculty in 2004. Her special interests include general internal medicine and resident education. Dr. Abernathy completed the Faculty Development program at UNC-Chapel Hill in 2006. |
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Asim Amin, MD, Ph.D.
Specialty: Hematology-Oncology/Immunotherapy
Medical School: King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan
Residency: George Washington University
Fellowship: Georgetown University, Lombardi Cancer Center
Special Info: Dr. Asim Amin joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 2005. His special interests include immunotherapy and the care of patients with renal cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma. |
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Raymond F. Bianchi, MD, FACP
Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of Florida
Residency: Carolinas Medical Center
Special Info: Dr. Bianchi joined the faculty in 1976. He was named the Director of Medicine Clinics and Associate Chairman in 1980. In 1982, he joined the Charlotte Medicine Clinic and in 1994, he rejoined the faculty as the Program Director. Dr. Bianchi served as the Residency Program Director until 2001, when he was named the Chair of Medicine, holding that position until 2007. He continues to work with residents on the inpatient services, and his interests include resident education, team building, and diagnostic dilemmas. |
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J. Matthew Blackwell, MD
Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia
Residency: Carolinas Medical Center (Chief Resident)
Special Info: Dr. Matt Blackwell joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 2006. His interests include resident and medical student education, consultative perioperative evaluations, team building, and preventative medicine. |
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Iris Cheng, MD
Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of California, San Francisco
Residency: University of Pennsylvania
Fellowship: University of Michigan, General Medicine
Special Info: Dr. Cheng serves as the Medical Student Clerkship Director for medical students from UNC-Chapel Hill. She has special interests in Ambulatory Education, Preventive Medicine, Women's Health, and Medical Consultation. |
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Steve Cochran, MD
Specialty: Critical Care Medicine
Medical School: Indiana University
Residency: Wake Forest University
Fellowship: Wake Forest University, Critical Care
Special Info: Dr. Steve Cochran joined the Intensive Care faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 2003. Main professional interests center on Critical Care and the implementation of Evidence-based practice guidelines, with a social (and sometimes pathologic) obsession with University of Notre Dame athletics. |
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Pam Cox, MD
Specialty: Infectious Diseases
Medical School: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
Residency: Carolinas Medical Center
ID Fellowship: University of Florida
Special Interests: Dr. Cox worked as a Hospitalist for 4 years before returning to pursue her Infectious Diseases fellowship. She then was on the faculty at the
University of Florida prior to coming to Carolinas Medical Center. Her interests include hospital acquired infections, antibiotic resistance and the education
of students and residents.
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Kelli Dunn, MD
Specialty: Endocrinology
Medical School: University of North Carolina
Residency: Carolinas Medical Center
Fellowship: University of North Carolina, Endocrinology
Special Info: Dr. Dunn joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 2006. Her special interests include resident education and improving practice models for the outpatient care of diabetes. |
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Andrew Dries, MD
Specialty: Gastroenterology
Medical School: University of Rochester School of Medicine & Dentistry
Residency: Vanderbilt University
Fellowship: Gastroenterology, Baylor College of Medicine
Special Info: Dr. Dries joined the faculty in 2007. His special interests include Endoscopic Ultrasound and ERCP. |
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Toni I. Evans, MD
Specialty: Rheumatology
Medical School: Wright State University School of Medicine
Residency: Medical College of Virginia
Fellowship: University of Cincinnati
Special Information: Dr. Evans has been the Chief of Rheumatology at Carolinas Medical Center since 1999. Her special interests include resident education and care of patients with SLE and Rheumatoid Arthritis. |
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Ronald L. Follmer, MD, FAAN
Specialty: Neurology
Medical School: Temple University
Residency: Henry Ford Hospital
Special Info: Dr. Follmer has taught neurology in Department of Medicine at CMC from 1976-1984. He joined the full time faculty of Carolinas Medical Center in 1984. His interests are general neurology, epilepsy, brain mapping and teaching residents. |
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Michelle L. Foster, MD
Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of North Carolina
Residency: Carolinas Medical Center
Special Info: Dr. Michelle Foster joined the department after completing her
residency at Carolinas Medical Center in 2004. She now serves as an attending at Myers Park (our outpatient medical clinic). Her interests include Indigent care and Geriatrics. |
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Arnold R. Frazier, MD, FACP, FACCP
Specialty: General Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine
Medical School: University of Kentucky
Residency: Carolinas Medical Center
Fellowship: Mayo Clinic, Pulmonology
Special Info: Dr. Arnold Frazier joined the faculty in 1982. Special interests include asthma disease management and general internal medicine. |
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Scott L. Furney, MD, FACP
Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of Michigan
Residency: University of Michigan
Fellowship: Faculty Development Program, Stanford University
Special Info: Dr. Scott Furney joined the faculty in 2002. His interests include the study and practice of evidence-based medicine, quality improvement, medical education, and faculty development of clinical teaching skills. Dr. Furney was named the Vice-Chair of the department in 2005, and he currently serves as the Interim Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine. |
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Jonathan Gee, MD
Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Medical School: Medical University of South Carolina
Residency: University of Alabama at Birmingham
Special info: Jon joined the faculty at CMC in 2007 after completing a combined residency in Medicine/Pediatrics. His interests include general medicine and pediatrics
with an emphasis on medical education, diagnostic thinking, and ambulatory care delivery. He has recently taken up yoga, so feel free to call him if your chakras
are misaligned. |
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Riteesha Guttikonda, MD
Specialty: Rheumatology
Medical School: Brown University
Residency: University of Chicago
Fellowship: Rheumatology, University of Chicago
Special Info: Dr. Guttikonda joined the faculty in 2007. Her special interests include resident education and the treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis, SLE, and inflammatory myositis. |
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Michael W. Haley, MD
Specialty: Critical Care Medicine
Medical School: University of South Carolina
Residency: Carolinas Medical Center
Fellowship: National Institutes of Health, Critical Care Medicine
Special Info: Dr. Michael W. Haley joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 2004. His interest includes resident/medical
student education with special emphasis towards evidence based medicine and its application in the care of critically ill patients.
Dr. Haley also now serves as the Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. |
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Alan Heffner, MD
Specialty: Critical Care Medicine
Residency: Emergency Medicine, Carolinas Medical Center
Fellowship: Critical Care, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Interests: Cardiovascular resuscitation, Heart-lung interaction and Therapeutic hypothermia |
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Robert A. Heyer, MD
Specialty: Pulmonology
Medical School: University of Texas Southwestern
Residency: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
Fellowship: Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Pulmonology
Special Info: Dr. Rob Heyer joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 2002. He now serves as the Director of the Pulmonary and Critical Care Division. |
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James Horton, MD
Specialty: Infectious Diseases
Medical School: Duke University
Residency: University of Florida
Fellowship: Infectious Diseases, Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, University of Colorado
Special Info: Dr. Horton joined the faculty in 1991 after being in private practice for 7 years. His interests include education of students and residents, general infectious diseases as well as HIV. |
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Lane K. Jacobs, MD
Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of Oklahoma
Residency: Emory University
Special Info: Dr. Jacobs joined the faculty at CMC in 1997 after six years on faculty and in private practice at Emory. His interests include delivery of care to the medically underinsured, perioperative medical consultation and risk assessment, and thromboprophylaxis. Our goal is a "private practice" ambulatory care environment to best prepare our residents for life outside training. |
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Michael Kaufman, MD
Specialty: Neurology
Medical School: Duke University
Residency: Case Western University
Fellowship: Mayo Clinic
Special Info: Mike joined the CMC faculty in 1993. He is board certified in Neurology, Electromyography, & Sleep Medicine. His special interests are multiple sclerosis and clinical research. |
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Laszlo Littmann, MD, Ph.D., FACP
Specialty: Cardiology
Medical School: Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary
Residency: 3rd Department of Medicine, Semmelweis University, Budapest
Fellowship: Postgraduate Medical School, Budapest
Special Info: Dr. Laszlo Littmann joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 1992. He is chief of the Division of Cardiology at the Department of Internal Medicine and Medical Director of the Heart Failure Program. His main interests include congestive heart failure, cardiac arrhythmias, resident education and clinical research. |
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Roger D. Lovell, MD
Specialty: Infectious Diseases
Medical School: Medical College of Georgia
Residency: Medical College of Georgia
Fellowship: Medical College of Georgia
Special Info: Dr. Roger D. Lovell joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in March 1998. In addition to his responsibilities on the medical wards and ID service, he serves as the Hospital Epidemiologist for Carolinas Medical Center. His interests include the epidemiology and management of hospital acquired infections and the education of both residents and students. |
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Edith H. Miller, MD
Specialty: Endocrinology
Medical School: University of Virginia/Medical University of South Carolina
Residency: Miami Valley Hospital
Fellowship: Joslen Clinic and Lahey Clinic
Special Info: Dr. Edith Miller joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 1994. She serves as section head of the Division of Endocrinology and Medical Director of the Carolinas Diabetes Center. Her interests include diabetes in pregnancy, polycystic ovarian syndrome and the metabolic syndrome. |
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Michael H. Monroe, MD
Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of Florida
Residency: Carolinas Medical Center
Fellowship: Faculty Development Program, University of North Carolina
Special Info: Dr. Michael Monroe joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 1997. His interests include clinical cardiology, lipids management, and literature and medicine. |
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Charles H. Packman, MD
Specialty: Hematology / Oncology
Medical School: Louisiana State University
Residency: University of North Carolina, University of Rochester
Fellowship: University of Rochester
Special Info: Dr. Packman joined Carolinas Medical Center from University of Rochester where he was Medicine Clerkship Director and Hematology/Oncology Fellowship Director until 1998. He is currently division chief of Hematology/Oncology. His major interests include resident education, benign hematologic diseases and consultative Hematology and Oncology. |
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Richard W. Rissmiller, Jr., MD
Specialty: Pulmonology and Critical Care
Medical School: Wake Forest University
Residency: Wake Forest University
Fellowship: Wake Forest University, Pulmonology and Critical Care
Special Info: Dr. Richard Rissmiller joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 2004. He attends in the MICU, the general medicine wards and pulmonary consults. His interests include resident and medical student education, as well as evidence-based critical care medicine and pulmonary hypertension. |
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Mark Russo, MD
Specialty: Transplant Hepatology
Medical School: Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York
Residency: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fellowship: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Special Info: Board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, Transplant Hepatology. Dr. Russo also has special interests in liver diseases, liver transplantation, and is active in research in hepatitis B, C, fatty liver disease, and drug induced liver injury. |
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Kenneth L. Shauger, MD
Specialty: Neurology
Medical School: University of North Carolina
Residency: Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, San Antonio TX
Fellowship: Wilford Hall USAF Medical Center, San Antonio TX
Special Info: Dr. Shauger served in the US Air Force for 9 years then joined the faculty at CMC in 2004 after working in private practice. His interests are stroke and focal peripheral neuropathies. |
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Martin W. Scobey, MD
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Sub-specialty: Gastroenterology
Medical School: University of Tennessee
Residency: University of Tennessee, Memphis
Fellowship: Gastroenterology, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Special Info: Dr. Scobey has been a practicing gastroenterologist at the Charlotte Medical Clinic from 1991 to 2006. He is joining the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in January 2007. Special interests include general gastroenterology, esophageal disorders, and inflammatory bowel disease. |
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Jaspal Singh, MD, MHA
Medical School: University of Illinois at Chicago
Residency: University of Rochester, Strong Memorial Hospital
Fellowship: Duke University Medical Center
Special Info: Dr. Jaspal Singh joined the CMC faculty in 2007 after serving on the faculty at Duke University Medical Center. In addition to doing pulmonary and critical care consultations, he has interests and special training in sleep disorders, asthma, pleural diseases, and advanced diagnostic bronchoscopy.
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Lance K. Stell, M.A., Ph.D., F.A.C.F.E.
Specialty: Medical Ethicist
Special Info: Dr. Stell joined the faculty in 1990. He serves as vice-chair of
the Ethics Committee and directs the Ethics Consultation Service, regularly teaches medical ethics & issues in professionalism for numerous specialties. He serves on the North Carolina Medical Society's Committee on Ethical & Judicial Affairs and the Grievance Committee for the 26th Judicial District of the NC Bar Association. He is a Fellow in the American College of Forensic Examiners and regularly serves as an expert witness in law cases involving ethical standards. He has served as a Board member of Charlotte's Bioethics Resource Group since 1989. |
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Thomas Stern, MD
Specialty: Pulmonology, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
Medical School: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Residency: Case Western Reserve University
Fellowship:Case Western Reserve University
Special Info: Dr. Stern joined the CMC faculty in 2005 after completing his residency in internal medicine and pediatrics and fellowships in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine. His interests are computerized decision support systems and outcomes research.
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Beth E. Susi, MD, FACP
Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Medical School: University of Florida
Residency: University of Virginia
Fellowship: Faculty Development Program, University of North Carolina
Special Info: Dr. Beth Susi joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 1997. She serves as the Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Her interests include resident and medical student education, consultative perioperative evaluations, physician-pharmaceutical industry interactions and the treatment of obesity. |
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Robert A. Taylor, M.D.
Specialty: Pulmonary/Critical Care
Medical School- Medical College of Georgia
Residency-Carolinas Medical Center
Fellowship- Medical College of Georgia
Special Info: Dr. Robert Taylor joined the faculty in 2005 after 18 years in private practice. Special interests include asthma, cystic fibrosis, and alternative modes of mechanical ventilation. |
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David A. Weinrib, MD
Medical School: University of Alabama School of Medicine
Residency: Beth Israel Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Fellowship: Brigham & Women's Hospital, Beth Israel Hospital
Special Info: Dr. David Weinrib joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center in 1995. He is the medical director of the Ryan White title II and III grant that subsidizes outpatient HIV care, Infectious Disease Clinic and supervises the HIV disease management program. His interests include general infectious disease consultation, HIV medicine and palliative care. |
