Charlotte AHEC

Elizabeth Abernathy, MD

Elizabeth Abernathy, MD completed medical school and residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She joined Carolinas Medical Center Department of Internal Medicine faculty in 2004. Her special interests include general internal medicine and resident education.

Asim Amin, MD, PhD

Asim Amin, MD is faculty at Carolinas Medical Center. His special interests include immunotherapy and the care of patients with renal cell carcinoma and malignant melanoma. Dr. Amin received his Medical degree from King Edward Medical College of Lahore, Pakistan and completed his residency at George Washington University and his Fellowship at Georgetown University with the Lombardi Cancer Center.

Matt Blackwell, MD

Matt Blackwell, MD is a faculty attending physician and Associate Residency Program Director in the Department of Internal Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center. He is a summa cum laude graduate of Furman University where he was Herman W. Lay Scholar. While at Furman, he also was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and the prestigious men's honor society, Quaternion. Dr. Blackwell received his medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia. During medical school, he was inducted in Alpha Omega Alpha and received the Merck Manuel Award at graduation.

Dr. Blackwell completed his internship and residency at Carolinas Medical Center and was chosen to serve as chief resident during his final year of training. Upon completion of his residency, he received the Marvin M. McCall Outstanding House Officer Award. Dr. Blackwell then joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center as an attending physician and accepted the position of Associate Residency Program Director in 2008. He is nearing the completion of a two-year faculty development fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill and is a Clinical Professor of Medicine through UNC-Chapel Hill as well.

Kelli Dunn, MD

Kelli Dunn, MD completed medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and completed her residency at Carolinas Medical Center. She also completed an endocrinology fellowship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 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.

Toni Evans, MD

Toni Evans, MD attended medical school at Wright State University and completed her residency at the Medical College of Virginia. She also completed a fellowship at the University of Cincinnati. 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.

Scott Furney, MD

Scott Furney, MD received his degree from the University of Michigan, and completed his Internal Medicine training at the University of Michigan. His research interests have included faculty development in clinical teaching, quality of health care, and thromboembolism treatment and prevention.

Harry Gallis, MD

Harry Gallis, MD is a native of Athens, Georgia, and a graduate of Princeton University and Duke University School of Medicine, with clinical training in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases. During 21 years on the faculty at Duke University he was involved in clinical practice and clinical research in infectious diseases, gradually focusing more on continuing education for health care professionals. At Duke he served as CME Director for 3 years, directed CME in Internal Medicine for 13 years and lead Duke’s AHEC activities. At Carolinas HealthCare System, he was Director of Charlotte AHEC from 1995-2007. He is currently consultant on CME and quality to the director of the Charlotte AHEC at Carolinas HealthCare System in Charlotte, NC. He has been active on the Conjoint Committee for CME, and spent eight years on the board of the Alliance for CME, most recently having served two years as President.

He is also a Fellow of the ACP, the Alliance for CME and the Infectious Diseases Society of America and chairs the Education Committees of IDSA and the NC Medical Society, being heavily involved with state accredited providers. He is also a past president of the Mecklenburg County Medical Society.

Lane K. Jacobs, MD

Lane K. Jacobs, MD attended medical school at the University of Oklahoma and completed his residency at Emory University. He joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center 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.

Michael Monroe, MD

Michael Monroe, MD practices Internal Medicine in Charlotte, North Carolina. Michael Monroe, MD graduated from the University of FL College of Med with an MD and has been in the profession for 14 years.

Lana Riemann, MD

Lana Riemann, MD earned a B.S. in Biology at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, NY, followed by earning a Masters in Public Health at the University of North Carolina, School of Public Health. She earned her medical degree from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, School of Medicine and completed her residency at the Mountain Area Health Education Center. Dr. Riemann is board certified in Family Medicine and Hospice & Palliative Medicine. She is currently the Medical Director at Pfeiffer University Health Services in Misenheimer, NC. Dr. Riemann was in private practice prior to joining Hospice & Palliative Care Charlotte Region in June 2005.

Richard Rissmiller, MD, FCCP

Richard Rissmiller, MD is a member of the Pulmonary & Critical Care Consultants in the Department of Internal Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center. He received his medical degree from the Wake Forest University where he also completed his residency in internal medicine and fellowship in pulmonary and critical care. His current clinical and research interests relate to pulmonary hypertension, asthma, respiratory care and critical care. He is involved with the development and implementation of the educational curriculum for the internal medicine residents in pulmonary and critical care and is the Medical Directory for Respiratory Therapy at Carolinas Medical Center.

Mark Russo, MD, MPH, AGAF

Mark Russo, MD, MPH, AGAF, is Medical Director of Liver Transplantation at Carolinas Medical Center and Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at The University of North Carolina and Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He graduated from The Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 1992 and completed his residency, gastroenterology fellowship, and transplant hepatology fellowship at UNC.

Dr. Russo is board certified in internal medicine, gastroenterology, and transplant hepatology. He is an UNOS certified transplant physician and has been listed in Best Doctors in America. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, is the principal investigator on several clinical trials, and serves on several national committees.

Martin W. Scobey, MD, FACP

Martin Scobey, MD is the head of the Gastroenterology Section at Carolinas Medical Center. He received his medical degree from the University of Tennessee where he also completed his residency in internal medicine. He subsequently completed his gastroenterology fellowship at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine. His current clinical and research interests relate to esophageal disorders, infectious colitis and inflammatory bowel disease. He is currently involved with the planning and implementation of a gastroenterology fellowship training program to start at Carolinas Medical Center in July of 2009.

Jaspal Singh, MD

Jaspal Singh, MD is a board-certified pulmonologist and critical care physician who practices and teaches at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte and as an Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at UNC-Chapel Hill. Dr. Singh did his pulmonary and critical care fellowship at Duke University Medical Center.

After completing his training he served on the clinical faculty as an intensivist at Duke University Medical Center before coming to Charlotte. Dr. Singh is also currently enrolled as a student in the Masters of Health Administration program at UNC's School of Public Health, where he is trying to understand novel methods of critical care delivery systems.

Robert A. Taylor, MD

Robert Taylor, MD is a graduate of Davidson College and received his Medical degree from the Medical College of Georgia and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. Dr. Taylor is currently Faculty with the Department of Internal Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center and Clinical Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Steven Zacks, MD, MPH

Steven Zacks, MD, MPH, attended medical school and completed his residency at the University of Toronto. He also completed a fellowship in Gastroenterology at State University of New York at Buffalo, as well as a fellowship in Hepatology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Dr. Zacks is Board-Certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology. Dr. Zacks holds a Master's of Public Health (Epidemiology) from UNC-Chapel Hill, and is a member of the Teaching Scholars Program at the University. His clinical interests are non-alcoholic fatty liver disease and transplant hepatology.