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.

Puneet K. Aggarwal, MD

Puneet K. Aggarwal, MD is a graduate of the Medical College of Virginia. He completed his internship in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia – Roanoke and his residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine. Later, he completed an Interventional Spine fellowship at Medical College of Virginia Hospital and the Sheltering Arms Spine and Sport Center. He is board certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Pain Medicine.

Associations in which Dr. Aggarwal is active include the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Physiatric Association of Spine, Sport and Occupational Rehabilitation, North American Spine Society, International Spinal Injection Society and the American Society of Interventional Pain Physicians. Dr. Aggarwal’s primary interests are in interventional spine care, musculoskeletal and sports medicine, as well as electromyography (EMG/NCS).

Amina Ahmed, MD

Amina Ahmed, MD is a pediatric infectious disease specialist at Levine Children's Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. She is a graduate of Duke University and received her medical degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Ahmed completed her residency at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in Chapel Hill, followed by a pediatric infectious disease fellowship at University of Texas Southwestern in Dallas, Texas. She has been a member of the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center since 1997. Dr. Ahmed's clinical and research interests include congenital infections and tuberculosis. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Yele Aluko, MD, FACC, FSCAI

Yele Aluko, MD, FACC, FSCAI is graduate of Kings College Lagos, Nigeria and of the University of Ibadan Medical School in Nigeria.

He completed a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in cardiovascular medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University in New York City. He completed a fellowship in invasive cardiology at Cornell University Medical Center New York, and an interventional cardiology fellowship at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, MA.

Yele Aluko, MD, FACC, FSCAI is certified by both the American Board of Internal Medicine, and by the Canadian Board of Internal Medicine. He has additional certification by the American Board of Internal Medicine in the subspecialties of Cardiovascular Diseases and Interventional Cardiology. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and of the Society of Cardiac Angiography and Interventions.

Yele Aluko, MD, FACC, FSCAI has been in the private practice of cardiovascular medicine in Charlotte NC since 1989, and is currently a partner and Past President of Mid Carolina Cardiology. He has been involved in numerous clinical research studies as a principal and co investigator. His clinical expertise and interests include complex coronary interventions, peripheral vascular interventions, cardiac valvuloplasty, and percutaneous transcatheter closure of cardiac septal defects.

Yele Aluko, MD, FACC, FSCAI demonstrates vocal and visible commitment to both local and national advocacy efforts that address the issue of health care disparities within minority populations.

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.

Andrew W. Asimos, MD

Andrew Asimos, MD is a board certified Emergency Medicine physician and the Director of Emergency Stroke Care at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dr. Asimos has received research funding from the Emergency Medicine Foundation, the Foundation for Education and Research in Neurologic Emergencies, and Boehringer Ingelheim Corporation for his research in neurological emergencies. Dr. Asimos is an appointed member of North Carolina's State Stroke Advisory Committee, and the American Stroke Association Stroke Council's Emergency Neurovascular Care Committee. Dr. Asimos lectures extensively on the acute management of stroke, TIA, and other neurological emergencies.

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.

Michael T. Brennan, DDS, MHS

Michael T. Brennan, DDS, MHS, a native of Iowa, attended University of Iowa for both his undergraduate and dental training. After his dental training, he completed a GPR at Loyola University Hospital, Chicago. Following residency training, he received a Certificate in Oral Medicine at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland and a Masters of Health Science in Clinical Research from Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

After completion of his masters, he joined the Department of Oral Medicine in June 2000, and is currently Oral Medicine Residency Director and Associate Chairman. He is the Director of the Sjögren’s Syndrome and Salivary Disorders Center at Carolinas Medical Center. He has published over 70 peer reviewed publications and book chapters. He has a number of clinical and research interests including the management of mucosal and salivary gland diseases and oral complications from cancer therapy. His practice is currently located at Carolinas Center for Oral Health at Abbey Place.

Rhett L.R. Brown, MD

Rhett Brown, MD graduated from Davidson College with a degree in economics, and after graduating from the Medical University of South Carolina, completed his residency in family medicine at Carolinas Medical Center. After opening his own practice with a partner in 1992 and later merging with a multi-specialty clinic, he joined the faculty as medical director in 2002 after 10 years of private practice experience. He has interests in practice management, chronic disease management with emphasis on diabetes, heart failure, asthma and HIV. Rhett Brown, MD is active on several community service boards and enjoys bicycling, reading and tennis.

Stephen Colucciello, MD, FACEP

Stephen Colucciello, MD, FACEP, joined the Carolinas Medical Center faculty in 1992, after working for many years in large county hospitals in south Florida. He trained in Emergency Medicine at the Columbia University Affiliated Hospitals.

Dr. Colucciello has a strong interest in emergency medicine education, and speaks frequently at national and international meetings on such topics as ED violence, trauma management, and cardiovascular emergencies. In 1992, he was elected ACEP's National Speaker of the Year. He is an assistant chair, the director of Clinical Services, and Trauma Coordinator for the Emergency Medicine Department at Carolinas Medical Center. His research pursuits at CMC include cardiovascular emergencies and trauma management. He is an editor of a textbook on trauma and past editor-in-chief of the emergency medicine journal, “EM Practice."

Randy Cordle, MD

Randy Cordle, MD completed his undergraduate work at The Ohio State University in 1988 and completed medical school at the University of Cincinnati in 1992. Following graduation, Dr. Cordle completed a combined residency in Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine through Methodist Hospital and Indiana University. He has since served on numerous local, state and national committees dealing with all aspects of pediatric emergency care. He also served as the President of the Idaho Chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians.

Dr. Cordle's major interests are the expansion and improvement of pediatric emergency care with an emphasis on the critical role played by preventative health initiatives and the continuity of the child's primary care home. He has special interest in child maltreatment, resuscitation, sedation and analgesia as well as educational methods and post-residency continuing education. He has written and lectured on numerous topics in Emergency Medicine with a special focus on pediatric emergency care. He serves as the Medical Director of the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine as well as the Program Director for the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship.

Dennis Darcey, MD, MSPH

Dennis Darcey, MD, MSPH currently works as an Assistant Clinical Professor in the Department of Community and Family Medicine in the Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine for Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Darcey earned his medical degree, master’s of science in public health, and master’s of public health from the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.

He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia Medical Center and also served as a resident in Occupational Medicine at the Duke University Medical Center. His areas of research interest include epidemiology of Alzheimers disease in Cache County Utah via a NIH grant. Through funds provided by the NC Department of Environmental, Health and Natural Resources he has also researched the evaluation of health complains from community residents exposed to TDI and methylene chloride emissions released from a polyurethane foam manufacturing plants in North Carolina.

Ricky Langley, MD, MPH

Ricky Langley, MD, MPH currently works as a public health physician for the NC Department of Health and Human Services in the Division of Public Health, Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch. In addition to holding a medical degree from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, he also received his master’s of public health from the University of NC School of Public Health in Chapel Hill in the field of Environmental Sciences.

He currently serves as a member of the North Carolina Medical Society, American college of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, American College of Physicians, Safety and Health Task Force for the NC Departmental Labor, and the Editorial Board for the NC Medical Journal. He also served as the former chairman for the Environmental Health Committee for the NC Medical Society. His most recent publications have focused on infectious disease occurrence in forestry workers as well as farm toxicology.

Vicki Derderian, BA

Vicki Derderian is an Education Specialist at Charlotte AHEC where she teaches several courses including Health Literacy, Grant Writing, Business Writing, and Starting a Nonprofit Organization. A graduate of Oberlin College, she has training as a Certified Grant Specialist as well twenty-five years of experience writing and administering grants in nonprofit settings in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and North Carolina. She is currently working with Heart To Heart, a program that focuses on performance improvement in physician practices to reduce cardiovascular risk.

Urvi Desai, MD

Urvi Desai, MD attended medical school at M.S. University in Vadodara, India and completed residency at the University of Illinois and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is board certified in Neurology, Electro Diagnostic Medicine and EMG, and Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Desai has provided comprehensive neurological care in the greater Charlotte area since completing her residency and fellowship in 2000. She joined Carolinas Medical Center as a faulty member in the Department of Neurology in 2008. Her clinical expertise includes sleep medicine, neuromuscular diseases, and neuro-ophthalmic disorders.

Jason Dranove, MD

Jason Dranove, MD attended medical school at the Medical College of Georgia in Augusta, Georgia and completed his residency in Pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. He also completed a fellowship in Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition at James Whitcomb Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Currently, Dr. Dranove is a faculty physician in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatolgy, and Nutrition at Carolinas Medical Center, Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, North Carolina. His special interests include General Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition, Neurogastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Motility Disorders (including pH monitoring and performance of manometry studies), Functional Bowel Disorders, and Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Anna Rouse Dulaney, PharmD, DABAT

Anna Rouse Dulaney, PharmD, DABAT, is the Assistant Director for Education and a clinical toxicologist at the Carolinas Poison Center. She is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Division of Pharmacotherapy and Experimental Therapeutics at the Eshelman School of Pharmacy; as well as a Clinical Associate Professor of Pharmacy at Wingate University School of Pharmacy. She has lectured extensively to health care providers across North Carolina.

Michael Dulin, MD, PhD

Michael Dulin, MD, PhD attended the University of Texas in Austin where he received his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering. He then went on to get a PhD at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Houston where he studied basic mechanisms of learning and memory. He continued on to get his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston, and then came to Charlotte where he completed his residency in Family Medicine.

After residency, Dr. Dulin worked in private practice for three years at Harrisburg Family Physicians where he precepted medical students and worked with the UNCC nurse practitioner program. He then returned to the Charlotte residency program where he currently serves as the Director of Research and Evidence-Based Medicine. He has a strong interest in primary care oriented research and has developed Charlotte's first practice-based research network which is actively studying issues related to healthcare access and quality.

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.

Danielle Englert, MD

Danielle Englert, MD earned her medical degree from the University of South Dakota. She completed her neurology residency at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she also received her fellowship training in movement disorders.

Dr. Englert is actively involved with neurological research and has been invited to lecture at numerous professional conferences. She is a member of the American Academy of Neurology and is board certified by the American board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Dr. Englert is a leader in the field of movement disorders and Parkinson's Disease, with a special interest in deep brain stimulation.

Joseph M. Ernest, MD

Joseph M. Ernest, MD attended medical school at the University of Mississippi and completed his residency at Charlotte Memorial Hospital. He also completed a maternal-fetal medicine fellowship at Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. He currently serves as Chairman for the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Carolinas Medical Center. His clinical interests include preconception counseling, and high-risk pregnancies.

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.

Leonard Feld, MD

Leonard Feld, MD, PhD, MMM, FAAP, is the Sara H. Bissell & Howard C. Bissell Endowed Chair in Pediatrics and Chief Medical Officer at the Levine Children's Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center, and Clinical Professor of Pediatrics at UNC School of Medicine The Levine Children's Hospital is the largest children's hospital between Washington DC and Atlanta with 12 floors and 234 beds.

David Fisher, MD

David Fisher, MD completed medical school and residency at the Medical College of Virginia and completed his fellowship at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington, Connecticut. Currently, he is the Director of Neonatology for Carolinas HealthCare System Neonatal Services at Levine Children’s Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center. Dr. Fisher also serves as Chairman for the Perinatal Quality Assurance Committee at Carolinas HealthCare System.

Sean M. Fox, MD

Sean Fox, MD completed a residency in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Maryland after completing medical school at the University of Maryland. He received a bachelor of science degree at Loyola University. Dr. Fox is a member of numerous organizations including the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American College of Emergency Physicians, the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the American Society of Academic Emergency Medicine. He wrote the EMRA, Emergency Medicine Pediatrics column from 2006 to 2008 and was the resident representative to the Board of Directors for the Maryland Chapter for the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Fox will be helping to develop a medical student Pediatric Emergency Medicine program at Levine Children's Hospital, Department of Emergency Medicine, Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine.

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.

Frederick L. Greene, MD, FACS

Residency: Yale - New Haven Hospital
American Cancer Society Clinical Oncology Fellowship, Yale University School of Medicine (1972 - 1973)
Professor of Surgery, University of South Carolina School of Medicine (1980 - 1997)
Clinical Professor, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, University of NC, Chapel Hill (1997 - present)

Harry Gallis, MD

Harry A. Gallis 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.

Mary N. Hall, MD

Mary Hall, MD is a New York native where she grew up on Long Island. She attended college at SUNY Binghamton in upstate New York and medical school at Cornell University Medical College. She moved south to experience a different part of the country for residency, met her husband and never returned north. After completing residency and fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, Dr. Hall joined the faculty at Carolinas Medical Center as the medical student director. Since 1987, she has enjoyed several roles in the department including Medical Director of the FPC and Residency Director, before becoming Chair in 2003. Dr. Hall has a special interest in women's healthcare and the doctor patient relationship. She is involved nationally in work with the American Balint Society. Dr. Hall and her family physician husband, David Hall, have two wonderful teenage children, Katherine and Andrew. They all enjoy traveling, church activities and reading great books.

Flora M. Hammond, MD

Flora M. Hammond, MD serves as the Principal Investigator and Director of the Traumatic Brain Injury Model System Grant funded by the National Institute of Disability Rehabilitation and Research. As part of this grant, she is the principal investigator for three prospective research studies and co-investigator on numerous other projects. She graduated from Tulane University and completed her residency at Baylor University. Flora M. Hammond, MD completed a brain injury fellowship at the Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan.

She is a diplomate of the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and has served as an invited participant to both the Aspen Conference and Galveston Brain Injury Conference. Flora M. Hammond, MD is on the board of the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina and was appointed to the Governor’s Council of NC Traumatic Brain Injury.

Prior to a medical career, Flora M. Hammond, MD was a competitive swimmer and triathlete, and still enjoys exercising and staying fit. She has three young boys and cherishes time spent with her family.

Andrew C. Herman, MD

Andrew C. Herman, MD is faculty at Levine Children’s Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center, Department of Pediatrics in the Division of Neonatology. He completed medical school at Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and completed his residency in General Pediatrics at the University of Virginia where he also completed a fellowship in Neonatal/Perinatal Pediatrics.

Currently, Dr. Herman is involved in several quality improvement initiatives in the NICU including improving outcomes for extremely low birth weight infants as well as reducing catheter related bloodstream infection. He also has a particular interest and research history in acquired bowel disease in the premature infant.

Robert V. Higgins, MD

Robert Higgins, MD is the vice-chairman of academic affairs and residency program director in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Carolinas Medical Center. He is the associate director of gynecologic oncology. His research interests include cervix cancer, ovarian cancer, and resident education.

Catherine Hong, BDS, MS

Catherine Hong, BDS, MS, a native of Singapore, graduated from the National University of Singapore School of Dentistry. After 2 years in the Public Health Department, she went on to pursue a Master of Science in Pediatric Dentistry at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Following her pediatric dentistry training, she received a Certificate in Oral Medicine from Carolinas Medical Center, North Carolina. She joined the Oral Medicine Faculty at Carolinas Medical Center as Section Head of Pediatric Dentistry in 2006. She is a diplomat of both the American Board of Pediatric Dentistry and the American Board of Oral Medicine. Her clinical interests include pediatric oral medicine and management of medically compromised pediatric patients.

Bradley S. Hurst, MD

Bradley S. Hurst, MD is Director of Assisted Reproduction in the Department of Ob/Gyn at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology as well as reproductive endocrinology. In addition to direct patient care, he is an associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine. He is currently the Chair of the Practice Committee for the Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility and Information Chair for the Uterine Fibroid Special Interest Group, both subspecialty groups of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. He is an Associate Editor for Postgraduate Obstetrics and Gynecology, and has published over 100 peer-review articles and chapters. Additionally, he is author of "Managing Midlife," a weekly newspaper column that has been published in the Denver Rocky Mountain News and in the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

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.

Jeremiah Johnson, MD

Jeremiah Johnson, MD is a 2nd year pediatric emergency medicine fellow at Carolinas Medical Center. He is a member of the American college of Emergency Medicine and board certified by the American board of Emergency Medicine. He completed medical school at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, internship at Tripler Army Medical Center and emergency medicine residency at Madigan Army Medical Center. As an active duty Army physician, he has been stationed in Korea, Hawaii, Washington, and New York and he deployed to Afghanistan during Operation Enduring Freedom. His research and teaching interests include pediatric radiology and management of pediatric cardiac arrhythmias.

Sharon Kanelos, MD

Sharon Kanelos, MD graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine where her involvement included the Council of Student Organizations and Women in Medicine. She completed her internship at Carolinas Medical Center and her physical medicine and rehabilitation residency at Carolinas Rehabilitation, where she served as Chief Resident. Dr. Kanelos’s primary interests are in the musculoskeletal area, prosthetics and orthotics, lymphedema and electromyography.

Jeff Kline, MD

Jeff Kline, MD received his medical doctorate from the Medical College of Virginia in 1990. He completed residency training in emergency medicine at the Carolinas Medical Center in 1993 and then a research fellowship in 1994. Dr. Kline’s research fellowship and early research career focused on cardiac contractility and energy metabolism in shock states.

This interest led Dr. Kline to focus on cardiopulmonary stress induced by severe pulmonary embolism. He developed and published a rat model of pulmonary embolism and subsequently began clinical studies using breath-based methods to diagnose and assess the severity of pulmonary embolism in humans. His research interest has expanded to include the development of breath-based devices to diagnose PE and computerized devices to predict pretest probability. He has written 16 US patents for novel medical devices. To help translate these ideas into practice, he cofounded BreathQuant Medical Systems Inc, a privately held medical device company, currently supported by substantial venture capital funding.

Over the past 7 years, he has published over 75 original manuscripts as first or senior author in the area of pulmonary embolism, and has trained 9 research fellows, all of whom hold faculty positions in emergency medicine. In 2004, he was elected to a three-year term on the Board of Directors at SAEM, followed by 2 years as Secretary-Treasurer, and in 2009, he was elected President Elect. He has received the National research awards given by ACEP and SAEM. He is or has been PI on three NIH/NHLBI-sponsored grants, including an R01, an R42 and a Fast-track R41/R42; he is the mentor on two NIH-funded K23 grants to two former research fellows, and has received funding from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to serve as mentor for a Medical Student Research Fellowship. He resides in Charlotte NC, with his wife Judy, and two children, Hannah (14) and Paul (11).

Joanne Labriola, MD

Joanne Labriola, MD is an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC; the academic center of the Carolinas HealthCare System. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she received her education and training at Duke University (BS) and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (MD). She remained at the University of Pittsburgh to complete her orthopaedic surgery residency training and a research fellowship. Following this, she completed a shoulder and elbow fellowship with the Fondren Orthopaedic Group in Houston, TX.

In 2008, she joined LHS Orthopaedics in outreach efforts to bring subspecialty care to Licolnton, NC and Denver, NC. With expertise and advanced training in shoulder and elbow surgery, Dr. Labriola’s practice focuses on treatment of shoulder and elbow injuries and arthritis.

Dr. Labriola has gained recognition for her clinical and research accomplishments and has received numerous awards for her achievements. She has authored over 30 scientific papers, abstracts, and book chapters in the field of shoulder and elbow surgery. She has presented her findings to local, regional, and national audiences. Her current research interests are in arthroscopic rotator cuff surgery and shoulder arthroplasty.

Dr. Labriola’s professional affiliations include the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Arthroscopy Association of North America, the Southern Orthopaedic Society, the North Carolina Orthopaedic Association, and the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society.

Jayanthi S. Lea, MD

Jayanthi Lea, MD graduated from East Carolina University School of Medicine and completed her Obstetrics and Gynecology residency at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio. She received her fellowship training in Gynecologic Oncology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. Dr. Lea is board certified by The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the subspecialty Board of Gynecologic Oncology.

Dr. Lea has received many honors and awards including the "Best in Category Research Award" from the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinical Meeting in 2007. She is also a Scholar and recipient of the Reproductive Scientist Development Program/NIH K12 grant.

Dr. Lea has a special surgical and clinical interest in ovarian cytoreductive surgery and fertility preservation in women with gynecologic cancers. Her primary goal for patients with gynecologic cancers is to maximize cancer survivorship and quality of life. Dr. Lea also participates in national collaborative clinical trials to provide patients with the highest quality options for cancer care.

Peter B. Lockhart, DDS

Peter B. Lockhart, D.D.S., a native of Massachusetts, graduated from the University Of North Carolina School Of Dentistry. After completing a two-year GPR at the University Of Vermont College Of Medicine, he joined the faculty at Brigham and Women’s hospital, where he directed the GPR program, practiced, and conducted clinical research for 10 years. He is currently Chairman of the Department of Oral Medicine and Director of the Institute for Oral Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center, Charlotte. NC. He was a recipient of a World Health Organization Fellowship in Oral Medicine in the United Kingdom, and later a TC White Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow Scotland. He holds Fellowship in Dental Surgery diplomas from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, for whom he is the Regional Advisor for the North America. He has a variety of clinical and research interests in oral medicine, particularly the dental management of medically compromised patients. He has had funding for bacteremia research for the past 15 years, most recently as the P1 on an NIDCR ROl grant concerning surrogate measures of bacteremia from dental procedures. He has over 50 peer reviewed medical and dental journal articles and textbook chapters, and is the editor of the book, Dental Care for the Medically Complex Patient. Since 2004 he has been on the Endocarditis Writing Committee for the American Heart Association.

Emily MacNeill, MD

Emily MacNeill, MD completed a combined residency in emergency medicine and pediatrics from the Indiana University. She attended medical school at the Indiana University after completing a Bachelor of Science and Biology at Brown University in Rhode Island.

Dr. MacNeill has varied interests in international medicine community outreach and is a member of multiple organizations including the Academy of Emergency Medicine, the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American Academy for Pediatrics and Emergency Medicine Resident's Association. Dr. MacNeill is the Associate Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship Director and has coordinated the Pediatric Emergency Medicine Journal Club and Book Club.

Michelle L. Matthews, MD

Michelle L. Matthews, MD is associate director of reproductive endocrinology at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte, NC. She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology as well as reproductive endocrinology. In addition to direct patient care, she is a clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and is associate director of the medical student clerkship in obstetrics and gynecology at Carolinas Medical Center. Dr. Matthews is a recipient of the Association of Professors of Obstetrics and Gynecology (APGO) Excellence in Teaching Award as well as the Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG) National Faculty Award. She is also a board examiner for the general licensing examination in obstetrics and gynecology.

Vanessa McPherson, MD

Vanessa McPherson, MD grew up in a family of nine in Hickory, N.C. She received her undergraduate education at UNC-Charlotte, and attended medical school at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. After completing her residency training at the University of South Carolina, she practiced in a small group practice in Belmont, N.C., for several years where she served as a community preceptor for medical students and a guest preceptor at the residency's family practice center.

She joined the faculty of Carolinas Medical Center's Department of Family Medicine in 2000 as the associate director of the rural program in Monroe, N.C., and completed UNC's faculty development fellowship in 2002. She began her current role as Residency Director of our program in 2003, and completed the National Institute for Program Director Development in 2006.

Her interests include performing and teaching procedures, women's health, inpatient medicine, information technology and assisting residents in their professional development using feedback and self-reflection. She and her husband, Kevin, are proud parents of Carson. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, traveling, shopping, trying new restaurants and staying active.

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.

Joel J. Napeñas, DDS

Joel J. Napeñas, DDS, is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the University of Western Ontario. He completed residencies in general practice at the VA Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio; and oral medicine at Carolinas Medical Center (CMC). Dr. Napeñas is board certified by the American Board of Oral Medicine and by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in oral medicine. In addition, he is a member of the American Academy of Orofacial Pain.

His expertise and interests are in orofacial pain and temporomandibular disorders, mucocutaneous disorders and soft tissue lesions, oral complications of cancer therapy, diagnosis of premalignant and suspected malignant (cancerous) lesions, and the dental management of medically compromised and special needs patients. In addition to treating patients and directing CMC’s residency program, Dr. Napeñas conducts clinical research studies, has authored a number of articles and chapters, and has lectured at universities, professional meetings, and workshops.

Daniel R. Neuspiel, MD, MPH

Daniel R. Neuspiel, MD, MPH is Director of Ambulatory Pediatrics at Levine Children’s Hospital. He received his BA from Rutgers University and his MD from UMDNJ: New Jersey Medical School. Dr. Neuspiel completed his pediatric residency at the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, followed by a fellowship in epidemiology at the Graduate School of Public Health of the University of Pittsburgh, where he received a MPH degree. He is board certified in pediatrics and preventive medicine. Dr. Neuspiel is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Vu Q. C. Nguyen, MD

Vu Q. C. Nguyen, MD graduated from Michigan State University and completed an internship in Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics. He served as a physician in the United States Air Force, functioning as an emergency medicine physician and Interim Medical Director, and later practicing family medicine. After leaving the Air Force, he returned to residency training at Carolinas Rehabilitation where he served as Chief Resident and subsequently joined the faculty of Carolinas Rehabilitation. As of January 1, 2006, he became Residency Program Director.

Dr. Nguyen is board certified in the specialty of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. He subspecializes in Stroke Rehabilitation. His research interests involve post-traumatic amnesia, dysphagia, spasticity and neuromodulation of shoulder subluxation.

Dr. Nguyen is married to another physician. They have four children - three humans and one feline. Their current interests include hiking, camping, and going to the beach.

Laura Noonan, MD

Laura Noonan, MD is a member of the Pediatric Faculty at Carolinas Medical Center and serves as Director for the Medical Student education, acute care, continuity clinic, and practice-based learning and improvement. Dr. Noonan is also the clinical coordinator for the Charlotte Office of Regional Primary Care Education at Charlotte AHEC. Dr. Noonan has extensive experience in quality improvement in the primary care environment as well as participation in numerous learning collaboratives, including the 2003 NC Open Access Collaborative.

Joshua C. Patt, MD, MPH

Joshua C. Patt, MD, MPH specializes in Musculoskeletal Oncology and Spine Surgery. He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the Musculoskeletal Tumor Society and AO Spine International. Dr. Patt earned his master's degree in public health from the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine. His primary research interests are clinical outcomes in oncology and spinal tumors. Dr. Patt's clinical practice includes the treatment and evaluation of sarcomas, as well as the comprehensive management of spinal disorders with a particular interest in traumatic and oncologic diagnoses.

David A. Pearson, MD, MS

Dave received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Florida in 1997 and 1998, respectively. He completed medical school at Vanderbilt University in 2002 and completed an Emergency Medicine residency at the Denver Health Medical Center in 2006. Shortly thereafter, Dave joined the Carolinas Medical Center clinical faculty. His interests include clinical teaching, therapeutic hypothermia, post-resuscitation stabilization, and international medicine.

David Price, MD

A native of Atlanta, Ga., David Price, MD completed his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia before returning to Georgia to attend medical school at the Medical College of Georgia. His internship and residency were completed at Carolinas Medical Center. He then completed a sports medicine fellowship in St. Petersburg, Fla. David Price, MD then traveled around Australia doing locum tenems work before rejoining the Department of Family Medicine as faculty in 2003. In 2005, he became Associate Director of the Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship which was started that year. David Price, MD has a special interest in concussion and is one of the medical directors of the Carolinas Concussion Network (CCN), a comprehensive clinical and research oriented physician network through Carolinas Medical Center. He also enjoys endurance sports and participates in marathons and triathlons. His other interests include singing and jamming on his acoustic guitar, listening to music, reading, and traveling. Dr. Price and his wife, Ali, are the parents of two young sons.

Stacy Reynolds, MD

Stacy Reynolds, MD completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Pittsburg, a fellowship in Pediatric Emergency Medicine at Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh as well as a Pediatric residency in at the Children’s Hospital in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She did graduate training at Drexel University in Philadelphia and her undergraduate training was at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

She is a member of multiple organizations including the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine, the American College of Emergency Physicians and the American Academy of Pediatrics, as well as the Society for Critical Care. Dr. Reynolds will be helping to build the research presence within the Division of Pediatric Emergency Medicine while continuing her personal research interests and interests in teaching and simulations.

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.

Jessica Saxe, MD

A family physician at CMC Biddle Point, Jessica Schorr Saxe, MD has been working with the underserved in Charlotte, NC, since 1980. She is the former Medical Director of Prevention and Community Wellness for Carolinas HealthCare System and former chair of the NCAFP Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Council. Dr. Saxe serves on the NCAFP Health of the Public Council and the NCMS Family and Public Health Committee. She holds appointments as Assistant Clinical Professor at Duke University School of Medicine and Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine.

Dr. Saxe, an occasional columnist for the Charlotte Observer, writes on the importance of prevention and primary care and other compelling topics, of which her favorite is her own children. Active in the community, she has won many awards including NCAFP Community Faculty Teachers of Students Award in 1992 and YWCA Woman of Achievement in 2001.

Dr. Saxe received a BA from Oberlin College 1972, MD Tufts University 1977, and finished the Duke Watts Family Medicine Program in 1980.

Kasey Scannell, MD

Kasey Scannell, MD currently serves as Chief Resident at Carolinas Medical Center, Levine’s Children Hospital in the Department of Pediatrics. She received her Doctor of Medicine from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Molecular Biology from Vanderbilt University. She has also been involved with a departmental quality improvement project to establish a standard admission order set for children with complicated pneumonia.

Robert W. Schafermeyer, MD, FACEP, FAAP, FIFEM

Robert W. Schafermeyer, MD, FACEP, FAAP, FIFEM has been an Emergency Medicine faculty member since 1981. He served as Residency Program Director from 1982-1991 and as acting chairman from 1989-1991. Dr. Schafermeyer is currently the associate chair for the Department of Emergency Medicine and director of the Division of Education and oversees the Subspecialty Fellowship programs.

Dr. Schafermeyer is board certified in Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics. He received a certificate of added qualifications in Pediatric Emergency Medicine from ABEM. He was a member and chair of the American Board of Emergency Medicine Subspecialty Exam Committee on Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He currently serves as an Oral Board Examiner for ABEM.

Dr. Schafermeyer has a longstanding interest in education and research. He believes that the greatest aspect of a career in academic emergency medicine is fostering the growth and development of the residents, seeing their contributions to the specialty by the graduates of our residency program and their involvement in advocacy efforts on behalf of their patients and their specialty.

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.

Laura Sinai, MD

Dr. Laura Sinai is a pediatrician and currently practices with William Hayes Jr. MD & Associates in Gastonia, North Carolina. Dr. Sinai has over fifteen years of clinical experience in suburban and urban hospital settings. She received her MD from the University of Medicine & Dentistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey; completed her residency in pediatrics at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; finished a fellowship in general pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; and received a Masters in Clinical Epidemiology from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

In addition to direct patient care, she is the founder and facilitator of the Gaston County Breastfeeding Coalition, is an active member of both the North Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition and the Academy of the Breastfeeding Medicine, and serves as the North Carolina State Breastfeeding Coordinator American Academy of Pediatrics. She is also the mother of two daughters.

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.

Nancy Taylor, MPH, RN, BSN

Nancy Taylor is a Nurse Education Specialist with Charlotte AHEC. She coordinates the Heart to Heart program, a cardiovascular disease risk reduction program for Family Practice and Internal Medicine physicians in Charlotte AHEC’s 8-county service area.

Nancy graduated from Duke University with a BSN in 1983 and from Boston University School of Public Health with a MPH in 1988. Her clinical experience includes surgical intensive care, post-cardiac surgery care, bone marrow transplantation and home health nursing. She has prior experience with Utilization and Quality Initiatives working for Kaiser Permanente Health Plans and Cigna Healthplans. Additionally, Nancy taught part time at Carolinas College of Health Sciences prior to joining Charlotte AHEC in her current position.

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.

Joanna York, MD

Joanna York, MD received her degree from the University of Washington, School of Medicine and completed her residency training in Pediatrics at the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics in June of 2007 and was Board Certified in Pediatrics in October of 2007; Since July of 2007 Dr. York has been at Carolinas Medical Center and is completing a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship.

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.