Charlotte AHEC

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.

Rhett L.R. Brown, MD

Rhett Brown, MD graduated from Davidson College with a degree in economics, and after graduating 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.

Leonard Feld, MD

Leonard G. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.