2014 UH IM Graduates

• Kathryn Kline- After residency, Katie joined the Tumulty ambulatory practice in the Johns Hopkins Outpatient Center. In 2015, she was appointed as the first medical director of the Esperanza Center. She was then medical director for AbsoluteCARE, a high-utilizer clinic, in Baltimore and now is completing an oncology fellowship. She also completed an MPH through our Urban Health Scholars Program. After six years in primary care, Katie completed a heme/onc fellowship at the University of Maryland, where she is currently hematology faculty.
• Dana Mueller- After graduation, Dana joined Mary’s Center, a FQHC with clinics in Washington D.C., Montgomery County, and Prince George’s County. Mary’s Center serves a diverse population, but has a historical focus on caring for recent Latin American immigrants and international refugees. She completed an MBA at the JHU Carey School of Business in 2017 with the support of the Urban Health Scholars Program. As a general internist, she sees patients from 18 to 103 (at last check). From 2015-2022, she served as the Director of Adult and Family Medicine, leading the growth of the adult care service line across all sites. She developed educational curriculum for a team of adult care clinicians including internists, family medicine physicians, nurse practitioners and PAs, leads Quality Improvement initiatives, and has spear-headed the institutional response to COVID-19, which has significantly impacted the Mary’s Center community. In 2022, she became the Vice President of Medicine at Mary’s Center, supporting organizational growth and quality improvement for all service lines. She continues to see patients 60 percent.
• Mark Tenforde- Dr. Tenforde traveled to Uganda to confront the HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis epidemic as an Afya Bora Fellow in Global Health Leadership. He completed an infectious disease fellowship, and served first as an Epidemic Intelligence Service Officer and now as a Medical Officer at Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, GA.

2015 UH IM Graduates

• Ravi Ganesh- currently a consultant in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He now leads the International Section of the Executive Health Program. He is part of the Consultative Medicine program where he evaluates patients who do not have a clear medical diagnosis despite extensive evaluation. Dr. Ganesh specializes in research and treatment of fibromyalgia and the health effects of chronic stress and the benefits of stress management programs and technology.
• Carolyn Kramer- Dr. Kramer graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Infectious Disease Fellowship. She provides inpatient and outpatient HIV care and is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA.
• Michael Mueller- currently a consultant in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He is part of the Consultative Medicine program where he evaluates patients who do not have a clear medical diagnosis despite extensive evaluation. Michael is pursuing health policy reform through education and advocacy and is a Society of General Internal Medicine Leadership in Health Policy scholar. He additionally works in the International Health division where he sees patients from multiple different regions of the world.
• Mark Munoz- Dr. Munoz pursued additional training in tropical medicine from the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and works in global health with the US State Department. He has served in multiple developing regions throughout the world. He was a part-time hospitalist at Georgetown University Hospital. Currently, he works in critical care medicine at PMA Health in Falls Church, VA.

2016 UH IM Graduates

• Jillian Baron- Dr. Baron completed the University of Pennsylvania Infectious Disease Fellowship. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine with the University of Pennsylvania Infectious Disease Division and sees patients at an HIV primary care clinic in Philadelphia, PA.
• Ted James- Dr. James completed a gastroenterology fellowship at the University of North Carolina and earned his Masters of Science in Clinical Research through UNC School of Public Health. He is on faculty with the University of New England and currently works with Northern Light Gastroenterology in Bangor, ME.
• Ryan Lang- Dr. is a medical director with a managed care organization that serves over 400,000 lives. They previously worked as a pharmacovigilance physician with a major pharmaceutical company and also previously worked part-time as a hospitalist with MedStar Health. They previously served as the Assistant Program Director of the General Preventive Medicine Residency Program and an Instructor in Health Policy & Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where they also earned their MPH degree and completed a second residency in preventive medicine. They were also Chief Resident of the General Preventive Medicine Residency in 2018-2019. They are dually board-certified in internal medicine and general preventive medicine/public health.
• Isabel Pimenta- Dr. Pimenta is currently a senior director of the Albright Stonebridge Group. For a decade, she served as a health sector specialist for The World Bank in South Asia and Latin America, leading operational and analytical teams to support healthcare reform in developing countries. She currently provides direct patient care with the Johns Hopkins Community Physicians at Suburban Hospital and at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. Her work focuses on innovation, quality improvement, transformation of care models and population health. As faculty with the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine with the neurology and IM departments, she also conducts research on COVID-19, healthcare innovation, and imaging of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases. Isabel also completed a residency in radiology from University of Sao Paulo and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.
• Chris Terndrup- Dr. Terndrup joined the General Internal Medicine division to practice primary care at the Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU). There, he served as Medical Director of their Internal Medicine Clinic and as Assistant Program Director for Ambulatory Medicine for the Internal Medicine Residency. He then moved to Nashville, TN to join Vanderbilt’s growing LGBTQ+ clinic called VIVID Health. He served as Medical Director for VIVID and is Associate Program Director for the new LGBTQ+ Healthcare Fellowship. He currently provides primary care, gender-affirming care, and HIV care, while teaching medical students and resident in clinic.

2017 UH IM Graduates

• David Lawrence- Dr. Lawrence is an internist and addiction medicine physician who works as the Medical Director of the VA Greater LA Health System’s Downtown Los Angeles Substance Use Disorder Clinic and as an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine in Los Angeles, CA.
• Bailey Miles- Dr. Miles is the acting Chief of Primary Care at the IHS site in Chinle, AZ. Before departing for the IHS, Dr. Miles provided primary care through the Priority Access Primary Care program at East Baltimore Medical Center, where he was the medical director. Dr. Miles also got his MPH through the UH Scholars Program.
• Karly Murphy- Dr. Murphy completed the Johns Hopkins GIM Fellowship during which she received her master’s in Epidemiology. She is a member of the Division of General Internal Medicine at UCSF in San Francisco, CA where she works as a clinician investigator.
• Victoria Powell- Dr. Powell completed a Hospice and Palliative Medicine fellowship at NIH Clinical Center, followed by a clinical research fellowship at the University of Michigan/Ann Arbor VA. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan. She recently received a VA Career Development Award to conduct a pilot RCT of a brief narrative intervention designed to augment the benefits of ketamine for chronic pain and comorbid depression in Veterans. She is also a staff physician at the Ann Arbor VA, where she provides inpatient and outpatient palliative care and precepts medical students, residents, and fellows.

2018 UH IM Graduates

• Michael Poku- Dr. Poku is the Chief Clinical Officer at Equality Health, a medicaid-focused value-based care organization.
• Alex Rittenberg-currently the Associate Program Director for Inpatient Medicine for the Virginia Commonwealth University Internal Medicine Residency program and the Medical Director for the Housestaff units. He attends on the General Medicine, Hematology/Oncology, and Gastroenterology/Hepatology inpatient wards and supervises housestaff as an Academic Hospitalist-Nocturnist.
• Shakira Sanchez-Collins- Dr. Sanchez-Collins is a hospitalist at Northwestern Medicine and associate pastor of St. James AME Church in Chicago, IL. She is a public speaker in health and wellness who was recently been featured on WGN Chicago and in The Chicago Tribune as an associate pastor.
• Chris Steele- Dr. Steele is an assistant professor of Medicine at UConn in general internal medicine in Farmington, CT. He now works for both the undergraduate and graduate medical offices as the educational liaison. He teaches medical students and residents, with a focus on achieving patient health equity. He is the Co-founder of UConn Health Leader’s (UCHL) program which trains pre-professional health students to address social determinant of health barriers within primary care and hospitalist medicine: https://health.uconn.edu/health-leaders/

2019 UH IM Graduates

• Francisco Alvarez- Dr. Alvarez is currently Vice President at Regard, a healthcare informatics company, and a hospitalist at UCSF in San Francisco, CA.
• Jesse McDermeit- currently a clinician-educator at East Baltimore Medical Center in Baltimore, MD, where he is also precepting our residents. He serves as a clinical coach in the Janeway Firm. He is assisting in developing and implementing our enhanced ambulatory curriculum for EBMC IM residents. He also direct the Urban Health book club.
• Nicky Mehtani- After residency, Dr. Mehtani pursued a clinical fellowship in addiction and HIV medicine at UCSF. She is currently an assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at UCSF’s San Francisco General Hospital, where her research focuses on the role and accessibility of novel therapeutics for substance use disorders among minoritized patient populations. Clinically, she works with the San Francisco Department of Public Health’s Street Medicine team as an HIV and addiction primary care physician.
• Jordan Nahas-Vigon- Dr. Nahas-Vigon currently is a clinician-educator at the Bayview Comprehensive Care Practice and preceptor for our residents at East Baltimore Medical Center. She is also involved in addiction and carceral medicine. She is assisting in developing and implementing our enhanced ambulatory curriculum for EBMC IM residents

2020 UH IM Graduates

• Ravi Gupta- After completing fellowship in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Gupta serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of General Internal Medicine at Johns Hopkins University. His research focuses on strengthening FDA regulation and ensuring access to medicines, both in the U.S and abroad; value-based care and areas of private provision of public services, including Medicare Advantage, Medicaid managed care, and value-based and alternative payment models; and caring for patients with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
• Meron Hirpa- Dr. Hirpa is practicing as a primary care physician with the Cincinnati Health Department in Cincinnati, OH.
• Julius Ho- Assistant Professor of Medicine at Johns Hopkins and a hospitalist at the Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center in Baltimore, MD. He also sees patients on the BHLI PCARE van for low-barrier buprenorphine treatment
• Arcadia Paine- currently a primary care physician and hospitalist with the Indian Health Service in Gallup, NM.
• Ashish Thakrar- Dr. Thakrar completed addiction medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins Bayview followed by the National Clinician Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He works clinically in primary care and as a hospital-based addiction consultant and his research focuses on addiction care in the era of fentanyl and other synthetic drugs.

2021 UH IM Graduates

• Maria Bellantoni- Dr. Bellantoni completed a geriatric medicine fellowship at Johns Hopkins Bayview and is a Commissioned Corps Officer in the U.S. Public Health Service. She is currently serving as a primary care internist and geriatrician with the Indian Health Service at Phoenix Indian Medical Center in Phoenix, AZ.
• Tuyet Nguyen- Dr. Nguyen currently provides urban health primary care at AbsoluteCARE in Prince George's County, MD.
• Talia Robledo-Gil- currently practicing as a bilingual primary care physician at the University of Pittsburgh. She previously provided primary care, HIV care, LGBT health, gender-affirming care at Whitman-Walker Clinic in Washington, DC. Until July if 2024, she was an JHH Urban Health IM and Med-Peds Associate Program Director and focused on DEI for our program.
• Lea Selitsky- Dr. Selitsky completed her fellowship in Addiction Medicine at Johns Hopkins and works at the Michael J. Crescenz VA Medical Center in Philadelphia. She sees patients in both primary care and the behavioral health walk-in buprenorphine clinic. Her clinical work focuses on the overlap between chronic pain and opioid use disorder among veterans, and on expanding access to buprenorphine treatment in primary care.

2022 UH IM Graduates

• Rohini Chakravarthy- is a primary care clinician-educator at Vanderbilt in Nashville Tennessee. Additionally she holds roles in the Office of Health Equity and is a co-Medical Director of Shade Tree Clinic (Vanderbilt’s student-run free clinic).
• Bernard Rosal- is a primary care physician at Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque, NM.
• Jenny Zhang- is a primary care physician in NYC. In fall 2023, she plans to join the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation as a Medical Officer.

2023 UH IM Graduates

• Wardah Athar- Dr. Athar provides primary care for the Johns Hopkins Community Physicians. Dr. Athar has a special interest in preventive medicine, obesity medicine, and working with marginalized and underserved populations.
• Rohini Chakravarthy- Dr. Chakravarthy is a primary care clinician-educator at Vanderbilt in Nashville Tennessee. Additionally she holds roles in the Office of Health Equity and is a co-Medical Director of Shade Tree Clinic (Vanderbilt’s student-run free clinic).
• Tracy Dodd- 
• Bernard Rosal-Dr. Rosal is a primary care physician at Presbyterian Healthcare Services in Albuquerque, NM.
• Jenny Zhang- Dr. Zhang is a Senior Advisor at the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation and a primary care physician in NYC.

2024 UH IM Graduates

• Rohin Aggarwal- Dr. Aggarwal is a geriatrics fellow at New York University School of Medicine.
• Priyal Gandhi- Dr. Gandhi is a primary care physician in Cleveland, Ohio at MetroHealth, the safety-net health system in Cuyahoga County. She is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University and Core Faculty in the MetroHealth Internal Medicine Residency and Primary Care of Vulnerable Populations Track.
• Will Roberts- Dr. Roberts is a fellow as part of National Clinician Scholars program currently at Yale University.
• Michelle York- Dr. York is serving as the ambulatory chief resident for the Osler IM Program.

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