Faculty "Bios"

Andrea Murawa: In stark contrast to the darkness of her copious eye makeup, Andrea brightens every room she enters. Similarly, in stark contrast to whatever Joel Heidelbaugh might claim, we all know that Andrea single-handedly runs the family medicine clerkship—and it would be aMUSEing to even attempt to suggest otherwise.

Andrew Tai: Andrew Tai has been inspiring med students by his GI smarts and exquisite exhibition of contents elegantly splishing and sploshing in our tummies. He has also taught us to reflect on the crucial parallelism between our med school journeys and the development of stool: we enter immature, unformed, and raw, unaware of what twisty paths lie ahead. But once we enter, we will emerge, hopefully more solid and well-formed than when we entered.

Anita Malone: With a striking 4.8/5 patient rating on the health system's website, you know this OB/GYN is using the skills she aquired as a medcial student at UMMS to make the Michigan Difference.

Ann Pellitier-Cameron: Hailing from the third best country in NAFTA, Anne Pelletier-Cameron has really made a name for herself in the field of urology. Well, she really has made three names for herself. When she isn't scaring medical students into peeing in their scrubs in the OR, she is helping old ladies stop peeing themselves in her work in female incontinence.

Bev Yashar: Got Questions? Strange symptoms that run in your family? Maybe you need some counseling to help clarify the medical mystery. Beverly Yashar is the doctor for you! From genetic counseling to teaching medical students the ins and outs of molecular medicine, SHE CAN DO IT ALL!

Bill Lynch: When Bill Lynch isnt elbow deep in a patient's thoracic cavity casually saving their life, you can find him at the rink ripping bar down clappers from the blue line. His soft hands and finesse under pressure make him a force both on the ice and in the OR. Ferda.

Bob Bartlett: The father of the modern day smoker. The father of ECMO. The only man who could keep his patients alive while giving their hearts and lungs a break AND by making fun of everyone around him!

Brad Densen: Brad Densen is very good at his job (don't ask us what it is) and is thus very hard to make fun of. The Smoker would like to wish him the best in his promising career as an email-forwarder. He is living proof that if you work hard enough, with a little luck you can do anything.

Carol Bradford: Departed Dean or Buckeye Spy? When this ENT-turned-adminstator ran out of curriculum overhauls to keep herself out of the OR, she knew it was time to jump ship. She decided to take her talents to... Columbus? Seriously!?! Seems like a bit of a downgrade just to drop the terms "executive vice" from your title.

Carol Kauffman: Doctor. Fashionista. Icon. Rumor has it that her magical bowl cut gives her the power to know everything— and I mean EVERYTHING. From that embarassing fun fact you used to introduce yourself during Launch week to that time you used the wrong word to describe "purulence"— she knows it all, and she is judging you for it.

Clifford Craig: The man. The legend. Cliff's his name and hip dysplasia's his game. When it comes to medical education, there are few things Dr. Craig can't do perfectly...one of those things is hosting a Zoom session without being thwarted by modern technology.

Dan Cronin: An educator extraordinaire and master diagnostician, Dr. Cronin can successfully figure out why you are terrible at medicine and educate you on how to be better, all while still making you feel great about yourself! A true gentleman's physician.

Dave Marzano: A vital COG in the OB/GYN machine, Dave Marzanno is all about working with the teams. When he's not teaching med students about menapuase, he can be found plotting to ineffectually take over the world with his bestie Maya Hammouod.

David Brzezinski: He's a doc, he's a dentist, he's a theologian...he's David Brzezinski! A mild-mannered anatomist by day, this pastor and published novelist can get inside your head with a scalpel and a pen.

Dawn Coleman

In case you thought you had a stressful day in the OR because the attending made you pick out music, Lt Col Dawn Coleman, MD did 12 trauma surgeries an an active war zone… Need I say more? I quite literally cannot, as it is classified and if she told me she’d have to kill me.

Denise Brennan: Known for her beauty, her athleticism, and her emails, of which a graduating M4 may have received approximately 700, without ever having seen her face.

Doug Gelb: Douglas J. Gelb, MD, PhD factors the date daily to keep his neurons intact, have a party trick if he develops Alzheimer's, and identify math-illiterate students. A prime date, otherwise known as a "bad day," will require him to cope using his time-worn methods: adding to his book examples of when he disagrees with inferior colleagues or taking the Gelf on 3x. Ask him to factor the date, no problem, but ask him to speak just a litttttttle bit faster, and well, you might be waiting a while.

Ebony Parker-Featherstone: Dr. Ebony Chauntae Parker-Featherstone, MD, is interested in three things and three things only – women’s health, diversity in medicine, and having the longest full name in the history of doctors, ever. Because if your name doesn’t take up an entire line in Microsoft word, are you even worth talking about?

Eric Fearon: Known for his strong belief that the answer to any question lies among the stars. His impressive 135 peer reviewed manuscripts are no match for his highly acclaimed horoscope publishing under the alias "Dog Ma". You can often find him escaping daily responsibilities and Zoom meetings to stargaze on the roof of the Cancer Center.

Eric Middleton: His Ph.D dissertation focused on the positive association between Step 1 Scores and love-making. The man who takes the "sulk" out of Salk house, Eric Middleton's love for indoor gloves is only exceeded by his passion for wellness.

Erin McKean: Erin McKean, MD, MBA, FACS is an exceptionally competent otolaryngologists, or at least that’s what she tries to convince herself during her daily affirmations.

Eve Losman: Hardened by her interest in teaching med students and residents, EM physician Dr. Losman is more than prepared to face the biggest challenge yet - Babes and Studs after the Smoker afterparty.

Gifty Kwakye: The Gift that keeps Gifty, Dr. Kwakye's 5 foot frame is no match for her 6 foot personality and charm. Fun fact: She became a colorectal surgeon after earning the nickname "Butthead" in grade school. How did she earn the nickname?

Glenn Fox: Although he began his academic pursuits studying reptiles and earning a degree in zoology, Glenn Fox has become quite the human anatomist. He often marvels at the incredible diversity of anatomy, but wants you to knowt that he is quite confident that his is TOTALLY NORMAL.

Irene Esposito: Although the tinkle of a *child's* laughter may be MUSE-ic to Irene's ears, who are we *kid*-ding: we all know the peds clerkship would be *infant*-tessimaly less effective without her. And her incredible Jersey accent.

Jason Bell: An international man of hyster-y, he reputedly left behind the lavish lifestyle of a Carhartt model to cater to the needs of a different kind of laborer. As much at home in scuba gear as he is in the OR, the processing speed of FOIA requests is the only thing keeping this bio incomplete – but if you stay in his good graces then maybe, just maybe, he’ll let you use his kegerator. Just don’t call him doctor.

Jeff Kullgren: Whether he's orating on health policy, performing behavioral science research, or caring for patients at the VA, it's hard not to be charmed by Dr. Jeff Kullgren and his Crest Pro-Health approved smile. One of his most recent tweets depicted a family of little ducklings being rescued out of a storm drain and returned safely to Mama Duck. True story! Go follow him on Twitter @JeffKullgren.

Jess Fealy: Jess Fealy IS the classic, overly bubbly, primary care pediatrician. When she's not convincing Ann Arbor hippies to vaccinate their children (50/50 shot), she's probbably out buying more toys to hang on her stethescope.

Jim Knol: When he's not making Home Depot runs to pick up heavy duty steel wire for his abdominal closures, you can catch Dr. Knol barking at the med students to go fetch more oil for his kerosene headlamps. He still cant believe Integra hasnt picked up on such cutting edge technology.

Jocelyn Schiller: No one takes their job as a pediatrician as seriously as Jocelyn Schiller. Not only does she head the Peds clerkship, she's gone so far as to transform herself into an American Girl Doll, to the delight of the patients and to the horror of their parents. She's all smiles and sweetness, and you'll fall wholeheartedly into her charming aura, until you open your clerkship grade, that is...

Joel Heidelbaugh: A well-known author who is extremely confident that his book is the only piece of American Literature with which you will ever need to grace your eyes, Joel was merely a protige prior to his ascension to leadership within the Family Medicine Department. During his early days he saught purpose, adventure, and various hair treatment regimens, and never expected he would find the family of students who now follow in his footsteps.

John Schmidt: In between bullying students how to correctly pronounce Hefeweizen and talking in a "comically" high voice, I'm actually a licensed pediatrician...to many peoples surprise. Let me tell you I don't take no Schmidt.

Karen McLean: Karen McLean is your resident gyn onc badass. Sure, she's remediating histology but isn't that what pathologist are for anyway? She's committed to using that as nap time, so she's wide awake and ready to kick cancer's butt

Kathleen Alsup: An anthropologist turned anatomy lab instructor, Dr. Alsup is really just cooking up a new paper studying the similarities between our ancestors discovering tools and an M1 trying to assemble a scalpel for the first time. Is it pretty? No. Will they eventually improve? Probably not. Will someone lose a finger? Almost definitely.

Kelli Sullivan: Hiya! Wowza I don’t even know where to start—Kelli the most EXCITING-THING-TO-EVER-TO-HIT-THE-ANATOMY-LABS who am I kidding she loves her dogs but BOY do they reek up her car on a hot summer day once they’ve been in the river— ANYWAY! You hungry? You should know her favorite hobby is cutting up dead bodies…but WITH CONSENT, of course!

Kent Sheets: As useful with a stethoscope as Dr. Jill Biden, Kent Sheets was a giant in medical education and Big & Tall fashion. Hundreds of former medical students will remember his kindness, energy, and laugh as being larger-than-life, or in his case, proportional.

Kevin Tremper: You haven't heard of Kevin Tremper? Well, he's somewhat of a GIANT in the anesthesia world…after all, he oversaw UM's transition from ~hitting the patient over the head~ to diethyl ether to isoflurane for keeping patients under during surgery.

Krishnan Raghavendran: Division Chief of Acute Care Surgery, went to medical school in India.

Leslie Quint: The Quintessential voice of reason on Zoom Olympus, Leslie approaches everything in life the same way she approaches a chest Xray - systematically and alphabetically.

Lilias Maguire: Whether you’re battling anal incontinence or scrubbed in to her OR, Dr. Maguire is guaranteed to tighten your sphincter.

Linda Selwa: Dr. Selwa is most wholesome God of Zoom Olympus and Head of the Selwa Neurology Dynasty World (team name Spike ND Wave). If not for her electrifying harp serenades and infinite supply of candy, UMMS would surely be a much wetter, wackier, wobblier place.

Madeline Lew: Madeline Lew's passion for "purple sharpie dots" will make you not hate trying to interpret what is going on in pathology slides. She has a love for learning, teaching, and being helpful in every situation that is often unparalleled.

Marschall Runge: Howdy, pardners! Dean Runge ain't from around these parts, but he can down a mug of that sweet Ann Arbor sarsaparilla like nobody's business. Catch him at weekly Zoom Olympus hootenannies wrangling up all of those other cowboy doctors.

Mary Orcykowski: Friendly anatomy PhD who takes pride in educating up-and-coming medical professionals. Catch her hanging with the rest of the anatomy faculty and the ever-present cadavers.

Maya Hammoud: Maya Hammoud is the sassy OB/GYN lassie who is always keepin' it classy. That is, when she 's not trying to sabotage Erin McKean or dealing with two dunderheaded dysplastic sidekicks. Catch her catching babies, kicking ass, and taking names!

Meg Wolff: Is that an EM doc...Is that a Peds doc... No, it's Meg Wolffe!! Our very own WonderWoman raised in the mystical land of both EM and pediatrics. She's a butt-kicking godess with a heart of gold.

Michael Hortsch: When Dr. Hortsch isn't using one of his endless supply of histology related t-shirts to captivate students, he transforms into his alter-ego, Neuron Man, to complete the impossible feat of teaching PNS histology in a single day. But while he may jokingly compare Black Forest cake to the layers of cortex, for this "Doctor Doctor" there's no room for hortsch-play when it comes to lecturing first years.

Michael Jibson: Psychiatrist and lover of stories, Dr. Jibson does excellently by both his patients and students. Now, if only he could get to the bottom of his oral fixation of constantly putting the frames of his glasses in his mouth...

Michelle Caird: Every year, Dr. Caird wins over the hearts and minds of Michigan's M1 class with her lectures on pediatric orthopedics and her tremendous smile. Seriously, we don't know a single Michigan medical student who didn't have a crush on her at one point or another. She is kind, she is badass, she is the chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery.

Michelle Daniel: Emergency Medicine physician who's hoping this is the year her tattoo isn't featured in the Smoker.

Mike Cole: Michael Cole, emergency medicine physician, clinical reasoning extraordinaire, and the human equivalent of shotgunning a four loko.

Mike Englesbe: Our mane man Mike is a transplant surgeon who hates saying “no” so much that he says “neeeeiiighhhh” instead. He’ll be the first to tell you that his decision to become Director of the Branches was informed as much by his love for medical education as it was by his unbridled love for apples. This absolute steed of a doctor simply can’t be reined in.

Nate Houchens: Dr. Houchens is the proud recipient of the "VA's Nicest Doctor" award for the past five years...but each year tries to pass the award to Dr. Saint to avoid getting on his bad side.

Nik Theyyunni: Did you hear that??? No!!! OMG WHAT IS THAT..... IT'S Dr. Nik Theyyunni flying around using his super sonic ultrasound vision to diagnose the most complex of patients. Oh what a magnificnet site to see!!!

Renuka Tipirneni: When Dr. Tipirneni isn't busy playing "sound-it-out the letters are right there" as people say her name, she's working on helping old folks navigate the donut hole, saving them money on their drugs so they can spend it all on Dunkin Munchkins

Rishi Reddy: Dr. Reddy is a *BLEEP*-ing thoracic surgeon who couldn't manage to keep *BLEEP*-ing medical students interested in *BLEEP*-ing surgery when he was the *BLEEP* *BLEEP* clearkship director. Pardon our French.

Rob Huang: A wise man once said, "You either fail Step as a med student or you fake it long enough to become an attending." Incredibly, Rob Huang has done both. He's the hero the ED deserves, but not the one it needs right now during the pandemic. So he'll happily work from home.

Rosalyn Maben-Feaster: As a Michigan native, her lifelong dream has been to touch the lives and the babies of all her fellow Michiganders. Her hard work and loyalty to the University of Michigan through undergrad, medical school, and residency have finally paid off in this Smoker 2021 debut -- stay tuned as she defies all odds (and COVID restrictions) to accomplish her goals.

Sandro Cinti: Infectious diseases doctor par excellence. His love for teaching is infectious, and if you don’t bug (n’ drug) him too much, you just might become mojito drinking buddies. Vibrios up!

Sanjay Saint: "Sanjay Saint is the greatest thing to happen to the field of medicine since Penicillin" - Sanjay Saint. This modern day Aesclepius sits on every editorial board you can imagine and is a true visionary who has pioneered novel techniques such as washing one's hands. A great man once said that hands are meant to heal, and Dr. Saint has inspired millions through his work, though none more so than himself.

Scott Gitlin: Dr. Gitlin wears many hats, including as professor of Internal Medicine at both the University of Michigan and VA Health Center, a member of the medical school's Competency Assessment Committee, and Assistant Dean for Graduate Medical Education. Maybe one of these days he'll use all of that clout to open the med student gym in Taubman?

Scott Owens: When Dr. Owens isn't confusing M1 students with pictures of Lake Huron among basic gastrointestinal pathology, he is strolling through apple orchards or tearing through American history books. He became the Director of the Division of Quality and Health Improvement to run a root-cause analysis on exactly why he can not seem to find his car at the end of the day. Despite his forgetfulness, he truly brings a refreshing passion for teaching to the Department of Sailing ... I mean Pathology!

Seetha Monrad: Zoom Olympus goddess of wisdom and war-- I mean, Rheumatology-- Dr. Seetha Monrad is a staunch advocate of medical student education and a Dean Extraordinaire. Her trademark topknot is a sign that she means business.

Sharon Kileny: Bubbly pediatrician whose love of children has landed her in an endless struggle trying to convince Ann Arbor moms that crystals and essential oils will not protect their children from illness.

Stephen Aronson: This son of Aron tries to make his father proud by solving the psychiatric issues of our nation's veterans and yet somehow is still a disappointment.

Vineet Chopra: Every morning, Vineet Chopra wakes up, puts on three pairs of surgical gloves, brushes his teeth with hand sanitizer, and plays his personal, edited version of Avril Lavigne’s hit classic, singing in the mirror “Why’d you have to go and make hospital Complications?!” Staunch in his beliefs, and even more committed to the perfect tie dimple, nothing will stop Dr. Chopra from making medicine safer by the day.