Faculty Course and Clerkship Directors

As a future physician-innovator at the Carle Illinois College of Medicine, your engineering-infused training will prepare you to be at the forefront of cutting edge medical innovation with the support of our Medical Education Facilitators.  These world-class educators who will walk hand-in-hand with you during your time at Carle Illinois. As a life-long learner and problem solver, you will be ready to tackle current unknowns in health care head-on.

One facilitator will lead your eight-student cohort providing support as you work through medical cases during your problem-based learning Basic Science integrated with Clinical, Engineering, and Professionalism (BiCEP) sessions. Each facilitator brings a rich background of research, teaching, technology, or medicine. They are committed to training students to become self-learners in the classroom in order to graduate as innovative problem-solvers in medicine. Hear from our Medical Education Facilitators in the video below.

Foundations

Chester Brown, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

CHESTER BROWN

Director 

TBD

Assistant Director

 

 

Introduction to Clinical Practice

 

 

Cardiovascular

NAVEED ADONI

Director

Wawrzyniec Dobrucki

WAWRZYNIEC DOBRUCKI

Assistant Director

 

 

Respiratory

SAMAR HEGAZY

Director

Shashi Kariyawasam, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

SHASHI KARIYAWASAM

Assistant Director 

 

 

Renal

JESSICA SAW

Director

HYUN JOON KONG

Assistant Director 

 

 

Clinical Neuroscience

DAN LLANO

Director 

IWONA DOBRUCKA

Assistant Director 

 

 

Muskuloskeletal and Integumentary

JEFF WOODS

Director

Manuel Hernandez, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

MANUEL HERNANDEZ

Assistant Director

SANJIV JAIN

Assistant Director 

Digestion, Nutrition, & Metabolism

JAYA YODH

Director

TBD

Assistant Director

 

 

Endocrine, Genitourinary, & Women's Health

VALERIE JENNINGS

Director

SATHYA SUBBIAH

Assistant Director

 

RON KONCHANIN

Assistant Director

 

Hematology/Oncology, Infection, & Immunity

ASHLEY CENICEROS

Director

PRIYANK PATEL

Assistant Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multi-System Conditions

GRACE PARK

Director

TBD

Assistant Director

 

 

Step 1 Review - Synthesis & Summary

TBD

Director

TBD

Assistant Director

 

 

Family Medicine Continuity Clinic

 

 

Clerkship Family Medicine

ELIZABETH KIM
Clerkship Director 

AMOL NAIK
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

 

 

Clerkship Internal Medicine

ABIGAIL ADAMS
Clerkship Director 

APRIL YASUNAGA
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

Rizwan Malik
Assistant Clerkship Director-BroMenn

Clerkship Surgery

APRYL MARTIN
Clerkship Director 

HENRY MOORE
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

Joe Newcomer
Assistant Clerkship Director-BroMenn

 

Clerkship OB/GYN

ELSA WHITMORE
Clerkship Director

NANCY FAY
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

Nona Fulk
Assistant Clerkship Director-BroMenn

 

Clerkship Pediatrics

ERIKA MCLEAN
Interim Clerkship Director

IAN JUSTEMENT
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

 

 

Clerkship Neurology

GRAHAM HUESMANN
Clerkship Director

NIEL SHARMA
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

Ibrahim Mustafa
Assistant Clerkship Director-BroMenn 

Clerkship Psychiatry

SUZY KITTEN
Clerkship Director

BEN GERSH
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

Girishkumar Dhorajia
Assistant Clerkship Director-BroMenn

 

IDEA Course

 

 

Data Science Project

DAVID LOVINGER

 

Career Bootcamp

 

 

Bioethics & Medical Humanities Thread Director

TBD

 

 

Engineering & Innovation Thread Director

 

 

Health Systems Thread Director

 

 

Lifespan Health Thread Director

 

 

Social & Structural Determinants of Health Thread Director

 

 

Block 1 Director

 

 

Block 2 Director

SUZY KITTEN

 

 

Block 3 Director