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: Molecules to Populations

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

CHESTER BROWN, PhD
Director 

JONATHAN MCJUNKIN, MD
Assistant Director, M1 Section

 

SATHYA SUBBIAH, MD
Assistant Director, M2 Section

 

Introduction to Clinical Practice (Longitudinal)

AMY MACDOUGALL, MD
Director 

RICK LEMA, MD
Assistant Director 

 

 

Cardiovascular

Wawrzyniec Dobrucki

WAWRZYNIEC DOBRUCKI, PhD
Assistant Director

 

 

Respiratory

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

SHASHI KARIYAWASAM, MD
Assistant Director 

 

 

Renal

TBD
Assistant Director 

 

 

Clinical Neuroscience

DAN LLANO, MD, PhD
Director 

IWONA DOBRUCKA, PhD
Assistant Director 

 

 

Musculoskeletal and Integumentary System

JEFF WOODS, PhD
Director

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

MANUEL HERNANDEZ, PhD
Assistant Director

SANJIV JAIN, MD, UHM
Assistant Director 

Digestion, Nutrition, & Metabolism

<em>Jaya Yodh</em>

JAYA YODH, PhD
Director

TBD
Assistant Director

 

 

Endocrine, Genitourinary, & Women's Health

SATHYA SUBBIAH, PhD
Assistant Director

 

RON KONCHANIN, MD
Assistant Director

Hematology/Oncology, Infection, & Immunity

PRIYANK PATEL, MD
Assistant Director

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multi-System Conditions

JO ANN ARCHEY, MD
Assistant Director

 

 

Synthesis & Summary


NASSER GAYED, MD
Assistant Director

 

 

Family Medicine Continuity Clinic

 

 

Clerkship Family Medicine

ELIZABETH KIM, DO
Director 

AMOL NAIK, MD, MSc
Assistant Director-Urbana

 

 

Clerkship Internal Medicine

ABIGAIL ADAMS, MD
Clerkship Director 

APRIL YASUNAGA, MD
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

Rizwan Malik, MD
Assistant Clerkship Director-BroMenn

Clerkship Surgery

HENRY MOORE, MD
Clerkship Director

Mohammed Elshamy

MOHAMMED ELSHAMY, MBBCh
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

JOE NEWCOMER, MD
Assistant Clerkship Director-BroMenn

 

Clerkship Ob/Gyn

ELSA WHITMORE, MD, FACOG
Clerkship Director

NANCY FAY, MD
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

ELLEN HAAS, MD
Assistant Clerkship Director-BroMenn

 

Clerkship Pediatrics

ERIKA MCLEAN, MD
Clerkship Director

IAN JUSTEMENT, MD
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

 

 

Clerkship Neurology

GRAHAM HUESMANN, MD, PhD
Clerkship Director

NEIL SHARMA, MD
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

IBRAHIM MUSTAFA, DO
Assistant Clerkship Director-BroMenn 

Clerkship Psychiatry

SUZY KITTEN, MD
Clerkship Director

CHARLES HAWLEY, MD, JD
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana

GIRISHKUMAR DHORAJIA, MD
Assistant Clerkship Director-BroMenn

 

IDEA Course

GIRISH KRISHNAN, PhD
Assistant Director

 

 

Career Bootcamp

LIANGHE GAO, MD
Assistant Director

 

 

Bioethics & Medical Humanities Thread Director

RACHAEL RUBIN
Co-director

MICHAEL AREF
Co-director

 

 

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