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, PhD
Director
Introduction to Clinical Practice (Longitudinal)
AMY MACDOUGALL, MD
Director
RICK LEMA, MD
Assistant Director
Musculoskeletal and Integumentary System
JEFF WOODS, PhD
Director
MANUEL HERNANDEZ, PhD
Assistant Director
SANJIV JAIN, MD, UHM
Assistant Director
Endocrine, Genitourinary, & Women's Health
VALERIE JENNINGS, MD
Director
RON KONCHANIN, MD
Assistant Director
Hematology/Oncology, Infection, & Immunity
ASHLEY CENICEROS, MD, MPH
Director
PRIYANK PATEL, MD
Assistant Director
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, MBBCh
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana
Clerkship Ob/Gyn
ELSA WHITMORE, MD, FACOG
Clerkship Director
NANCY FAY, MD
Assistant Clerkship Director-Urbana
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
Block 2 Director
SUZY KITTEN