Internal Medicine Residency Program Leadership
John McPherson, MD
Vice Chair for Education
Director, Residency Program
Clinical interests: Board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Interventional Cardiology. Special interests in chronic ischemic heart disease, acute coronary syndromes, and post cardiac arrest management.
Academic/research interests: Medical education, atherosclerosis, targeted temperature management, acute coronary syndromes
John S. Sergent, MD
Vice Chair Emeritus for Education
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Clinical interests: Board certified in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology. Major interests include vasculitis, inflammatory muscle disease, and systemic lupus
Academic interest: Medical education at the undergraduate and resident level
Brian Christman, MD
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Clinical Interests: Board certified in Medicine, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine; special interests in sepsis, ARDS, pulmonary vascular disease, asthma.
Academic/research interests—narrative medicine, pulmonary hypertension, role of lipid mediators in pulmonary pathophysiology, mechanisms of oxidant-induced lung dysfunction, urea cycle-nitric oxide trafficking in regulation of lung inflammation, lung injury after stem cell transplantation.
Neeraja Peterson, MD, MSc
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program Associate Chair, Ambulatory Education
Clinical interests: Primary care, women’s health, preventive health, chronic disease management
Academic interests: Resident ambulatory education, population health management, primary care quality metrics and team-based care, health services research
Elizabeth Ann Yakes, MD
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Clinical Interests: Outpatient General Internal Medicine; Preventive Medicine
Academic Interests: Medical Education (UME and GME); Physician Well-being; Remediation and Coaching; Leadership Training; Mentoring
Kevin Mitchell, MD, PharmD
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Clinical Interests: Board certified in Internal Medicine & Pediatrics. Special interests include hypertension, patient education and engagement, adolescent health.
Academic/research interests: Medical education, effects of micro and microaggressions on minority healthcare workers
Jacob Hathaway, MD, MPH
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Clinical Interests: Board certified in Medicine, general primary care medicine, patient adherence and health behavior change, musculoskeletal pain
Academic interests: Quality measurement and process improvement, interdisciplinary care teams and care coordination
Julie Bastarache, MD
Associate Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Clinical interest: Critical Care medicine, sepsis, ARDS, delirium, non-pulmonary organ dysfunction
Academic interests: I’m a physician scientist with a basic and translational research lab that studies cellular and molecular mechanisms of ARDS and non-pulmonary organ dysfunction in critical illness
Patrick J. Hu, MD, PhD
Executive Secretary of the Tinsley Randolph, Harrison Society
Clinical interests: Solid tumor oncology
Research interests: The role of insulin signaling pathways and endoplasmic reticulum homeostasis in development, aging, and disease