Dedicated and Accessible Faculty Make the Difference
Contact with accessible clinical faculty has been rated as the single most valuable experience during the residency training. As a result, we keep our resident:faculty ratio to 2:1.

There are approximately 35 full-time faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine. Their offices and laboratories are located in the same three story building as the patient care areas, the housestaff libraries and lounges. At RWMC, the full-time faculty and housestaff interact directly and frequently during the day. No one is "off campus" or "at the university laboratory."

The full-time faculty is augmented by a large, private practice faculty of over 60 internists, most of whom are graduates of academic training programs in the Northeast, and all of whom have offices within twenty miles of the hospital. These general internal medicine specialists serve as primary care role models for the training program. They serve as teaching attendings and service attendings. Housestaff are encouraged to maintain a longitudinal practice with one of these office-based physicians in addition to the hospital-based "Residents' Practice."

Hospitalists:
Rajnish Bansal, M.D.
Sonia Shahid, M.D.

Internal Medicine:
Kwang Won Ahn, M.D.
Greg Allen, D.O.
Mark Bell, M.D.
Dennis Botelho, M.D.
Mark Braun, M.D.
Suzanne Burns, M.D.
John Cece, M.D.
Patricia Chase, M.D.
Kimford Crawford, M.D.
Allen Dennison, M.D.
Joseph DiLorenzo, M.D.
Shawn Fazel, M.D.
Perry Garber, M.D.
Gwenyth Granton, M.D.
Pam Harrop, M.D.
Peter Hollman, M.D.
Cynthia Holzer, M.D.
Hao Huang, M.D.
Sireesha Kolachalama, M.D.
Michael Macko, M.D.
Vincent Marcaccio, M.D.
Raymond Maxim, M.D.
Frank Maggiacomo, D.O.
Leonard Mannarelli, M.D.
Vincent Marcaccio, M.D.
Timothy O'Mara, M.D.
Usha Paneerselvam, M.D.
Mark Schwager, M.D.
Parul Shah, M.D.
Puneet Sud, M.D.
Gilbert Teixeira, M.D.
Daniel Valicenti, M.D.
Cathleen Whelan, M.D.

Family Practice:
David Kerzer, D.O.

Cardiology:
Cynthia Alves, M.D.
Kirit Desai, M.D.
A. Rita-Faherty, M.D.
Chris Kelly, M.D.
Thomas Lanna, M.D.
William Levin, M.D.
Joseph Mazza, M.D.
Hani Sabbour, M.D.
Khuram Shazad, M.D.
Sajid Siddiq, M.D.

Nephrology:
Jeffrey Clement, M.D.
Christopher Cosgrove, M.D.
Richard Cottiero, M.D.
Elkin Estrada, M.D.
George Lee, M.D.
Marc Weinberg, M.D.
David Yoburn, M.D.

Hematology/Oncology:
Mehrdad Abedi, M.D.
Alan Weitberg, M.D.
Francis J. Cummings, M.D.
Richard Junghans, M.D.
Lawrence Lum, M.D.
Bharti Rathore, M.D.
Ritesh Rathore, M.D.
Anthony Thomas, D.O.

Gastroenterology:
Alan Epstein, M.D.
Thomas DeNucci, M.D.
Christy Dibble, D.O.
Amer Malik, M.D.
Michael Nissensohn, M.D.
Kevin Palumbo, M.D.
Theodore Palumbo, M.D.
Edward Pensa, M.D.
Nabil Toubia, M.D.
Paul VanZuiden, M.D.