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Children's Specialty Group continues to recruit staff to meet the needs of the physicians and families we serve. Information on new hires is reported below, by date of hire.

New Hires

Date of hire: January 2012

  • John V. Kryger, MD (Urology)
  • Tamara H. Langhoff, MS, APNP (Psychiatry)
  • Tejas K. Shah, MD (Cardiology)

Date of hire: December 2011

  • Rachel M. Haake, MD (Anesthesiology)

Date of hire: November 2011

  • Sadhana K. Dharmapuri, MD (Adolescent Medicine)
  • Arthur B. Meyers, MD (Imaging)

Date of hire: October 2011 

  • Roger A. Fons, MD (Anesthesiology) 
  • Mary H. McCord, MD (Special Needs)
  • Alexander L. Okun, MD (Special Needs) 
  • Ann E. Scott, RN, MSN (Cardiology)

Date of hire: September 2011

  • Farrah N. Fang, MD (Psychiatry)
  • Christopher M. Inglese, MD (Neurology)
  • Michael W. Lawlor, MD, PhD (Pathology)
  • Anna Pesok, MD (Critical Care)
  • Meara Peterson, RN, MSN, CPNP (Adolescent Medicine)
  • Juan P. Ruiz (Pulmonary)
  • Fasiha M. Saeed, MD (Critical Care)

Date of hire: August 2011

  • Jeremy T. Affolter, MD (Critical Care)
  • Amy Bouressa, RN, MSN (Cardiology)
  • Susan S. Cohen, MD (Neonatology)
  • Shane Fehr, MD (Orthopedics)
  • Andrew Foy, MD (Neurosurgery)
  • Allison L. Grady, RN, MSN (Hematology-Oncology)
  • Rebecca L Koo, RN, MS, ARNP, CPNP (Emergency Medicine)
  • Lindsey M. Loveland Baptist, MD (Anesthesiology)
  • Leslie J. Mortland, MD (Hematology/Oncology)
  • Pariksha Patwari, MD (Hospitalist)
  • Sridhar Rao, MD, PhD (Hematology/Oncology)
  • Christopher Peske, PA-C (Imaging)
  • Julie Schmidt, RN, MSN (Cardiology)
  • Heather Stack, PA-C (Imaging)
  • Jena Tanem, RN, MSN (Cardiology)
  • Emily C. Walkey, MD (Critical Care)

Date of hire: July 2011

  • Yvonnee Chiu, MD (Dermatology)
  • Maya Evans, MD (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)
  • Lisa Joerres, MD (Emergency Medicine)
  • Michael Levas, MD (Emergency Medicine)
  • Vijenfer Karody, MD (Neonatology)
  • Navin Kumar, MD (Neonatology)
  • Nathan Schloemer, MD (Critical Care)
  • Amy Wagner, MD (Surgery)
  • Tara Webb, MD (Emergency Medicine)
  • Kimberly Wong, MD (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation)

Date of hire: June 2011

  • Amanda King, MSN, RN (Critical Care)
  • Kristina Rumler, MS, RN, CPNP (Cardiology) 

Date of hire: May 2011

  • Sarah L. Andersson, PA-C (Orthopedics)
  • Lester Proctor III, MD (Anesthesiology)

Date of hire: March 2011

  • William R. Clarke, MD (Anesthesiology)

Date of hire: February 2011

  • Jill Johnson, MSN, RN (Critical Care)
  • Kathryn Krueger, MS, RN (Cardiology)
  • T. Hang Nghiem-Rao, MD (Neonatology)
  • Ronald Woods, MD (Cardiothoracic Surgery)

Date of hire: January 2011

  • Susan Boebel, PA-C (Emergency Medicine)
  • Amy Sheil, MD (Pathology)

Date of hire: December 2010

  • Rama Bhat, MD (Neoatology)
  • Jill Grevenow, MS, APNP (Special Needs)
  • Sara Petre, MSN, APNP (Special Needs)
  • Melissa Raines, MSN, APNP (Otolaryngology)
  • Margaret Thew, APNP (Emergency Medicine)

Date of hire: November 2010

  • Lisa Crandall, MSN, APNP (Allergy/Immunology)
  • Susan Foerster, MD (Cardiology)
  • Michael Malan, MD (Anesthesiology)
  • Stephanie Merrill, MD (Neonatology)

Date of hire: October 2010

  • Andrea Bobke, MSN, RN (Cardiology)
  • Erwin Cabacungan, MD (Neonatology)
  • Katie L. DuBois, MSN, RN (Adolescent Medicine)
  • Tia Medley, MSN, APNP (Adolescent Medicine)
  • Ann E. Scott, MS, RN (Special Needs)
  • Perena Sinha, MD (Neonatology)
  • Jodi O. Spahr, MSN, RN, CPN (Emergency Medicine)
  • Sara E. Williams, PhD (Gastroenterology)

Date of hire: September 2010

  • Cheryl L. Armus, MSN, RN, FNP-BC (Hematology/Oncology)
  • Matthew Myrvik, PhD (Hematology/Oncology)
  • Anjali J. Sharma, MD (Hospital Medicine)
  • Dawn Siegel, MD (Dermatology)

Date of hire: August 2010

  • Ruby Gupta, MD (Neonatology)
  • Jenna L. Prigge, MSN, RN (Neurology)
  • Casey Sitton, MD (Emergency Medicine)
  • Christopher D. Spahr, MD (Emergency Medicine)
  • Kristen J. Tews, MD (Hematology/Oncology)
  • Bernadette Vitola, MD (Gastroenterology)
  • Kristen K. Volkman, MD (Allergy/Immunology)
  • Katie Walkowicz, PA-C (Neurology)

Date of hire: July 2010

  • Louella B. Amos, MD (Pulmonary)
  • Gina C. Bane, MD (Critical Care)
  • Dorothy S. Cheung, MD (Allergy/Immunology)
  • Kim Cronsell, MD (Emergency Medicine)
  • William A. Frese, MD (General Pediatrics)
  • Travis W. Groth, MD (Urology)
  • Samantha E. Hill, MD (Dermatology)
  • Teresa E. Kovas, MD (Critical Care)
  • Jennifer L. Liedel, MD (Critical Care/Neonatology)
  • Mohit Maheshwari, MD (Radiology)
  • Jean K. Rex, MD (Neonatology)
  • Rebecca A. Russell, MD (Critical Care)
  • Shihtien Wang, MD (Critical Care)

Date of hire: June 2010

  • Jennifer Hickman, MD (Anesthesiology)

Departures

December 2011: Vincent Biank, MD (Gastroenterology); William A. Frese, MD (Pediatrics); Kristen Humpal, PA-C (Imaging); Paola Palma Sisto, MD (Endocrinology); Neelesh A. Tipnis, MD (Gastroenterology); Sajani M. Tipnis (Neonatology)
September 2011: Teresa Kovas, MD (Critical Care); Kenneth Yen, MD (Emergency Medicine) 
August 2011:
Sherri Butler, MD (Emergency Medicine); Catherine Lefond, MD (Neurology)
July 2011: Ramin Alemzadeh, MD (Endocrine/Diabetes); Gina C. Bane, MD (Critical Care); Jeffrey C. Benson, MD (Critical Care); Joseph R. Block, MD (Critical Care); Jenny Dente, MD (Emergency Medicine); Samantha E. Hill, MD (Dermatology); Sylvia Hillman, MD (Downtown Health Center); Michelle Polfuss, RN, CPNP (Gastroenterology); Stephen P. Pontus, MD (Anesthesiology); Shaun S. Summerill, MD (Emergency Medicine); John Thomas, MD (Cardiology); Shihtien Wang, MD (Critical Care); Andrea Winthrop, MD (Surgery);
June 2011: David J. Brown (Otolaryngology)
April 2011: Colin Rudolph, MD (Gastroenterology)
March 2011: Dawn Adamson, APNP (Cardiology); Angela Maniaci, APNP (Neonatology); Uzma Scharif, MD (Neurology); Ann Scott, APNP (Special Needs)  
February 2011:
Trisha L. Kohn, APNP (Emergency Medicine); Tanya Piehl, APN (Cardiology); Mary Zupanc, MD (Neurology)
January 2011: Alan N. Mayer, MD (Gastroenterology)
December 2010: David Z. Friedberg (Cardiology)
November 2010: Elizabeth A. Moberg-Wolff, MD (PM&R)
September 2010: Scott Hagen, MD (Critical Care)
August 2010: Florence Desrosiers, MD (Adolescent Medicine); Gayle Kazmierczak, MSN, CCNS (Psychiatry); William Gershan, MD (Pulmonary); Eric Kroner, MD (Emergency Medicine); Richard D. Jacobson, MD, PhD (Neurology); Scott Hagen, MD (Critical Care)
July 2010: Anne Warwick, MD (Hematology/Oncology); Margaret M. Schweitzer, MSN, APNP
June 2010: Mary Saunders, MD (Emergency Medicine)
May 2010: Smita Bailey, MD (Imaging)
April 2010: Sheryl L. Thomsen, MSN, FNP, APNP (Adolescent Medicine)
March 2010: Linda Rabinowitz, MD, FAAP, FAAD (Dermatology)
February 2010: Micheal Levy, MD (Asthma/Allergy/Clinical Immunology)
January 2010: Sally E. Tarbell, PhD (Gastroenterology)
December 2009: Pamela Swenerton, MSN, APNP (Endocrinology)
November 2009: Elizabeth Silver, MD (Emergency Medicine)
September 2009: Melissa Gagliano, RN, MSN (Dermatology); Neil P. Mulrooney, MD (Neonatology); Beth A. Trost, MD (Pathology)
August 2009: Greta L. Duncan Wiebe, MD (Anesthesiology); Sarah P. Hansen, MD (Special Needs); Sarah J. Lerand, MD (Adolescent Medicine); Maria A. Ocasio-Silva, MD (Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation); Pamela Trapane, MD (Genetics); Thomas J. Valvano, MD (Child Protection)
June 2009: Victoria Carlson-Oehlers, MSN, APNP (Pediatrics); Laure De Mattia, DO (Gastroenterology); Lindsay R. Holzhauer, MSN, APNP (Adolescent Medicine); Jerie Beth Karkos, MD (Special Needs); Erin Milburn, PA-C (Orthopedics); Carol L. Roberson, MSN, APNP (Gastroenterology); Carolyn (Kari) Schelli, MSN, APNP (Emergency Medicine); Anjali Sharma, MD (Hospital Medicine)
May 2009: Patricia Jones-Cooper, MSN, APN (Hematology/Oncology); Hollis Mertens, MSN, APNP (Child Development)
March 2009: Carrie Ring, MSN, APNP (Otolaryngology)
January 2009: Shane Moisio, MD (Psychiatry)
December 2008: Jane D. Kivlin, MD (Ophthalmology)
November 2008: Nandini Arul, MD (Neonatology); Chad Vandrovec, MD (Anesthesiology).
October 2008: Eli M. Eisenstein, MD (Allergy/Immunology), William Grossman, MD, PhD (Hematology/Oncology)
September 2008: Rachael C. Fiul, PA-C (Surgery)
August 2008: Tammy Schumacher-Monfre, APN (Otolaryngology)
July 2008: Halim M. A. Hennes, MD (Emergency Medicine); James Jensen, MD (Psychiatry); Kristin B. Kirschner, MD (Hospitalist Medicine); Subra Kugathasan, MD (Gastroenterology)
June 2008: Jennifer Freeto, MD (Hospitalist Medicine); Danelle Plennes, PA-C (Surgery); David L. Koppein Jr., APRN (Cardiology)
April 2008: Wendy L. Grohman, MSN, APNP (Emergency Medicine)
March 2008: Marshall H. Benner, MD (Allergy/Immunology)
January 2008: Catherine Anderson, MSN, RN, APNP (Psychiatry)
October 2007: Michael K. Kim, MD (Emergency Medicine)
September 2007: Rose Mila Cipres-Jaucian, MD (Neonatology)
July 2007: Jane Brotanek, MD (Community Pediatrics); Glenn Flores, MD, FAAP (Community Pediatrics); Luke J. Lamers, MD (Cardiology); Joseph Skelton, MD (Gastroenterology); Neelam Y. Trivedi, DO (Anesthesiology)
June 2007: Vinod Doreswamy, MD (Hospitalist); Charles Havel, MD (Emergency Medicine); M. Nicole Irwin, MD (Rehabilitation and Fitness); Anna Rakovshik, MD (Emergency Medicine); Kimberly Rennie, PhD (Hematology/Oncology); Russell E. Scheffer, MD (Psychiatry)
May 2007: Gloria J. McGrath, RN, MSN, CPNP (Adolescent Medicine); Christina Willis, MSN, RN (Asthma/Allergy/Clinical Immunology)
March 2007: Jennifer Marshall, MSN, RN, APNP (Hematology/Oncology)
January 2007: Morton Soifer, MD (Allergy)

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