Med-Peds residents have distinguished themselves by receiving awards from both departments. In the past years:

• two have been named "Outstanding Graduating Resident in Pediatrics" by pediatric faculty
• one has been named "Outstanding Teaching Graduate in Pediatrics" by pediatric residents
• one has been named "Outstanding Graduating Resident in Internal Medicine"
• one has been named "Outstanding Teaching Fellow in Internal Medicine"
• one of our residents was elected to the Rush AOA by Rush medical students
• two residents were named "Hero of the Heart," an award given by the Rush Religion, Health and Human Values Department for exceptional compassion and caring in working with patients and their families

2007

Kiranjit “Kiran” Deol MD
Kiran is a Med-Peds physician at The Friends and Family Center, an affiliate of the University of Chicago Hospitals.

Darius Loghmanee MD
Darius is completing his fellowship training program in Sleep Disorders here at Rush.

Juanita Mora MD
Juanita is an Allergy/Immunology fellow at Rush.

Deanna Ward MD
Deanna is a member of a family medicine practice in Oakland, California this fall.

Evelyn Yoh, MD
Evelyn is in the adult pulmunology/critical care fellowship program at Loyola Medical Center.

2006

Mary Barsanti, MD
Mary is in her second year of a combined Med-Peds Infectious Diseases fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis.

Courtney Blair, MD
Courtney is in her second year of Allergy/Immunology fellowship training here at Rush.

Brad Tilford. MD
Brad is in his second year of critical care fellowship training at Children’s Memorial Medical Center in Chicago.

2005

Surabhi “Mona” Mehrotra, MD
Mona spent a year working as a hospitalist at a community hospital in Chicago before joining the Rush Med-Peds faculty.

Ira Shetty, MD
Ira was the pediatric chief resident at Rush the year before beginning her fellowship training in pediatric cardiology at Columbia Presbyterian Hospital in New York. She is currently in her second year of training.

Janiece Stewart, MD
Janiece is a sports medicine physician and faculty member at St. Louis University Medical School

2004

Leon Cheng, MD
Leon completed a sports medicine fellowship at the Medical College of Wisconsin and currently works as a Med-Peds practitioner in the Sacramento, California area.

Andy Kavanaugh-Black, MD
Andy is a hospitalist working primarily in the southwest suburban area of Chicago. He, his wife and two teen-aged children continue to enjoy their Chicago home and neighborhood.

Ron Levy, MD
After his chief residency at Rush North Shore Hospital last year, Ron began three years of fellowship training in gastroenterology at Rush. Now in his last year of training at Rush, Ron hopes to relocate to his native South Florida next year. Before graduating from the Med-Peds program, he was one of the three residents, from all the Rush residency disciplines, chosen by the Rush AOA student organization to be inducted into the Rush AOA.

Teresa Lynch, MD
Terry was hired as a member of the teaching faculty at Rush University Medical Center and attending at Lifetime Medical Associates, the Med-Peds practice at Rush. Before graduating, she received an award given to the "Outstanding Graduating Resident" by the Rush pediatric teaching faculty. Terry, her husband, and three young children live in Evanston, a suburb north of Chicago.

Rachel Plotinsky, MD
After leaving Rush, Rachel completed one year as an officer for the Epidemic Intelligence Service Program of the Centers for Disease Control in New Hampshire. She and her husband relocated to Concord, NH when she began an infectious disease fellowship at Dartmouth.

2003

Ngozi Ezike, MD
Ngozi is a Med-Peds practitioner who splits her time between two of John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County's Chicago area ambulatory sites. She, her husband and young family live in LaGrange, a western suburb of Chicago.

Evangeline "Vangie" Galvez, MD
Vangie is a Med-Peds physician with Massachusetts General Hospital Healthcare center in Revere, Massachusetts. The year before accepting her current position, Vangie taught Japanese medical students in Sapporo, Japan. Vangie is a past recipient of the "Outstanding Graduating Resident" award given by the Rush pediatric faculty members.

Justin Lee, MD
Justin and his wife moved to Seattle, Washington so he could pursue fellowship training in adult cardiology at the University of Washington. Justin completed his training in 2006 and now works for an adult cardiology practice in Seattle.

2002

Darin Harnisch, MD
Darin completed an infectious diseases fellowship program at Rush. He currently works in the Infectious Disease Department at Lutheran General Hospital in Park Ridge, IL. In 2002. while at Rush, Darin was voted one of three "Outstanding Teaching Residents" by the Rush internal medicine house staff. The next year he received an "Outstanding Fellow Teaching Award" from the internal medicine faculty and house staff. Darin, his wife and two young daughters live in River Forest, a suburb west of Chicago.

Brian Kendall, MD
Brian is the associate director of a Med-Peds hospitalist practice in the Charleston, South Carolina area.

Jennifer Ko Jao, MD
After finishing residency, Jennifer worked as a Med-Peds physician at the Lawndale Christian Health Center on Chicago’s west side. She and her husband recently relocated to New York, where she worked as a Med-Peds primary care practitioner. This year Jennifer began a combined MPH/Infectious Diseases fellowship at Mt. Sinai in New York City.

Jeff Kulik, MD
Jeff, his wife and two young daughters live in Elmwood Park, a western suburb of Chicago. After graduating from the Rush Med-Peds program, Jeff worked as a Med-Peds practitioner in an ambulatory care office at Oak Park Hospital. Subsequently, he returned to Rush for allergy/immunology fellowship training, and now works as a practitioner at Oak Park Hospital and at an outpatient facility in Elmhurst, Illinois.

2001

Kathy Gall Behler, MD
Kathy, her husband and two young children live in a suburb southwest of Chicago. Kathy works as a part-time hospitalist in a community hospital near her home.

Steve Cico, MD
Steve reluctantly left Chicago when he finished residency in order to complete a pediatric emergency medicine fellowship at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. He moved to Nashville after fellowship training, where he accepted a position in the Pediatric Emergency Department of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

Michael Earing, MD
After residency, Mike, his wife and triplet girls left the Chicago area and temporarily relocated to Rochester, MN, where he completed a pediatric cardiology fellowship program at the Mayo Clinic. After completing his fellowship, he joined the pediatric cardiology staff at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Mike is also a past recipient of the Rush pediatric faculty's "Outstanding Graduating Resident" award.

Stephanie Evans, MD
Stephanie moved to Phoenix, AZ when her husband began a family practice residency there after she finished her Med-Peds training. Stephanie joined an office practice in the Phoenix area, putting her Med-Peds training to use as a primary care practitioner. More recently, Stephanie has also taken on some hospitalist and academic teaching responsibilities.

2000

Terry Clarbour, MD
Terry completed a geriatrics fellowship at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood, IL. She recently opened her own adult practice in Lagrange, a suburban community West of Chicago. Terry is also Hospice and Palliative Board Certified.

Stephanie Luther, MD
Stephanie is a member of the teaching faculty at Rush University Medical Center, associate program director of the Rush Med-Peds program and a Med-Peds attending at Lifetime Medical Associates/Rush Union Care, the Med-Peds practice at Rush.

Tony Pangan, MD
Tony, his wife and their two young daughters live in LaGrange, a western suburb of Chicago. Tony is a Med-Peds primary care practitioner at a Loyola Medical Center satellite clinic in a suburb not far from his home.

Todd Stewart, MD
Todd completed a critical care fellowship program at Children's Memorial Medical Center in Chicago. After his fellowship training, he, his wife and two young children moved to Marshfield, Wisconsin where he works as a pediatric intensivist. Todd is also the Chairman of Subspecialty Pediatrics at Marshfield Center.