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Steven Angus, MD, FACP
Program Director
Dr. Angus was born and raised in Connecticut. He received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his MD degree from Ross University. He completed his residency including a chief medical resident year at the University of Connecticut. Upon completing his residency Dr. Angus joined the faculty at UConn and was an Associate Program Director before assuming the role of Program Director in 2004. Dr. Angus has a special interest in educational innovations design and research.
Richard Alfred Garibaldi, M.D., F.A.C.P.
Dr. Garibaldi is the man whose vision is responsible for the current integrated Internal Medicine Residency Program at UConn. In the early 1990’s each of our area hospitals had their own residency program. Dr Garibaldi envisioned one combined program that would allow our residents to draw on the educational strength of each institution and received a diverse educational experience. Thus was born our current residency program, a program that Dr. Garibaldi served as the Program Director of for 17 years! After stepping down as Program Director, he served as the Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine from 1998 to 2006. Though “retired” he is still very active within the educational program and the University. He commenced his medical training at Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts and proceeded by completing his residency at the Boston City Hospital. It was at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City that Dr. Garibaldi fulfilled his fellowship training. His academic interests include hospital epidemiology and infection control.
Jacqueline (Kiki) Nissen, MD, FACP
Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education
Dr. Kiki Nissen is currently the Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education and acting Designated Institution Official at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. In her role as DIO, she is involved in the oversight of approximately 50 graduate medical education programs and over 600 residents and fellows. She has been in this role since January 1, 2007.
In addition to her work as Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education, Dr. Nissen has remained in the Department of Medicine in her capacity as Vice Chair of Education. She was the Program Director for Internal Medicine from 2000-2005. Overall, she has been involved in graduate medical education at the University of Connecticut since 1986. Dr. Nissen enjoys educational innovation and she is working to become a leader and advocate for innovation in her role as Associate Dean at the University of Connecticut.
Joseph Palmisano, MD
Chairman, Department of Medicine
UConn Health Center
Dr. Palmisano attended medical school at State University of New York Health Science Center, Brooklyn College of Medicine, Downstate. After completing his residency at Johns Hopkins University, he commenced his fellowship training at Boston University Medical Center specializing in Nephrology. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine as well as Nephrology and currently holds the position as Vice Chairman in the Department of Medicine at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
Bernard A. Clark, III, MD
Chairman, Department of Medicine
Associate Chief, Section of Cardiology
Dr. Clark obtained his B.S. (Chemistry) from Dickinson College in 1973. He received his M.D. from the George Washington University School of Medicine in 1977. His Internal medicine residency and cardiology fellowship performed at Hartford Hospital. After his fellowship, Dr. Clark joined the faculty at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center as director of the cardiac rehabilitation program and exercise laboratories in 1984. His academic interests have been in exercise training and testing, particularly in patients with ischemic and valvular heart disease and heart failure.
Michael C. Lindberg, MD, FACP
Chairman, Department of Medicine
Hartford Hospital
Dr. Michael Lindberg received his bachelor of science and medical degrees from Georgetown University. After completing his internal medicine residency training at St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center, Hartford, CT, he spent four years in the National Health Service Corp, stationed in rural Alabama. He joined the faculty of the University of Alabama Capstone Residency Program and then returned to Connecticut for fellowship training in Geriatric Medicine. Dr. Lindberg assumed the position of Director of the Department of Medicine at Hartford Hospital in 2008. His special interests include the development of patient safety programs and quality initiatives.
Adam R. Silverman, MD, FACP
Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine
Associate Program Director, University of Connecticut Health Center
Dr. Silverman joined the University Connecticut Health Center in 2001 after 7 years in private practice. He completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at the Northwestern University School of Medicine in 1995, received his MD from the Pennsylvania State University in 1991, and graduated from Middlebury College in 1986. In addition to serving as an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Programs, Dr. Silverman is also the Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine.
Ralph Martin, MD
Associate Program Director, Saint Francis Hospital
Site Director, Saint Francis Hospital
Born in New York, Dr. Martin grew up in suburban New Jersey. He graduated from MIT, Cambridge, Mass., with a double-major and two Bachelor of Science degrees (Chemistry and Life Sciences). He earned his Medical degree from New Jersey Medical School, Newark, then returned to Massachusetts for his Internal Medicine residency at Saint Vincent Hospital, Worcester, Mass. Dr. Martin entered private practice in Worcester for five years before a career in academic medicine. As a faculty member, he taught internal medicine in the Department of Family Medicine at Ohio State University, Columbus, and was Associate Program Director of the Helene Fuld Hospital Internal Medicine Residency Program, Trenton, N.J. He was then recruited by Dr. J. David Schnatz to his current position as Director of Educational Programs in the Department of Medicine at Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. Martin's major academic interests are medical education and the basic science underpinnings of modern medical practice.
Wendy A. Miller, MD
Associate Program Director, UCHC
Site Director, UCHC
Dr. Miller joined the faculty of the University of Connecticut Health Center in 2005. She received her undergraduate degree from Villanova University. She received her MD from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine in 1996. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1999. Dr. Miller serves as an Associate Program Director for the Categorical Internal Medicine Residency Program. She is also the Site Director for both the Categorical and Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Programs at John Dempsey Hospital. Dr. Miller’s clinical practice is as a hospitalist at John Dempsey Hospital.
Peruvamba R. Venkatesh, MD
Associate Program Director, Hartford Hospital
Site Director, Hartford Hospital
Dr. Venkatesh graduated in 1978 from Bangalore Medical College in India. He trained in medicine in India before moving to the United Kingdom in 1984. He trained in the National Health Service of Great Britain in Internal Medicine and several of the medical specialties. He is a member of The Royal College of United Kingdom. He moved to the United States in 1993 and trained in the Internal Medicine Training Program at the UCONN Health Center. He joined the full-time medical staff of Hartford Hospital in 1995 specializing in acute inpatient medical care and has been an integral part of the Internal Medicine Training Program since that time. He is the Site Director for Hartford Hospital and one of the Associate Program Directors. His areas of interest includes clinical medicine, medical education, patient safety and quality.
Gregory R. Czarnecki, DO
Osteopathic Program Director
Dr. Czarnecki is currently the Assistant Director in the Department of Medicine at Hartford Hospital and is on the Board of Directors for the Connecticut Osteopathic Medical Society. He began his schooling at Providence college where he earned his undergraduate degree and went on to complete medical school at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2002. From there, Dr. Czarnecki participated in an Internship at the University of Connecticut for one year as an Osteopathic Resident and finished his additional two years of residency at the University of Connecticut in the Internal Medicine Program. In 2005, he spent a year at the Fitchburg Family Practice Center at U.Mass where he completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine. He is board-certified in both Internal Medicine and Sports Medicine.
Dalal M Chenouda, MD
VA Ambulatory Director
VA Site Coordinator
Dr. Chenouda completed medical school at State University of New York at Stony Brook. Following medical school, she concluded her residency at the Montefiore Medical Center (Albert Einstein College of Medicine) in Bronx, New York. It was at Montefiore Medical Center that she took on the role of Chief Medical Resident. On completion of her training, she joined The Albert Einstein College of Medicine (Monefiore Medical center) Faculty Practice. After five years in practice, I later joined the UCONN Internal Medicine Associates in Farmington CT. She is currently practicing at the Newington VA Medical Center, an outpatient, Primary care facility focusing on veteran’s health care issues and war associated conditions. Her interests include Women's health and resident education.
Weishali Joshi, MD
Ambulatory Director, Saint Francis Hospital
Dr. Joshi holds the position of Director of Adult Medicine at the Gengras Ambulatory Clinic of Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford, CT. Her position also involves being the Ambulatory Site Director for the University of Connecticut Internal Medicine Residency program, as well as Assistant professor of Medicine at the University of Connecticut Medical School. She is an Undergraduate from Grant Medical College, Mumbai, India. She completed her Post graduate residency in Internal Medicine at Lokmanya Tilak Medical Center, Sion, Mumbai, India and her Residency in Internal medicine at the UConn Internal Medicine Residency program. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and her clinical interests include Primary care, Womens Health, Osteoporosis, and Diabetes.
Cunegundo Manuel Diego Vergara, MD, FACP
Ambulatory Director, Hartford Hospital
Dr. Vergara received his Bachelors of Arts in chemistry from The College of The Holy Cross (Worcester, MA) in 1987 and his MD degree in 1992 from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ)-Newark. After graduating from UMDNJ, he completed his internship and residency in internal medicine in 1995 at The New York Hospital- Cornell Medical Center. He is certified, and successfully recertified in 2005, in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Vergara currently holds the rank of Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine at University of Connecticut School of Medicine and adjunct staff at the University of Connecticut College of Pharmacy. He currently serves as the Director of Ambulatory Education at Hartford Hospital for the Department of Medicine, Ambulatory Site Director for the University of Connecticut Internal Medicine Residency Program over the last eight years.
Anat Bergner, MD
Key Clinical Faculty
Dr. Bergner, Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut, completed her residency at the University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester, MA. Before that, she attended Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. She received her undergraduate degree from Brown University in Rhode Island.
Douglas C. D’Andrea, MD, MPH
Key Clinical Faculty
Dr. D’Andrea, an Internal Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine specialist, is a graduate of New York University School of Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine internship and residency followed by a Masters in Public Health and a residency in Occupational and Environmental Medicine at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. He is board- certified in Internal Medicine and Occupational and Environmental Medicine and works as a hospitalist at the John Dempsey Hospital at the University of Connecticut Health Center. He is a key faculty member of the internal medicine residency program and his academic interests include hospital medicine, quality improvement, evidence-based medicine practice and teaching, and public health policy.
Sundaram V. Ramanan, MD, MS (Pharmacology)
Key Clinical Faculty
Dr. Ramanan is Professor of Clinical Medicine, Senior Attending Physician St. Francis Hospital. He is a current fellow of The Royal College of Physicians (Edinburgh) and of The Royal Society of Medicine (London). He attended medical school at CMC Vellore in India and completed his residency at British National Health Service. From there he went on to complete a Fellowship at the Royal Infirmary in Manchester, England. Dr. Ramanan is the Former Chairman of Hematology/Oncology at the West Virginia University School of Medicine and Mount Sinai Hospital Hartford. He is also the recipient of several teaching awards. His special interests involve History of Medicine, Medicine in Literature, and Creative Writing (Medical and Non-Medical).
Nicole Silverstein, MD
Key Clinical Faculty
Dr. Silverstein grew up in sunny San Diego. She attended the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and then completed her Internal Medicine Residency, including a Chief Medical Resident year at the University of Connecticut’s Internal Medicine Residency Program. Her area of expertise and interest lies in the co-management of medical issues during the peri-operative period and she is the director of our medical consultation service here at John Dempsey Hospital.
Renu Bansal, MC
Chief Medical Resident
Dr. Bansal is an alumnus of the Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India. She went on to do her residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi and graduated with an MD and DNB. She is currently a Chief Medical Resident at the St Francis Hospital and will be joining the Tufts New England Medical Center as a Nephrology fellow in July 2010. Her research interests include Contrast Nephropathy and Home Blood Pressure Monitoring.
Saneka Chakravarty, MD
Chief Medical Resident
Dr Chakravarty attended medical school at Calcutta Medical College, India. Currently she is the Chief Resident at University of Connecticut after completing her residency in the Internal Medicine program. Her research interests include cardiac memory and QTc interval in paced rhythm. Next year Saneka will move on to do cardiology fellowship at University of Connecticut. Her other interests include painting and travel.
Priyanka Kanth, MD
Chief Medical Resident
Dr. Kanth graduated from Kasturba Medical College in Southern India. After medical school she worked briefly as a research fellow in gastroenterology in AIIMS, New Delhi. Later she worked as a resident in British National Health Service for two years before joining medicine residency at University of Connecticut and is currently a Chief resident at St Francis Hospital. Dr Kanth begins her gastroenterology fellowship at University of Utah in Salt Lake City next year. Her research interests include colon cancer prevention, tumor immunology of colorectal cancers, H.Pylori and peptic ulcer disease. In her free time she enjoys going on long drive, traveling and spending time with family and friends.
Vimal Rabdiya, MD
Chief Medical Resident
Dr. Rabdiya graduated in 2002 from B. J. Medical College, Ahmedabad, India. He completed his Internal medicine residency at V. S. General Hospital of Ahmedabad in 2005. He joined the Internal Medicine residency at University of Connecticut in 2006 and currently shares the role as chief medical resident at the Hartford Hospital. His future plan is to attend cardiology fellowship at Hartford Hospital. In his free time, Dr. Rabdiya enjoys reading, hiking and passing time with family and friends.
Sharad Sathyan, MD
Chief Medical Resident
Dr. Sathyan was born and raised in Bangalore, India. He obtained his medical degree from St. John's Medical College in Bangalore, after which he joined the Internal Medicine residency program at the University of Connecticut. He currently shares the role of Chief Medical Resident at Hartford Hospital. His academic interests include transplantation, fluid and electrolytes, and CKD-MBD. He will begin a fellowship in Nephrology at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan next year. His hobbies include traveling, cooking, exercise, soccer, the Yankees, the Lakers and Manchester United.
Ruchir Trivedi MB, MD, MSc, MRCP
Chief Medical Resident
Dr. Trivedi attended N. H. L. medical college in India and finished his residency at Civil Hospital, Ahmedabad, India. Before coming to United States, he did his MSc with distinction at Northern General Hospital, University of Sheffield, UK. His main areas of interest are in Epidemiology of Chronic Kidney Disease in high risk population and transplant immunology. Subsequently, he finished his Royal College of Physician training in UK and was awarded MRCP (UK) in 2007. He has strong interest in medical education and has been involved in resident education throughout his training. He currently serves as a chief resident at University of Connecticut Health centre. Next year Ruchir will move on to do Nephrology fellowship at UCONN. His passion and interests are evidence based physical examination and teaching. He enjoys spending time with his family and friends, travelling and writing short stories while not at work. |
