Program Administration
Amanda Hartke, MD PhD
Program Director, Pediatric Residency
Dr. Hartke received her MD/PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2009 and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Texas Southwestern. After residency, she joined the faculty at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas where she received the Clinical Teaching Award for Core Clerkship Teachers. In 2014, Dr. Hartke returned to South Carolina and joined the Greenville faculty as a pediatric hospitalist. Since that time, she has committed herself to pediatric medical education, and received the 2017 USCSOM Greenville Golden Peach Award for Excellence in M4 Education,the 2020 Outstanding Faculty Research Award from Prisma Health Upstate, and the 2022 Exemplary Character Award from the Pediatric Residency. She served as the USCSOM Greenville Pediatric M4 Director for 7 years and the Pediatric Residency Associate Program Director for 6 years prior to transitioning to the Program Director position in 2021. Dr. Hartke is also the faculty co-advisor for the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Her academic interests include pediatric hospital medicine, humanism in medicine, and medical education including the transition from medical school to residency.
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Mark Krom, DO
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency
Dr. Krom received his medical degree from the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine – Virginia Campus in 2013. During his pediatric residency at Greenville Health System, he received the Miracle Maker award and medical student teaching award. He then completed one year as chief resident before joining the pediatric faculty. Dr. Krom also serves as the Chair for the Pediatric Peer and Quality Review Committee. His academic interests include medical education, physician wellness, and mentorship.
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Kindal Dankovich, MD
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency
Dr. Dankovich (more affectionately known as Dr. Kindal to her patients) received her medical degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville in 2016 where she was honored to be part of the charter class. While at USCSOMG, she was inducted into the AOA Honor Medical Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. During her residency at Prisma Health, she won the Outstanding House Staff Research Award, First Place at the SCAAP for her Quality Improvement project, the Miracle Maker Award, and Pediatric Resident Teacher of the Year. After graduation from residency, she served as Pediatric Chief Resident for a year and subsequently joined the faculty at Prisma Health and has been honored with theOutstanding Faculty Teaching Award for the past 3 years(2020-2022). Her academic interests include graduate and undergraduate medical education, simulation education, physician wellness, and mentorship.
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Natalie Bikulege, MD
Assistant Program Director / Chief Resident
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Bennett Mack, MD
Assistant Program Director / Chief Resident
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Sudha Garimella, MD
Fellowship and Subspecialty Liaison
Dr. Sudha Garimella joined the residency team in 2017 to provide additional assistance to residents preparing for and applying to fellowship programs. Prior to joining Prisma Health, Dr. Garimella helped lead the Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship at SUNY Buffalo. She is also an actively funded researcher, pursuing projects including biomarkers for obesity related chronic kidney disease and is also a leader in simulation-based medical education at USCSOM Greenville. Dr. Garimella acts as a resource to residents in identifying both internal and external subspecialty mentors, developing subspecialty research and quality improvement projects, grant and manuscript submission, as well as CV and fellowship application planning.
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Sarah Hinton, MD
Program Director, Medicine Pediatrics Residency
Dr. Hinton is a native of South Carolina. She received her undergraduate degree from Wofford College and her medical degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She completed her Med-Peds residency at Prisma Health and served as chief resident in her 4th year. Following residency, she worked at a federally qualified health center in the. She returned to Prisma Health in 2016. During her time at Prisma Health, Dr. Hinton has served as the adolescent medicine rotation director, the medical director of Student Health Services at Furman University, the assistant medical director for the Center for Family Medicine, and associate program director for the Med-Peds residency program. She is currently the chairperson of the Prisma Health Pediatric to Adult Care Transition committee. Her special interests include caring for under-resourced communities, adolescent medicine, LGBT+ care, pediatric to adult care transition, and advocacy.
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Robin N. LaCroix, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatrics / Medical Director, Children’s Hospital
Dr. LaCroix received her MD degree from the University of South Carolina in 1986. She did a Pediatric internship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then completed her Pediatric Residency at the Greenville Health System in 1989. After residency, Dr. LaCroix was in private Pediatric practice for 2 ½ years before leaving to do a fellowship at Emory University in Pediatric Infectious Disease. In 1995, Dr. LaCroix returned to Greenville to establish the Division of Infectious Disease at the Children’s Hospital and served as the Center for Pediatric Medicine associate clinic director for several years. In 2001 when the Med-Peds residency was created, Dr. Lacroix served a Co-program director of the residency until 2008. She is Pediatric Hospital Epidemiologist and was Vice Chair of Quality and Medical Staff Affairs for Pediatrics until 2017 when she became Medical Director of Children’s Hospital and Chair of Department of Pediatrics. Dr. LaCroix is still practicing Pediatric Infectious Disease at Children’s Hospital.
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Mandy Komenko
Program Administrator, Pediatric Residency
Phone:864-455-7895
Email:mandy.komenko@prismahealth.org
Mandy, a Florida native, moved to Greenville in 2008. Shortly after, she accepted a position with Prisma Health. In 2012 she moved into the role as the Pediatric Residency Program Coordinator. What she loves most about her job is EVERYTHING. Mandy says it’s rewarding to watch the residents grow from interns into confident physicians and knowing in some way she played a part in it. Mandy and her husband Bobby have been married since 2001. They have a daughter named Madison and 2 very happy but rambunctious chocolate labs named Hershey and Sophie. In her free time, Mandy enjoys watching football (GO TIGERS), going to see theatrical plays with her daughter and anything fall weather related.
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Diana Magana
Program Assistant, Pediatric Residency
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Pediatrics General Teaching Faculty
The responsibilities of a general pediatrician have the potential to encompass a wide variety of clinical environments, such as the inpatient ward, outpatient clinic, or newborn nursery, as well as a spectrum of patient ages and concerns, ranging from the well child to one that is medically-complex. Our general pediatric teaching faculty reflect these roles as many maintain their skills in multiple arenas. This also mirrors our goal as a residency in building a strong foundation in general pediatrics, affording our residency graduates confidence in the innumerable possible clinical scenarios they will encounter in post-residency life.
Blakely Amati, MD
Clinic / Nursery
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Jessica Boyd, MD
Clinic / Nursery
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Ryan Bromm, DO
Clinic / Nursery
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Elizabeth Burton, MD
Clinic
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Kindal Dankovich, MD
Hospitalist / Clinic / Nursery
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Yasmin Deliz, DO
Clinic / Pediatric Sports Med
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Raquel Denis, MD
Nursery
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Karen Eastburn, MD
Hospitalist / Clinic
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Megan Fuqua, MD
Hospitalist / Nursery
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Jeffrey Gerac, MD
Hospitalist / Chief Medical Information Officer
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Matt Grisham, MD
Hospitalist / Clinic
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Amanda Hartke, MD PhD
Hospitalist / Outpatient Clinic
Dr. Hartke received her MD/PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2009 and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Texas Southwestern. After residency, she joined the faculty at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas where she received the Clinical Teaching Award for Core Clerkship Teachers. In 2014, Dr. Hartke returned to South Carolina and joined the Greenville faculty as a pediatric hospitalist. Since that time, she has committed herself to pediatric medical education, and received the 2017 USCSOM Greenville Golden Peach Award for Excellence in M4 Education and the 2020 Outstanding Faculty Research Award. She served as the USCSOM Greenville Pediatric M4 Director for 7 years and the Pediatric Residency Associate Program Director for 6 years prior to transitioning to the Program Director position in 2021. Dr. Hartke is also the faculty co-advisor for the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Her academic interests include pediatric hospital medicine, humanism in medicine, and medical education including the transition from medical school to residency.
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Sarah Hinton, MD
Clinic
Dr. Hinton is a native of South Carolina. She received her undergraduate degree from Wofford College and her medical degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She completed her Med-Peds residency at Prisma Health and served as chief resident in her 4th year. Following residency, she worked at a federally qualified health center in the. She returned to Prisma Health in 2016. During her time at Prisma Health, Dr. Hinton has served as the adolescent medicine rotation director, the medical director of Student Health Services at Furman University, the assistant medical director for the Center for Family Medicine, and associate program director for the Med-Peds residency program. She is currently the chairperson of the Prisma Health Pediatric to Adult Care Transition committee. Her special interests include caring for under-resourced communities, adolescent medicine, LGBT+ care, pediatric to adult care transition, and advocacy.
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Carley Howard Draddy, MD
Nursery
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Jenny Hudson, MD
Newborn Nursery
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Kent Jones, MD
Pediatric Complex Care Clinic
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Russell C. Kolarik, MD
Hospitalist / Clinic
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Mark Krom, DO
Hospitalist / Clinic
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Julie Linton, MD
Clinic / Assoc. Dean of Admissions
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Saylor McCartor, DO
Hospitalist
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Easter Pennington, MD
Clinic / Nursery
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Nick Potisek, MD
Hospitalist / Nursery
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Senthuran Ravindran, MD
Med-Peds Hospitalist
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Walt Roberts, MD
Clinic
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Kerry K. Sease, MD, MPH
Clinic / Med. Dir. Bradshaw Institute for Community Child Health & Advocacy
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Andreea Stoichita, MD
Clinic / Pediatric Complex Care Clinic
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Liz Tyson, MD
Hospitalist / Vice Chair Quality
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Cady Williams, MD
Pediatric Complex Care Clinic
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Alex Yu, MD
Clinic / Nursery
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Subspecialty Teaching & Affiliated Faculty
Under the mentorship of an ever-expanding team of more than 100 medical and surgical pediatric subspecialists, residents at Prisma Health / USC SOM Greenville receive training that will prepare them for general practice, academic medicine or the fellowship of their choosing. With more than 30 specialties represented, Prisma Health Children’s Hospital offers more comprehensive “whole child” care than many of the country’s major medical centers. With only a single fellowship in the Department of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, our residents gain invaluable clinical experiences through one-on-one teaching with subspecialty attendings while on electives.
Adolescent Medicine
Austen Carter, MD
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Mike Guyton-Nunley, MD
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Sarah Hinton, MD
Dr. Hinton is a native of South Carolina. She received her undergraduate degree from Wofford College and her medical degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She completed her Med-Peds residency at Prisma Health and served as chief resident in her 4th year. Following residency, she worked at a federally qualified health center in the. She returned to Prisma Health in 2016. During her time at Prisma Health, Dr. Hinton has served as the adolescent medicine rotation director, the medical director of Student Health Services at Furman University, the assistant medical director for the Center for Family Medicine, and associate program director for the Med-Peds residency program. She is currently the chairperson of the Prisma Health Pediatric to Adult Care Transition committee. Her special interests include caring for under-resourced communities, adolescent medicine, LGBT+ care, pediatric to adult care transition, and advocacy.
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Laila Hussein, MD
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Joseph Laterza, MD
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Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP)
Meghan Doyle, MD
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Charles Hatcher, MD
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Des Kelly, MD
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Sarah Lilly, MD
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Steven Ma, MD
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Nancy Powers
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Karen Ratliff-Schaub
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Forensic Pediatrics
Mary-Fran Crosswell, MD
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Nancy Henderson, MD
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Lyle Pritchard, MD
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Pediatric Allergy & Immunology
Ashley Ekman, NP
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Erin Mullaney, MD
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John Pulcini, MD
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Carolina Raymond, PA
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Pediatric Cardiology
Susan Haynes, MD
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Benjamin Horne, III, MD
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Jon Lucas, MD
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David Malpass, MD
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Austin Raunikar, MD
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Pediatric Critical Care
Mike Avant, MD
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Eric Berning, MD
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Jonathan Boyd, MD
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Christina Goben, MD
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Darryl Gwyn, MD
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Jennifer Walker, MD
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Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Zach Burroughs, MD
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Erika Crawford, MD
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Susan Demartini, MD
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Ann Dietrich, MD
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Joyce Granger, MD
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Matthew Neal, MD
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Kevin Polley, MD
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James Sierakowski, DO
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Jeremiah Smith, MD
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Pediatric Endocrinology
James Amrhein, MD
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Elaine Apperson, MD
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Ryan Dyess, MD
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Katherine Lewis, MD
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Pediatric Gastroenterology
Liz Dancel, MD
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Michael Dougherty, MD
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Douglas Johnston, DO
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Jonathan Markowitz, MD, MSCE
Vice Chair Academics
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Colston McEvoy, MD
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Lindsay Moye, MD
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Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology
Dianna Gurich, MD
Medical Education: University of South Alabama College of Medicine
Residency: Greenville Health System
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Casey S. Hopkins, WHNP
Medical Education:Emory University
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Mary Lane, NP
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Benjie Mills, MD
Medical Director
Medical Education: University Of Alabama/Birmingham
Residency: University Of Alabama/Birmingham
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Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Alan Anderson, MD
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Nichole Bryant
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Rebecca Cook
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Chandni Dargan, MD
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Leslie Gilbert, MD
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Steve Martin, MD
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Kathryn Muschick, APRN
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Aniket Saha, MD
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Pediatric Infectious Disease
Joshua Brownlee, MD
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Sue Jue, MD
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Robin N. LaCroix, MD
Chair, Department of Pediatrics / Medical Director, Children’s Hospital
Dr. LaCroix received her MD degree from the University of South Carolina in 1986. She did a Pediatric internship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then completed her Pediatric Residency at the Greenville Health System in 1989. After residency, Dr. LaCroix was in private Pediatric practice for 2 ½ years before leaving to do a fellowship at Emory University in Pediatric Infectious Disease. In 1995, Dr. LaCroix returned to Greenville to establish the Division of Infectious Disease at the Children’s Hospital and served as the Center for Pediatric Medicine associate clinic director for several years. In 2001 when the Med-Peds residency was created, Dr. Lacroix served a Co-program director of the residency until 2008. She is Pediatric Hospital Epidemiologist and was Vice Chair of Quality and Medical Staff Affairs for Pediatrics until 2017 when she became Medical Director of Children’s Hospital and Chair of Department of Pediatrics. Dr. LaCroix is still practicing Pediatric Infectious Disease at Children’s Hospital.
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Katherine Richardson, MD
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Pediatric Neonatology
India Chandler, MD
Benton Cofer, MD
Nicole Cothran, MD
Matthew Halliday, MD
Britni Maple, MD
Catrinel Marinescu, MD
Bryan Ohning, MD
Jeffrey Ruggieri, MD
Michael Stewart, MD
Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension
Matthew Eison, MD
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Sudha Garimella, MD
Dr. Sudha Garimella joined the residency team in 2017 to provide additional assistance to residents preparing for and applying to fellowship programs. Prior to joining Prisma Health, Dr. Garimella helped lead the Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship at SUNY Buffalo. She is also an actively funded researcher, pursuing projects including biomarkers for obesity related chronic kidney disease and is also a leader in simulation-based medical education at USCSOM Greenville. Dr. Garimella acts as a resource to residents in identifying both internal and external subspecialty mentors, developing subspecialty research and quality improvement projects, grant and manuscript submission, as well as CV and fellowship application planning.
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Scott Walters, MD
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Pediatric Neurology
Michael Babco*ck, MD
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Adrienne Bruce, MD
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Emily Foster, MD
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Addie Hunnicutt, MD
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Sunjay Nunley, MD
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Jessica Wharton, MD
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Pediatric Neurosurgery
Casey Judy, PA
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Katie Lichty, DNP
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Christopher Troup, MD
Medical Director
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Pediatric Ophthalmology
Keith McCormick, MD
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Joshua Robinson
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Janette Elaine White, MD
Medical Director
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Pediatric Orthopedic Oncology
Richard “Trey” Gurich, MD
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Scott E. Porter, MD, MBA
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Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
Michael Beckish, MD
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Christopher Bray, MD
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David Lazarus, MD
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Pediatric Otolaryngology
Nathan Alexander, MD
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Kelly Hughes, PA
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Edward Penn, Jr., MD
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Pediatric Pain Management
Crystal Beacham, APRN FNP-C
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Robert Blake Windsor, MD
Medical Director
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Pediatric Palliative Care
Jessica Rabon, PhD
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Abigail Rishovd, NP
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Arun Singh, MD
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Cary Stroud, MD
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Cheryl Taylor, MD
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Pediatric Plastic Surgery
J. Cart de Brux, Jr., MD
Medical Director
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Pediatric Psychiatry
Carrie Andrews, MD
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Warren DePonti, DO
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Kunhee Lee, PA
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Karen Lommel, DO
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Elizabeth Mason, MD
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Kaye McGinty, MD
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Michael Sierra, MD
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Megan Zappitelli, MD
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Pediatric Psychology
Ermindo Natale, Psy.D.
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Pediatric Pulmonology
Michael J. Fields, MD, PhD
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Erin Kallam, DO
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Steve Snodgrass, MD
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Roni Socher, MD
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Pediatric Radiology
Michael Brinkley, MD
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Michael Evert, MD
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Erin Horsley, DO
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Pediatric Rheumatology
Matthew Clark, MD
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Lara Huber, MD
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Sarah Payne-Poff, MD
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Pediatric Sleep Medicine
Dominic Gault, MD
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Megan Hiott, NP
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James Hungerford, MD
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Roni Socher, MD
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Pediatric Surgery
John Chandler, MD
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Robert Gates, MD
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James Green, MD
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Robert Ricca, MD
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Keith Webb, MD
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Pediatric Urology
Lisa Cartwright, MD
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Melissa Hulbert, PA
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Regina Monroe, MD
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Lynn Teague, MD
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