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Faculty

Faculty and Program Administration
Alan I. Leibowitz, MD, FACP, Chief Academic Officer in Medical Education at
Good Samaritan, was formerly our Program Director since 1989. He is
board-certified in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology. Prior to that, he
served as Dean for Student Affairs at the University of South Florida College of
Medicine in Tampa and is currently Professor of Clinical Medicine and Associate
Head, Department of Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine.
 Cheryl
O'Malley, MD,
FACP, is Program Director in the department of Internal Medicine.
Dr. O’Malley is a native of Phoenix and left only shortly to complete her
bachelor’s degree in Biology at the University of Notre Dame in 1994. She
returned to Arizona to receive her M.D.
from the University of Arizona in 1999 and then entered the Combined Internal
Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program at Good Samaritan and Phoenix Children’s
Hospital. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics.
During her residency, she served as Chief Resident in Pediatrics. In
2003, she joined the faculty at both Phoenix Children’s and Good Samaritan and
currently is our Program Director in Internal Medicine. She is actively
involved with the medical students at the University of Arizona College of
Medicine-Phoenix campus, where she is an Assistant Professor of Clinical
Medicine. Most days, you will find her attending on the inpatient medicine wards
and in both Internal Medicine and Pediatric clinics. She also sees children at
the St. Vincent de Paul clinic.
Her primary focus is inpatient adult medicine, resident education, the American
College of Physicians, and faculty development programs. If you come to her
house for journal club or a “craft night” you will see that she loves home
improvement shows and spending time with her family.
Mary
Ellen Dirlam, MD, PhD, MS, serves as Medical Director of the Samaritan
Academic Faculty Association at Banner Good Samaritan and also serves as an
Associate Director of Internal Medicine. She received her PhD in Biochemistry
from Arizona State University and her master's degree in Clinical Research
Design and Medical Biostatistics from the University of Michigan. She holds a
faculty appointment at the University of Arizona as Assistant Professor of
Clinical Medicine. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine.
Richard
Gerkin, MD, MS is a
clinical faculty member in the Department of Medicine. He has a faculty
appointment at the University of Arizona as Associate Professor of Clinical
Medicine. He received his master's degree in Clinical Research Design and
Medical Biostatistics from
the University of Michigan. He is board certified in Internal Medicine,
Cardiology, and Medical Toxicology. He was formerly the Medical Director
of the Phoenix Fire Department Health Center. He currently teaches
evidence-based medicine, participates in journal clubs of most of the residency
and fellowship training programs, runs the research rotation for 2nd
year medical residents, and offers support to investigators with study design
and statistical analysis. His research interests include neuroimaging in
Alzheimer’s Disease and endothelial dysfunction. His other interests
include karaoke, military strategy, chess, apologetics, spinning and video/music
production.
Donna
Holland, MD, is the Program Director of the Combined Internal
Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program.
A native Texan, Dr. Holland received her medical degree from the University of
Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston in 1992. She came to Phoenix to
complete residency training in the Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Program
at Good Samaritan, and has never made it back to Texas. She is board
certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. She is an Assistant
Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University Of Arizona College Of Medicine
and directs the Combined Medicine/Pediatrics fourth year clinical rotation for
medical students. She is an Associate Program Director for the Pediatrics
Residency Program affiliated with Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Maricopa
Medical Center. She is very involved in resident education, junior faculty
development projects, and community outreach.
Harvey
Hsu, MD, serves as Director of the Internal Medicine Center and Director of
the Residency Medical Informatics Department. He is board-certified in Internal
Medicine. Dr. Hsu originally moved to Phoenix in 1974, then went to the
University of Washington for his undergraduate years. After graduating
with a degree in Computer Science he attended medical school at St. Louis
University. He completed his residency at Good Samaritan in 1999 and has
been a faculty member since. Current projects involve web site design,
palm pilot programming, and Microsoft Access database programming. The
most exciting project he is working on currently is implementing the Electronic
Health Record system in the outpatient setting.
Michelle
Huddleston, MD, is an Associate Program Director of the Combined Internal
Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program. She is board-certified in Internal
Medicine and Pediatrics. A native of
North Carolina, Dr. Huddleston received her bachelor’s degree in Biology at East
Carolina University in 1990 and remained at East Carolina to receive her
Doctorate of Medicine in 1995. She then traveled to Phoenix, Arizona as a
newlywed with her husband, Sam. Michelle completed residency training in the
Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Program at Good Samaritan Regional Medical
Center and Phoenix Children’s Hospital in 1999. She joined the faculty at both
Phoenix Children’s and Good Samaritan where she currently directs the Adolescent
Program. Along with Dr. Randy Christensen, she staffs the Crews‘n Health
Mobile, a mobile van that provides medical care for homeless adolescents. Her
care for the homeless extends to a younger population at the Thomas J. Pappas
Elementary School, a school-based medical clinic for homeless youth. Her
primary focus is adolescent healthcare and resident education. Outside of work
she enjoys scrapbooking, rubberstamping, cooking and spending time with her
family.

Emily
Mallin, MD
is an Academic Hospitalist in the Department of
Internal Medicine. She was born and raised in Phoenix, but has traveled far and
wide in pursuit of her medical education. Starting in Tucson, she received
her undergraduate degree in Psychology and Spanish from the University of
Arizona. She then moved to New York where she completed a
post-baccalaureate premedical program from Columbia University. She
graduated medical school from the Sackler School of Medicine at Tel Aviv
University in Israel in 2004, before returning to Phoenix to complete her
residency and chief resident year in Internal Medicine at Good Samaritan.
She is board-certified in Internal Medicine and loves that she gets to teach
medical students and residents for a living. Her other loves include
travel and languages, skiing, and hearing her daughter's laugh.

Richard Manch, MD, FACP, FACG,
is the Medical Director for both the Samaritan Academic Faculty Association
and the Banner Good Samaritan Liver Transplantation Program. He is also the
Director of the Liver Disease Center at Banner Good Samaritan and the
chairman of the Accreditation Board of the Banner Office of Continuing
Medical Education. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and
Gastroenterology, and holds a master's degree in Health Administration. Dr.
Manch is a Clinical Professor of Medicine with the University of Arizona
College of Medicine.
Peter
P. McKellar, MD, FACP
has been an Associate Director of the program since 1977. He is a Clinical
Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of
Medicine. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases.
His interests are in learning and teaching all areas of clinical medicine.

KeriLyn Gwisdalla, MD, is an Associate
Program Director and Director of Recruitment for the Internal Medicine
Residency. She graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine
in 1995 and came to BGSMC where she completed her residency in Internal
Medicine in 1998. Subsequently she served as Chief Resident and joined the
faculty in 1999. Dr. Gwisdalla is the Director of the Internal Medicine
Clerkship for the University of Arizona medical students at BGSMC, and
also serves as Assistant Director of the Internal Medicine Residents'
Clinic. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University
of Arizona
College of Medicine and is
board-certified in Internal Medicine. Her
current interests are faculty and resident professional development, and
creating and maintaining an excellent environment in which to learn
medicine. Along with Dr. Peterson, she
holds the retreats
"How to Be a Great Resident Workshop I and II
" and promotes a balance between physical, mental and emotional health
during residency. When she's not at work or with her family, you will
usually find her at a yoga class.
Jayne
Peterson, MD, FACP
is Director of
the Good Samaritan Internal Medicine Residents' Outpatient Clinic. She obtained
her undergraduate degree in Biology at Arizona State University and medical
degree at the University of Arizona. She did her Internal Medicine residency at
Presbyterian University of Pennsylvania Medical Center in Philadelphia. She is
board certified in Internal Medicine, is an Associate Program Director for the
Internal Medicine Program and an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the
University of Arizona. Her passion is to teach ambulatory medicine and to care
for the underserved. She feels fortunate to have the perfect job that allows her
to develop the ambulatory curriculum for our Internal Medicine residents and
work with medical students during their Internal Medicine Outpatient rotations
in a clinical setting which cares for the less fortunate. She volunteers
at St. Vincent de Paul Free Clinic. Current projects include participation in
the Arizona Diabetes Initiative which is working to improve Diabetes outcomes in
our state, Internal Medicine faculty development and teaching residents about
the Quality Improvement process.
Gary
H. Salzman, MD,
has been a practitioner and teacher of Geriatric Medicine for 30 years. He is
certified in both Internal Medicine and Geriatric Medicine. He is also a
Certified Medical Director for Long Term Care, a Certified Clinical
Densitometrist, and is a Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine at the
University of
Arizona.
He has served as Medical Director of Nursing Homes in
Phoenix,
and is the current Medical Director of an Alzheimer’s Assisted Living Facility
in Phoenix.
He has directed the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Training Program at Banner
Good Samaritan Medical Center since 1999. Dr. Salzman is a member of the
Scientific Committee of the Alzheimer’s Association of
Phoenix,
and has served on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Geriatrics Society. He
was selected as Geriatrician of the Year in 2006 by the Arizona Geriatrics
Society.
Brenda
Shinar, MD, is Director of the Preliminary Medicine Residency Program and an
Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Program. She received her MD from
the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 1997, and completed her
residency in Internal Medicine at Good Samaritan in 2000. She served as Chief
Resident in Internal Medicine from 2000-2001, and then joined the faculty as an
Academic Hospitalist. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the
University of Arizona and is board certified in Internal Medicine. Dr. Shinar
enjoys reading, playing the violin, and anything to do with Cavalier King
Charles Spaniel dogs. She grew up in the Phoenix area and loves living in the
southwest where she resides with her husband, Ron, and their dog, Teddy.

Heather Bartz, DO
is an
Assistant Program Director in
Internal Medicine. Dr. Bartz
received her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the University of
California at Davis in 1997. She ventured from Northern California to the
Midwest for medical school and graduated from Kirksville College of Osteopathic
Medicine in 2002. Many of her medical school clinical rotations were in
Phoenix and she fell in love with Arizona as well as the Med-Peds program.
In 2006, she completed the Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Program at Banner Good
Samaritan/Phoenix Children’s/Maricopa Medical Center. During her 4th
year of residency she served as Med/Peds Chief Resident and loved being chief so
much she served as an out of training chief resident for both the Internal
Medicine and Pediatrics Programs.. In July of 2007, she joined the
Internal Medicine/Med-Peds faculty at Good Samaritan/Phoenix Children’s
Hospital. You will find her in many places including the adult medicine
inpatient wards and the outpatient medicine, pediatric and adolescent clinics.
Outside of work she enjoys sprint distance triathlons, hiking, and spending time
with her husband and 2 Jack Russell Terriers.
Sara
C. Stimson, MD is
an
Assistant Program Director in
Internal Medicine.
Dr. Stimson received her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the
University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, Texas in 1996. After teaching
high school biology and coaching three sports for a brief stent she travelled to
Houston to complete her medical school training at the University of Texas
Health Science Center in Houston in 2002. The Internal Medicine/Pediatrics
Program in Phoenix was the main draw out of Texas and she completed her combined
training at the the Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Program at Banner Good
Samaritan/Phoenix Children's/Maricopa Medical Center in 2006. Her love for
teaching continued as a combined Internal Medicine/Pediatric Chief Resident
which she completed in 2007. She now has joined the Internal Medicine/Med-Peds
faculty at Banner Good Samaritan/Phoenix Children's Hospital where she spends
time in both the outpatient and inpatient settings and continues to remain
dedicated to the growth and development of young physicians and medical
students. Outside of work she enjoys spending time with her partner, 2
dogs and cat, listening to music and hiking.
 Cori
Norgaard, DO
Bridget Stiegler, DO
Hospitalist for Academic Medical Service
Lori Porter, DO
Hospitalist for Academic Medical Service

Christina Bergin,
MD is an Academic Hospitalist in the Department
of Internal Medicine.
A native of Chicago, she received her Bachelor of
Arts degree in Anthropology and Preprofessional
Studies from the University of Notre Dame in 2003.
After graduating from Loyola University Chicago’s
Stritch School of Medicine in 2007, she completed
her residency training in Internal Medicine here at Banner Good Samaritan.
She served as Chief Resident from 2010-2011, and
subsequently joined the faculty as an academic hospitalist.
She is board-certified in Internal Medicine, and
enjoys being able to teach residents and medical students every day.
Her professional interests include resident
education, patient satisfaction, and improving physician-patient communication.
Outside of work, she loves hiking, photography, and
spending time with her husband, daughter, and dog.
Veterans Affairs Medical Center
VAMC
Hospitalist Physicians
Ruth Franks,
MD
Ruth Franks, M.D.
is an Associate Program Director (APD) of the combined BGSMC and VA Medical
Center residency program at the VA Medical Center where she is also a faculty
hospitalist. She is board certified in Internal Medicine. She
received her undergraduate degree from the University of Arizona in Molecular
and Cellular Biology and then attended the University of Arizona for her medical
school training which she completed in 2004. She moved to Phoenix to
complete her internal medicine residency in 2007 at BGSMC and the VA. Her
love of teaching residents and students was obvious when she accepted a position
to be one of the Junior Faculty/Chief Resident of the same program from
2007-2008. In July 2008 she accepted a position as a faculty hospitalist
and APD for the VA. She was born and raised in Arizona and has truly found
a home here in her work and her play. She loves distance runs on the
Phoenix Mountain Preserve with her young son and husband, entertaining family
and friends at her home, skiing (water and snow), and playing softball.

Christopher
Kurtz, M.D.
Christopher Kurtz, M.D. is co-director of the Program at the VA
Medical Center. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and a Clinical
Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences
Center. He graduated from the University of Arizona in 1995 with a degree in
molecular and cellular biology. He received his M.D. from the University of
Virginia in 1999; while there he was elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha medical
honor society. He completed his residency in internal medicine at BGSMC/VA
hospital in 2002. When not working hard to educate future physicians he enjoys
world travel, eating at one of the many wonderful restaurants in the Phoenix
area, and satisfying his inner artist by playing the piano and guitar.
Darren
Deering, D.O.
After receiving his Bachelors
of Science degree from Truman State University in 1995, Dr. Deering attended the
Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine in Kirksville, Missouri.
Following graduation from K.C.O.M. in 1999, he completed a Traditional Rotating
Osteopathic Internship in Long Beach, California. He then completed a
combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency at Banner Good Samaritan
Medical Center & Phoenix Children’s Hospital. During his last year
of residency, he served as a Chief Resident in the combined Med/Peds program.
Dr. Deering’s primary interest is in resident and medical student education and
he currently serves as an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine
Residency at the VA Medical Center. In addition to teaching, he enjoys
traveling, trying new restaurants and spending time with his family and friends.
David
Carl Houghton, MD
grew up in the beach communities of Orange County, California. He graduated from
the University of California-Irvine with a BS in biology in 1992 after serving
for two years as a missionary in the Spanish-speaking towns of the Rio Grande
Valley. He was then commissioned as an officer in the US Public Health Service
and attended medical school at the Uniformed Services University in Bethesda,
Maryland. After receiving his MD degree in 1996, he completed a Med-Peds
residency in our program, serving as pediatric chief resident. Since then he has
practiced full spectrum primary care for the underserved in the Salt Lake City
area, frontier emergency medicine in arctic Alaska, and community hospital
medicine/critical care at Phoenix Indian Medical Center. He served in the
National Health Service Corps program for disaster preparedness and is now part
of the Air Force Reserve’s aerospace medicine program. Dr. Houghton has been a
full time academic hospitalist at both Good Sam and the VA, and has continued to
moonlight in pediatric urgent care, pediatric hospital medicine, and Banner’s
critical care telemedicine program. He and his wife are the parents of four
teenagers. He enjoys outdoor activities, photography and video production.
Michael
Garrett, M.D.
Dr. Garrett went to medical school at the
University of Washington in Seattle, and did his medical residency training at
Maricopa Medical Center in Phoenix. He is board certified and recertified in
both Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. When he is not reading journals, he is in
his workshop wondering why the parts aren’t going together, in the kitchen
pondering why the latest brownie recipe didn’t quite come out, or on another
Arizona hiking trail trying to keep up with his wife and dog.

Rebecca Hawkins, M.D.
Rebecca Hawkins, M.D. attended the University of
Wisconsin-Madison Medical School and remained there for her residency training.
In 1981 she relocated to Phoenix and was a teaching attending at Maricopa
Medical Center, where she stayed for two years before joining the teaching staff
at the Carl T. Hayden VAMC. She holds a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine
position with the University of Arizona. She is board certified in Internal
Medicine. In addition to her love of working with medical students and
residents, her special interest is in end-of-life care as well as the care of
our women veterans. Dr. Hawkins enjoys skiing, scuba diving, exploring our
beautiful state, gardening and making jewelry.
Paul
Duntley, M.D.
Dr. Duntley is a native of New York State. He attended the
University of Dallas and then S.U.N.Y. Buffalo for Medical School. He relocated
to sunny Arizona for residency and a chief year at St. Joseph’s Hospital and
Medical Center. He then worked for 9 years as a primary care Internist with an
emphasis on Geriatrics in Sun City, Arizona. He is board certified in Internal
Medicine. He has been at the Phoenix Veterans Hospital for 5 years as a teaching
attending with some part-time duties participating in some of the numerous
research projects available at the VA. He enjoys woodworking and numerous
outdoors activities. He is also a Flight Surgeon in the Air Force Reserves.
James V. Felicetta, MD,
is Chief of the Medical Service at the Carl T. Hayden Phoenix VA
Medical Center and is Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of
Arizona. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology, and
Geriatrics.
Viet Do, DO,
grew up in the Bay Area of Northern California,
graduated with his undergraduate degree at Northern Arizona University with B.S.
in Biology. Initially started medical school at Chicago College of Osteopathic
Medicine but transferred to Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine; graduated
in 2003. Next he did his Internal Medicine residency at BGSMC/VA, finished 2006.
Viet worked in the community from 2006 until 2011 as a hospitalist at Banner
Boswell and Banner Del Webb in primarily geriatric population, then returned to
his roots this year in July. Married to his wife, Michelle, since 2002 and they
have 3 children, Aiden, Brooklyn, and Avery. He is also involved with
Governor’s Office of Boards and Commissions as an appointed member of the
Arizona Parent’s Commission on Drug Education and Prevention. In the future, he
hopes to continue his involvement in the public service arena.
Maricella
Moffitt, MD Dr. Moffitt completed medical school at the University of
Texas Health Science Center in Houston in 1986. She completed residency training
in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas in Houston in 1989 and was
selected as a chief resident in 1990. She joined the faculty in the Department
of Medicine at Maricopa Integrated Health System in June of 1990 and remained
there until 2005. She has held many academic and administrative positions
including: Clerkship Director, Associated Program Director in Internal Medicine
Residency, Co-Program Director Med-Peds Residency, and Director of Medical
Education/Academic Affairs. During her tenure at MIHS she was elected president
of the Medical Staff and served as a medical staff officer from 1998-2003. She
has received numerous teaching and service awards. Currently, she is the
Director of the Doctoring Curriculum at the University of Arizona College of
Medicine Phoenix. She hold the Academic rank of Associate Professor of Medicine.
Tuberculosis and Public Health have always
been interests. Dr. Moffitt obtained a Masters in Public Health from the
University of Arizona in the Charter Class 1993-1994. As part of an internship
project she responded to an RFP from the CDC. She was subsequently funded over
one million dollars for a five year project in clinical trials of new methods
for the treatment of Tuberculosis, in addition she participated in the CDC’s
Tuberculosis Trials Consortium (TBTC.)
Clinically she has practiced and taught
Internal Medicine as faculty at Maricopa Integrated Health System and now at the
Carl T. Hayden VA in Phoenix. She continued to provide TB care at Maricopa
County Public Health Tuberculosis Control which she had done for 16 years
leaving in 2006 to join the faculty at the University of Arizona College of
Medicine Phoenix. She also served as the Chief Medical Officer, TB Control and
as Deputy State Tuberculosis Control Officer.
M. Keith Piatt, MD, is Associate Chief of Staff for
Ambulatory Care at the VA Medical Center and is board-certified in Internal
Medicine.
Critical Care Faculty
Robert
A. Raschke, MD, MS, Director of Critical Care Services at Banner Good
Samaritan Medical Center. He holds a faculty appointment at the University
of Arizona as Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine. He too, received his
master's degree from the University of Michigan in Clinical Research Design and
Medical Biostatistics. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Critical
Care Medicine.
Thomas M.
Bajo, MD, is Associate Director of Critical Care Services at Banner Good
Samaritan Medical Center and a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of
Arizona. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Critical Care Medicine and
Infectious Disease.
Gregory Chu, MD, is a
staff intensivist. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine and Critical Care
Medicine.
Jennifer
O'Hea, MD, FCCP
is a staff intensivist. She is board certified in
internal medicine, critical care, and pulmonary medicine. Born and raised in
Dubuque, Iowa, she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of
Notre Dame in psychology and pre-professional studies in 1993. After completing
medical school at the University of Arizona in Tucson, she was proud to join the
ranks of the "lifetime membership" at Good Samaritan. Here she has completed
residency, chief residency, and fellowship, and has been on staff since 2005.
She believes that the nurses and doctors at Good Samaritan are unmatched, and
she loves covering the night shifts in the ICU. Outside of work, she enjoys
running her 2 kids around, running in general, and playing the bagpipes.
John
Khazin, MD is a staff intensivist.
Ricki
Long, MD is a staff intensivist.
David
Morro, MD is a staff intensivist.
Huw
Owen-Reece, MD is a staff intensivist.
Maria P. Rocha, MD, is a staff intensivist at the VA
Medical Center. She is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine
and Critical Care Medicine.
Clement Singarajah, MD, is Director of Critical Care at
the VA Medical Center. He is board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary
Medicine and Critical Care Medicine.
Fellowship Directors
Cardiology
Ken Desser, MD - BGSMC
Robert Halligan, MD -VAMC
Interventional Cardiology
Nathan Laufer, MD - BGSMC
Timothy Byrne, DO - BGSMC
Pulmonary Medicine
David Baratz, MD - BGSMC
Richard Robbins, MD - VAMC
Gastroenterology
Michele Young, MD - VAMC
Geriatrics
Gary Salzman, MD - BGSMC
Endocrinology
Sylvia Vela, MD - VAMC
Medical Toxicology
Steven Curry, MD - BGSMC
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