UCCOM/CCHMC - Key Persons


Alcy Barakat

Job Titles:
  • Senior Admissions Counselor

Alex B. Lentsch

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Senior Associate
  • Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Affairs & Development & the Department Chair of Environmental Health & Public Health Sciences

Alice Mills

Job Titles:
  • Career Development Director

Alicia Boards

Job Titles:
  • Program Director Academic

Amelia Gavulic

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Surgical Research

Amy Packard

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Amy Struharik

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Director

Amy Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Director of Medical Student Research Initiatives
  • Director, Office of Medical Student Research

Andrew Adan

Job Titles:
  • the Jewish Hospital ED Associate Medical Director

Andrew Filak

Job Titles:
  • Senior Vice President of Health Affairs & Dean

Angela Doud

Job Titles:
  • Program Dir / Academic & Associate to Alex Lentsch

Angela Finkes

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Angela Vazquez

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Angie Glankler

Job Titles:
  • Program Director Academic

Anil Menon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education

Aniruddha Shekara

Job Titles:
  • Translational Research

Anita Goel

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Dr. Goel is a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati. She is a Cincinnati native, and attended undergrad, medical school, and residency all in Cincinnati. Her academic interests include education of medical students and early resident training. She also works with the Medical Student Scholars program with the College of Medicine to help develop medical student skills in a more longitudinal fashion. Outside of medicine she enjoys riding horses and spending time with her husband and her two young children.

Apryl Vossmeyer

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Programs

Arthur Pancioli

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair

Ashley Merianos

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Becky Trippel

Job Titles:
  • Program Director Academic

Bradley Hein

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Professional Education and Assessment

Brett Kissela

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice Dean, Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Research & Chair of the Department of Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine / Senior Associate Deans

Brittany Allison

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean

Bruce Giffin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Medical Education
  • Professor - Educator / Department of Medical Education, Vice - Chair
  • Professor - Educator Department of Medical Education, Vice - Chair, Associate Dean for Medical Education

Callen Conroy

Job Titles:
  • Basic Science Research

Carla Stuart

Job Titles:
  • Assistant
  • Registrar

Carolyn Egbert

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator

Carrie Martin

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager
  • Student Clinician Ceremony

Christy Edmondson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Claire Golba

Job Titles:
  • Service Research

David Thompson

Job Titles:
  • UCMC ED Director of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety

Dawn S. Bragg

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean for Student Affairs

Derek Shu

Job Titles:
  • Translational Research

Diana Mullenix

Job Titles:
  • Program Director
  • Program Director, Office of Medical Student Research

Donald Batisky

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Medical Student Admissions and Special Programs

Edward Wallace

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Elizabeth Leenellett

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Clinical

Emma Dewey

Job Titles:
  • Translational Research

Gina Burg

Job Titles:
  • Program Director

Giselle Scarano

Job Titles:
  • Basic Science Research

Gregory Fermann

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice Chair
  • Fellowship Director
  • Professor of Clinical

Hannah Hughes

Job Titles:
  • UCMC ED Assistant Medical Director

Heather Vilvens

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Hemchandra Patel

Job Titles:
  • Basic Science Research

Jaime Lewis

Job Titles:
  • M3 / M4 Career Advisor / Medical Sciences Building / Room G353 - D

Jimmy Summers

Job Titles:
  • West Chester ED Associate Medical Director

John Stiles

Job Titles:
  • Director

Jonathan Choko

Job Titles:
  • Emergency Medicine Residency - Class of 2023
Dr. Chuko is a fourth-year emergency medicine resident at the University of Cincinnati. Born and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, he went to the University of Michigan for his undergraduate studies and completed his medical degree at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He is passionate about the intersection of operations/administration and medical education and plans on pursuing an administration fellowship and MBA after residency. Outside of the hospital, you will find him trying local food spots and grappling at his jiu jitsu gym.

Jonathon Paasch

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Analyst

Joyce Xu

Job Titles:
  • Other Research

K. Robert Thompson III

Job Titles:
  • Fellowship Director
  • UCMC ED Associate Medical Director

Karen M. Christian

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director / Executive Vice Dean

Kathie York

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Katy Popplewell

Job Titles:
  • M1 / M2 Senior Academic Advisor / Medical Sciences Building / Room E - 450F

Ken Greis

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Research Core Facilities

Kristy Wilson

Job Titles:
  • Registrar

Laura Frankenfeld

Dr. Frankenfeld is a fourth year emergency medicine resident at the University of Cincinnati. She is a native Cincinnatian and graduate of the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, having taken the Getting Ready for Residency course in 2019. Dr. frankenfeld's interests in emergency medicine include ultrasound and airway management, with plans to practice community emergency medicine in the Cincinnati area after graduating residency. Outside of medicine, Dr. Frankenfeld enjoys running, hiking, crafting, and spending as much time as possible with her two rough collies .

Laura Malosh

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Student Affairs

Liliana Rojas-Guyler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Lori Mackey

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Dean of Operations and Finance Associate Deans

Lynn Romer

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Madeline Michel

Job Titles:
  • Service Research

Marshall Harris

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Surgical Research

Megan Jiang

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Medicine Research

Melinda Butsch Kovacic

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Michael Archdeacon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Dean of Clinical Affairs & the Chair of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Michael Willing

Job Titles:
  • the Jewish Hospital ED Medical Director

Michael Woodward

Job Titles:
  • Senior Academic Advisor

Missie Reese

Job Titles:
  • Executive Administrative Assistant

Neil Holsing

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Operations and Finance

Olivia Urbanowicz

Job Titles:
  • Emergency Medicine Medical Education Fellow
  • Fellow in Medical Education
Dr. Urbanowicz is a first year fellow in Medical Education through the Department of Emergency medicine. Originally from Denver, Colorado, she obtained her MD at the University of Arkansas and just recently graduated residency from the UC Department of Emergency Medicine in 2022 where she was a Chief Resident. Her particular interests lie in the successful transition from medical school to internship, as well as transitions across the breadth of one's medical career. Mentorship and clinical reasoning are her passions and she is very excited to be joining the GRR team. Outside of the hospital, she enjoys spending time exploring the arts and new restaurants with her husband as well as playing with her rambunctious Maine Coon, Ozzy.

Pamela Baker

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean
  • Associate Dean / Associate Professor of Medical Education
  • Associate Dean of Medical Education
Associate Dean | Associate Professor of Medical Education

Philip Diller

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Dean of Educational Affairs & the Department Chair of Medical Education

Rain Drais

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Rebecca Lee

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Regan Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Educator
  • Public Health Program Director / Assistant Professor, Educator

Richard Ryan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Clinical

Roshni Venkatesh

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Medicine Research

Ruth Paterson

Job Titles:
  • Program Director Academic

Sanjay Shewakramani

Job Titles:
  • West Chester ED Medical Director

Sarah Dempsey

Job Titles:
  • Other Research

Sarah Ronan-Bentle

Job Titles:
  • M3 / M4 Career Advisor / Medical Sciences Building / Room G353 - D

Seth Overla

Job Titles:
  • Data Reporting Analyst
  • Data Reporting Analyst / Medical Science Building

Shaunak Sastry

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Shawn Brown

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Staff

Siddhant Tripathi

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Surgical Research

Stephen Baxter

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Steven Kniffley

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Steven Petrovic

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director of Business and Administration

Susan Scholl

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Susan Tyler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Continuous Professional Development / CME

Taffy Dee

Job Titles:
  • M1 / M2 Senior Academic Advisor / Medical Sciences Building / Room E - 450C

Timothy Le Cras

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean
  • Director
  • Associate Dean of Graduate Education

Tracy Pritchard

Job Titles:
  • Director of Medical Education

Umberto Tachinardi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Health Informatics

Victoria Stump

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager

Vivien Sauer

Job Titles:
  • Service Research

Whitney Bryant

Dr. Bryant is a faculty member at the University of Cincinnati. She completed her MPH and MD at Columbia, her Emergency Medicine residency at NYU-Bellevue Hospital, and her Master's in Medical Education here at Cincinnati Children's. She co-directs the departmental Section on Global Health, runs the third year medical student Emergency Medicine clerkship, and the Intern Report Program for the residency, where she focuses on helping build confidence, knowledge, and skills among the interns as they begin their residency. She has worked as an emergency physician in Ghana, Guatemala, and Guyana.

Yannan Huang

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Medicine Research