Ademola O. Aderoju, MD
Dr. Aderoju is a graduate of Belmont University in Nashville, TN. He did graduate work at Tennessee State University before attending medical school at Meharry Medical College. He completed internal medicine residency at UNC. Dr. Aderoju is interested in the area of functional bowel disorders, with a focus on racial, cross-cultural, and international disparities. He will be mentored over the next two years by Drs. Douglas Drossman and William Whitehead. He is married and has two boys, ages 7 years and 9 months. He is an avid squash player and also enjoys tennis, soccer, chess, and scrabble.
William J. Bulsiewicz, MD, MSc
Dr. Bulsiewicz received his medical degree from Georgetown University and completed internal medicine training at Northwestern University, where he served as Chief Medical Resident and also completed a Master of Science in Clinical Investigation. Will is in our clinical epidemiology research track with plans to study esophageal cancer prevention and take advanced courses in our School of Public Health.
Seth D. Crockett, MD, MPH
Dr. Crockett graduated from Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and medical school at Dartmouth. He completed his internal medicine residency at Stanford University where he also served as Chief Resident. Seth is in the clinical epidemiology track and has started working towards his Master’s degree in Public Health, in addition to research. He moved to Chapel Hill with his wife, Alyssa, and their six-month-old son, Leif.
David J. Frantz, MD, MS
Dr. Frantz was raised in Franklin, Virginia, a small town near the North Carolina border. He received both a B.S. and an M.S. in molecular biology from Brigham Young University in Provo, UT. His master’s thesis dealt with the effects of garlic in relation to colon cancer. Upon graduation, he worked as a basic scientist in neurosurgery at the University of Utah. Later, he attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville for both medical school and internal medicine residency. At present he is interested in nutrition and esophageal disorders. He lives with this wife Catherine and children Brian (12), Elizabeth (8) and Benjamin (6).
Jeffrey B. King, MD
Dr. King graduated from Duke University with a B.S. in biology and economics. After two years of colon cancer clinical research at the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center, he returned to his home state for medical school at the University of Massachusetts. He went on to complete his internal medicine residency and chief residency at Boston Medical Center. Following residency, Dr. King spent nearly one year working in Buenos Aires, Argentina as an instructor of medical English and medical interviewing for students affiliated with the University of Buenos Aires Medical School. Dr. King is currently a fellow in the physician-scientist pathway in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UNC where he is investigating the role of cancer stem cells and their cell-surface markers in the pathogenesis of colorectal cancer. He lives in Chapel Hill with his wife Elizabeth, a visiting professor at the Wake Forest School of Law, and their two sons.
Christopher E. McGowan, MD
Dr. McGowan grew up in Glen Gardner, NJ. He received his undergraduate education at Penn State University, where he was enrolled in a 6-year accelerated medical program in conjunction with Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. Chris is in the Clinical Epidemiology track and will be earning his Masters of Science in Clinical Research at the UNC Gillings School of Public Health. He lives in Chapel Hill with his wife, Grace, a Hematology/Oncology fellow at Duke.
C. Brock Miller, MD
Dr. Miller was born and raised in the foothill suburbs of Denver, Colorado and attended the United States Air Force Academy, where he played varsity lacrosse. After commissioning, Brock coached the Air Force lacrosse team for a year before starting medical school at Loyola University in Chicago. He completed his internal medicine residency at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base/Wright State University and was Chief Resident at one of the program’s private hospitals. His interests include hepatology and endoscopy, and he hopes to be actively involved with the Air Force GI and Hepatology fellowship in the future. He enjoys playing lacrosse, snowboarding and traveling. He is married to Ursula Balthazar, who was the UNC Chief Resident in Ob-GYN last year and is a first-year reproductive endocrinology and infertility fellow.
Marcus Muehlbauer, MD, PhD
Dr. Marcus Muehlbauer (Mühlbauer - for publications) is a graduate of the University of Regensburg in Germany, where he also obtained his PhD. Before he entered the IM residency program at UNC he worked in the lab of Dr. Christian Jobin as a post-doctoral fellow focusing on the role of NF-kB in mucosal immunity and the host/microbe interaction in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). He is a fellow in the physician-scientist pathway in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UNC and would like to build his own independent research laboratory focusing on the role of host/microbe interactions in the development of IBD and GI cancers, in the future. His research fellowship is being funded by the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA). He is married to Alina, an office manager at VACO Raleigh. In his scarce spare time he manages to outperform the stock market with his successful trading blog since years.
Farzad Nowrouzzadeh, MD
Dr. Nowrouzzadeh was born and raised in Bridgeport, CT. His parents emigrated from Iran and have been in this country since the late 1960’s. After finishing college at the University of Connecticut, a college roommate convinced him to consider the military as a career option, and so he joined the Navy in 2001 as a reserved commissioned officer. He attended Temple Medical School in Philadelphia, PA and began his residency at Bethesda Naval Hospital. During residency, he received orders to do a two-year stint with the Marine Corps for operational work. Afterwards, he completed his residency at Bethesda Naval Hospital and is now pleased to be a part of our program. He is married with a nine-month-old girl.
Joseph C. Onyiah, MD
Graduate of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY. Subsequently completed medical school and internal medicine residency at Duke University. Currently enrolled in the basic science research track with a focus on innate immunology and host-pathogen interactions of the gut with the aim of improving our knowledge of the pathophysiology of inflammatory bowel diseases.
Eric S. Orman, MD
Dr. Orman was born and raised in Baltimore, MD. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Virginia and completed medical school at Duke University. Following that, he went to the University of Michigan, where he did his internal medicine residency. He and his wife, Jennifer, live with their 19-month-old son, Hank, and their two dogs in Durham.
Lena B. Palmer, MD, MSCR
Lena Palmer came to UNC's Gastroenterology Epidemiology Fellowship Program in 2007. She is originally from Jackson, Mississippi. She completed her entire school experience within that city prior to entering an Internal Medicine residency at the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois, in 2004. Her fiance still lives and works in Chicago as a financial analyst. The wealth and breadth of expertise found within the UNC Gastroenterology Division drew her specifically to this program, as it offered specialized training in epidemiology and health services research as well as excellent clinical gastroenterology. She completed a Masters of Science in Clinical Research within the UNC Gillings School of Global Publich Health in May of 2009 and has used her research training to examine health services delivery within pediatric Inflammatory Bowel Diseases and chronic liver disease. When she completes her training, she intends to remain in a university setting as an academic clinician focusing on gastroenterology quality of care.
Anne F. Peery, MD
Dr. Peery graduated from the College of Charleston with a bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and obtained a Master’s degree in Chemistry at the University of Virginia. She completed medical school and internal medicine residency here at UNC. She will start her GI fellowship with two years of research time, during which she will obtain a Master’s degree in clinical research at the UNC Gillings’ School of Global Public Health. She lives in Durham with her husband Andrew, a pediatric anesthesia fellow.
Shehzad Z. Sheikh, MD, PhD
Dr. Sheikh is a fellow in the physician-scientist pathway in the Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at UNC. Dr. Sheikh is interested in the interactions between the host immune system and commensal enteric microbiota and its relation to the pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel diseases. Dr. Sheikh plans to pursue a career focused on the management of patients with Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis. Dr. Sheikh lives with his wife Huma, a dentist at UNC and their son Zane in Mebane, NC.
Kunwardeep S. Sohal, M.D.
Dr Sohal was born in Houston TX. His family moved to Fort Lauderdale, FL when he was 8 years old. He graduated from the University of Florida with a degree in History. He continues to be a very rabid Gators fan. Afterwards, he moved to Baltimore to complete medical school at the University of Maryland. He selected UNC as his choice for residency. During his intern year at UNC in Internal Medicine, he married his wife, Tara. They decided to start a family here and have a son, Arjan, who is 4 months old. His interests include sports (anything and everything involving the Gators), food, movies and traveling.
Laurie-Anne C. Swaby, MD
Dr. Swaby received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1998 and Doctor of Medicine from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in 2005 prior to completing a residency in Internal Medicine at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, MA.
