About Our Providers
Dr. Marco Alemán -
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Dr. James Bryan, II -
Teaching and practicing Internal Medicine at UNC since 1964, he came after training at the hospital of the University of Pennsylvania and service at the C.D.C. Special interest in Hematology and Oncology (founded Hospice in NC) evolved into General Internal Medicine and care of the elderly. His part time practice for several years (mainly teaching young physicians) leaves time for four children, nine grandchildren, church choir, and travel.
Dr. Betsy Bryant-Shilliday received her Bachelor of Science degree in Biology from UNC-Wilmington in 1994 and her Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Campbell University in 1998. She completed a Primary Care Specialty Residency with the VA Medical Center in Salisbury, NC in 1998. Dr. Bryant-Shilliday was hired as co-coordinator of the UNC Hospitals Pharmacy Diabetes Care Program in August 1996. Currently she is employed with the UNC School of Medicine, Division of General Medicine. She has faculty appointments with the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy and serves as Ambulatory Care Pharmacy Residency Director for UNC Hospitals. Currently she directs the General Internal Medicine Anticoagulation service in addition to providing clinical services in diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, congestive heart failure and chronic pain. Dr. Bryant-Shilliday’s research interests include assessing and addressing barriers to care in chronic disease-states such as diabetes and congestive heart failure. Recent work has focused on illiterate populations with involvement in the development of Living with Diabetes educational material through the ACP Foundation. Dr. Bryant-Shilliday is originally from Asheboro, North Carolina. She is married and has one child. Outside of work, she enjoys crafts and visiting the beach.
Dr. Timothy Carey is a professor of medicine and director of the Sheps Center for Health Services Research at UNC. He has practiced at UNC for almost 25 years. A graduate of the University of Vermont College of Medicine, he also trained in Internal Medicine at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco. After practicing primary care in rural Kentucky, he received additional training through the RWJ Clinical Scholars Program, receiving an MPH at UNC in 1985. His interests include clinical epidemiology, evidence-based practice, musculoskeletal medicine, health disparities. He lives in Chapel Hill.
Dr. Paul Chelminski is originally from New York City and Connecticut. He graduated from Duke University and then served in the United States Peace Corps in West Africa. He subsequently attended medical school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed a combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at UNC Hospitals. After residency, Dr. Chelminski worked for two years in Siler City, North Carolina doing hospital, clinic, and emergency room medicine. He returned to UNC and completed a clinical epidemiology and research fellowship during which he obtained a masters in public health. Dr. Chelminski has done research on the epidemiology and management of chronic pain, mental illness, and substance misuse. He currently sees patients five days a week in the UNC Internal Medicine Clinic located in the Ambulatory Care Center. He is active in the education of residents and medical students and serves as the associate residency program director for outpatient education. In addition to chronic pain research, Dr. Chelminski is interested in quality improvement and effectiveness research as these pertain to resident education.
Dr. Cristin Colford grew up in New York. She completed her undergraduate degree at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts before coming to medical school and residency training at UNC Chapel Hill. Dr Colford served as chief resident for one year before joining the faculty in 2005. She enjoys preventive care and management of chronic diseases. She enjoys spending time with her husband and two children and playing lacrosse.
Dr. Darren DeWalt is originally from California, but moved to North Carolina in 1997 and calls Chapel Hill his home. He graduated from UCLA in 1992 with a degree in chemical engineering before going to Vanderbilt University for medical school. He came to Chapel Hill for a combined residency in internal medicine and pediatrics and served as the chief resident for internal medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine and pediatrics. He is interested in improving care for vulnerable populations and has particular expertise in developing systems of care for people with low literacy. He is active in national quality improvement programs for primary care and focuses on the care of chronic illness like diabetes, asthma, and heart failure. He stays active in both clinical care and research. Dr. DeWalt enjoys spending time with his wife and son.
Dr. Michael Gilchrist completed his undergraduate training at Washington and Lee University in 1998 and graduated from Eastern Virginia Medical School in 2004. He finished his Internal Medicine residency at the University of North Carolina Hospitals in 2007. Currently, Dr. Gilchrist is taking part in the National Research Service Award Primary Care Fellowship, where participates in both clinical research and patient care. In his free time, he enjoys running and cycling.
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Dr. Nancy Henley grew up in Alabama and came to North Carolina to study administration at the UNC School of Public Health. After working in rural health care delivery for several years, she returned to UNC for medical school and residency. She is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. She practiced internal medicine in Durham with the Carolina Permanente Medical Group for 11 years. Dr. Henley’s primary work in recent years has been as a medical executive with health plans and North Carolina Medicaid. Her professional focus is efficient delivery of high quality health care through the development and implementation of innovative health care programs. She has presented and published on clinical innovation and its implementation, comprehensive disease management programs, and physician involvement in clinical improvement. Dr. Henley practices at the UNC Ambulatory Care Center. She enjoys talking with patients and helping them understand their health needs and how to take good care of themselves. When not working, she enjoys spending time with her husband and son and gardening.
Dr. Tim Ives grew up in Florida, and received his baccalaureate and doctoral degrees in pharmacy at the University of Florida, and a Master of Public Health in Health Policy and Administration from the UNC School of Public Health. He also received fellowship training at UNC. Prior to coming to UNC-CH, he was a member of the faculties of the University of Utah and the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Ives is a licensed pharmacist and clinical pharmacist practitioner (CPP) in North Carolina, and is Board Certified in Pharmacotherapeutics by the Board of Pharmaceutical Specialties. He is a Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacy, and the American Society of Health-System Pharmacy. At UNC, Dr. Ives has served as interim Chair of the Division of Pharmacy Practice, School of Pharmacy, and was Chair of the Orange County Board of Health. Currently, he directs the General Internal Medicine Chronic Pain Service. His research interests are in the area of inflammation and chronic pain management, with neuropathic pain in particular. He is married and they have two sons, one of whom is a junior at Carolina. Living in rural Orange County, he enjoys growing roses, biking, and woodworking.
Dr. Dan Jonas grew up in Granville, Ohio. He received his undergraduate degree from Davidson College in 1997, where he also played football and baseball. He then returned to Ohio where he attended medical school at the Ohio State University and completed his residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati in 2005. He is currently a primary care research fellow in the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology and will complete his MPH through the UNC School of Public Health in the spring of 2007. His research interests include health economics, cancer screening, patient time costs, and quality improvement. His wife is a dermatologist in Chapel Hill. In his free time, he enjoys watching football, playing basketball, traveling, and hiking.
Dr. Tom Keyserling grew up in Beaufort, SC, and received his undergraduate degree from Duke University in 1976. He is a graduate of Emory Medical School, completed his residency training in medicine at the University of Rochester, completed a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Fellowship at UNC, and received a masters of public health degree from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1987. Since completing his fellowship training in 1988, he has been on the faculty at UNC. His research interests include developing and evaluating behavioral interventions to reduce the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes and he enjoys practicing general internal medicine. He lives in Chapel with his wife and has three sons.
Dr. Christopher Klipstein, an Associate Professor of Medicine, was raised in Rochester, NY. He graduated from Williams College in 1989. After spending one year in New York City teaching 7th and 9th grade math, he returned home to attend the University of Rochester School of Medicine. He then completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. Dr. Klipstein joined the faculty at UNC in 1998. In addition to his clinical duties, he actively teaches medical students and residents. He has been the Director of the Internal Medicine Clerkship since 2001. He lives in Chapel Hill with his wife and their son and daughter.
Dr. Jennifer Kraschnewski grew up in Burlington, WI and received her
undergraduate degree from the University of Wisconsin in 2001. She
continued her medical education at the University of Wisconsin and
completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at Duke
University Medical Center in 2007. She is currently a primary care
research fellow in the Division of General Medicine and Clinical
Epidemiology and is working on her MPH through the UNC School of Public
Health. Her research interests include preventive medicine in primary
care with a focus on obesity. She lives in Durham with her husband and
they enjoy traveling and spending time with family and friends.
Dr. Robb Malone received his Bachelor of Science and Doctor of Pharmacy degrees from UNC Chapel Hill in 1996 and 1997 respectively. He then completed a Pharmacotherapy Residency in Primary Care with the ECU School of Medicine, Department of Family Medicine in Greenville. Dr. Malone was hired as co-coordinator of the UNC Hospitals Pharmacy Diabetes Care Program in August 1996. Currently he is employed with the UNC School of Medicine, Division of General Medicine. He has faculty appointments with the Schools of Medicine and Pharmacy and serves as an Assistant Medicinal Director of the General Internal Medicine Clinic. Current pharmaceutical care services co-managed include diabetes, hypertension, congestive heart failure, anticoagulation, and chronic pain clinic. In addition to clinical responsibilities he is actively involved in investigator-initiated research. Research interests include assessing and addressing barriers to care in chronic disease-states such as diabetes and congestive heart failure. Recent work has focused on illiterate populations. Dr. Malone is originally from Eastern North Carolina. He is married and has one child. Outside of work, he enjoys outdoor activities including hunting and water sports.
Dr. Thomas Miller graduated from Oberlin College and then attended the medical school at the University of North Carolina. He started his medicine and pediatric residency at the University of Rochester Affiliated Hospitals and completed it at North Carolina Memorial Hospital. He worked first at the Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown NY and then returned to NC to work at the Moncure Community Health Center and went on to become medical director of OCCHS. He joined the UNC faculty in 1991. He maintains a busy practice at the Ambulatory Care Center and is involved with the education of medical students and training of residents. He is interested in disease prevention, disease management, geriatrics, and practice management. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Pediatrics and Geriatrics. Dr. Miller and his wife, also an internist, enjoy the quiet life in rural Chatham County.
Dr. Carlton Moore is originally from New Jersey. He attended the New Jersey Institute of Technology and received a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering and worked for General Electric designing communication satellites prior to starting medical school at Cornell University. He completed a medicine residency and medical informatics fellowship at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and received a Master’s degree in Biostatistics at Columbia University. Dr. Moore’s research is at the interface of health services research and medical informatics. Specifically, his research focuses on the impact that information technology has on patient safety and quality of care. In his free time he enjoys spending time with his wife and 2 children.
Carrie Palmer is an Adult Nurse Practitioner. She was born and raised in Asheboro, North Carolina, and moved to the triangle to attend UNC Chapel Hill in 1995. She received her Bachelor’s degree in nursing from UNC in 2000. She worked in critical care at Presbyterian Hospital in Charlotte, then at UNC. She received her Master’s in nursing from UNC in 2004. Her primary interest is chronic disease management, particularly type 2 diabetes. She lives in Wake County with her husband, Bryon, and their daughter, Anna.
Dr. Michael Pignone is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Chief of the Division of General Internal Medicine at University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill. He also serves as the Director of the UNC Center for Excellence in Chronic Illness Care and the Director of Medical Practice and Prevention Research at the Sheps Center for Health Services Research. He received his undergraduate degree from Duke University and his medical degree and residency training in primary care internal medicine from the University of California - San Francisco. He then returned to UNC for fellowship training in clinical epidemiology and health services research through the Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholars Program and his Master’s degree in Epidemiology from the UNC School of Public Health. Dr. Pignone’s main areas of expertise include heart disease prevention, colorectal cancer screening, and management of chronic illnesses particularly diabetes and heart failure. He has conducted research examining the role of literacy in physician-patient communication and its effect on health outcomes, including racial/ethnic disparities, in patients with chronic illnesses. He has developed and tested interventions to mitigate literacy-related disparities and to improve the use of appropriate preventive services. Dr. Pignone lives in Durham, NC, with his wife and their two children. He enjoys playing and watching basketball, reading, and listening to many of the Triangle’s great local bands.
Bart Scott was born and raised in Greensboro, NC. He attended undergraduate at Southern Wesleyan University in Central, SC. He played soccer for the Warriors, graduated in 1995 with a degree in Biology and, most importantly, met his wife Dana at Southern. Dana and he were married in 2000. In 2002, he graduated from Methodist College Physician Assistant Program in Fayetteville, NC, and worked in private practice for a cardiologist in Fayetteville for approximately two years before accepting his current position with UNC Internal Medicine in November 2005.
In 2007, he earned his Master of Physician Assistant Studies from the University of Nebraska College of Medicine.
He specializes in the area of anticoagulation management. He enjoys outdoor activities such as golf and backpacking, being a Tarheel fan, and both he and Dana are active in their local Church.
Dr. Amy Shaheen grew up in Missouri and attended Washington University for her undergraduate education. She went to medical school at the University of Chicago where she met her husband, a fellow student, in the cardiac catheterization lab. She completed medical school and her internship in Chicago but followed her husband and came to the University of North Carolina for her last two years of residency. After completing residency, Amy worked at Duke University in Internal Medicine for ten years doing primary care medicine and working with the Graduate Medical Education office. She was an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program and was active in developing curriculum and novel educational tools for students and young doctors. Amy has recently returned to her Alma Mater, UNC, to continue her practice and hone her teaching skills. Her academic interests are primary care, women’s health, preventive medicine and education of medical students and residents. Her outside interests are her three children, travel and sports.
Dr. Stacey Sheridan is an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of General Medicine and Clinical Epidemiology at University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. She received her medical degree from Pennsylvania State University and her residency training in internal medicine from Dartmouth College. She then received residency training in preventive medicine and fellowship training in primary care research from the University of North Carolina. Dr. Sheridan’s research is focused on chronic disease prevention and physician – patient communication in primary care settings. Her main areas of interest include heart disease prevention and prostate cancer screening. She has conducted research examining the role of shared decision-making in screening and chemoprevention, how well physicians and patients understand various presentations of risk, and the effects of literacy on health outcomes. Dr. Sheridan is a member of the Cecil Sheps Center for Health Services Research.
Andrea Wallace is a Clinical Nurse Specialist. She works in the UNC internal medicine enhanced care program and is a post-doctoral research fellow in the School of Nursing. She completed both her clinical doctorate and PhD in nursing at the University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center. She received her undergraduate degrees in psychology and biology from CU Boulder. Prior to moving to Chapel Hill in 2004, her clinical experience was as a family intervention case manager for high-risk pediatric asthma patients. Her research interests concern how patients’ perceptions of chronic illness care can be used to improve access, quality and outcomes for vulnerable populations. Currently, Dr. Wallace is involved in diabetes-related quality improvement efforts in the ACC. She occasionally sees patients in the ACC and is involved with medication titrations and education by telephone. She enjoys traveling, spending time with her husband, family and friends (including a pampered Golden Retriever and 2 fuzzy cats).
Dr. Amy Weil is an Associate Professor of Medicine. She grew up in New York City and graduated from Yale College in 1986 with a degree in History and Psychology. During 4 years between college and medical school she worked in a psychiatric hospital, as an advocate for women and participated in family genetic research. After graduating from the University of Rochester School of Medicine she returned to Connecticut where she completed her residency and chief residency at the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency. Dr. Weil moved south to UNC in 1998 where she cares for patients and teaches medical students and residents. Since 2003 she has been a Medical Co-Director of the Beacon Child and Family Program. In 2006 she and her family spent the year in Sri Lanka on a Fulbright, where she taught medical humanities and studied Gender Based Violence. Dr Weil enjoys getting to know her patients well and partnering with them to come up with plans to improve their health that they can implement. Her husband is a microbiologist at UNC and they have 2 sons. In quiet moments she enjoys hiking, cooking, yoga, swimming and reading.
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