Leadership, Faculty, Staff

Ron Falk, MD

Nan and Hugh Cullman Eminent Professor
Chairman, Department of Medicine
Director, UNC Kidney Center

Dr. Falk was appointed as Chair of the University of North Carolina Department of Medicine in July 2015 after having served as Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension from July, 1993 through May, 2015.

Dr. Falk is recognized as an international expert in vasculitis and autoimmune kidney disease. His career as a translational physician-scientist spans more than three decades. His practice and translational research focus on characterizing the cell, tissue and physiologic changes in the development of specific autoimmune kidney diseases and developing new approaches for studying autoimmunity, inflammation and basic neutrophil/monocyte biology. After the discovery in 1988 by Dr. Falk and colleagues of myeloperoxidase anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic autoantibodies (MPO-ANCA), his laboratory has focused on clinical and translational science investigation of the immunogenesis, pathogenesis and response to treatment of ANCA vasculitis and other autoimmune kidney disease.

Dr. Falk is a highly respected scholar and mentor who has guided, for over three decades, young physicians, scientists, and physician-scientists to successful careers in academia and industry.

Dr. Falk has served in various capacities within the American Society of Nephrology, including numerous committees and ASN Council. He served as its president from 2011-12. A notable achievement during his term as president was the founding of the Kidney Health Initiative in 2012, which is a public/private partnership of American Society of Nephrology and the U.S. FDA. During his tenure as ASN President, the American Society of Nephrology Foundation for Kidney Research was established with a substantial endowment. He has also served or chaired on numerous study sections and special emphasis panels within the National Institutes of Health. Dr. Falk continues to receive funding in a P01 Program Project Grant, “ANCA Glomerulonephritis: From Molecules to Man,” UM1, “GDCN Clinical Center—Advancing Clinical Research in Primary Glomerular Diseases,” and a T32 Renal Epidemiology Training Grant.

Debra Bynum, MD, MMEL, FACP

Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Professor of Medicine

Dr. Bynum is the Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of North Carolina. Originally from eastern North Carolina, she was the first person in her family to attend college and graduated from Davidson in 1990 with a degree in Biology and a focus on ecology and marine biology. From there, she came to Chapel Hill for medical school and stayed at UNC for residency training. After completing a year as Chief Resident, she joined the faculty at WakeMed hospital where she worked in the clinic caring for Raleigh’s underserved, attended on the inpatient service with UNC residents and students, and helped to found one of the first hospitalist programs in the area.

After three years at WakeMed, she returned to UNC for further training as a fellow in the Geriatric Medicine program and was appointed to a faculty position in 2001. During the subsequent fourteen years, she held multiple leadership positions within the School of Medicine, the Department of Medicine, and the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship and Internal Medicine Residency programs. She directed the Acting Internship for senior students as well as co-directed the clinical skills course for second year students, served on the School of Medicine education committee, and helped to design, implement, and co-direct both a transition course for new third year students as well as a teaching elective for fourth year students. She served as the Program Director for the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship from 2008-2014 and was selected to lead the Internal Medicine residency program in May of 2014.

She has received multiple teaching awards, has been recognized for her contributions to educational scholarship and mentorship by the Academy of Educators, and was honored with the Joseph M. Craver Medical Alumni Distinguished Professorship in 2012. With a commitment to a career as a medical educator, she recently completed the requirements to earn a Master of Science degree in Medical Education Leadership. With this background, Dr. Bynum has demonstrated a dedication to the program and department, experience in medical education for trainees at all levels, and a commitment to patients and learners.

Cristin Colford, MD, FACP

Vice Chair for Clinical Services, Department of Medicine
Professor of Medicine

Dr. Colford is an experienced medical educator who has been at the University of North Carolina since 1997. She has served as clerkship director, course director for the clinical skills course, and is now the Section Chief for Clinical Practice and Education for the division of General Internal Medicine, and as an Associate Program Director for the residency program. She is experienced in curriculum development and learner assessments. Dr. Colford is currently spearheading the conversion to entrustable professional activities (EPAs) as the primary assessment tool for medical students and residents. She is active in medical education research and practice quality improvement. As a mother of two, she is a great role model for mothers and fathers interested in a career in primary care or academic general internal medicine.

Gerald Hladik, MD

Doc J. Thurston Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Vice Chair of Faculty Affairs, Department of Medicine

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Spencer Dorn, MD, MPH, MHA

Professor of Medicine
Vice Chair for Care Innovation, Department of Medicine

Dr. Spencer Dorn arrived at UNC as a fellow in 2005, joined faculty in 2009, was appointed Vice Chief of Gastroenterology & Hepatology in 2012, and Vice Chair of Medicine for Care Innovation in 2019. In his current role, he focuses on enhancing existing care processes and models – while developing new ones – that support the department’s 600-plus physicians and advanced practice providers and that better meet the needs of the various patient populations they serve.

Dr. Dorn’s clinical practice focuses on functional GI and motility disorders, for which he has served as an investigator on numerous clinical trials, co-authored national practice guidelines, and has been consistently named to the list of Best Doctors in America. He is an experienced physician administrator who previously led and managed one of the nation’s premier academic gastroenterology practices. He broadly understands the forces shaping healthcare, serving on national gastroenterology practice committees, and frequently presenting and publishing on healthcare delivery.

Dr. Dorn received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan, his medical degree from the State University of New York at Brooklyn, and his Masters of Public Health and Masters of Health Care Administration from the UNC School of Public Health. He trained in internal medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and gastroenterology at UNC.

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Janet Rubin, MD

Sarah Graham Kenan Distinguished Professor of Medicine
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Medicine

Dr. Rubin became the Vice-Chair for Research in the Department of Medicine in 2015. She brings over 30 years of experience in funded research, NIH and VA grant review and junior faculty development to this position. A longstanding interest in mentoring young investigators toward independent research careers has been critical to her new initiatives as Vice-Chair. These include the Physician-Scientist Development Pathway, the recruitment of new physician scientists to the DOM, outreach to the DOM’s many K-grant holders, and involvement in UNC’s successful MSTP program. Along with Alex Duncan, she developed and teaches the highly successful R-grant writing group.

Dr. Rubin’s NIH funded laboratory investigates how physical factors regulate mesenchymal stem cell differentiation. Recent findings include that the nuclear envelope is a mechano-sensory site, and that intranuclear actin regulates osteogenesis. These studies use cellular techniques as well as a running mouse model.

Dr. Rubin practices endocrinology as a member of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism. She has adjunct appointments in Bioengineering, Pharmacology and Pediatrics. Dr. Rubin’s family is committed to UNC Medicine: her husband is a member of the Cardiology Division, her daughter is an Endocrinology fellow, and her son-in-law is a Nephrology fellow.

Debra Bynum, MD, MMEL, FACP

Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine
Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Professor of Medicine

Dr. Bynum is the Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of North Carolina. Originally from eastern North Carolina, she was the first person in her family to attend college and graduated from Davidson in 1990 with a degree in Biology and a focus on ecology and marine biology. From there, she came to Chapel Hill for medical school and stayed at UNC for residency training. After completing a year as Chief Resident, she joined the faculty at WakeMed hospital where she worked in the clinic caring for Raleigh’s underserved, attended on the inpatient service with UNC residents and students, and helped to found one of the first hospitalist programs in the area.

After three years at WakeMed, she returned to UNC for further training as a fellow in the Geriatric Medicine program and was appointed to a faculty position in 2001. During the subsequent fourteen years, she held multiple leadership positions within the School of Medicine, the Department of Medicine, and the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship and Internal Medicine Residency programs. She directed the Acting Internship for senior students as well as co-directed the clinical skills course for second year students, served on the School of Medicine education committee, and helped to design, implement, and co-direct both a transition course for new third year students as well as a teaching elective for fourth year students. She served as the Program Director for the Geriatric Medicine Fellowship from 2008-2014 and was selected to lead the Internal Medicine residency program in May of 2014.

She has received multiple teaching awards, has been recognized for her contributions to educational scholarship and mentorship by the Academy of Educators, and was honored with the Joseph M. Craver Medical Alumni Distinguished Professorship in 2012. With a commitment to a career as a medical educator, she recently completed the requirements to earn a Master of Science degree in Medical Education Leadership. With this background, Dr. Bynum has demonstrated a dedication to the program and department, experience in medical education for trainees at all levels, and a commitment to patients and learners.

Karen Kimel-Scott, MD, FACP

Associate Program Director for Outpatient Medicine
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Kimel-Scott is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill. She serves as an Associate Program Director for Ambulatory Education for the Internal Medicine Residency and Assistant Medical Director of our outpatient Clinic Site at UNC Internal Medicine starting in 2019. She is a native of Western North Carolina from Waynesville, NC. She attended UNC-Chapel Hill for undergraduate education and has been a lifelong Tar Heel Fan. She earned her Doctorate of Medicine at East Carolina University Brody School of Medicine in 2013. She completed a General Internal Medicine residency with a focus on Women’s Health and a Chief Resident year at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. She returned to NC in the fall of 2017 to join the faculty at UNC. Her academic interests include Medical Education, Advocacy and LGBTQ Health. She is happy to be back in NC with her wife and son. They enjoy Ultimate Frisbee and deep discussions about bingeing TV shows.

Mike Contarino, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Program Director, Internal Medicine and Pediatrics

Dr. Contarino is an associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. He grew up on a small farm in Warrington, PA and graduated from Duke University in 1999 with a degree in biomedical and electrical engineering. From there, he spent four years as an officer in the United States Navy with the Civil Engineers Corps traveling and gaining leadership experience.

After his navy career, Dr. Contarino returned to North Carolina to attend UNC School of Medicine, and completed his residency at UNC in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Following this, he joined the faculty at WakeMed as an internal medicine and pediatric hospitalist, focusing on resident and medical student education. Among other duties and volunteer activities, Dr. Contarino serves on the Hospital Ethics Committee, and chairs the Care Delivery Team for patient and family centered care. He has won several teaching awards throughout residency and his time as a hospitalist, including the Robert L Ney Award, Harvey J Hamrick Excellence in Teaching Award, and the WakeMed Faculty Teaching Award. He was named Associate Program Director in May 2015.

Dr. Contarino has varied interests that range from travel and Spanish language, to skiing and college basketball. He most enjoys spending time with his wife and son.

Joseph A. Duncan, MD, PhD, FIDSA

Associate Program Director – Research
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pharmacology
Program Director, Physician Scientist Training Program

After completing his MD/PhD degrees at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dr. Duncan came to UNC to pursue training in Medicine and Infectious Diseases through the ABIM Research Pathway. During his training he was awarded the Pfizer Fellowship in Infectious Diseases and the Burroughs Wellcome Career Award for Medical Scientists before joining UNC as a faculty member in Infectious Diseases. Dr. Duncan’s laboratory focuses on multiple aspects of immune signaling in generating protective responses to infectious diseases as well as the exploitation of host immune signaling pathways by successful pathogens during infection. Dr. Duncan is also an active Infectious Diseases clinician working on inpatient Infectious Diseases consult services at UNC. Dr. Duncan has a longstanding interest in physician scientist career development and served as the director of UNC’s Infectious Diseases Training Program until July 2017. Dr. Duncan now serves as the director of the Department of Medicine’s new Physician Scientist Training Program, which provides clinical and research training through the ABIM Research Pathway, and as the Associate Program Director of the Medicine Residency Program, where he is focusing on research training of residents.

Jennifer McEntee, MD, MPH, MA.Ed

Associate Program Director for Resident Professional Development
Associate Professor Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Associate Professor Palliative Care and Hospice Medicine

An explorer and thrill seeker at her core, Dr. McEntee decided to take a risk and join the University of Notre Dame’s ACE Program prior to entering medical school. Through this program, she loved teaching at a secondary school in Oklahoma City for two years and earned a Master’s in Education through Notre Dame.  She developed a passion for education and when she entered a joint MD/MPH program at Tulane – she realized education and public health would be instrumental to her medical career. The Dean of Students at Tulane further allowed her to take a year of medical school between her first and second year of medical school to teach pedagogy at St. Joseph’s Teacher’s College in Moshi, Tanzania.  She continues to be diligent in regards to including her educational passion in to her day-to-day work as an Internal Medicine Hospitalist and Palliative Care/Hospice provider.

She is extremely passionate and humbled by this new opportunity to join the IM program director leadership team as the Inpatient Associate Program Director for Internal Medicine.  She is excited to work with Dr. Bynum and the chiefs to further promote educational scholarship while enhancing the objectives, evaluations, assessment of inpatient rotations. Her enthusiasm for international health and public health will also be channeled into further work with important stakeholders in continuing the work on building our global and public health presence regionally, domestically, and internationally.  Her educational interests continue to include UNC’s commitment to developing faculty as educators both through formal and informal processes while also developing a more robust evaluation and assessment plan for all learners that focuses on  competency-based assessment using EPA’s versus the traditional time- constant curricula,  In addition, she hopes to continue to foster and build a sense of community  at UNC which will further build resilience and life-long learning at all levels of learning.   She is proud to be a Tar Heel and is grateful for the opportunity to serve our community in this way.

Adam Creech, MD

Associate Program Director- WakeMed
Hospitalist at WakeMed

I am the associate program director for the Internal Medicine Residency program at WakeMed.  I grew up in Rocky Mount, NC and graduated from NC State with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry.  I attended medical school and Internal Medicine Residency at UNC.  After completing residency I joined WakeMed as a hospitalist and took over the APD position in 2018.  I have interest in undergraduate and graduate medical education, palliative care and community health.

Aaron Fried, MD, MBA

Associate Program Director of Inpatient Services

Dr. Fried is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UNC and the Associate Program Director of Inpatient Services for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. He graduated from Creighton University’s dual MD/MBA program in 2019 and came to UNC for his residency training in Internal Medicine where he was awarded the Ontjes Award for scholarly excellence and commitment to the service of others. He served as Inpatient Chief Resident before joining the UNC faculty in the Division of Hospital Medicine.

Dr. Fried has a passion for medical education and an interest in healthcare systems innovation, process improvement, and quality improvement. He is the faculty lead for one of the general medicine inpatient teaching services and has co-led the development and implementation of new teaching services at UNC. He most enjoys his time attending on the inpatient wards, medicine consult team, and the Same Day Clinic as well as partnering with and mentoring residents and chief residents through change initiatives. Outside of work, Dr. Fried is an amateur artist and hobbyist. He loves basketball, golf, and exploring the Triangle with his wife and three children.

Portia Nleya, MD, MPH

Associate Program Director of Recruitment

Ryan Bonner, MD

Ria Dancel, MD, FACP, SFHM, FAAP

Dr. Dancel is a Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics in the Division of Hospital Medicine and the Associate Program Director for the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program. She created and has directed the Medicine Procedure Service since its inception in 2014. She also created the point of care ultrasound (POCUS) elective curriculum and co-directs the required intern POCUS longitudinal curriculum for the Department of Medicine. She is on the steering committee for the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM) – American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) POCUS certificate of completion program and also serves on the Alliance for Academic Internal Medicine POCUS working group. She has directed and has been invited to serve as faculty for POCUS workshops and conferences nationally and internationally. Her focus of clinical research and quality improvement is in the use of POCUS in advancing diagnostic and procedural medicine.

Having been born in the Philippines and raised as an Army brat, Dr. Dancel decided to put down roots in Chapel Hill when she was accepted to UNC undergrad. She is a triple Tarheel, having stayed for medical school and med-peds residency. She lives in Chapel Hill with her husband, a nephrologist, and their bulldog. She enjoys spending time with her 8 godchildren, traveling, eating, reading, and spending time in her pollinator garden.

Erin Finn, MD

Dr. Erin Finn is an Assistant Professor of Medicine and Pediatrics at UNC in the division of Hospital Medicine. She earned a B.A. in Molecular Biology from Colgate University and a medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry.

She completed her residency in internal medicine and pediatrics as well as a chief year at UNC. She subsequently completed a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) fellowship under the direction of Dr. Ria Dancel, also obtaining a certificate of completion in POCUS from the Society of Hospital Medicine and CHEST. She is passionate about teaching POCUS to the pediatrics, med peds, and medicine residents at UNC, and helped create and co-directs the longitudinal POCUS curriculum for the UNC internal medicine residents. She also helps lead a 2-week intensive POCUS elective for multiple residency programs at UNC and helps train multiple groups of fellows in procedural and diagnostic POCUS. She is passionate about ultrasound-guided procedures and is an attending on the medicine procedure service. She has been a POCUS instructor at the national level through CHEST, SHM, and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) and has been a speaker at multiple national conferences on this topic.

She lives with her husband, George, who is a family medicine-trained geriatrician and palliative care doctor, her daughter, Mia, her dogs, Tully and Seamus, and cats, Rhea and Penelope. She loves to run, play squash and volleyball, and is learning to swim so she can hopefully try her hand at triathlons.

Jessica Fuller, MD

Dr. Jessica Fuller is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine.  She studied biology, chemistry, and marine sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill as an undergraduate, then obtained a medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine (close to her childhood home in Montgomery, AL).  She completed her residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center/Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center and worked as a Med-Peds hospitalist for 4 years at the University of California, San Francisco before transitioning to a position as an adult hospitalist at UNC in 2021.

She is passionate about medical education and is specifically interested in how to optimize the clinical learning environment and how to develop lifelong learning strategies at all levels of expertise.  She serves as the Co-director of the Case-Based Learning (CBL) curriculum for the School of Medicine Foundation Phase.  She has a strong interest in integrating high fidelity simulation into medical education, and she created and leads an interdisciplinary longitudinal rapid response simulation curriculum for IM and Med-Peds interns with plans to expand to simulation code training for all residents.

Dr. Fuller lives in Chapel Hill with her husband, two sons, and a geriatric dog.  In her free time, she loves being outside, hiking, gardening, reading, and teaching her two little boys about all things science/nature

Kimberly Mournighan, MD

Kim Mournighan is originally from Florida, and studied theology before embarking on a medical career. She completed her medical training, residency, and geriatrics fellowship at the University of North Carolina. For Kim, a career in geriatrics is a profound opportunity to journey alongside patients as they navigate complex medical issues and face significant life transitions. Her work integrates clinical care with research and quality improvement, with a particular focus on managing cognitive impairment and dementia. Additionally, Kim is dedicated to education, mentoring medical students, residents, and geriatric fellows to enhance communication skills and cultivate a deeper interest in caring for this growing and vulnerable population. You can often find her out hiking trails, kayaking at Jordan Lake, knitting in a cozy chair, or discovering new food trucks with her partner who is a public school teacher and their two adorable children.

Alfred Rabinovich MD, MS

Alfred Rabinovich is an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine.

He is originally from Rochester, New York (Go Bills!), but escaped the snow to attend medical school at Eastern Virginia Medical School. He completed residency and chief residency at Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Dr. Rabinovich is involved in both resident and medical student education and is passionate about the role of primary care in medicine. He helps lead the Primary Care Concentration within the Internal Medicine Residency Program and teaches in the Patient Centered Care course at UNC SOM. His clinical interests include primary care for older adults and the delivery of patient-centered care to patients with complex healthcare needs.

Dr. Rabinovich lives in Cary with his wife, son and two dogs. Outside of work he enjoys cooking, exploring the Triangle with his family and spending time near any body of water.

Raquel Reyes, MD, MPA

Co-Director of the Inpatient Medicine core clerkship 

Dr. Reyes is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine and works closely with students and residents in her role as co-Director of the Inpatient Medicine core clerkship. Originally from rural Texas, Dr. Reyes is the first and only physician in her family. Dr. Reyes earned her B.A. in English from Harvard College, a Master’s in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, and M.D. from Harvard Medical School. She completed combined residency training in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH).

Dr. Reyes pursued various health policy projects and clinical experiences in international settings during her formal education and residency training. After completing residency, she served as MGH’s first Site Director for the global residency program in Uganda. In this role she served as attending physician, clinical preceptor, and instructor in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, supervising and mentoring MGH and Ugandan medical students and residents in clinical care and scholarly projects.

Dr. Reyes moved to Chapel Hill in 2015 with her husband, Dr. Ross Boyce, to start their family. At UNC, she has served as a student and resident preceptor and mentor in multiple clinical and course-based environments, across all phases of medical education. Dr. Reyes served as an Associate Program Director for the Med-Peds residency program and co-led the development of a Global Health Pathway for residents. She continues to mentor students and residents interested in global health. In addition to her GME roles, Dr. Reyes serves as a tutor and facilitator for first- and second-year medical students, co-Director of the core medicine inpatient clerkship for third years and is active in multiple curricular committees at the school of medicine. She enjoys working with the residency program on all things related to “residents as educators,” and issues that relate to and impact the UME to GME medical education continuum.

Tamara Godfrey, MD

Dr. Godfrey is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UNC Chapel Hill. She is one of the core faculty members for the IM residency program. Her family is originally from Haiti but she grew up in Fairfax, Virginia. She earned her undergraduate and medical degrees at the University of Virginia (wahoowa!). She completed her Internal Medicine residency at Duke University, and joined the faculty at UNC in the Fall of 2020. Clinically she does a mix of outpatient, inpatient, and medical school teaching. Her academic interests include health equity, medical education, and diversity & inclusion. She lives in Durham with her husband, son, and two dogs. In her free time she loves traveling, going to concerts, reading, and spending time with loved ones.

Julie Golding

Program Administrator – Internal Medicine Residency Program

Julie is a “Carolina-lifer” having completed her undergraduate degree in Health Policy and Management from UNC’s Gillings School of Global Health in 2009, then working with UNC medical students for 12 years, and now working as the Program Administrator for UNC’s Internal Medicine Residency Program. She was born in Cameroon, Africa, into a missionary family, and grew up between Cameroon and Waxhaw, NC. Growing up overseas instilled a love for travel and culture, whether stateside or overseas. Her other joys in life are reading, volleyball, live music, a great cup of coffee, and spending time with her sweet pup, Bonnie.

Tatiyana Brown (Tati)

Program Coordinator-Internal Medicine Residency Program

Bobby Ijeoma, MD

Inpatient Chief Resident 

Maggie Fennell, MD

Medicine-Pediatrics Chief Resident 

Lexus Andrews, MD, MBA

Outpatient Chief Resident

Dr. Lexus Andrews is originally from Mobile, Alabama and attended Millsaps College where she majored in Biology and was on the varsity volleyball team. After college, she completed an MBA at Millsaps before returning to Alabama for medical school at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She then moved to North Carolina to complete her residency in Internal Medicine at UNC and now serves as the Ambulatory Chief Resident for the program. Following her chief residency year, she plans to pursue a fellowship in geriatric medicine. In her free time, Lexus enjoys traveling, knitting, exploring new restaurants, and watching Alabama football (Roll Tide!).

Christina Siems, MD, M.Ed, MA

Inpatient Chief Resident 

Dr. Christina Siems is originally from Ohio and attended The Ohio State University where she graduated with a degree in Human Development and a master’s degree in Education. After college, she worked as an elementary school teacher and pursued a M.A. in Bioethics before going to Loyola in Chicago for medical school. She then moved to North Carolina for internal medicine residency at UNC and now serves as Inpatient Chief Resident for the program. After her chief residency year, she plans to contniue working in academic medicine and medical education.

Govind Kallumkal, MD

WakeMed Chief Resident

Dr. Govind Kallumkal is originally from Tallahassee, Florida and attending FSU for his bachelor’s degree majoring in Biological Sciences and a Minor in Chemistry. He then attended medical school at the University of Florida where he served as his class’s representative, as well as a member of multiple task forces including the UFCOM curriculum committee, as a member of the admissions committee, and coordinating 1^styear as well as 3^rd year orientation. He then moved to North Carolina to complete his residency in Internal Medicine and now serves as the WakeMed Chief. Outside of medicine, Govindenjoys exploring the triangle with his wife, hiking with his dogs, as well as weightlifting and playing tennis.