Meet Our Faculty

Jennifer Fuchs is the program director of the PHM fellowship. She completed pediatric residency in 2014 and graduated from PHM fellowship in 2016 from Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital. On the national level, she has served as a graduated fellow mentor at the PHM fellowship conference, ran the national website for PHM (www.SOHMlibrary.org) and has presented various national workshops on fellowship wellness, core faculty, interviewing applicants, and fellowship autonomy and mentorship. Dr. Fuchs’ primary interests include high value care, faculty development, resident education in the area of child maltreatment, and promoting quality improvement education in trainees. In her free time, she enjoys being outdoors on the water or hiking, listening to her musician husband perform, cooking/baking or trying unique local eats, traveling, and spending time with her daughter and two dogs.

Wade Harrison is a member in the Division of Hospital Pediatrics while also serving as faculty at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health where he teaches in the Public Health Leadership Program. He completed pediatric residency at the University of Utah where he also served as a chief resident before coming to UNC to complete a research fellowship affiliated with the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research. He loved UNC and North Carolina so much that he stayed on as faculty! He currently works with fellows in a variety of ways, particularly focused on their scholarly activities, and anticipates stepping into the role of Associate Program Director in the future. His research and professional interests include measuring and supporting high-value care, clinical decision-making, and issues related to the pediatric workforce, and has experience conducting research through a range of methods from using administrative data, to systematic reviews, to survey data. He also enjoys teaching epidemiology and critical appraisal to trainees. In his free time, he enjoys drinking strong coffee, cycling (and really anything outdoors), and exploring all of Durham’s restaurants and breweries with his wife Asha, 2-year-old son Atul (who mostly prefers carbs and dino nuggets), and 13-year-old lab mix Lucy (who also likes dino nuggets when offered by Atul).

Lindsay Chase completed a PHM Fellowship at Emory and has previously served as the medical director for inpatient services and program director for the PHM Fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital. Nationally, she serves as the medical editor for the American Board of Pediatrics Hospital Medicine Sub board and was a member of the AAP Section of Hospital Medicine Executive committee from 2016-2019 and the former webmaster and founder of the SOHM library. Her primary interests include diagnosis of undifferentiated patients, high value care and optimization of use of limited resources, thinking about thinking, and cuddling babies in the newborn nursery. In her free time, she enjoys dominating her two children at board games, cuddling with her two dogs, and enjoying takeout from all of the great Chapel Hill restaurants.

Gonzalo Loza received his BSc in Health Services Management from East Carolina University, College of Allied Health Sciences and a minor in Early Childhood Development and Family Science. He is currently pursuing his Master of Health Administration at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. He serves on the board for The National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives’ NC Chapter as Chair of Membership and member of The Association of Administrators in Academic Pediatrics. Gonzalo is responsible for the division’s financial wellbeing, HR management, general communication, project coordination, and divisional administrative oversight. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, beach trips and exploring new restaurants with his fiancé.