Meet Our Fellows
Addiction Medicine Fellows
for the 2026-2027 Academic Year
Hannah Campbell, MD, PhD
Medical School: Baylor College of Medicine
Residency Program: Duke University
Primary Specialty: Psychiatry
Interests: Co-occurring trauma-related and substance use disorders, brain network organization in substance use disorders across treatment
Why I Chose the UNC Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program: I chose UNC’s program to prepare me to treat patients with medical and psychosocial complexity. UNC’s addiction medicine faculty have a clear excitement for medical education and encourage fellows to pursue their own unique interests. In addition to excellent clinical training, the program encourages scholarly pursuits at an institution that leads the field in both basic science and clinical research through the Bowles Center for Alcohol Studies. I have come to love the Triangle and North Carolina, and caring for North Carolina’s people is at the heart of this program.
Kayla Feagins, MD, MS
Medical School: University of Louisville School of Medicine
Residency Program: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Primary Specialty: Internal Medicine
Interests: Patient education, harm reduction, health equity, social determinants of health in substance use disorders, integration of addiction medicine into general internal medicine practice
Why I Chose the UNC Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program: I chose to continue my training with the UNC Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program because of the unique interdisciplinary approach I witnessed on my elective rotation. Seeing this compassionate team in action, the proficiency and expertise of the providers, and the wholistic lens through which they viewed and treated substance use disorders moved me to pursue this formal training. The curriculum is robust and is arranged in a variety of distinct clinical disciplines and settings. I value the diverse patient population and the medical complexities encountered at this safety-net academic institution. I just love it here in North Carolina, and I am grateful for the privilege to treat and address substance use disorders in this beautiful state!
Alexandra Goetjen, MD, PhD
Medical School: University of Connecticut School of Medicine
Residency Program: Novant Health Family Medicine, Wilmington, NC
Primary Specialty: Family Medicine
Interests: Harm reduction, stimulant use disorders, treatment of comorbid psychiatric conditions
Why I Chose the UNC Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program: During my third year of residency, I was fortunate to receive the opportunity to rotate with the addiction medicine consult service for a month. The collaborative nature of multiple individuals across disciplines was striking. The breadth of rotations, the excellent teaching provided, and the research opportunities available at UNC were all factors that prompted me to apply to this fellowship. I look forward to growing as a human and a physician alongside a wonderful team this coming year and hope to remain in North Carolina treating people across the lifespan with substance use disorders and comorbid psychiatric conditions.
Catching up with our graduates
Alison Holt, MD, MA – Fellowship Class of 2026
Nathaniel Erskine, MD, PhD – Fellowship Class of 2026
Anna Peyton, DO – Fellowship Class of 2025
Dr. Peyton, whose background is in family medicine, is a member of the faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, where she provides addiction medicine services and is involved in training residents and fellows.
Dawn Kendrick, MD – Fellowship Class of 2025
Dr. Kendrick, whose background is in emergency medicine, is a member of the faculty at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, where she works in ECU’s addiction medicine program. Dr. Kendrick also spends time providing emergency medicine services at ECU.
Caitlin Mahoney, MD – Fellowship Class of 2025
Dr. Mahoney, whose background is in family medicine, is employed by the North Carolina Department of Adult Correction as an addiction medicine specialist involved in expanding opioid use disorder treatment services to individuals incarcerate in the North Carolina state prison system.
Fernando Boria Gonzalez, MD – Fellowship Class of 2025
Dr. Boria Gonzalez, whose background is in family medicine, is employed as a physician at Sutter Health in California, where he incorporates substance use treatment into his primary care practice.
Kory Dawson, MD – Fellowship Class of 2024
Dr. Dawson, whose background is in emergency medicine, currently has dual appointments in the Departments of Emergency Medicine and Psychiatry at Duke Health. He spends time working in the Duke Regional Hospital Emergency Department as well as in the Duke Regional Hospital Behavioral Health Outpatient Clinic, where he provides substance use treatment services.
Peter Le, MD – Fellowship Class of 2024
Dr. Le, whose background is in internal medicine, currently works as a hospitalist at UNC Rex Hospital in Raleigh, North Carolina. At UNC Rex Hospital, Dr. Le is involved in providing inpatient substance use treatment services to hospitalized patients.
Huma Tahir, DO – Fellowship Class of 2024
Dr. Tahir, whose background is in family medicine, provides addiction medicine services with the VA Mental Health Residential Rehabilitation Treatment Program located in Tuskegee, Alabama.
Christopher Thompson, MD – Fellowship Class of 2023
Dr. Thompson, whose background is in family medicine and hospice/palliative care, currently leads the Addiction Medicine Service at WakeMed Health and Hospitals, the largest hospital system in Wake County, North Carolina.
Madeline McCrary, MD – Fellowship Class of 2023
Dr. McCrary, whose background is in internal medicine and infectious diseases, is on the faculty in the Division of Infectious Diseases and serves as Medical Director of the Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Program at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.
Uma Pendem, MD – Fellowship Class of 2023
Dr. Pendem, whose background is in family medicine, is on the faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at Duke Health, where she provides outpatient primary care and substance use treatment services.
Denise Torres, MD, MPH, CMRO – Fellowship Class of 2022
Dr. Torres, whose background is in preventive medicine, is a faculty member with the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Florida State University at Lee Memorial Hospital, where she provides addiction medicine and primary care services.
Parth Saraiya, MD, MPH – Fellowship Class of 2022
Dr. Saraiya, whose background is in preventive medicine, provides addiction treatment services at the CleanSlate Opioid Treatment Program located in Richmond, Virginia. He previously served as Medical Director for Substance Use at Agape Health Services in Washington, North Carolina.
Daniel Ceglowski, MD, MBA – Fellowship Class of 2022
Dr. Ceglowski, whose background is in emergency medicine, practices as an addiction medicine specialist in Jacksonville, Florida. He previously served as Medical Director at
Bayside Marin Treatment Center, a comprehensive addiction treatment program located in San Rafael, California.
Sravanthi Utpala, MD – Fellowship Class of 2022
Dr. Utpala, whose background is in psychiatry, provides addiction medicine and psychiatric services with Atrium Health Behavioral Health and Counseling in Concord, North Carolina.
Alessia Bhargava, MD, MBA – Fellowship Class of 2022
Dr. Bhargava, whose background is in psychiatry, provides psychiatric services with LinqCare also serves as a consulting physician at Bayside Marin Treatment Center, a comprehensive addiction treatment program located in San Rafael, California.
David Ryan, MD – Fellowship Class of 2021
Dr. Ryan, whose background is in obstetrics-gynecology, is a member of the faculty at the Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University, where he leads ECU’s Addiction Medicine Program.
Cameron Coleman, MD, MPS – Fellowship Class of 2021
Dr. Coleman, whose background is in preventive medicine, serves as Chief of Addiction Services at Avance Care in Raleigh, North Carolina, where he oversees an outpatient treatment program for patients with substance use disorders and addiction. Prior to joining Avance Care, Dr. Coleman was on the addiction medicine faculty at University of Michigan.
Michael Baca-Atlas, MD – Fellowship Class of 2019
Dr. Baca-Atlas, whose background is in family medicine, is the very first graduate of the UNC Addiction Medicine Fellowship. He is a member of the faculty in the UNC Department of Family Medicine and serves as Medical Director of UNC REACH Enhanced Primary Care as well as Associate Medical Director of the UNC Tobacco Treatment Program. Dr. Baca-Atlas has served as President of the North Carolina Society of Addiction Medicine.