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Addiction Medicine Fellows

for the 2024-2025 Academic Year

Dawn Kendrick, M.D.

Medical School: The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina University

Residency Program: Maine Medical Center

Fellowship Program: University of Alabama at Birmingham

Primary Specialty: Emergency Medicine


Anna Peyton, D.O. 

Medical School: West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine  

Residency Program: Mercy Health Anderson Hospital

Primary Specialty: Family Medicine


Fernando Boria Gonzalez, M.D.

Medical School: San Juan Bautista School of Medicine

Residency Program: HCA Florida Saint Petersburg Hospital

Primary Specialty: Family Medicine  


Caitlin Mahoney, M.D.  

Medical School: George Washington University School of Medicine 

Residency Program: Cone Health Family Medicine 

Primary Specialty: Family Medicine  


Catching up with some of our fellowship graduates…

Kory Dawson, M.D. – Fellowship Class of 2024
Dr. Dawson, whose background is in emergency medicine, joined the faculty at Penn State School of Medicine following completion of his fellowship training. He holds dual appointments as Assistant Professor in the both the Department of Psychiatry and  Behavioral Health (where Penn State’s addiction services are housed) and the Department of Emergency Medicine.

Peter Le, M.D. – Fellowship Class of 2024
Dr. Le, whose background is in internal medicine, currently works as a hospitalist at UNC Rex Hospital in Raleigh. At UNC Rex Hospital, Dr. Le is involved in providing inpatient substance use treatment services (including initiation of opioid agonist therapy and medication for alcohol use disorder) to hospitalized patients.

Huma Tahir, D.O. – Fellowship Class of 2024
Dr. Tahir, whose background is in family medicine, is currently a provider with Duke Primary Care, where she incorporates outpatient addiction services into her primary care practice.

Christopher Thompson, M.D. – 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, Wake County’s largest hospital system.

Madeline McCrary, M.D. – Fellowship Class of 2023
Dr. McCrary, whose background is in internal medicine and infectious diseases, is currently an Assistant Professor 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.

Daniel Ceglowski, M.D. – Fellowship Class of 2022
Dr. Ceglowski, whose background is in emergency medicine, currently serves as Medical Director at Bayside Marin Treatment Center, a comprehensive addiction treatment program located in San Rafael, California.

Sravanthi Utpala, M.D. – Fellowship Class of 2022
Dr. Utpala, whose background is in psychiatry, is currently an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University, where she provides psychiatry and addiction medicine services.

Alessia Bhargava, M.D. – Fellowship Class of 2022
Dr. Bhargava, whose background is in psychiatry, provides substance use treatment services with Eleanor Health and also serves as a Consulting Psychiatrist at Bayside Marin Treatment Center, a comprehensive addiction treatment program located in San Rafael, California.

David Ryan, M.D. – Fellowship Class of 2021
Dr. Ryan, whose background is in obstetrics-gynecology, is an Assistant Professor at East Carolina University, where he is currently involved in developing ECU’s Addiction Medicine Program.

Cameron Coleman, M.D. – Fellowship Class of 2021
Dr. Coleman, whose background is in preventive medicine, currently serves as Assistant Professor at University of Michigan Medicine, where he treats patients with the University of Michigan Addiction Treatment Services.

Michael Baca-Atlas, M.D. – 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 Associate Professor 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 is currently the President of the North Carolina Society of Addiction Medicine.