
Internal Medicine
Academic DepartmentInternal medicine helps prevent the onset of health care problems whenever possible and treats them effectively when they arise.
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Sanford School of Medicine
1400 W. 22nd St.
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
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Welcome to the Department of Internal Medicine
Internal medicine doctors use scientific knowledge and clinical expertise as they diagnose, treat and care for patients from healthy adults to those with complex illnesses.
Our department is committed to introducing medical students to the concepts of internal medicine as well as preparing residents for general internal medicine, hospital medicine or fellowship. We aim for an educational excellence, equipping the learner with the skills to:
- Care for patients with empathy, compassion and kindness.
- Cope with ambiguity.
- Balance clinical objectivity with self-esteem.
- Work effectively as a member of a health care team.
Pillar 2 is the longitudinal integrated curriculum, and internal medicine has a half-day clinic every week for all students. Pillar 3 internal medicine rotations emphasize electives such as dermatology, cardiology, endocrinology, pulmonary, renal medicine and many others, which are offered to provide educational breadth and prepare students for residency.
Programs
Faculty/Staff

Luann Eidsness

Eric Larson

Ammar Abdullah

Jonathon Adams

Wais Afzal

Shakeel Ahmed

Mamoon Ahmed

Ahmed Ahmed

Megan Albertson

Marc Aldrich

Ali AlHajjaj

Naji Alhasnawi

Nour Alhesan

Mohammad Ali

Brandon Allard

Raymond Allen

Robert Allison

Josie Alpers

Eckhard Alt

Mohammed Alzoubaidi

Matthew Anderson

Raquel AnelTiangco

Otis Apau

Francine Arneson

Kyle Arneson

Arsalan Arshad

Muhammad Asif

Muhammad Asim

Huthayfa Ateeli

Muslim Atiq

Blake Atwood

Lee Austin

Muaataz Azzawi

JMichael Bacharach

Mashood Badshah

Anurag Bajaj

JJeffery Baka

John Barker

Clarissa Barnes

Bryan Barness

Daniel Barth

Rick Barth

David Basel

Brian Baxter

David Bean

Robert Behrend

Megan Bell

Aaron Berg

Emad Beshai

Sindhu Bhat

Matt Bien

Stephen Billion

Fredric Birch

Devin Bissoon

Adam Bledsoe

Jonathan Bleeker

Adam Bleeker

Javier Bogarin

Katie Bonnichsen

Jordan Bormann

John Bradshaw

Joel Brink

Christopher Bronson

Steven Brooks

Sherrie Brooks

Richard Brue

Alissa Brummond

Neil Brummond

W Brunner

Mark Bubak

Jonathan Buchanan

Larry Burris

Gene Burrish

Oluma Bushen

Marc Capitano

Paul Carpenter

Kevin Casper

Jeremy Cauwels

Miguel CerveraHernandez

GuyVin Chang

Hammad Chaudhry

Sreekanth Chavour

Praveen Cherukuri

Masaru Chiba

Sabina Choudhry

Eric Chow

Thomas Cink

Richard Clark

David Condon

Barry Cooper

Michele Corsini

Kevin Coy

Daniel Crosby

Edward Czarnecki

Mike Davies

Pradip De

Jon DeMuth

Khalin Dendy

Joe Devasahayam

Sreyoshi Dey

Nandini Dey

Mark Diaz

Angela Digatono

Jamal Dodin

Sreekanth Donepudi

Derrick Doolittle

Janet Dubois

Susan Duffek

Christopher Duggin

Samuel Durr

Jordan Dykstra

Ellis Easterling

Eric Eastmo

David Eaton

Darla Edinger

Wael Eid

Melody Eide

Will Eidsness

Mohamed Elfeki

Mona Elsayed

Ashraf Elshami

David Elson

Gregory English

Mark Erickson

Michele EricksonJohnson

Andrew Erie

David Evans

Kelly EvansHullinger

Amy Evjen

Gary Famestad

Joseph Fanciullo

Susan Fanta

Randall Fenner

Derek Ferley

Derek Ferrie

Candace Fetzer

Magdalene Fiddler

Andrew Figura

Charles Flohr

Leo Flynn

Valerie Flynn

Edgardo Fortuno

Reed Fossum

Matthew Frank

Thomas Free

Marcus Frohm

Linda Fromm

Timothy Frost

Allen Funk

Kristopher Gage

David Gallagher

Srinivas Gangineni

Evelio Garcia

Emily Gaster

Marioara GavozdeaBarna

Oleg Georgiev

Jorge Gilbert

Daryl Goh

Nancy Gonsor

Deepak Goyal

Jennifer Greco

Mandi Greenway

Erin Greer

Christopher Gregory

Anders Grinde

Eammon Grosek

Dayna Groskreutz

Joel Grow

Shaopeng Gu

Michael Gulseth

Stephen Gutnik

Emily Haggerty

Rizan Hajal

Catherine Hajek

Elizabeth Haller

Khizar Hamid

Ramadan Hammoud

Hamza Hamza

Chad Hanna

Lori Hansen

Brian Hansen

Ty Hanson

Tyler Hanson

Iqra Haq

Richard Hardie

Aaroop Haridas

Bill Harris

K Hart

Meredith Hayes

Matthew Hayes

Elizabeth Hedman

Jeffrey Heier

Jodi Heins

Matthew Helgeson

Alisha Hemraj

Travis Henderson

Josh Henderson

Anthony Hericks

Shahriar Heydari

Scott Hiltunen

Wendell Hoffman

Kelsey Holkesvik

Martha Holstein

Rorak Hooten

Susan Hoover

Megan Hora

Robert Houser

Lorraine Huet-Holm

Willard Hurley

Luke Hushagen

Sheereene Hussain

Timothy Irwin

Kristina Jackson

Matthew Jahraus

Fady Jamous

Michelle JananiaMartinez

Tyler Jares

Jaswanth Jasti

Waqas Jehangir

Cristina Jensen

Ryan Jepperson

Kelly Jerstad

Jana Johnson

Justin Jons

Orvar Jonsson

Joseph Jordahl

Vivek Joseph

Sabieli Kabeli

Ramesh Kashyap

Nicholas Kaufman

Stephanie Kazi

Kayla Keeler

Amy Keranen

Sarah Kerr

Robert Kessler

Fouad Khalil

Shahjahan Khan

Wahab Khan

Dawlat Khan

Neal Khurana

Fatima Kidwai

Kunut Kijsirichareanchai

Derek Kindelspire

Scott Kindle

Jenna King

John KinrossWright

Siri KnutsenLarson

Brian Knutson

David Kovaleski

Ugur Kucuk

Lou Kumar

Shankar Kurra

Jacob Kusmak

James Kuzman

Kwabena Kwakye

Sassen Kwasa

Sonja Labrie

Maari LaBrie

Jean Lageson

Randall Lamfers

Brad Langston

Christina Lankhorst

Towner Lapp

Melanie LaVoie

Derek Lee

Lie Ligasaputri

Julie LInatoc

Editha Liu

Charles Longo

John Looby

Mark Lounsbery

Fred Lovrien

Chris Lucido

Arthur Luka

Jennifer Lunder

Roxana Lupu

Jonah Luzier

Dave Maddox

Tarek Mahrous

Dayana Maita

Deborah Majerus

Charoen Mankongpaisarnrung

Kevin Marquez

Fares Masannat

Leann Maska

Amanda Massmann

Munis Mattu

Jen May

Miroslaw Mazurczak

Keith McCollister

Adam McDermaid

Sean McGrann

Steven McGraw

Michael McGuire

Michael McHale

Jennifer McKay

Heidi McKean

Marisa Medina

Paige Meester

Daniel Megard

Hassan Mehmood

Prashant Mehta

Tina Melanson

Aron Merchen

Beth Mikkelsen

Nathan Miller

Ryan Miller

Jolene Mitchell

Andrew Modic

Riyad Mohama

Ty Moody

Michelle Moore

Oscar MoreyVargas

Uma Motapothula

Francine Mousseau

Matt Muller

Alex Mulmi

Gregory Mumm

Karen Munger

Charles Murphy

Mary Murphy

Jeffrey Murray

Ninad Nadkarni

David Nagelhout

Touba Naim

Jawad Nazir

Stephen Neabore

Marci Neilson

David Nelson

Patrick Nelson

Jenny Nelson

Mary Nettleman

Byron Nielsen

Jason Noble

Adam Norenberg

Houman Nourkeyhani

Alexandria Nowaczyk

Ryan Nowak

David Nussbaum

Obinna Nwadibia

Ukamaka Nwadibia

Nnamdi Nwafo

Samuel Nyamu

Mansi Oberoi

Marilee Obritsch

Ayodele Ogunremi

Ebima Okundaye

Filip Oleszak

Hilal OlgunKucuk

Tony Oliver

Tamera Oltmanns

Mark Oppenheimer

Gary Ott

Jaelin Otta

Christopher Paa

Christopher Paa

John Palmer

Ramakrishnan Parameswaran

Matthew Pardy

Bradley Parke

Rodney Parry

Anish Patel

Jay Patel

Brad Paulson

Shannon Peck

Brian Pepito

Swami PerinkulamSathyanarayanan

Daniel Petereit

Jason Petersen

Kara Petersen

Lindsey Peterson

Mike Peterson

Marian Petrasko

Marina Petukoff

Scott Pham

Parkpoom Phatharacharukul

Abigail Piazza

Jessica Pierobon

Michael Pietila

Dylan Platt

Joshua Plorde

Darrell Plumage

Christine Pocha

Cindi Pochop

James Pottala

Steven Powell

Julia PrescottFocht

Bhaskar Purushottam

Mohammad Qamar

Govarthanan Rajendiran

Naveen Rajpurohit

Elden Rand

Louis Raymond

Joseph Rees

John Reinschmidt

Curtis Rexroth

Tim Ridgway

Daryl Rife

Carrie Rise

Barbara RobertsHaas

Susan Rohr

Laura Romcevich

David Rossing

Rebecca Runge

Anthony Rupp

Sara Ruter

Hamza SaadShaukat

Gregory Saffell

Robert Sage

Sharoon Samuel

Rachel Samuelson

David Sandvik

Amy Sanford

Robert Santella

Arvin Santos

Sarah Sarbacker

Larry Schafer

Spencer Schilling

Kathleen Schneekloth

April Schultz

Michael Schurrer

Carmen Schwartz

Amanda Sedlacek

Frederick Severs

Janet Shaefer

SyedAsif Shah

Mahum Shahid

Mahmoud Sharaf

Puneet Sharma

Rakshya Sharma

Purva Sharma

Greg Shearer

Maryam Sheikh

Michael Shirley

Anup Shrestha

Larry Sidaway

Renee Siegmann

Austin Simonson

Murat Sincan

Ashwani Singal

Chandar Singaram

Aditya Singh

Braj Singh

Emad Sitta

Robert Smith

Na Smith

John Sneden

Lloyd Solberg

Veronica Soler

Benjamin Solomon

Daniel Sova

Srividya Srinivasan

Jessica Srstka

Kelly Stacy

AndreeaConstanta Stan

Christopher Stanley

Christopher Stanton

Lorenzo Stars

Kelly Steffen

Steven Stocks

Jeremy Storm

Dan Stoutamire

Heidi Strouth

Tomasz Stys

Maria Stys

Adam Stys

Jose SuarezIsaacs

Christopher Sumey

Stacy Svendsen

Faizan Syed

Junaid Syed

Asma Syed

Melinda Talley

Gregory Taylor

Jose Teixeira

Erin Terpstra

Jitendra Thakkar

Sudan Thapa

Nick Thielen

Lycia Thornburg

Andrew Thorp

Matthew Tobey

Michael Tobin

Elizabeth Toomajian

Miranda Tracy

Loren Tschetter

Hillary Turner

Heidi Twedt

Sophie TwoHawk

Patsy Uken

Joel VanHeukelom

Zoltan Varga

Teja Vasamsetty

Juan VeraGomez

Mark Vercel

Joshua Vetter

Mary Villanueva

Charles Voigt

Robert Vosler

Godfrey Wabwire

John Wagener

Muhammad Waleed

Chetan Wasekar

Thomas Waterbury

Kendra Watson

Allison Watson

Bruce Watt

Cynthia Weaver

Garrett Weber

Kevin Weiland

Robin Weiner

Randal Welter

David White

Sandra WhiteShield

Anthony Whitlow

Kevin Whittle

Michael Wilde

Russ Wilke

Jennifer Williams

Casey Williams

Jennifer Williamson

Jeffrey Wilson

Thein Win

Tamara Winden

Gregory Wittenberg

Suzanne Woodward

Kimberly Woolhiser

Kirk Wyatt

Chencheng Xie

Terry Yeager

Douglas Yim

Sandra Young

Khalil Yousef

John Yu

Alla Zamulko

William Zavitz

David Zeigler

Moaz Zia

Katie Ziegler
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DEPARTMENT OPPORTUNITIES
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Internal Medicine Special Interest Groups
Students who want to learn more about internal medicine can become involved with a special interest group. A student representative from each class will interact with the American College of Physicians and the Department of Internal Medicine to help select current topics of importance to medical students. Interested students will meet monthly with faculty and residents to discuss these topics. All medical students are welcome.
Scholarships
The Department of Internal Medicine residency program has the John L. Boice Scholarship, which is given to a second-year resident interested in research. The Michael McHale Scholarship honors the medical student with the highest score on the Objective Structured Clinical Examination.
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Internal Medicine
Internal medicine helps prevent the onset of health care problems whenever possible and treats them effectively when they arise.