Department of Medicine
General Internal Medicine
Our members are responsible for curriculum development, residency scholarship, quality improvement activities, and department-wide faculty development.
General Internal Medicine
Our members are responsible for curriculum development, residency scholarship, quality improvement activities, and department-wide faculty development.
Overview
The Division of General Internal Medicine (DGIM) faculty includes 34 Full Time Faculty and over 100 Clinical/Part-time faculty across 5 of the The Warren Alpert Medical School’s Affiliated Hospitals in Rhode Island – Rhode Island Hospital, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island, The Miriam Hospital, Veterans Administration Medical Center and Women & Infants’ Hospital.
Led by DGIM Director Angela M. Caliendo, MD, PhD, the General Internal Medicine division, based at RIH and TMH, sponsors a wide array of educational, patient care and research activities. Examples of such activities include:
Education. DGIM faculty are responsible for major roles in graduate medical education and residency leadership within the Department of Medicine. DGIM members are responsible for curriculum development, residency scholarship, quality improvement activities and department-wide faculty development. This Division is also home to one of the country’s oldest Primary Care Residency programs, with a strong emphasis on behavioral medicine. A new substance abuse fellowship has been added and plans are underway for further advanced training opportunities. Members of this division hold major leadership positions in National GME organizations such as the American College of Physicians, Society for General Internal Medicine, Clerkship Directors in Internal Medicine and Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine.
Clinical Care. DGIM clinical activities include several academic clinical practices in Primary Care, as well as a longstanding Women’s Health practice. Our faculty teach and supervise residents and interns on the geographically-oriented inpatient general medicine wards at RIH. Finally, DGIM faculty are responsible for leadership, education and precepting in resident continuity clinics as well.
Research. HIV prevention and care, substance use disorders, and tobacco cessation are some of the subject areas investigated and presented nationally.
Faculty
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Michelle Anvar, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Erika Bloom, PhD
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine -
Kate Cahill, MD
Associate Professor of Medical Science; Associate Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Angela Caliendo, MD, PhD
Warren Alpert Foundation Professor of Medicine; Director, Division of General Internal Medicine -
Stephanie Catanese, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Sybil Cineas, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Associate Professor of Medical Science; Clinician Educator -
Michele Cyr, MD, FACP
Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs; Professor of Medical Science; Professor of Medicine -
Christine Duffy, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Laura Edmonds, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Charlene Ellsworth, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Mark Fagan, MD, FACP
Professor Emeritus of Medicine -
Rebekah Gardner, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine -
Jennifer Jeremiah, MD
Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Hussain Khawaja, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Carol Landau, PhD
Clinical Professor Emerita of Medicine; Clinical Professor Emerita of Psychiatry and Human Behavior -
Donnah Mathews, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Kelly McGarry, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine -
Suzanne McLaughlin, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine; Associate Professor of Pediatrics -
Drew Nagle, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Susan Oliverio, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Ju Park, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine (Research); Assistant Professor of Epidemiology (Research) -
Susan Ramsey, PhD
Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Research), Professor of Medicine (Research), Director of Research, Addiction Medicine Fellowship Program, Director of Research, Division of Internal Medicine -
Jael Rodriguez, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Mark Schleinitz, MD, MSc
Associate Professor of Medicine -
Mindy Sobota, MD, MS, MPhil
Associate Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Dominick Tammaro, MD, FACP
Professor of Medicine -
Robert Velasco, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine; Clinician Educator -
Sarita Warrier, MD
Associate Dean of Medical Education; Associate Professor of Medical Science; Associate Professor of Medicine -
Tony Wu, MD
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
Residency Programs
Internal Medicine Residency Program
The Brown University Internal Medicine Program seeks to promote the development of the consummate internist – doctors who practice with a high level of compassion, knowledge, skills, and professionalism.
Fellowship Program
The David C. Lewis, MD Fellowship in Addiction Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital, is a one- or two-year fellowship for physicians who desire comprehensive training in addiction medicine.
Research & Scholarship Programs
In addition to our clinical and educational missions, the Division of General Internal Medicine supports a robust research program. The research interests demonstrate the wide-ranging intellectual curiosity of our faculty members. The Division measures its success in scholarship not only by the number of publications and the funding earned by our faculty members but also by the potential impact of the research on our patients.
The Research Section of the Division of General Internal Medicine is dedicated to providing a multidisciplinary environment for health services and clinical research to optimize physical and behavioral health. Led by Director Dr. Susan Ramsey, our investigators collaborate closely with investigators across the Brown community, including the Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies and the Immunology Center at the Miriam Hospital, and across the country.
Dr. Ramsey and her team provide support to GIM faculty and residents in the form of methodological design and conceptualization consultation, assistance in performing literature reviews, IRB application support, production of data collection tools, data entry, EMR data extraction, quantitative data analysis, and coding and analysis of qualitative data.
Clinical faculty in GIM also pursue research in medical education, quality improvement, and less traditional areas of scholarship, often mentoring residents and medical students. Our faculty are developing and evaluating curricula, writing book chapters on clinical and educational areas of expertise, performing original research, contributing to case reports, writing perspective pieces and editorials, crafting tweetorials and podcasts, and performing scoping and narrative reviews. Our interests range widely and include women’s health, reproductive healthcare, care of underserved populations, advocacy, mentorship in academic medicine, medical education, health information technology, and quality improvement in both the hospital and ambulatory settings. With the appointment of Director of Scholarship Dr. Rebekah Gardner, we are building our infrastructure to support the diverse ways that GIM faculty collaborate to investigate teaching, care delivery, and the practice of medicine.