Paul Biddle, MD
Paul Biddle, MD, associate professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, completed his medical degree, as well as an internal medicine residency at the University of Tennessee, Memphis . He completed a cardiovascular disease fellowship at Creighton University and an interventional cardiology fellowship at Duke University. Dr. Biddle comes to UNMC after serving as associate professor of medicine at Creighton University. He will serve on the outpatient and inpatient cardiology service, as well as having teaching responsibilities.
Karina Bishop, MD
Karina Isabel Bishop, MD, assistant professor, Division of Geriatrics, completed her medical degree at the Universidad de Panama, then completed a family medicine residency at Creighton University. Dr. Bishop will see patients Monday through Friday in the outpatient setting, as well as providing long-term care and medical direction. Her professional interests are in medical direction and caregiver support.
Sabin Bista, MBBS
Sabin Bista, MBBS, assistant professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, completed his medical degree at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Nepal. He then completed an internal medicine residency at Jacobi Medical Center at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and a sleep medicine fellowship and pulmonary and critical care fellowship at UNMC. Dr. Bista will serve in the sleep clinic on Friday afternoons. He will also serve on in-patient pulmonary consult service at Nebraska Medicine and on the critical care medicine service at Nebraska Medicine and Bellevue Medical Center. Dr. Bista's research interests are in the intersection of sleep and pulmonary disorders.
Derrick_Eichele, MD
Derrick Eichele, MD, assistant professor, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, completed his medical degree at the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks. He then completed a GI/hepatology fellowship at UNMC. Dr. Eichele has clinic in DOC on Wednesday mornings and at Village Pointe on Friday mornings. His clinical focus is on inflammatory bowel disease (ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease). He also serves on the endoscopy service and inpatient GI consults.
Razan El-Ramahi, MBBS
Razan El-Ramahi, MBBS, assistant professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, completed her medical degree at Jordan University of Science and Technology in Irbid, Jordan. She completed both an internal medicine residency and an infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Dr. El-Ramahi provides inpatient consultations on the oncology infectious diseases service, provides care in the general infectious diseases clinic on Thursday mornings and participates in teaching infectious disease fellows, internal medicine residents and medical students. Dr. El-Ramahi’s professional interests are in opportunistic infections in immunocompromised patient populations.
Bryant England, MD
Bryant England, MD, assistant professor, Division of Rheumatology & Immunology, completed his medical degree at UNMC, as well as an internal medicine residency, a rheumatology fellowship and PhD in Clinical Translational Research in the Mentored Scholars Program, all at UNMC. Dr. England will serve on the rheumatology consult service, perform muscoskeletal ultrasound and injections and do clinical and translational research. He will have Thursday morning clinics in the Durham Outpatient Center. His professional interests are in clinical and translational research of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), the diagnosis and treatment of inflammatory arthritis and musculoskeletal ultrasound.
Andrew Goldsweig, MD
Andrew Goldsweig, MD, assistant professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, completed his medical degree at the New York University. He completed an internal medicine residency, a cardiovascular diseases fellowship and interventional cardiology fellowship at Yale University. Dr. Goldsweig also completed a structural heart disease fellowship at Brown University. Dr. Goldsweig will have a clinical practice as well as conduct clinical research. His clinical interests are in transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR), percutaneous mitral valve repair (MitraClip), left atrial appendage occlusion (WATCHMAN), PFO/ASD closure, balloon mitral valvuloplasty, alcohol septal ablation, ileofemoral and tibial artery angioplasty, subclavian artery angioplasty, renal artery stenting, carotid artery stenting and coronary artery intervention. He has research interests in structural heart disease interventions outcomes, patient and operator radiation exposure in the cardiac catheterization laboratory and clinical trials.
Joe Hejkal, MD
Joseph Hejkal, MD, assistant professor, 50 percent the Division of Geriatrics and 50 percent the Division of General Internal Medicine, Hospitalist, earned his medical degree from UNMC. He then completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Nevada-Reno. His professional interests are in the co-management of surgical patients and fragility fractures. Dr. Hejkal will serve on the acute care service, the geriatric assessment clinic and in co-management of patients. His clinics are on Tuesdays and Fridays.
Marshall Hyden, MD
Marshall Hyden, MD, assistant professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, completed his medical degree at the University of Toledo, College of Medicine. He complete an internal medicine residency at the University Hospitals, Case Medical Center in Cleveland, Ohio and recently completed a cardiovascular diseases fellowship at UNMC. Dr. Hyden also practiced as a hospitalist at the Louis Stokes VA Hospital in Cleveland for a short while. Dr. Hyden will see patients on the inpatient advanced heart failure service, have a clinical practice, serve in the Cath Lab and on the Cardiac CT/MRI service. He has research interests in cardiac imaging in heart failure patients.
Jessie Jenkins, MD
Jessie Jenkins, MD, instructor, Division of General Internal Medicine, Hospitalist Medicine and fellow, Division of Geriatrics, obtained her medical degree, as well as an internal medicine residency, from UNMC. Dr. Jenkins' professional interests are in geriatric medicine, specifically care of older adults in the hospital. Dr. Jenkins will care for hospitalized adults, as well as work on a Geriatric fellowship that will take place in a variety of clinical settings from outpatient clinics to nursing homes.
Derek Kruse, MD
Derek Kruse, MD, assistant professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, completed his medical degree at the Ross University School of Medicine. He completed an internal medicine residency at Gunderson Health System in La Crosse, Wis. and completed his Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at UNMC. His professional interests are in point-of-care ultrasound and fellow education. Dr. Kruse's inpatient duties include staffing the CCM blue and CCM services in the ICU, as well as staffing the Pulmonary Consult Service. His off campus duties include staffing Bellevue Medical Center and Madonna Rehabilitation Center. Outpatient duties include staffing the Pulmonary Medicine Fellow's Clinic.
Jasmine_Marcelin, MD
Jasmine Marcelin, MD, assistant professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, received her medical degree from the American University of Antigua College of Medicine. She completed an internal medicine residency and an infectious diseases fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota before starting on faculty at UNMC. Dr. Marcelin will see patients on the General Infectious Disease Hospital Service – patients admitted to the hospital who do not have transplants or malignancies and who have infections. Common conditions she will see include skin/soft tissue infections, respiratory tract infections and patients who are very ill from an overwhelming infection requiring ICU admission. In the outpatient clinic, she will primarily see HIV-infected patients at the Specialty Care Center. As the associate medical director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, Dr. Marcelin will be part of the team that reviews antimicrobials and their use for infections, educating patients and healthcare professionals on the importance of appropriate antimicrobial use, and from a big-picture viewpoint, helping to reduce the number of resistant microorganisms present in our institution.
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J. William Schleifer, MD
J. William Schleifer, MD, assistant professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, completed his medical degree at Augusta University, formerly the Medical College of Georgia. He completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a cardiovascular diseases fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale and a clinical cardiac electrophysiology fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. Dr. Schleifer will see patients for cardiac pacemaker and defibrillator implantation and extraction, ablation and medical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias.
Douglas Stoller, MD
Douglas Stoller, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, completed his MD and PhD degrees at the University of Chicago. He then completed an internal medicine residency, a cardiovascular disease fellowship, and an advanced heart failure and heart transplant fellowship at the University of Texas, Southwestern. He will see patients in clinic on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Dr. Stoller will provide care for patients with advanced heart failure and/or heart transplant in both inpatient and outpatient settings. In addition, Dr. Stoller said, "I will be starting a cardiac genetics clinic, and have an interest in patients with muscular dystrophy, as many have cardiac manifestations."
Benjamin Teply, MD
Benjamin Teply, MD, assistant professor, Division of Oncology/Hematology, received his medical degree and completed an internal medicine residency at UNMC. He then completed a medical oncology fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Teply cares for patients with genitourinary malignancies. His clinic hours are Tuesdays 8-5 at Village Point Cancer Center, Wednesdays 1-5 at Buffett Cancer Center (BCC) and Thursdays from 8-5 at BCC. Dr. Teply also is involved in clinical and translational research in this field, with a special interest in clinical trials of novel therapies in prostate cancer.
Melissa Teply, MD
Melissa Teply, MD, assistant professor, General Internal Medicine, received her medical degree from UNMC. She also completed an internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan and a Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Tepley will spend half of her time working in outpatient general medicine, seeing patients in the Durham Outpatient Center Internal Medicine Clinic on Monday, Wednesday and Friday afternoons. She will spend the other half of her time working in the outpatient palliative care clinic in the Buffett Cancer Center. Dr. Tepley comes to UNMC after being a faculty physician and associate residency program director at the Sinai Hospital of Baltimore.
Joel Van De Graaff, MD
Joel Van De Graaff, MD, assistant professor, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep and Allergy, completed his medical degree at the University of Utah. He then completed a med/peds residency at UNMC and an allergy/immunology fellowship at the University of Iowa. Dr. Van De Graaff has particular interest in food allergies and drug allergies."
Rae Witt (Rohlfsen), MD
Rae Witt (Rohlfsen), MD, assistant professor, Division of General Internal Medicine, completed her medical degree at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and
an internal medicine residency at UNMC. She most recently completed a year as the UNMC internal medicine chief resident. Her professional interests are in resident/student education and management of alcohol use disorders. Dr. Witt will provide clinical care in both the ambulatory and hospital setting. She will also continue working with resident education.
CHIEF RESIDENTS
Daniel Almquist, MD
Daniel Almquist, MD, 2017-2018 ambulatory chief resident, completed his medical degree at the University of North Dakota. He then completed internal medicine residency at UNMC. Dr. Almquist's professional interests are in internal medicine and head, neck and lung oncology. He said he fell in love with internal medicine because he is able to work closely with his patients, as well as the depth of knowledge that is needed. On a personal note, Dr. Almquist said he loves fly fishing.
Tyler Brinkman, MD
Tyler Brinkman, MD, 2017-2018 VA chief resident, completed his medical degree at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at UNMC. Dr. Brinkman has professional interests in free, open access medical education; point of care ultrasound; and medical trainee wellness. He said he fell in love with internal medicine because "internal medicine is the perfect marriage of communication with detective work. Every patient has a story to help direct their care." Dr. Brinkman said he loves to travel and enjoys food in all forms-from trying new restaurants to baking to grilling.
Prasanth Ravipati, MD
Prasanth Ravipati, MD, UNMC chief resident, completed his medical degree at the American University of the Caribbean and his internal medicine residency at UNMC. Dr. Ravipati has professional interests in nephrology and the education of residents and medical students. As chief resident, he is a liaison between residents and the residency program administration. He will also attend on the hospital service. Dr. Ravipati said he enjoys the diversity of cases, the intellectual challenge and the relationships he develops with patients in primary care. He also said he played tennis in college, learned golf in Omaha and is a huge fan of the Indiana Colts and the Alabama Crimson Tide, since he grew up in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama.