Dr. Leverence shares his time performing patient care duties, resident education, administration, and research. His clinical practice is at the Westside Family Health Clinic and he works once per month at the Young Enduring Survivor Clinic caring for adult survivors of childhood cancer. He also oversees a resident continuity clinic, yet spends much of his time managing the daily affairs of the Division of General Internal Medicine.
Dr. Leverence is a co-director and Outreach Team leader of RIOS Net, a practice-based research network based in the Department of Family and Community Medicine. RIOS Net is a novel research group which actively seeks input and participation from community members and healthcare professionals from across the state in order to answer questions that address local need.
I'm a native New Mexican, trained as a RN through UNM and was a nurse for 12 years. I subsequently went to medical school and residency through UNM as well. I was a physician at Lovelace for 6 years and then accepted a position as co-medical director for Healthcare for the Homeless. A faculty position in the dept of internal medicine became available in 2004 and I took it. I'm still very active in the medical student clinic through Healthcare for the Homeless and am working on a poverty medicine curriculum for the students.
My Board Certifications, education and primary interests are in the fields of General Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases Medicine. As a UNM faculty member, I have the honor to teach medical students and residents. I hope to impact their perceptions of health care and their future work by sharing my experiences, modeling professionalism, and working toward processes that lead to quality in our health care systems.
My personal goal is to respect and demonstrate compassion to all persons seeking my medical opinion. I feel medicine is ‘at its best’ when practiced with a team approach. When many disciplines work together, the combined efforts provide the safest, most therapeutic environment possible.
My greatest hope is that each encounter with each patient will lead to a greater understanding of his or her state of health and that through a team effort of doctor, patient and the many other health care experts at UNM each patient will achieve better health.
Dr. Bigney is a graduate of the University of New Mexico School of Medicine and completed her residency training within Internal Medicine at UNM. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and also in Hospice and Palliative Care. She has a strong interest in end of life care for patients in the community.
Dr. Boyle is the Lead Physician for the Diabetes Care Management Team and works collaboratively with five certified diabetes educators at UNMH, in order to improve the quality of the care for more than 5,000 patients with diabetes. Dr. Boyle is a past Program Director of the NIH funded General Clinical Research Center, as well as a past co-principle investigator of the NIH funded Diabetes Control and Complications Trial, and the Diabetes Prevention Program. Diabetes is a major public health care problem for the State of New Mexico and our goal is to improve the quality of life and prevent the expensive long-term complications of this disease.
Dr. Broyles completed her Internal Medicine Residency at UNM after attending the University of Kansas School of Medicine. She joined the faculty in 1995 and is currently an Associate Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine. Her special interest is in the area of Diabetes Disease Management and population health. During 2006 she was appointed Medical Director of the Department of Internal Medicine.
Dr.
Comerci has two principle interests here at UNM. Dr. Comerci has a particular interest in the evaluation and
management of chronic pain, specifically the pharmacologic approach to chronic
pain. He is also very involved in teaching students and housestaff. His specific
interests involve a teaching communication, physical examination skills and
diagnostic reasoning.
Dr.
Ellen Cosgrove is the Senior Associate Dean for Education at the University of
New Mexico School of Medicine, where she is also Professor of Internal Medicine.
Her major academic interests at present are in teaching and assessing medical
professionalism, addressing healthcare disparity through curriculum design and
integrating public health into the medical curriculum, primary care and
community-based education, and innovations in problem based learning and medical
education technology including simulation. She recently served as Visiting
Professor at the University of Tokyo’s International Research Center for Medical
Education.
Dr. Cosgrove is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, where she majored in Russian History. She obtained her medical degree from Hahnemann Medical College in Philadelphia, where she was elected to Alpha Omega Alpha (AOA), the national medical Honor Society. She did her internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Presbyterian-University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.
Dr. Cosgrove currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the United States Pharmacopeia and is active in numerous medical education societies in the United States.
Ms. De Rego holds a Master’s Degree from Boston College School of Nursing and is Board Certified as an Adult Nurse Practitioner. Her interests include the primary care of older adults, and disease prevention in adults of all ages.
Dr. Fancovic has been active in primary care for his entire career, working in community health centers, private practice and academic practice. He is particularly interested in outreach to the gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender communities, and he has been a member of the board of directors of New Mexico AIDS Services from 2001-2007. He is also assistant medical director for informatics and has been involved in implementation of the electronic medical record system at the Health Sciences Center since 1999.
Dr. Fotieo received her undergraduate degree from Texas Christian University. She is a graduate of University of New Mexico School of
Medicine. She is board certified in internal medicine. Her area of interest
is women's health. Currently, she is the clerkship director for the
comprehensive ambulatory rotation for 4th year medical students.
Dr. Fritch received his DO degree from Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine and did his
Family Practice Residency in Detroit, Michigan. A native of southern Colorado, he returned to the southwest
after residency to work in northern New Mexico until he joined UNM Health Sciences in 2005. He is currently
serving as medical director of the LoboCare Clinic. Dr. Fritch is board certified in Family Practice, Addiction
Medicine, holds a Certificate of Additional Qualification in Occupational Medicine and obtained a Masters of
Medical Management from Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Clinic: LoboCare Clinic, in Medical Arts Complex
Dr. David Garcia completed his undergraduate work at Duke University and received his medical degree from the University of Alabama. After finishing internship, residency and chief residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Dr. Garcia joined the faculty at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in 1999 as a hospitalist. He is the co-director of the university’s Anticoagulation Management Service and is the Director of Undergraduate Medical Education in the Department of Internal Medicine.
Dr. Garcia has been an investigator in numerous clinical trials of anticoagulant medications for the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disease. He is the President of the Anticoagulation Forum, a national interest group focused on the prevention and treatment of thromboembolic disease. Dr. Garcia’s primary research interests include the treatment of warfarin-associated coagulopathy and peri-procedural anticoagulation for patients with mechanical heart valves. He has authored or co-authored peer-reviewed publications in journals such as the Archives of Internal Medicine, Chest, Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, Geriatric Clinics of North America, ACP Journal Club, the British Journal of Hematology and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. Since 2002, Dr. Garcia has been a member of the editorial board of the journal Thrombosis Research.
Dr. Gonzales is a graduate of Stanford University and is board certified in Internal Medicine. He recently obtained the position of Executive Medical Director of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement at University Hospital. He also practices at the 1209 University Clinic.
Dr. Hashimoto has been interested in computer applications to medicine. A graduate of Harvard Medical School, he is a professor of Medicine at the University of New Mexico School of Medicine in Albuquerque. He practices in Internal Medicine at the Medicine Faculty Clinic and is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Family Medicine
Dr. Jernigan’s areas of interest are in women's health and medical education. She also hold the position of Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program.
Dr. Kraai’s primary areas of interest include resident education, hospital
quality and safety improvement, and international medicine. Outside of work, his
interests include mountain biking, skiing, and international travel.
Dr. Kroth, a former computer engineer, completed a National of Library of
Medicine® sponsored research fellowship in biomedical informatics at the
Regenstrief Institute at Indiana University after completing his residency
in internal medicine at The State University of New York at Buffalo. He is
an assistant professor in the UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics
Center and Assistant Director for Health Sciences Informatics Program
Development. He also has a secondary appointment in the Department of
Internal Medicine. Dr. Kroth performs research in formally assessing the
impact of health information technology on the cost and quality of care.
Dr. Lieberman’s area of specialization is inpatient medicine. She is particularly interested in consultative medicine, preoperative evaluation, and perioperative care.
Dr. Arti Prasad is the founding Section Chief of Integrative Medicine at the University of New Mexico's Health Science Center (UNM HSC). This section was created fairly recently to develop a comprehensive primary health care system based on an integrative approach that combines allopathic medical care with Complementary and Alternative medicine (CAM) using the best current evidence. In a very short time, under her able leadership, UNM SOM is now a member of the national Consortium of the Academic Health Centers for Integrative Medicine (CAHCIM).
Ami Rintoul graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at University of New Mexico. She is board certified in Internal Medicine and sees adult patients at the Medicine Faculty Clinic at 5ACC.
Section Chief of the Hospitalist Program with clinical interests in the advancement of the field of hospital medicine and palliative care. Other interest is medical informatics, health quality, policy, and economics with a special interest in the development of physician executives and medical management. Resident education roles include teaching a health economics/medical informatics elective, running 'code' sessions in the computerized patient simulation lab, and by attending on inpatient and consult teams.
Dr. Shelley is a board-certified family physician and a founding member of the Section of Integrative Medicine. Before and during medical school at the University of North Carolina, he apprenticed with natural healers in New York City, rural North Carolina, and Zimbabwe, Africa. He completed his residency in Family and Community Medicine in 2001 at the University of New Mexico. His clinical interests are mind-body therapies for mood disorders and chronic pain, and myofascial trigger point release. Dr. Shelley teaches Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and precepts medical students and residents in integrative medicine. He is co-investigator of a research project on the use of integrative medicine among New Mexico’s primary care population (funded by NCCAM).
Dr. Sierra completed her Internal Medicine Residency at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare after graduating from Northwestern University School of Medicine. She is board certified in Internal Medicine. She joined the faculty at UNM in 2006 and is currently an Assistant Professor of Medicine. Her specific areas of interest are immigrant health and international medicine. She volunteers at the medical student clinic at Health Care for the Homeless and supervises residents at the 1209 University Clinic. She is currently working on a poverty medicine curriculum for the students at UNM.
Dr. Mitchell Simson is a New Mexican native and graduated from the University of New Mexico School of Medicine. He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and certified by the American Society of Addiction Medicine as an addiction specialist. His area of greatest interest is the treatment of opioid dependency with opioid replacement therapy using methadone and buprenorphine.
Dr. Treeson’s training includes completion of Internal Medicine Residency at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and two additional years of National Institute of Health funded research in the Clinical Investigator Pathway.
His clinical interests include general internal medicine, health maintenance and wellness.
Research interests include rural health.
Andrea Weiss graduated from The Primary Care Associate Program-Stanford University in 1987. Her love of older adults brought her to medicine hoping to contribute to their health and well-being as they age. This single focus brought her to internal medicine. She has been an advocate for elder healthcare throughout her professional career. Her medical experiences have encompassed primary care, emergency medicine, women’s health and surgery. In addition, she has precepted/mentored many medical, physician assistant, and nurse practitioner students and has been a member of faculty in physician assistant programs in Maine, California and New Mexico. Currently, she is a board of directors member of the New Mexico Senior Sports Foundation, whose primary goal is to advocate for senior health and wellness.
Dr. Wilson is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine, and her main interests include Medical Education, Physician-Patient Communication and Relationship Centered Healthcare. She is chair of the Communication Skills Competency Committee for the School of Medicine, and has completed advanced facilitator training with the American Academy on Communication in Healthcare and the Bayer Institute for Healthcare Communication. She is the principle investigator for an Office of Education grant on “Comparison of Two Communication Skills Assessment Scales”. She is also a co-investigator for the CDC funded project “Assessing Health Risks in an Employee Population”, for which she organized provider training and communication skills coaching.
