New Faculty - August 2019
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Emily Beck, MD Dr. Beck was born in Boise, Idaho and completed her undergraduate degree at the College of Idaho before attending medical school at the University of Washington. After medical school, she matched into the UC Davis Internal Medicine Program where she also served as chief medical resident. Emily came to University of Utah in 2015 as a fellow in the Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship Program and also completed a T32 research year. Dr. Beck is excited to join the faculty at the University of Utah where she will take care of patients in the Medical ICU and pulmonary clinics at the University of Utah and Salt Lake City VA. Her clinical interests include general pulmonary medicine and care of patients with pulmonary vascular disease. When she is not working, Dr. Beck enjoys spending time with her husband and their German Shorthaired Pointer, Josie, hiking, biking, and skiing in the Wasatch Range. |
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Adrienne Carey, MD Dr. Carey was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah and from the time she attended her first Runnin' Utes basketball game at 3 months of age, she has been a Ute through and through. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Utah in chemistry, and attended the University of Utah for medical school. Dr. Carey spent four years at the University of Michigan as an internal medicine-pediatrics resident, where she served as chief resident during her last year of residency. Dr. Carey returned home to Utah to complete a 2-year adult infectious diseases fellowship. She enjoys traveling the world with her husband, Brandon, and they love spending the winters in the mountains on the slopes in the "greatest snow on Earth!" |
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Jeffrey Ferraro, PhD |
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Vaia Florou, MD |
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Jared Huber, MD Dr. Huber was raised in St. Anthony, ID, a small community just a few hours north of SLC. After completing undergraduate here in Utah at BYU, his medical training took him to both coasts, first to Philadelphia for medical school where he attended the University of Pennsylvania and then to Portland, OR for residency in Internal Medicine at OHSU. During his residency he participated in health systems research that highlighted some of the innovations OHSU had implemented to increase hospital access, especially for the sickest patients from rural parts of the state. The opportunity to continue to provide high level, tertiary care at Huntsman for patients from throughout the Intermountain west (along with the allure of the mountains) was an opportunity that was too good to pass up. |
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Maia Hightower, MD, MPH, MBA Prior to joining the University of Utah Health team, she was the Chief Medical Information Officer and Interim Chief Population Health Officer for The University of Iowa Health Care. She joined the faculty of the University of Iowa’s Carver College of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine in August of 2015, after serving as Associate Medical Director for Stanford Health Care’s University Healthcare Alliance. Dr. Hightower received her Medical Degree, as well as a Master of Public Health, from the University Of Rochester School Of Medicine, followed by residencies in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego. She also holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. |
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Michael Incze, MD, MSEd Dr. Incze is a General Internist providing primary care at the Sugarhouse Clinic in Salt Lake City. He joined the U of U after completing a primary care-focused Internal Medicine Residency at the University of California, San Francisco. His clinical interests include Addiction Medicine, homelessness and medical writing. During residency he published several editorial pieces in JAMA Internal Medicine and remains the inaugural section editor of the journal’s Patient Pages. He has led initiatives to improve access to naloxone at hospital discharge for people at risk for opioid overdose, to build a low-barrier buprenorphine program administered in homeless encampments in San Francisco, to implement primary care-based Hepatitis C treatment at a teaching clinic in the safety net, and more. He has presented the results of these programs at regional and national conferences. Michael hopes to continue to integrate primary care-based addiction medicine into his practice at Sugarhouse. |
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John Morris, MD, ScM Dr. Morris moved here from Maryland where he had been living from the past 16 years. He is originally from the West; born and raised in San Jose, California and then moved to Utah (Provo) where he attended high school. Dr. Morris first moved to Maryland to complete a Masters in Science in Epidemiology at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health before attending medical school at the University of Maryland in Baltimore. He then completed Internal Medicine residency at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell in Manhattan before returning to the Maryland/DC area to be a hospitalist at Georgetown University Hospital for 2 years. Dr. Morris then completed Gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Maryland where I completed an additional year of training in therapeutic endoscopy including ERCP, EUS, luminal stenting, small bowel enteroscopy, endoscopic mucosal resection, and endoscopic suturing. |
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Leenhapong Navaravong, MD |
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Brandi Wynne, PhD, FAHA |
New Staff - August 2019
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Emily Armstrong |
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Alison Astill |
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Robyn Barrus |
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Heather Blair Heather is a new APRN that started August 2019 with the general cardiology team. She has been an RN for over 20 years in various fields including pediatric intensive care, emergency medicine and air medical transport with Flight for Life Colorado. As a nurse practitioner, her focus has been primary care for the past 4 years. Heather is excited for this new opportunity and ready to expand her knowledge of cardiovascular medicine. |
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Sara Burton |
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Erica Courtney |
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Kelly Cronkhite Kelly is native to Northern Virginia and Northwest Florida. She migrated to the West to attend Brigham Young University, where she received her Undergraduate Degree in Psychology with a Minor in Music. |
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Jennison Cull |
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Lenee Curtis |
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Eli Salton |
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Valerie Fernandez |
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Kara Fialkowski |
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Gina Gregovich Gina has over 20 years’ experience in clinical research and worked at Huntsman Cancer Institute for over 17 years. Gina has been working in quality management in medical device development and production for the past 6 years. She is happy to be returning to the University of Utah, where she received her Bachelor’s Degree, and is excited about working with the PARCKA team on important addiction research. |
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Jace Johnny, DNP, APRN, AGACNP-BC Jace is originally from Elko, Nevada but moved to Salt Lake City five years ago after obtaining a job as a clinical nurse in the Huntsman Intensive Care Unit. He completed a nursing residency through the Huntsman Cancer Hospital and obtained dual certifications in critical care and oncology nursing. Jace received my Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) degree from the University of Utah in May of 2019 and board certified in adult-gerontology acute care. His academic interests lie in immunology as it relates to the critically ill patient including sepsis/septic shock, ARDS, immunotherapy-induced toxicity, and interstitial lung disease. |
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Elise Litchfield |
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Zara Mahamat |
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Sabina Miani |
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Lauren Moffitt |
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Natalie Pyne |
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Isha Soni, PhD Dr. Soni is from India. Dr. Soni received a PhD in biomedical sciences from CSIR-CDRI, Lucknow, India, where she studied the understanding antimicrobial resistance mechanisms and antimicrobial drug discovery particularly against ESKAPE pathogens. She joined U o U in August 2019 under Dr. Catherine Loc-Carrillo, where her research is focused on developing novel therapeutic interventions against osteomyelitis. Her research interests include drug discovery and development against infectious diseases and cancer. |
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Chris Wilson, MSIM Originally from California, Chris has lived around Seattle for almost 20 years. During that time, he went from a liberal arts background into more and more math and programming until finally completing a Master’s in Data Science. Chris has been working in healthcare analytics/research for 5 years and is excited to work with the fine people of U of U Health! In particular he's interested in helping to define the value of machine learning in healthcare in a concrete and meaningful way. |
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Serena Yang |
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Jeanette Young |