New Faculty - April 2020
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Manish Kohli, MD Dr. Kohli received training in Internal Medicine at Cook County Hospital, Chicago from 1993-1996. He then completed a three-year fellowship in Hematology-Oncology at the University of Arkansas from 1996-99, after which he joined the Central Arkansas Veteran HealthCare System in Little Rock as Staff physician with a joint appointment at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS). In 2005, Dr. Kohli joined University of Rochester, New York and in 2008, joined Mayo Clinic, Rochester to build a comprehensive Genito-urinary Oncology translational and clinical research program. He has been a Professor since 2016 at Mayo Clinic in the Department of Oncology. In 2018, he was appointed Vice-Chair of the Department of Genitourinary Oncology and as a Distinguished Moffitt Scholar at the Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, was also appointed as the Director of the DeBartolo Family Personalized Medicine Institute. Dr. Kohli joined Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of Utah in January 2020. He holds a Presidential Endowed Chair position at Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of Utah, and is currently working on multiple Federal research cancer grant awards. He has authored more than 150 publications and his focus and passion is to build precision oncology treatments using smart drugs based on an individual patient’s cancer genetic profile; for this he works with multiple teams of research and clinical investigators. |
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Kishore Patcha, MD, FACP Dr. Kishore Patcha is a Nephrology clinical attending at University of Utah. He received MD from Guntur Medical Collage, India. He worked several years in Trinidad and Tobago health care system prior to moving to united states. He completed his internal medicine residency training (2012- 2015) at UTMB, Galveston, Texas. Upon completion of his internal medicine residency, he joined as Assistant Professor in same residency program and was involved in teaching, training medical students and residents. He pursued further training in nephrology at university of Utah in 2018-2020. He currently nephrology attending at University of Utah, and providing services in Farmington, Ogden UT and Evanston, WY. His hobbies and enjoyment is spending quality time with his four young children. |
New Staff - April 2020
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Jacob Baylis, MPH Jacob Baylis is from South Bend, Indiana earning his Master of Public Health (MPH) from Indiana Wesleyan University in August of 2019 and a Bachelor of Science in International Health in 2018 from Bethel University. He worked at a local health department prior to joining the PARCKA team as a Health Educator/Emergency Preparedness Coordinator, primarily focusing on harm reduction strategies, OUD mitigation in rural counties, and medical countermeasure planning. Jacob has a passion to continue working towards reducing the burden of OUD in rural areas along with achieving health equity in the most vulnerable populations. Outside of his job, Jacob enjoys spending time hiking, skiing or traveling to new places with his wife and dog. |
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Eleanor Gonzales, MPH Eleanor Gonzales is a Research Analyst for the TORCH Lab in Salt Lake City in the Division of Epidemiology in the University of Utah’s School of Medicine. Eleanor holds a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology from Texas A&M University and completed a Master of Public Health from the University of Virginia in 2014. Before moving to Utah, she worked on practice transformation projects at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, providing research and operational support. She is interested in further developing her qualitative research skills and applying this knowledge to improve veterans’ lives. |
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Yuki Ishidoya, MD Yuki is from Sapporo, Hokkaido, the northern most part of Japan. He is a medical doctor in Japan, specializing in cardiac electrophysiology with the focus on treating arrhythmia by catheter ablation. He has been interested in the acadamic field of medicine and came to the United States to study abroad. Yuki's hobbies include spending time with his children and learning to enjoy time with them. He also likes playing the piano in his spare time. |
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Braden Migliaccio |
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Megan Millet |
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Audra Wooley, MBA Audra Woolley is the Senior Business Data Analyst for the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah Health. Audra’s extensive career at University Health spans nearly fifteen years. In prior roles, Audra has worked in the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, University of Utah Medical Group, and (where she started her career) the Division of Gastroenterology. In her many years in healthcare, Audra has worked with a variety of data sets including clinical cost and revenue, research and education funding, provider productivity, and compensation benchmarking. She has had experience with these data set at both the department operational level and the institutional level. Audra completed her Bachelor of Science in Business Information Systems at the University of Utah, she later returned to the University of Utah to earn her Master of Business Administration degree from the David Eccles School of Business. Audra is a Utah native, she was raised in an extremely rural area of southern Utah. She lives in Bountiful with her husband Nick and their two dogs and three cats. She is an avid equestrian, riding horses in the English hunter/jumper discipline. |