LeeAnn Cox, M.D. – Quality Improvement
LeeAnn grew up in Connersville, IN on her family’s small farm. She graduated from Cumberland College, a small liberal arts college, in Williamsburg, KY. She then returned to Indiana to complete medical school at Indiana University School of Medicine. LeeAnn and her husband enjoy traveling and have visited England, Scotland, Ireland, Italy, Germany, Austria, France, and Canada. They love the outdoors and especially like returning to the mountains in southeast KY and TN that Shannon, the husband, calls home. LeeAnn's other hobbies include watching the Colts, guitar hero, faking that she is an artist, and spending time with her two dogs Ginger and Pepper. After her chief year, LeeAnn plans on working as a hospitalist, hopefully in a academic setting, until she decides what to do when she grows up.

John S. Gardner (Jay), M.D. – VA Hospital
Jay was born in Memphis, TN on October 2, 1979, a day now formally recognized as a city and state holiday. The son of a hard-working, hard-drinking coal miner and a prostitute with a heart of gold (or perhaps a dermatologist and schoolteacher. Age so dulls the memory), He persevered through the indignities of the city's most gang-infested, underfunded Presbyterian elementary schools and high school and went to college at Emory in Atlanta. After seeing Jermaine Dupri at Lenox Mall there (approximate height 4'11" [Dupri, not the mall]), he graduated and went back to the University of Tennessee in Memphis for medical school. While there, he reignited his passionate affair with pork shoulder barbecue and enjoyed many successful Memphis Tigers basketball seasons, assuming they have not been invalidated by the time this goes up on the website. He chooses to pursue a career in internal medicine due to the patient complexity and diversity it provides. He chose Indiana because of the 4 hospital system which provides vastly different patient populations and resultant pathology, and has immensely enjoyed his training. After several well-timed bribes and blackmails, he secured the chief residency position at the VA, where he can be found leading conferences, teaching, trying to effect change for resident betterment in a federal system, and also competing with Evan Ownby to see who can win the annual chief moonlighting cup. Next year, he will be a cardiology fellow at Indiana, so he'll continue to enjoy the benefits of the four hospital system. Jay has an excellent girlfriend in the med-peds residency, Tonia, who still puts up with him much to everyone's amazement, and a black lab, Chase, whose singular purpose in life is to abscond with squeaky rubber balls and whose reckless enthusiasm in this pursuit serves as an inspiration to us all.

Timothy D. Imler, M.D. – University Hospital
Tim was born in Chicago, Illinois but grew up in Lima, Ohio with a Nephrologist as a father. In high school he was a three sport athlete in soccer, basketball, and baseball and worked for a computer programming company while creating the 13th most visited website in the world in 1996. Tim attended Miami University for undergraduate and received a double major in Finance and Zoology. He then attended Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland and during his 3rd-4th years of medical school created a medical education company that was sold during his 4th year. He then moved on to Indiana University School of Medicine Internal Medicine Residency and thoroughly enjoyed his three years of medical education in Indianapolis. Tim has been accepted for GI fellowship at Indiana University and will begin in July 2010 and will combine this with Medical Informatics through the Regenstreif Institute looking at collection of large databases of endoscopic images/reports. Tim is proud of his medical accomplishments, but is most proud of his wonderful wife and three beautiful daughters. He had twin girls during his intern year and his third daughter in the beginning of his chief year.

Evan D. Ownby, M.D. – Methodist Hospital
Evan was born and raised in the Ozarks in the small town of Rolla, Missouri. He completed his undergraduate work at Brigham Young University in Microbiology and International Development. He and his wife, Anne, moved to Richmond, Virginia to complete medical school at the Medical College of Virginia. Attracted by a superb residency program, a generous real estate market, and a great backyard, Evan moved with his family to Indianapolis to complete residency training at IU. After serving as chief resident, he will remain at IU as a Cardiology fellow. Evan is the proud father of three girls and two boys and is the lucky husband to his phenomenal wife.

Timothy J. Shoemaker, M.D. – Wishard Hospital
Tim was born in Hammond, Indiana but grew up in Boonville, Indiana which is a small town in the southwest corner of the state thirty minutes east of Evansville. With not much to do there, Tim developed a love of the outdoors which still holds true today. During High School he participated in Basketball and Soccer but wasn't very good. Tim obtained a Biology Degree from the University of Southern Indiana and then graduated with a Medical Degree from Indiana University School of Medicine. Over the last three to four years Tim has enjoyed being a member of the Internal Medicine Residency at IU. This has been an exciting time for him, celebrating his marriage to a beautiful bride, and the birth of his son. In his free time, Tim enjoys hiking at Turkey Run State Park, playing basketball with the other chiefs, and mostly spending time with his wife and son. After his chief year Tim will be starting an Endocrinology Fellowship here at Indiana University.

Allyson Thomas, M.D. – Ambulatory Care
Allyson was born and raised in Indianapolis, IN. She left for college and obtained her undergraduate degree from the oh-so-popular Oakwood University in Huntsville, AL. She returned to Indy and attended the IU School of Medicine for medical school. She liked it so much she decided to stay for her Internal Medicine residency training. In her free time, Allyson enjoys spending time with her husband Chris and her 9-month-old daughter Maya. She is a die-hard Colts fan, but has been struggling to keep up with it lately for obvious reasons. Next year, Allyson plans to work as a hospitalist somewhere in Indianapolis.