David Crabb, M.D. – Chair, Department of Medicine
David W. Crabb, M.D., trained in gastroenterology and hepatology. His research interests are in the effects of ethanol on the transcriptional controls of lipid metabolism in the liver, and the genetics of alcoholism. He is Director of the Indiana Alcohol Research Center. He is a recipient of a Merit Award from the National Institute on Alcohol and Alcoholism. He has served on the Education and Research Committees of AGA and AASLD. He is Associate Editor of Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. He served as vice-chair for research from 1993-2000 and chair of the Department of Medicine since 2000.
Lia Logio, M.D. – Program Director
Dr. Lia Logio is Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program. She has been involved in graduate medical education for her entire career. Since appointment as Program Director (October 2003), she has continued to create innovative methods to teach residents clinical medicine. She graduated from The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine then moved south to do her residency training at Duke University Medical Center. Dr. Logio is a practicing general internist in both the inpatient and outpatient settings. She is a strong advocate for residency education, patient safety and compassionate doctor-patient communication. She loves to participate in morning reports, journal clubs, and M & M conferences. Her particular niche is leadership in medicine and she is actively involved in faculty development campus-wide to enhance the learning environment and promote the highest quality teaching.
John Black, M.D. – Associate Program Director
Dr. John Black is a North Carolina native. He was educated at Amherst College, graduated from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and completed his Internal Medicine Residency and Chief Residency at the University of Florida. He returned to UNC for an Infectious Diseases fellowship and joined the IU faculty in 1984. He then entered private practice five years later but continued to teach and perform clinical research with the IU AIDS Clinical Trials Unit. He was instrumental in developing a novel therapy for Pneumocystis pneumonia for patients with AIDS. He served on the Board of Directors of Clarian Health (formed by the consolidation among Methodist Hospital, IU Hospital and Riley Hospital for Children) for 5 years and chaired its Committee on Quality and Patient Care. He became the Associate Program Director at Methodist Hospital in 2004 and Program Director for the IU Transitional Residency in 2006.
Noelle Sinex, M.D. – Associate Program Director
Dr. Noelle Sinex is Ambulatory Medicine and Roudebush Veterans Affairs Medical Center Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Indiana University. She became involved in the residency program in this capacity in February of 2006. Prior to that, she had served as ambulatory chief resident 2003-2004, and then worked full time in the dedicated teaching clinic at the VA Medical Center She grew up in Indiana, attended Centre College for her undergraduate studies, and was graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine in 2000. Dr. Sinex is a practicing general internist at the Roudebush VAMC, serving in both outpatient clinics and staffing the inpatient service there. She is also the medical director of the Women's Health Program at the VA. Her areas of interests include women's health and resident education in the continuity clinics.
David Miller, M.D. – Associate Program Director
Dr. David Miller is an Associate Program Director, with a focus of procedural training and medical knowledge. He is a 1995 graduate of Indiana University School of Medicine. Following medical school, he completed his residency in internal medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He returned to Indianapolis in 1998 for a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine. Following three years in community practice, Dave returned to IU to join the faculty, doing a majority of his clinical work at the Roudebush VA Medical Center, where he is medical director of the MICU. His areas of interest include critical care quality improvement, patient safety, and housestaff education. He enjoys working with students, housestaff, and fellows at all levels in both inpatient and outpatient settings.
Alexander Djuricich, M.D. – Medicine/Pediatrics Program Director
Alex Djuricich, MD, the program director for the Med/Peds residency program, grew up in Chicago. After graduating from Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, he completed his combined Med/Peds residency here at IU in 1998. He then worked as a Med/Peds physician in Michigan for three years. After completing a primary care faculty development fellowship program at Michigan State University, he returned to IU in 2001. His areas of interest include teaching and doing quality improvement, resident education, and adolescent medicine.
Mary Ciccarelli, M.D. – Medicine/Pediatrics Associate Program Director
Mary Ciccarelli, M.D. is currently the associate medicine pediatric program director and the associate chair for pediatric education. She served as the medicine-pediatric program director from 1993-2006 and is a past-president of the Medicine Pediatric Program Directors Association. She received her medical degree from Albany Medical College and residency training here at Indiana University. As a medical educator, she is interested in ambulatory primary care education, evaluation instruments and patient-centered care. As a clinician, she provides primary care at the North Arlington Health Center and consultative services to assist in the transition of youth with special health care needs into the adult health care setting through the Center for Youth and Adults with Conditions of Childhood.
Pamela Clinton – Program Administrator
Pamela R. Clinton, Program Administrator, is a native of Indianapolis, Indiana. Her experience in the School of Medicine includes working as an Administrative Assistant with the General Internal Medicine fellowship program. She has served as a Research Assistant for the NIDDM Exercise Referral and Older African American Women study and helped to coordinate and administer the Internal Medicine Junior Clerkship program.
Victoria Varela – Housestaff/Fellowship Coordinator
Victoria Varela is originally from the Chicago/Northwest Indiana area. She has attended both Indiana University Northwest and IUPUI. Before coming to Indiana University in September 2009, she worked for Advocate Healthcare in Chicago, IL. She has an extensive background in Patient Access and Medical Staff Services. She oversees the fellowship programs, training the division fellowship coordinators and working closely with the GME office to ensure that the programs are following ABIM and ACGME guidelines.
Richard Kohler, M.D. – Vice Chair, Medical Education
Richard B. Kohler, M.D, is the Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine, and Professor of Medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Until October 2003 he was program director for the internal medicine training program. Dr. Kohler received his undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University and medical degree from Temple University School of Medicine. He completed his internship, residency, and chief residency in internal medicine and his fellowship in infectious diseases at Indiana University. He joined the Indiana University School of Medicine faculty in 1977.
Before becoming internal medicine residency program director in 1991, Dr Kohler directed the infectious diseases fellowship-training program from 1984 to 1994 and the third-year internal medicine clerkship from 1988 to 1991. During his tenure as clerkship director, he initiated the process of integrating internal medicine ambulatory care training into the clerkship. As program director since 1991, he has fostered the teaching of residents to become better medical teachers during an annual resident retreat. He has been very active in the teaching arena for medical students in all years of training and for residents and fellows and won the Residents’ Teaching Award from the Department of Medicine in 1992, the Distinguished Teaching Award from the Department of Medicine in 1996, and the Teaching Excellence Recognition Award from the School of Medicine in 1997.
In the non-educational area, he has conducted research in the area of rapid diagnosis of infections and also participated in clinical trials of new infection treatments. Most of his 111 publications have been in these two areas. He was awarded a U.S. patent for his method to diagnose Legionnaires’ disease. He continues to provide primary and consultative care in infectious diseases and to staff the general medicine services at his program's teaching hospitals.
Dr. Kohler is a Master of the American College of Physicians.
