Fellowship Application (doc)
| Cathryn Caton, MD Cathryn Caton received her BSc in Business Management from Hampton University in Hampton Virginia in 1997. She received her MD from the Medical University of South Carolina, College of Medicine in 2004. She did an internship in the Department of Medicine at the Medical University of South Carolina from 2004-2005. She finished her residency training in Internal Medicine in June 2007 at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Caton received honors in the pediatric rotation during her residency. Her honors and awards while at Hampton University included "Who's Who Among American Colleges and Universities", the Golden Key National Honor Society and a Hampton University Scholarship. During her residency she presented the topic Abdominal Compartment Syndrome at the Morbidity and Mortality conference in Oct. 2006. Dr. Caton's research interests include working on ways to enhance medication compliance of patients served in clinics as well as inpatient settings. During her fellowship training she hopes to work to develop and refine a research curriculum for the General Internal Medicine Residency Program. She is a member of the American Medical Women's Association, the American Medical Association, the American Medical Student Association and the South Carolina Medical Association. Susan Hocevar, MD Susan Hocevar graduated from the University of Georgia, Magna Cum Laude with High Honors, in 1999 with a BS in microbiology. She received her MD from the Medical College of Georgia School of Medicine in 2003. She was a pediatric intern and second year resident at St. Christopher's Hospital for children in Philadelphia. Dr. Hocevar did her third year of residency at the Medical University of South Carolina from 2005-2006. She currently serves as chief resident in the Department of Pediatrics and is the first year of the fellowship program. She plans a career as an academic pediatrician in order to better children's health care through research. Her research interests include obesity and adolescence. Shannon Kennedy, MD Shannon Kennedy received her BS in biology form Boston College in 1996. She received her MD from the University of Nevada School of Medicine in 2002. She completed her combined internal medicine and pediatrics residency program at MUSC in 2006. She is currently Pediatric Chief Resident as well as a first year fellow. In 2005 Dr. Kennedy traveled to Central America with three other physicians to provide care to adults and children in communities outside Managua, Nicaragua. Her interests include outpatient pediatric medicine. Laxmi Deepika Koya, MD Deepika Koya received her Intermediate Degree from St. Ann’s College for Women, Mehedipattnam, India in 1992. She went to medical school from 1993 to1999 and got her MBBS from Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, India. Dr. Koya did her residency in Internal medicine at Abington Memorial Hospital in Abington, PA from 2001 to 2004. In 2004 she was a research fellow with the esophageal disorders program at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston, SC, doing clinical research in esophageal motility disorders with the Director for Esophageal Disorders Program. Dr. Koya is actively involved with clinical research and has done 6 abstracts, 5 of these for the American College of Gastroenterology meeting while she was a resident. She currently has 3 manuscripts in preparation. While in medical school at Gandhi Medical College she won honors in pharmacology. Currently in her second year in the Fellowship Program, Dr. Koya is continuing her career in academics and pursuing research as a clinician investigator in internal medicine. Her research interests include preventive medicine, gender and racial differences in health care utilization and delivery, gastro esophageal reflux and esophageal motility disorders as well as primary prevention in gastrointestinal malignancies. She was coauthor of Acid Suppression Therapy for GERD: the Devil's in the Details, parts 1 & 11, Practical Gastroenterology, Jan 2006.
Jimmy McElligott, MD graduated from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill in 2000 with a BS in Public Health and Environmental Engineering with a concentration in Chemistry. He received his MD from Wake Forest University School of Medicine in 2004. He completed a pediatric residency in 2007 at the Medical University of South Carolina. He is currently a Chief Resident in Pediatrics in the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina as well as starting the fellowship program in July 2007. While majoring in public health he had an opportunity to participate in aerosole research to analyze the particles that drifted from North America to the Irish West Coast at the University of Galway, Ireland. Dr. Melligott's recent foreign experience includes work in a pediatric ward and clinic at Selian Hospital in Arusha, Tanzania, 2006. He also obtained nephrology and general ward pediatric experience in Dublin, Ireland in 2006. His teaching awards include a MUSC golden apple nomination in 2005 and a Pediatrics Teaching Award - Phase V in 2006. Sarah Mennito, MD Sarah Mennito, MD graduated cum laude from Duke University where she received her BS in 1999. She received her MD from the University of Maryland School of Medicine, in Baltimore in 2003. She completed an internship and residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics in 2007 at the Medical University of South Carolina. In addition to her fellowship activities, Dr. Mennito is currently a Chief Resident in Pediatrics from 2007 to 2008. Her scholarly activities during her residency included presentations at the Internal medicine/Pediatrics Noon Teaching Conference on the topics of "Sports-Related Overuse Syndromes (January 2007) and "Large Vessel Vaculitis" (December 2005). Dr. Mennito received a Faculty Excellence Award (3rd year Medical Students) in the spring of 2006. She is a member of the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association and the SC Medical Association. She is interested in obtaining training in biostatistics and epidemiology to help build a foundation of academic and teaching experience in order to obtain an academic position in a teaching hospital. Claudia Blair Stowe, MD Claudia "Blair" Stowe graduated magna cum laude from Washington and Lee University in Lexington Virginia with a BS in biology in 2000. She received her MD from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2004. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine in June of 2007 at the Medical University of South Carolina. Dr. Stowe has received a MUSC Applause Award, Academic Honors in Internal Medicine Rotation and was Member of the Year, College of Medicine Student Council. Blair wrote Ward Tips: A Guide to your Third Year, College of Medicine Student Council, MUSC. She is looking forward to learning more about evidence-based medicine as well as acquiring the skills necessary for her to being a productive professor at a teaching institution. Dr. Stowe is a member of the American Medical Association and the South Carolina Medical Association. Lisa Vandemark, PhD, RN Lisa Vandemark, PhD received a PhD in Geography from Rutgers University and a Masters in Nursing from Catholic University. Currently in her first year, Dr Vandemark will be using her geographical research background and her advance practice qualifications in psychiatric nursing to qualify for a clinical or research faculty position in nursing. Among her goals in the fellowship program is to use the tools and perspectives of geography to encourage scientific inquiry on the part of nurses, and to help bring their professions’s health-focused research agenda into health care policy arenas. The following are the research issues she would like to address during her fellowship experience and she will also be happy to work with nurses in other fields who want to bring a geographic or spatial perspective to their work:
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