Alumni
Life After Residency
Our residents leave the program well-prepared for followships and practice in a number of different settings. The following figures show where our 2007-2023 graduates have go on to work post residency.
- Primary care: 39%
- Fellowship: 26%
- Medicine hospitalist: 26%
- MedPeds hospitalist: 9%
Fellowships matched since 2007
- Critical care
- Pediatric critical care
- Point of care ultrasound
- Pediatric cardiology
- Pediatric hospital medicine
- Cardiovascular disease
- Pediatric rheumatology
- Combined rheumatology
- Geriatrics
- Combined infectious disease
- Infectious disease
- Sports medicine
- Neonatal and perinatal medicine
- Weight management
- Hematology and oncology
- Allergy and immunology
- Dermatology residency
- And more
Our Alumni
Samantha Winstead — UMKC Internal Medicine Chief Resident Gayathri Kumar — Critical Care Fellowship- Cleveland Clinic Scott Biggerstaff — POCUS Fellowship, Oregon Nicholas Gier — Hospitalist – Kansas City Metro Jayme Kwak — Internal Medicine: Pediatrics Hospitalist, Illinois Aunya Cameron, M.D. — Internal Medicine: Pediatrics Primary Care, KS Jeremy Avila, M.D. — Combined Primary Care, Memphis, TN Maggie Bozarth, M.D. — Primary Care, Saint Luke’s South, OPKS Heather Doss, M.D. — Internal Medicine- Pediatrics Primary Care Liberty, MO Kristy Jones, D.O. — Hospitalist, Bentonville, AR Chris Fitzgerald, M.D. — Primary Care Kaiser Permanente, Beverly Hills, CA Adrian Chen, M.D. — Primary Care, Mosaic Healthcare SystemGladstone, MO Neal Anson, M.D. — Internal Medicine/Pediatrics Practice, Liberty MO Angela Canady, M.D. — Allergy/Immunology, Fishman Allergy & Asthma Providers, Washington, DC Elizabeth Kay Gerstner, M.D. — Primary Care, Liberty Clinic, Liberty MO Nichole Clark, D.O. — Pulmonary/Critical Care, Research Medical Center, KCMO Leticia Alaniz, M.D. — Private Practice Med-Peds, Rolla MO
Caitlin Armstrong — Hospitalist, SLH KC
Daniel Merril — MedPeds Hospitalist, Flagstaff, AZ
Taylor Needham — Hospitalist, Advent Health, KC
Jeni Paumen — Academic MedPeds Primary Care, UH, Kansas City, MO
Charles Maloy — Hospitalist, SLH KC
Johana Mejias-Beck — IM Chief – UMKC
Sindhura Pisipati — Hospitalist, Colorado
Andrew Shore — Primary Care, Swope Park, KCMO
Rachel Warnert — Hospitalist, Mosaic, St Joseph, MO
Nick Gier — Primary Care, Swope Park, KCMO
Kristen Jones — Critical Care Fellowship, UMKC
Anna Nicek — Hospitalist, SLH KC
Matthew Warren — Cardiology fellowship, Texas
Kaitlin Wittler — Primary Care, University Health, Kansas City
Jonathan Kendall — IM Hospitalist/IM-Peds Clinic-Truman Medical Center, Kansas City, MO
Andre Koop — Hospitalist – Sound Physicians, Wichita, KS
Olivia Kwan — Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship – Indiana University
Joanne Loethen — IM Chief Resident UMKC – Kansas City, MO
Micah Warren — Geriatric Fellowship UMKC – Kansas City, MO
Clayton Mowrer — Combined Infectious Disease Fellowship, Omaha, NE
Kyle Reed — Internal Medicine: Pediatrics Primary Care, Liberty, MO
Paymon Savoji — Internal Medicine Hospitalist, Kansas City, MO
Katelyn Smelser — Internal Medicine Hospitalist, Kansas City, MO
Jared Willard — Sports Medicine Fellowship, Nashville, TN
Jane Duong, M.D. — Internal Medicine: Pediatrics Hospitalist, Cleveland OH
Jamesia Donato, M.D. — Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City MO
Jeremy Jennings, D.O. — Internal Medicine: Pediatrics Traditional Practice, Glacier
Medical Associates, Whitefish MT
Danny Lambrecht, M.D. — Internal Medicine: Pediatrics Primary Care, University of Colorado Health, Sterling CO
Ramy Sayed, M.D. — Internal Medicine: Pediatrics Traditional Practice, Smyrna TN
Mara Horwitz, M.D. — Combined Adult and Pediatric Rheumatology Fellowship, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
Matt Lindquist, M.D. — Weight Management Clinic, Kansas City MO
Amanda Sommerville, M.D. — Academic MedPeds Primary Care, Kansas City, MO
Shubra Srinivas, M.D. — Internal Medicine and Pediatric Hospitalist, Omaha, NE
Simmi Arora, M.D. — Hematology/Oncology Fellowship
Tray Sifers, M.D. — Served as an internal medicine chief 2016-2017 and currently Allergy/Immunology Fellowship in Mt. Sinai
James Kim, M.D. — Internal Medicine Hospitalist at Saint Luke’s Hospital, KCMO
Kristin Hirni, M.D. — Hospitalist, Menorah Medical Center, OPKS
Leah Brandon, D.O. — Primary Care, Mercy Clinics, Des Moines, IA
Jacqueline Kitchen, M.D. — Program Director of Internal Medicine/Pediatrics UMKC Nicholas Madden, M.D. – Private Practice, Atlanta, GA
Matt Schmitt, M.D. — Hospitalist, Kaiser Permanente, Denver, CO *Served as an internal medicine chief 2015-2016
Ryan Stone, D.O. — MedPeds Hospitalist, Schmeck Medical Center, Seymour, IN
Trey Thomason, D.O. — Primary Care MedPeds, Hinton, OK
Jennifer Nguyen, M.D. — Primary Care, St. Louis, MO
Jennifer Paisley, M.D. — Primary Care, Newton, IA
Buddy Rogers, D.O. — Primary Care, Kansas City, MO
Kevin Wherry, M.D. — Primary Care, Lincoln City, OR
Brian Haas, M.D. — Hospitalist at Centerpoint Medical Center, Lees Summit, MO
Emily Haury, M.D. — Academic MedPeds, UMKC, KCM
Ashley Matthews, M.D. — Primary Care, Saint Luke’s North, KCMO
Carmen Storm, M.D. — Primary Care Heartland Clinic, St. Joseph, MO
Casey Willimann, M.D. — Primary Care, Santa Barbara, CA
Hon Dang, M.D. — Hospitalist: HCA, OPKS
Samantha Hatfield, M.D. — Primary Care, Walnut Ridge, AR
Health Wilt, D.O. — Cardiologist, Shawnee Mission Medical Center, OPKS
Alan Chan, M.D. — MedPeds Hospitalist, Orlando, FL
Matthew Garrison, M.D. — Hospitalist, Johnson City, Tennessee
Seiji Ito, M.D. — Adult and Pediatric Cardiologist, MD
Nicole Poppinga, M.D. — Primary Care, Pierre, South Dakota
Molly Uhlenhake, D.O. — Academic MedPeds, UMKC, KCMO
Jennifer Flint, M.D. — Pediatric Critical Care, Children’s Mercy Hospital
Chelsey Grimm, M.D. — Hospitalist, Chattanooga Hamilton County Hospital Authority, Chattanooga, TN
David McCrary, M.D. — Infectious Disease, West County Adult Medicine, Chesterfield, MO
Michael Nyp, D.O. — Neonatologist, Children’s Mercy Hospital, KCMO
Christopher Turner, M.D. — Hospitalist, Med-Peds, Nashville, TN
Hillary Lawrence, M.D. — Dermatology Residency, University of Kansas Medical Center
Stephanie Sypniewski, M.D. — Private Practice Med-Peds, Houston TX
Anthony Zeimet, D.O. — Infectious Disease Fellowship, University of Missouri – Columbia
Paul Johnson, D.O. — Hospitalist, Truman Medical Center and Children’s Mercy Hospital
Jennifer McBride, M.D. — Academic Med-Peds, University of Missouri Kansas City