Michael Luchi, MD
University of Kansas Hospital
Associate Program Director
Scholarly Development
Dr. Luchi graduated from the Baylor College of Medicine and completed his residency at Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester. After residency, Dr. Luchi was a fellow in Infectious Diseases at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. He joined the faculty of the University of Kansas in 1992 as a member of the Infectious Diseases Division. His current interests include student and resident education as well as infection control. He currently serves as the Medical Director of Infection Control at the University of Kansas Hospital.
Ahmad Batrash, MD
Kansas City VA Medical Center
Associate Program Director
Site Director
Teaching medical residents and students has been my passion since I was in residency. This passion crystallized during my Chief Residency and Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine. When I joined the Kansas City VA Medical Center and the University of Kansas SOM faculty in 2000, the positive feedback that I received from residents and students was a strong incentive for me to excel as a teacher and educator.
As the KC-VAMC Internal Medicine Site Program Director and the Associate Program Director of the KUMC Internal Medicine Residency Program, I will continue the Program's mission and re-emphasize that learning and patient care can not be separated.
The extensive training experience at the KC-VAMC, a large tertiary care center, offers Internal Medicine residents the unique opportunity to practice a wide variety of evidence-based medical care in an unparalleled friendly learning environment, and encourages residents to participate in many clinical or basic research projects.
Leigh Eck, MD
University of Kansas Hospital
Associate Program Director
Inpatient Training
After the recent completion of an endocrinology fellowship, I excitedly returned to a role in residency education as an Associate Program Director. My involvement in the Internal Medicine Department at the University of Kansas dates back to 2002 with residency. Following the completion of residency in 2005,I had the opportunity to serve as a chief resident. I enjoyed that position tremendously, and realized that I wanted to remain in academic medicine following the completion of fellowship. As a resident, fellow and now faculty at KUMC, I am continually amazed at the intelligence and enthusiasm of our medical students, residents and faculty. I am honored to have the opportunity to interact with such bright and motivated individuals, and I feel very lucky to be working in an environment that fosters life long learning.
As you interview at residency programs across the country, I challenge you to really get a feel of each program's residency leadership. A strong residency leadership team is your best advocate as you navigate through this next stage in your training. Academic medicine is always evolving, and it is very important that residents have vocal advocates to ensure that their interests are maintained. I feel that our program works extremely hard to support its residents from the Chairman's office on down; I hope that you gain that same sense during your interactions with us.
I look forward to meeting you during your upcoming interview season. It is an exciting time to be at the University of Kansas Medical Center, and I hope that you are able to appreciate that during your visit to our campus!
Tim
Williamson, MDAfter completing my residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics (during which time I was the Med/Peds Chief Resident) here at KU, I went on to do fellowships in pulmonary and critical care, pulmonary vascular diseases, and lung transplantation. I have chosen a career in academic medicine and hospital service as I enjoy the opportunity to work with students, residents, and fellows on a daily basis. My current academic interest is in the management of patients with pulmonary hypertension. I am also chair of the code blue and rapid response team committee and involved in the Patient Safety Conferences held on a monthly basis to improve the clinical practice at KU.
As you go through the interview process for internal medicine, I hope you are able to see the unique characteristics the University of Kansas Medical Center has to offer. The faculty and residents have a fantastic camaraderie that carries through to the daily practice of medicine and allows for an extraordinary teaching environment. It was the environment of clinical care and education that drew me back to KU as faculty. As an associate program director, I have worked to develop a mentoring program that joins residents with faculty members in order to facilitate new research opportunities and to assist in making decisions about career goals. We have a superb teaching program, and I am thrilled to be a part of this growing academic institution.
Alex
Hallock, MD
Leavenworth VA Medical Center
Associate Program Director
Site Director
After doing my residency in internal medicine at KU in 1998, I joined the residency program leadership in 2004 where I serve as an associate program director at the Leavenworth VA Campus. I became interested in working with the internal medicine program because of my love of teaching residents and medical students. At Leavenworth you will routinely see me participating in the discussion at morning report and giving lectures. One of the benefits of the University of Kansas internal medicine residency program is that you are given a unique experience at each of our three sites that broadens your exposure and improves the diversity of your training. The Leavenworth VA offers a community based experience with exposure to ambulatory and long-term care medicine. As a resident here, you will find a collegial atmosphere that allows for autonomy but with ample supervision available as needed. In addition to teaching, my other interests include bioterrorism response education and serving as a Bioterrorism Clinical Coordinator/Decontamination Team leader at Leavenworth.
Stewart
Babbott, MD
University of Kansas Hospital
Associate Program Director
Ambulatory Education and Faculty Development
Dr. Babbott is the division director and associate program director for general and geriatric medicine. One of the ways he continues his long held interests in medical education is through his role in the Internal Medicine Residency Programs at the University of Kansas. He graduated from Boston University School of Medicine and completed his residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York. He was in practice for several years, and then completed a two year fellowship in Medical Education at Johns Hopkins Hospital. He was in practice and very involved in medical education at Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts for nine years before coming to the University of Kansas in 2005. At the University of Kansas, he has been involved in medical student, resident and faculty education, particularly in the ambulatory setting.
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