Leadership & Administration

  • Theotonius Gomes

    Theotonius J. Gomes, DO, is Program Director for the Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program and an assistant professor in the Departments of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine and Medicine at Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine. He is a trained Internal Medicine-Pediatrics physician. Dr. Gomes completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Maryland in…

  • Jeri Lantz

    I have had 28 years of med/peds practice, and 24 years in a med/peds “sparse” area in academics and practice. I have been the Division Chief in IM for 26 general internists and Division Chief of our Adolescent group in Pediatrics for the last 15+ years. I maintain both an active IM practice and Peds…

  • Megan Powell

    I am currently a clinical primary care faculty at Sam Houston State University College of Osteopathic Medicine. I practice primary care at our faculty clinic seeing all ages. Prior to this, I was privileged to be a part of a large MedPeds/FM group in the rural community that I grew up in. I practiced there…

  • Jason Gulati

    I ended up in Med/Peds because I enjoy wearing a lot of hats. Each one enhances my practice in the others. My current practice is largely inpatient adult-focused, mostly because I was finding true inpatient Med/Peds positions a little hard to come by when I graduated (I chose to be location-locked). So I started as…

  • Richard Mojares

    CEO and CMO Family First Urgent Care and Primary Care When I joined my father’s solo family practice in 2002, the practice had four employees and saw approximately 10 patients per day. In addition to seeing patients in the office, I admitted adult and pediatric patients to the hospital, covered the nursery, admitted patients to…

  • Ellen Singer

    I love clinical practice — especially fast paced primary and virtual care. I lean into the nuances of patient interviewing. I trained in the “paper era” and adopted have technologies in my career. I have expertise in clinical leadership, expert witness and medical board consultation and systems design. I also love laundry as a hobby…

  • Alice Kuo

    I’m a physician, researcher, and educator at UCLA, and much of my work is centered on supporting individuals with autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities across the lifespan. I lead national initiatives like AIR-P and am actively involved in collaborative efforts such as the Autism Research and Care (ARC) network, with a focus on improving access…

  • JT Tolentino

    JT is the current Med-Peds Residency Program Director at University of Miami. He also serves as Med-Peds Clinical Director, Director of Accelerated Program, and Adult CF Program Director. Nationally, he is President of MPPDA.

  • Jane Trinh

    Jane is chief of the Med-Peds primary care division at Duke. She had been in Med-Peds residency program leadership for almost 15 years. She sees adult primary care patients and precept Med-Peds residents in their continuity clinic. She is currently involved in leadership training for residents, and she has started leading an adult primary care…

  • Phil Verhoef

    Phil has been a leader in AAP (on the Committee on Drugs), ACP, and ATS. Currently he serves APD for the IM residency at the University of Hawaii, and has had experience as a PI for several NIH research grants.