Ted Braun, MD, PhD
Role: APD for Research
Birthplace: Seattle, WA
Specialty: Hematology and Medical Oncology
Practice Location: OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
Academic Interests: Drug development, cancer genomics, translational research
Hobbies: Bicycling, kids

As APD for Research, I work with residents to identify and develop their scholarly interests, whether that means finding the right research mentor, designing a meaningful project, or navigating the physician-scientist pathway. I believe the residency years are an underutilized opportunity to build a durable research identity, and I find it genuinely rewarding to help trainees figure out what kind of physician scientist they want to become.

Joel Burnett, MD, FACP
Role: APD for Health Equity & Community Engagement
Birthplace: Kansas City, MO
Specialty: General Internal Medicine (Primary Care)
Practice Location: OHSU Internal Medicine Clinic
Academic Interests: Physician advocacy, health equity, medical education
Hobbies: Basketball, cycling, music, spending time with family

Dr. Burnett's strong personal commitment to social justice and health equity drives much of his work as an advocate, educator, and scholar. He is passionate about empowering residents to become effective advocates for patient-, population-, and public health by combining skills-based training and authentic engagement opportunities. Dr. Burnett enjoys collaborating with students, residents, and colleagues across OHSU and the community in efforts to promote health and health equity for all Oregonians. 

Sima S. Desai, MD, MACP, FRCP
Birthplace: Silver City, NM
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Practice Location: OHSU
Academic Interests: Education, mentorship, diagnostic reasoning
Hobbies: Tennis, reading, time with friends and family

Dr. Sima Desai, MD finds deep joy in building meaningful relationships with residents and supporting their growth as thoughtful, confident physicians. She is passionate about mentorship and coaching, with a strong emphasis on clinical reasoning. She teaches residents that truly seeing and understanding the patient along with mastering the history and physical exam is central to compassionate, highly skilled patient-centered care. She is continually inspired by the curiosity, dedication, and care residents bring to their patients every day.

Alan J. Hunter, MD, FACP
Role: APD for Scholarship
Birthplace: Boston, MA
Specialty: Internal Medicine; Hospital Medicine
Practice Location: OHSU
Academic Interests: Mentorship, clinical vignettes/case series, academic advancement, med ed
Hobbies: Cycling, mountains, snow, oceans, cooking

Dr. Hunter has been passionately committed to the residency program and medical education his entire career. He is the architect and established the first hospitalist program at OHSU in 1998, then created and served as its first division head for 13 years. He has been constantly rejuvenated by engaging in the wide offerings of the University environment, and the idealism, curiosity, and infectious energy of the students and resident with whom he has worked. Additionally, he has loved working as an official and unofficial academic project mentor during his career. Dr. Hunter is now navigating a retirement trajectory and will hand over his associate program director role, forever carrying fond memories and wishing his peers, residents, and students well.

Anand Jagannath, MD, MS
Role: APD for Medical Education
Birthplace: Gaithersburg, MD
Specialty: Internal Medicine
Practice Location: VA Portland Healthcare System
Academic Interests: Clinical reasoning, medical education, career mentorship
Hobbies: Cooking, sports/bring outside, music, family and friends

Dr. Jagannath's career is shaped by his love of clinical reasoning and teaching. He is a curious person and teaches about how curiosity is central to learning and delivering excellent patient care. Anand developed his teaching and mentorship philosophy through curriculum development, direct teaching, assessment, and clinical reasoning/education scholarship at the UME and GME levels, garnering a national reputation. In addition to curating educational threads and electives, Anand cares deeply about helping residents discover their personal missions as physicians.

Kyle Kent, MD
Role: APD for Curriculum & Evaluation
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Maureen Lyons, MD
Role: APD for Ambulatory Medicine & Primary Care
Birthplace: Reno, NV
Specialty: General Internal Medicine (Primary Care)
Practice Location: OHSU Internal Medicine Clinic
Academic Interests: Leadership development for trainees, ambulatory medicine
Hobbies: Reading, time with family, exploring parks and neighborhoods around Portland

Dr. Maureen Lyons is deeply committed to residency education and ensuring high-quality ambulatory medicine and primary care training in a rigorous and supportive clinical environment. She believes and teaches that providing truly patient-centered care means meeting individual patients where they are and working in partnership to improve and optimize health. She finds meaning and joy in mentoring residents throughout their training, fostering their development, and celebrating their growth into skilled, compassionate physicians.

Noriyuki Murakami, MD

Dr. Noriyuki Murakami (he/him) immigrated from Austria to study biophysics at the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore before joining the Peace Corps in Malawi. He later worked for UNICEF and the Malawi Ministry of Population and Health as the district cholera coordinator. He returned to the US to study medicine at the State University of New York in Brooklyn, during which time he spent a year in Chiang Mai as an NIH Fogarty scholar to research human rights abuses in Burma, then did his Primary Care Social Medicine residency training and global health fellowship at the Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. He has been a teaching hospitalist since 2017 and is boarded in addiction medicine. His current advocacy work involves the rights of asylum seekers in the USA, and conflict-displaced refugees from the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. In his spare time, he enjoys free climbing and skiing with his children and partner in the Pacific Northwest, as well as learning to drum.

Robin Stiller, MD
Role: Assistant PD for Subspecialty Medicine
Birthplace: Pittsburgh, PA
Specialty: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Practice Location: OHSU
Academic Interests: Mentorship, professional identify formation, medical education

As Assistant Program Director for Subspecialty Medicine, Dr. Stiller works to enhance subspecialty education and mentorship, with a focus on helping residents envision and shape their career trajectories. She supports fellowship-bound trainees through individualized guidance, beginning early in residency and continuing through the fellowship application process, helping them map out clinical and scholarly opportunities that foster professional identity formation and support the narrative of who they are becoming as they prepare for fellowship. In partnership with residency leadership and faculty, she also contributes to the development of inpatient and outpatient subspecialty experiences through curriculum and broader program design.

Nilan Schnure, MD
Role: Co-Director of Ultrasound Education
Birthplace: Oakland, CA
Specialty: General Internal Medicine
Practice Location: OHSU Internal Medicine Clinic
Academic Interests: POCUS education, quality improvement
Hobbies: Family time, hiking

Dr. Schnure loves variety - he splits his time between an outpatient primary care panel, resident precepting, an outpatient procedure clinic, inpatient hospitalist time, teaching point-of-care ultrasound (with Dr. Silver), and Quality Improvement (with Dr. Smeraglio). He loves watching how residents grow in these often-unfamiliar skill sets, and how it empowers residents to approach complex clinical reasoning and create positive changes in the care of their patients and the system as a whole.

Aaron M. Silver, MD
Role: Co-Director of Ultrasound Education
Birthplace: San Francisco, CA
Specialty: Hospital Medicine
Practice Location: OHSU and HMC
Academic Interests: POCUS education, U/S for volume status and lung disease, TOC
Hobbies: Cycling, running, skiing, video editing

Dr. Silver works alongside Dr. Schnure to direct point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) education for internal medicine residents (in addition to students and faculty). He focuses on helping residents get back to the bedside and integrate POCUS into their clinical skills through Intern Intensive, ultrasound electives, and weekly POCUS Rounds on University Wards. His goal is for all residents to have POCUS in their toolbox to best care for their patients for years to come.

Bailey Pope, MD, FACP
Role: Director of Learning & Remediation
Birthplace: Eugene, OR
Specialty: Hospital Medicine
Practice Location: OHSU
Academic Interests: Med ed, curriculum development, resident and student development
Hobbies: Cooking, gardening, traveling

Dr. Pope is deeply committed to medical education and serves as Director of the Medicine Teaching Service, as well as Chair of the Curriculum, Remediation, and Redesign Didactics Sub-Committees, where she helps shape the residency experience. She is especially passionate about working with residents, valuing the opportunity to support them during the pivotal transition to independent physicians, and fostering their growth in clinical reasoning, identity, and compassionate care. 

Anne Smeraglio, MD
Role: Director of Teaching Improvement Science Curriculum
Birthplace: Grants Pass, OR
Specialty: Hospital Medicine
Practice Location: Portland VA
Academic Interests: Health system science, quality improvement, high value care
Hobbies: Gardening, running, hiking, camping

Dr. Smeraglio has served as the Director for Health Systems Science for the Internal Medicine Residency Program since 2020. In this role, she oversees the longitudinal health systems science curriculum called TIS (Teaching Improvement Science) and the Health Systems Projects completed by all residents. She has a great passion for how we make doctors agents of chance to make medicine safer, better, and more equitable for all.

Patricio Riquelme, MD, PhD
Role: Director of CLEAR Program
Birthplace: Valdivia, Chile
Specialty: Hospital Medicine, Addiction Medicine
Practice Locations: OHSU, Adventist Portland, HMC
Academic Interests: Resident wellness, medical education, clinical reasoning
Hobbies: Drinking coffee, spending time with family, reading

Dr. Riquelme has dedicated his career to teaching, building relationships, and learning from IM residents. His passion is to assist residents who experience challenges during residency, sharing his own challenges, and helping to guide them on their journey. He is the Director of the CLEAR (Coaching for Life-Long Learning, Empathy and Resilience) Program and meets regularly with any residents who want to discuss the highs and lows of residency and life.

Dena Dowhaniuk, C-TAGME | imresapp@ohsu.edu 
Administrative Director of Education
Birthplace: Portland, OR
Hobbies: Hiking, board games, live music events, bargain hunting

Dena oversees the administrative operations of the residency program, a role she has proudly held for more than 20 years. This experience has given her a deep understanding of the program and the people it serves, Throughout her career, Dena has remained deeply engaged in graduate medical education, serving on multiple GME committees, representing her institution within the program coordinator community, and supporting colleagues by leading courses in the Program Coordinator Professional Development (PCPD) program. She earned her C-TAGME certification in 2024. Dena finds great fulfillment in her work, and the relationships she builds with residents, faculty, and her GME community colleagues are a continual source of joy and inspiration.

Lynn Washington
Residency Program Technician (Ambulatory)
Birthplace: Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, USA
Hobbies: Spending time outdoors exploring the PNW

Lynn was born and raised on the beautiful island of Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands, USA. She spent her childhood fusing her Filipino heritage with Chamorro culture into a fun-filled, multicultural upbringing complete with all the joys and comfort of island life. At the age of 16, Lynn and her family moved to the U.S. mainland and have called the Pacific Northwest home ever since. When she is not processing clinic adjustments, Lynn enjoys spending time exploring the outdoors with her husband, son, extended family, and friends.

Jessica Tilford, BS, C-TAGME
Residency Program Technician II
Birthplace: Modesto, CA
Hobbies: Painting, baking, photography

Jessica grew up in California, moved to Portland in 2013, and now lives in Ohio. She obtained her Bachelor of Science in Anthropology from Oregon State University in 2019. She loves traveling, baking, and hanging out with her husband, two dogs (Gus and Ollie), and new cat addition (Waffles). Jessica is passionate about education and, if she could, would happily remain a student for life. She has served in the Program Technician role for nine years and continues to feel a strong sense of pride and emotion when each group of PGY-3's depart. 

Frankie McBride
Administrative Coordinator
Birthplace: Las Vegas, NV
Hobbies: Cooking (Chinese/Thai/Mexican cuisine), concerts, reading sci fi and fantasy

Frankie joined OHSU in 2024 and found a natural fit within the Internal Medicine Residency Program. His background includes roles in dental and ophthalmology settings, where his involvement in clinical coordination and practice operations fostered a strong appreciation for medical education and supporting clinicians in their work. He enjoys partnering with residents and faculty to help keep the program running smoothly and contributes to a positive training environment. When not coordinating off-site rotations and electives, Frankie enjoys spending time exploring Portland with his husband and their two dogs, Thor and Loki.