Faculty Mentors
- Anesthesia
- Emergency Medicine
- Family Medicine
- Internal Medicine
- Internal Medicine-Pediatrics (Med-Peds)
- Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Pediatrics
- Surgery
Anesthesia
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Wagner, Dennis L., M.D. Dr. Wagner is a Professor of Clinical Anesthesia at the IU School of Medicine, Professor of Anaesthesiology (Honorary) at the Moi University School of Medicine, and Director of the Pain Medicine Fellowship at The IU School of Medicine. He has been on the IU faculty for a total of 23 years. His involvement in global health began innocently when Dr. Charles Kelley asked him to meet and escort Dr. John Wambani, Professor of Anaesthesiology at Moi University on a tour of the Anesthesia Department and facilities at IU. Dr. Wambani asked Dr. Wagner to visit Kenya in 1999. Since then, Dr. Wagner has multiple yearly trips to Moi University. He recognized the need to support anesthesia and critical care at Moi University and MTRH with the procurement of equipment and monitors essential to the modern practice of anesthesia and critical care, supported the education of Anaesthesia Residents at Nairobi University who agreed to return to Eldoret, and supported the collaboration between Clinical Engineering Departments at IU and Moi. Dr. Wagner and his wife Sarah were directly responsible for the development of a 6 bed ICU at MTRH, which was dedicated in February 2006. He is currently involved in the curriculum development of an MMed Programme in Anaesthesiology at Moi University (to begin September, 2010) in the expansion of the ICU, and development of a Burn Unit and High Density Unit at MTRH. His other global health experience includes an April 2010 trip to Haiti. Phone: E-mail: delwagne@iupui.edu |
Emergency Medicine
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House, Rose, M.D. Dr. House has done several overseas medical service trips including trips to the Philippines, Brazil, China, Zambia, and Kenya. As faculty, she will be starting to develop the Emergency Medicine partnership with Moi University Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya. This will include developing an international curriculum and elective experience for IU’s emergency medicine residents while improving emergency medical services for the people of Eldoret and surrounding areas. Phone: 317-372-9993 E-mail: dhouse@iupui.edu |
Family Medicine
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Kelton, Gaylen, M.D. Dr. Kelton has been a faculty member of Indiana University School of Medicine in the Department of Family Medicine since 1996, and has been involved in global health throughout his career. He is the current director of IU Travel Medicine, providing pre and post travel consultation and country-specific advice. He is highly involved with planning and implementing Family Medicine education, research, and service in Honduras and most recently participated as a faculty advisor in Honduras to the medical student-led alternative spring break trip. He holds a Certificate in Travel Health and Medicine from University College London, and a Certificate in Travel Health from the International Society of Travel Medicine. Phone: 317-962-1042 E-mail: gkelton@iupui.edu |
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McKeag, Douglas, M.D., M.S. Dr. McKeag was appointed Chairman of the Indiana University School of Medicine’s Department of Family Medicine in October of 1999. He is also the OneAmerica® Professor of Preventive Health Medicine and the Director of the IU Center for Sports Medicine. He provides ongoing support for the department’s ENLACE (Enhancing Latin American Care Experiences) project and for the department’s involvement in the IU-Kenya partnership. He served as a professional consultant to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Committee, and has lead physician delegations to Vietnam, China, and Nepal. He recently traveled to Haiti as an International Red Cross volunteer. Phone: 317-278-0350 E-mail: dmckeag@iupui.edu |
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Renshaw, Scott, M.D. Dr. Renshaw’s interest in global health started while he was a resident at the Indiana University Methodist Family Medicine Residency. His first global health experience was a medical mission trip to Honduras with the student Christian Medical Association (CMA) in March 2002. He returned to Honduras with CMA in 2003 and 2004. Once on faculty in the Department of Family Medicine, he was appointed Medical Director of the ENLACE (Enhancing Latin American Care Experiences) Project and has been back to Honduras annually since 2007. Phone: 317-278-8755 E-mail: serensha@iupui.edu |
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Sevilla-Mártir, Javier F., M.D. After graduation from medical school in 2003, Doctor Sevilla practiced medicine in Honduras as a general practitioner for four years. This included a year of work with an ambulatory clinic, providing care for the Lenca tribes in the mountains of Honduras. He has lead the Global Health and International Medicine ENLACE program of the department of Family Medicine at IUSM with inclusion of local and overseas components; Doctor Sevilla has been an advisor for the GHSIG since 2003 and mentored several students and residents with Global Health service and research projects that have been presented at National and International conferences. Phone: 317-633-7360 E-mail: jsevilla@iupui.edu |
Internal Medicine
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Einterz, Robert M., M.D. Robert Einterz, MD, is Associate Dean for International Programs, Professor of Clinical Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine, and director of the Indiana University Center for Global Health. He completed specialty training in internal medicine in 1984 at Indiana University Medical Center and then served for one year as Chief Medical Resident at Wishard Memorial Hospital. Dr. Einterz directed a primary health care program in rural Haiti in 1986-7. In 1989, he co-founded the partnership between Indiana University and Moi University, Kenya. He served as the interim coordinator of the Department of Medicine at Moi University School of Medicine in 1990-91. Dr. Einterz was the co-director of the NIH-funded Moi Medical Informatics Fellowship and the Principal Investigator of projects funded by the Gates Foundation, the MTCT-Plus Initiative, and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). These projects have established the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH), a comprehensive system of health care delivery, research and training. AMPATH’s primary care and chronic disease management program serves a population of nearly 2 million people in western Kenya, including care for more than 100,000 HIV infected individuals. A practicing general internist, Dr. Einterz directed the Westside Community Health Center in Indianapolis for nearly ten years. Dr. Einterz also works as a hospitalist at Wishard Memorial Hospital on the campus of Indiana University Medical Center. Phone: 317-630-7075 E-mail: reinterz@iupui.edu |
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Gregory P. Gramelspacher, M.D. Dr. Gregory P. Gramelspacher is a Professor of Medicine at Indiana University School of Medicine (IUSM). Dr. Gramelspacher received his undergraduate degree in government and international relations from the University of Notre Dame and his medical degree from Indiana University. At Notre Dame, Gramelspacher helped establish the World Hunger Coalition and raised money for international relief and development organizations such as OXFAM, CARE, UNICEF, CRS, and the American Friends Service Committee. He then spent several months in Bangladesh to see the work of these organizations. Following medical school at IUSM and an internal medicine residency at the University of Michigan, Dr. Gramelspacher served for two years with the National Health Service Corps in Appalachia. He then completed a fellowship in medical ethics and clinical pharmacology at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at the University of Chicago. He joined the Department of Medicine at IUSM in 1989. In addition to founding the Program in Medical Ethics, Dr. Gramelspacher established the Palliative Care Program at Wishard Health Services and the Palliative Medicine Fellowship at Indiana University School of Medicine. His interests include medical professionalism and the doctor-patient relationship, hospice and palliative care, health care for the underserved and global health. He served as the team leader of the IU-Kenya program in Eldoret, Kenya from 1996 to 1997. Dr. Gramelspacher returns to Kenya on a regular basis to work with the IU-Kenya program. |
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Kelley, Charles, M.D. As a faculty member in the Division of General Internal Medicine, Dr. Kelley has been active in the arena of global and international health for the duration of his career. He served as a physician in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan in the mid 1960’s and worked as an on-site faculty member in Eldoret, Kenya. He is the past director of the “Medicine in the Third World” elective for IUSM medical students. Phone: 317-630-7019 E-mail: chkelle@iupui.edu |
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Litzelman, Debra, M.D., M.A. Dr. Litzelman serves as the Richard Powell Professor of Medicine, is the Associate Dean for Medical Education at IUSM and the Director of Education for the IU-AMPATH program. She completed her Health Services Research (HSR) Fellowship training at the Regenstrief Institute (RGI) in 1989 and has since mentored over 15 post-doctoral fellows in HSR and in Medical Education Research most who have gone on to academic medicine careers. In 1999, Dr. Litzelman received a grant from the Education Council on Foreign Medical Education to assist Moi University School of Medicine in Eldoret, Kenya with the 10-year review of their medical school and faculty development efforts. She has been involved in education programs and education research with colleagues at Moi University and the AMPATH consortium of medical schools for over 10 years and has traveled to Eldoret nine times including a recent six-month sabbatical focused on the IU-AMPATH Education mission. Recently, she co-authored the application to create the Indiana University Center for Global Health, which has received conditional approval by the president of Indiana University. Phone: 317-274-4556 E-mail: dklitzel@iupui.edu |
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Mamlin, Burke, M.D. Dr. Burke Mamlin completed medical School and an Internal Medicine residency at IU before returning to the Regenstrief Institute for an informatics fellowship. Following his fellowship, he worked with Dr. Paul Biondich to create the medical record system used by the AMPATH project in Kenya and helped turn this system into a leading open source medical record system used in dozens of countries worldwide. He continues to practice medicine, teach residents, serve as a technical lead for order entry at Regenstrief, support the AMPATH system, and is the chief architect for OpenMRS. Phone: 317-962-1042 E-mail: bmamlin@iupui.edu |
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Mamlin, Joseph, M.D. Dr. Mamlin is an academic general internist with a 13 year experience (including two years continuous on site) helping establish a new medical school in Afghanistan. He spent 6-8 years helping with Afghan refugees in Pakistan after the Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. One of the four original "finders" of the collaboration experience for IU and Kenya in 1988, Dr. Mamlin has served full time as the on site Field Director for the IU-Kenya Program since 2000. He had the privilege of treating the first patient with HIV in 2000 that gave birth to AMPATH (“Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare”) and remains an active practitioner, mentor and dreamer in AMPATH to this day. Phone: 317-630-7925 E-mail: jmamlin@iupui.edu |
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Were, Martin, M.D., M.S. Dr. Martin Were has been on the IUSM faculty since 2008 as an Assistant Professor of Medicine at IUSM and a Research Scientist at Regenstrief Institute, Inc. He is a health services researcher whose work focuses on informatics-based approaches to improve quality of care and patient safety. He currently spends about three months a year in Kenya (his home country), helping to develop and implement a computerized clinical decision-support system for the USAID-AMPATH program. Dr. Were completed his internal medical residency training at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, and works as a part-time hospitalist at Wishard Memorial Hospital. Phone: 317-423-5540 E-mail: mwere@iupui.edu |
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Wools-Kaloustian, Kara, M.D., M.S. Dr. Wools-Kaloustian is an Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Indiana University School of Medicine, IN, USA. Dr Wools-Kaloustian also has a Faculty appointment at the Department of Medicine, Moi University School of Medicine, Eldoret. She is the Co-Field Director for Research, Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) Research Network (ResNet) and is the Co-Chair of the Adult HIV Research Core of AMPATH ResNet. Dr Wools-Kaloustian is also the Co-Leader of the Moi University Clinical Research Site that performs clinical trials for ACTG and is recently retired Chair of Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) Research Core of AMPATH ResNet. Dr Wools-Kaloustian has extensive experience in the treatment and care of HIV-infected patients in resource constrained settings and has participated in numerous research studies related to the issue of HIV in resource poor settings. Dr. Wools-Kaloustian is currently the co-PI of the East African International Epidemiologic Databases to Evaluate AIDS (IeDEA) Region an NIH sponsored research project to assess the outcomes and best practices for HIV care in the environment of rapid ramp-up of services. The East African Consortium includes clinics in Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya. Phone: 317-630-6119 E-mail: kwools@iupui.edu |
Internal Medicine—Pediatrics (Med-Peds)
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Woodward, Jason, M.D. Dr. Woodward has participated in the IU-Kenya partnership as a medical student, resident, and faculty. He spent one year at Moi University/Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Kenya as the Pediatric Team Leader in 2006-07, and has also participated as a resident in the Calnali, Mexico spring break experience and spent a week working in small communities in Honduras. He continues to be involved with the IU-Kenya program and is currently working on a project to evaluate the effect of IU’s international health exchange programs on resident and student competencies. Phone: 317-274-0552 E-mail: jfwoodwa@iupui.edu |
Obstetrics & Gynecology
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Washington, Sierra, M.D. Currently living in Eldoret Kenya, Dr. Washington is an assistant clinical professor in the department of OBGYN at Indiana University, and visiting lecturer for Moi University in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology. She also serves as the Co-Field Director for Reproductive Health for the AMPATH consortium. Dr. Washington assists in running one of the world’s largest and most successful PMTCT (Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV) programs across western Kenya currently providing services across 46 sites. She is also involved in building AMPATH’s primary care program, focusing on the reduction of maternal and neonatal mortality, improvement of obstetrical services, contraceptive services and cervical cancer screening. Phone: 317-274-8609 E-mail: silwash@iupui.edu |
Pediatrics
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Helphinstine, Jill, M.D. Dr. Helphinstine has been an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at IUSM since July 2004. She is a 2001 graduate of IU School of Medicine and completed her pediatrics residency at Duke University in June 2004. She served as team leader for the IU-Kenya partnership in Eldoret, Kenya from July 2004-July 2005 and has worked as a primary care pediatrician at Westside Health Center, serving a largely Spanish-speaking population since August 2005. She joined the Global Health Residency Track as its director in July 2009. Phone: 317-544-4600 E-mail: jhelphin@iupui.edu |
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Lemons, James, M.D. Dr. Lemons, Professor of Pediatrics and past director of the Section of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, first experienced medicine in the developing world during medical school, when he spent 4 months at a rural mission hospital in western Ethiopia. In 1994 he brought his family to Kenya and spent 3 months working in Eldoret, Kenya at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. He has returned to Kenya numerous times and has supported Kenyan students and residents rotating back in Indianapolis as well. Dr. Lemons raised over $2 million to build the Riley Mother and Baby Hospital of Kenya, which was dedicated in August 2009. From the day it opened, the hospital has been run entirely by Kenyan physicians, nurses and other staff. Dr. Lemons continues his work in Kenya, with the hope of eventually providing primary and referral care to all women and children in western Kenya—while providing students, residents and faculty from the US an opportunity to experience and assist in caring for those most in need in our world. Phone: 317-274-4716 E-mail: jlemons@iupui.edu |
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Liechty, Edward, M.D. Dr. Liechty has been involved in Global Health throughout his career, beginning with 3 months in Haiti at rural health clinics in college and during his 4th year of medical school. In 2003-2004, Dr. Liechty received a JW Fullbright Scholars grant to spend the academic year teaching Pediatrics at Moi University in Eldoret, Kenya. During that year he began a training project with the Kenyan Ministry of Health to train mid-level managers of the country-wide childhood vaccine delivery system. In 2008 he and his colleagues in Kenya were awarded an NIH grant as part of the Global Network for Women’s and Children's Health Research. Particularly interested in the epidemiology of maternal and infant morbidity and mortality, Dr. Liechty and his Kenyan colleagues have begun low cost, low technology interventions to improve perinatal outcomes for both mothers and infants. Recently, they were awarded a 2 million dollar grant from the World Health Organization to conduct a clinical trial of 4 different antibiotic regimens that can be administered at home by visiting nurses for neonates with presumed neonatal sepsis. His Co-Principal Investigator in all these endeavors is Professor Fabian Esamai, Moi University School of Medicine. Phone: 317-274-4715 E-mail: eliecht@iupui.edu |
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Lorant, Diane, M.D. Dr. Lorant is the co-coordinator of a medical student and resident exchange program between Indiana University Medical School and the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo (UAEH) and Hospital del Niño DIF. Since 2004, Dr. Lorant has mentored medical students, residents and fellows in a service learning program in Calnali, a rural community in the state of Hildago, Mexico. This program focuses on outreach education to the community health care workers, including courses on neonatal resuscitation, pediatric emergencies, diabetes, asthma, nutrition and birth depression. Presentations are given to members of the community on nutrition, diabetes and domestic violence. Dr. Lorant has also done research in Mexico on attitudes towards death and disability to improve the bereavement program for Latinos in Indiana. Phone: 317-274-4715 E-mail: dlorant@iupui.edu |
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Stelzner, Sarah, M.D. Dr. Stelzner was born in La Paz, Bolivia and spent part of her childhood in Latin America. As a student at Brown University she completed an honors thesis on Hispanic health issues and developed her interest in bringing health care to the underserved during medical school at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Stelzner joined the IUSM faculty in 1998 and currently is the co-President of the Indiana Chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics, organizes a yearly multidisciplinary health education project in Calnali, Mexico, as well as the bilateral exchange program with Universidad Autonoma del Estado de Hidalgo, participates the Mexico Interest Group at IUPUI which directs activities of the Strategic Partnership with Mexico and serves a rapidly growing Hispanic community at Wishard Memorial Hospital. Phone: 317-278-3411 E-mail: sstelzne@iupui.edu |
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Vreeman, Rachel, M.D., M.S. Dr. Vreeman is an assistant professor of pediatrics in the Children’s Health Services Research program and in the division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases at the Indiana University School of Medicine. In addition, she is co-director of pediatric research for the Indiana University – Kenya Partnership and the Academic Model Providing Access to Healthcare (AMPATH) partnership, which provides comprehensive HIV treatment for over 80,000 patients in Kenya. Dr. Vreeman’s research work focuses on improving the provision of healthcare to children within resource-limited settings. In particular, she studies the dosing of antiretroviral medication for children and pediatric adherence to antiretroviral therapy in sub-Saharan Africa. Dr. Vreeman spends half of her year in Kenya. Phone: 317-278-0552 E-mail: rvreeman@iupui.edu |
