We are very proud of our past graduates and they have gone on to do really cool things. If you want a general idea, feel free to browse the bios below. If you are seeking a specific type of practice population click on the links below.
Allison Ng MD - University of Cincinnati
Class of 2018
A proud Cincinnati native who developed an interest in immigrant and refugee health through her experiences in Central America and various organizations within the city. She will be working with the Health Department to continue her work with this population In her free time she loves to draw, knit, cook, eat, and Zumba!
Chinyere Ogbonna- Temple University SOM
Class of 2015
After completing her combined family medicine and psychiatry resident she continued her training with a fellowship in addiction medicine at Stanford where she was actively involved in research and teaching.
Dr. Ogbonna is an active speaker on screening, brief intervention, and referral to treatment (SBIRT), with a specific focus on prevention and early intervention among adolescents and young adults. Her clinical focus also includes dual diagnoses, chronic pain, and increasing integration of medicine and psychiatry in primary care.
Dr. Ogbonna currently works as an Addiction Medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente San Jose Chemical Dependency Services in San Jose, CA.
Catherine Pinkston DO -Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine
Class of 2018
She is off on a grand adventure to Nevada where she will work in a full spectrum family medicine practice. She will be able to continue to spend her free time outdoors with long distance trail runs, backpacking in the mountains, and rustic international travel!
Shanna Stryker - Wright State
Class of 2018
Shanna (she/her) graduated from the Family Medicine-Psychiatry residency in 2018 and was the first fellow in Global Health Faculty Development from 2018-2020. In fellowship she earned an MPH, studied depression in Guatemala, and provided care to Cincinnati immigrants/refugees. She is now on our faculty and provides psychiatric and primary care at a local FQHC to neighbors in Walnut Hills, regional LGBTQ+ folx and people living with HIV. She also does community-based participatory action research and teaches early-career primary care fellows about mental health integration into primary care. She remains involved in the Department's partnerships in Guatemala and Tanzania.
Mary Cairns- Medical College of Wisconsin
Class of 2014
An FMP graduate, Mary splits her time between the US and Cameroon. At the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center she works in C/L Psychiatry, medical urgent care as well as inpatient psychiatry and PES service. At Banso Hospital in Kumbo, Cameroon she practices on the inpatient medical ward as well as helping to coordinate the outpatient mental health services. She stays active in the residency and several residents have rotated in Cameroon with her.
Kara Ciani- Chief Resident - U of Cincinnati
Class of 2018
Will continue to work in Cincinnati and training at UC in the geriatrics fellowship. She remains dedicated to vulnerable populations her future practice will encompass a bit of everything. In her free time, she loves morning runs, hikes through the city’s hilly forests, whipping up new recipes, and exploring Cincinnati’s hidden gems with friends and family.
Tyler (Kip) Drewry- Wayne State University
Class of 2018
From Michigan and attended he University of Michigan where he studied Brain, Behavior, and Cognitive Science. Will be attending the Sports Medicine Fellowship at TriHealth. While in residency he enjoyed the mix of academic rigor tied to a university program within a community hospital. His hobbies include playing hockey, softball, biking, running, weight-lifting, playing video games and watching movies.
Stephen Eckart - Tulane University SOM
Class of 2017
Has completed his geriatric fellowship and will be joining a family medicine practice here in Cincinnati.
Angela Adams-Harrison- Wright State
Class of 2015
Happy to be "walking in her calling", Dr. Adams-Harrison says her favorite part about working at Rocking Horse Community Health Center is taking care of people in need. Her professional interests include caring for the underserved, preventative education, and Global Health in Haiti. She enjoys family, traveling (cruising), cooking, crocheting, reading and singing with her church praise team in her spare time.
Brian Cairns- Ohio State University College of Medicine
Class of 2011
Brian spends his time in both Ohio and Cameroon. At The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center he works on inpatient, emergency, and consult psychiatry as well as urgent medical care. In Cameroon he spends some of his times on the inpatient wards and helps Mary (his wife) to coordinate outpatient mental health services.
Elizabeth Weage- Wayne State University SOM
Class of 2015
Elizabeth is currently with Southwestern Medical Clinic at a designated rural health clinic in Niles, MI. She has her own outpatient practice as well as works in the walk in clinic doing acute visits and procedures one day per week. SWMC supports medical missions which allows Elizabeth to continue to pursue her passion of serving abroad.
Kevin Brazill- Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine
Class of 2015
Kevin is working for the Carle Physician Group as an outpatient Psychiatrist and Family Medicine physician in rural Mattoon, Illinois. He also serves as the consultant psychiatrist for the large outpatient primary care office and urgent care facility in Mattoon. In addition, he is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign in the Departments of Family Medicine and Psychiatry.
Shayla Toombs-Withers- Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine
Class of 2010
She currently works as an outpatient Family Physician for Erlanger Hospital in Chattanooga, TN, treating children and adults. Special interests include women's health and Plant Based nutrition which is incorporate both into her practice. Currently in the process of obtaining fellowship certification in Obesity Medicine. In addition to practicing medicine, she keeps busy with running marathons, trail races, and triathlons.
Katherine Johnson - U of Cincinnati
Class of 2017
Katie stayed within TCH system working in an outpatient office providing comprehensive care- including seeing maternity patients.
Robert Pulliam - University of Cincinnati
Class of 2017
Is staying in Cincinnati and continuing to work for the UC Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. We will spend time as an inpatient psychiatry consultant, as well as doing primary care at University Health Services and Talbert House.
Elizabeth Beckman- Chief Resident - U of MN
Class of 2018
Elizabeth with continue to follow her passion for women’s health and urban underserved medicine. She will be working in Denver, Colorado in a variety of clinical settings while also starting a collaborative care project… for scratch.
Jeffery Murphy- University of Cincinnati
Class of 2018
After a few career twists and turns, including high school teacher, parks & recreation manager, and firefighter he is thrilled to have completed his training at TCH/UC FM. He will use the skills he honed to work in a full scope of family medicine office within the Christ system. In his spare time, you’ll find him working occasional shifts as a part-time firefighter, walking his pitbull and rescue Guatemalan street dog, or playing music.
Kristen Koch- Chief Resident - U of Louisville
Class of 2018
Continues to grow her Cincinnati routes. After a brief detour to Ohio State for undergrad and University of Louisville for medical school she was thrilled returned to Cincinnati for residency. She has accepted a position to stay in the Christ family and will work in the outpatient office in Norwood. In her free time she can be found atop a mountain somewhere in Tennessee in off-road vehicles, covered in mud, curled up with a crafting project, or catching up on my Netflix.
Anne Adams - University of Cincinnati
Class of 2017
Annie is working in a family medicine practice in Austin, Texas.
Anisa Shomo, MD- Ohio State University COM
Class of 2013
Anisa is a board certified Geriatrician in addition to Family Medicine. She splits her time between working at the University of Cincinnati and in Haiti. She staffs 2 clinics for the Cincinnati Health Department. One is located inside of Riverview East Academy. It is part of the School Based Health Division and it is a longitudinal clinic site for the residency. The other is a traditional FQHC model. She practice Family Medicine and Geriatrics at both locations. In Haiti, she helps to manage the pediatric, adult medicine, and Gyn outpatient clinics in addition to the inpatient service. She is also an avid runner and past ambassador of Black Girls Run! Cincinnati Chapter.
Eleanor Glass- University of Cincinnati
Class of 2014
Currently the Chief Medical Office and Co-founder of Integrative Family Care of Cincinnati a Direct Primary Care clinic. She maintains a faculty position in the residency to focus on Quality Improvement in the FMC, especially in EMR training and Practice Management. Both of these efforts are part of an overall goal to reduce burnout in family medicine, to help us return to our roots as independent physicians who can respond to the needs of our community.
She also maintains an active acupuncture practice, and enjoys learning more about integrative medicine, procedures, women's health, and anything outdoors that has nothing to do with medicine.
Gina Cano- U of Cincinnati
Class of 2015
Gina currently lives in Guadalajara, Mexico where she volunteers with a palliative care organization (Fundación Mexicana de Medicina Paliativa) doing home visits with patients in the terminal stages of cancer and other chronic diseases. She works intermittently with Crossroad Health Center, a FQHC in Cincinnati, which serves vulnerable populations downtown and on the west side of the city.
Gurpreet Kaur (pictured back right)– Medical School for International Health (MSIH)
Class 0f 2012
Gurpreet jumped around a lot before she started residency and continues to jump around thereafter. Her primary career interest is in international health/under resourced settings, especially in areas with difficult medical access. Following graduation, Gurpreet worked a year in a FQHC in Saginaw, Michigan before moving to work with Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Since then, she has jumped between locums assignments in Michigan (outpatient and urgent care) and MSF assignments in Africa. Gurpreet has worked for MSF within a variety of medical roles including medical doctor in a pediatric malnutrition ward (SNNPR, Ethiopia) and start up project (Thonyor, South Sudan); mobile medical team manager (Somali Region, Ethiopia), outreach surveillance team manager (Mtendeli Refugee Camp, Tanzania) and overall project medical team leader (Zamfara, Nigeria). Currently, she is working an outpatient locums assignment in Colorado.
Brittany Almaraz - University of Cincinnati
Class of 2017
Dr. Almaraz joined the Crossroad Health Center, a FQHC dedicated to providing care for the underserved.
Rebecca Yeager - University of Cincinnati
Class of 2017
Becky will be joining the faculty of the inpatient family medicine team at TCH
Rachel Hope- Georgetown SOM
Class of 2016
Doing outpatient family medicine seeing kids and adults for the Mid-Atlantic Permanente Medical Group (Kaiser) in Baltimore.
Jessica Pineda - Medical College of Wisconsin
Class of 2015
Currently working at Women and Infant's Hospital in Providence Rhode Island where she specializes in reproductive psychiatry, working in a psychiatric clinic specializing in diagnosis and treatment of peripartum mood disorders. She is an attending physician for the psychiatric consult service at Women and Infants Hospital. Additionally, she has a primary care practice as well as providing psychiatric consultation to her primary care colleagues.