Med-Peds Faculty
Med-Peds Faculty are Internal Medicine and Pediatrics trained faculty in primary care, hospital medicine, and multiple subspecialties, dedicated to provide mentorship and coaching for residents interested in these careers.
William C. Anderson
III, MD
Assistant Professor Pediatric Allergy
& Immunology
Associate Program Director Allergy & Immunology Fellowship
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Bill received his bachelor’s degree from Bucknell University and his MD from Georgetown University School of Medicine. Bill completed his Med-Peds residency at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, where he served as Med-Peds chief resident. Following residency, Bill moved west to Colorado where he completed his Allergy and Immunology fellowship at National Jewish Health/University of Colorado.
After completing his fellowship, Bill joined the faculty, where he practices Allergy and Immunology at Children’s Hospital Colorado. In this role, he is director of the Multidisciplinary Asthma Clinic, associate program director for the Allergy and Immunology fellowship, and co-leads the Children’s pediatric to adult transition efforts.
Bill’s clinical and scholarly interests include severe and difficult-to-treat asthma, transitional care, and incorporation of technology into health care. Within the Med-Peds residency, he teaches during academic half days and serves on the clinical competency and recruitment committees. Outside of the hospital, Bill likes hiking, trivia, and playing with his dog Breck.
Tyler
Buckner, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor BMT/Hematologic
Malignancies
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Tyler is a native Tennessean and graduate of Rhodes College in
Memphis, TN. He attended medical school at the University of North
Carolina – Chapel Hill, where he also completed Internal Medicine and
Pediatrics residency and a combined adult and pediatric Hematology
fellowship. Dr. Buckner joined the CUSOM faculty at CU in January 2015, and he
holds dual appointments in Hematology and Pediatric
Hematology/Oncology.
Tyler provides clinical care to adults and children with bleeding and clotting disorders, and his research focuses on measurement of patient-reported outcomes in individuals with bleeding disorders. He has been involved with the med-peds residency program as an interviewer and advisor to CU medical students since 2016.
Nick
Breitnauer, MD
Assistant
Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Primary Care
Physician Denver Health
Continuity
Clinic Faculty
Resident Coach
Med-Peds Phase IV Student Elective Course Co-Director
Nick has lived a geographically anchored life. Growing up in
rural western Colorado, he completed his undergraduate and medical
school training at the University of Colorado at Boulder and then
Anschutz campuses, respectively. The timely creation of a new Med-Peds
residency at CU seemed almost too good to be true given the beauty of
the state and the quality of the internal medicine and pediatric
residency programs.
He joined Denver Health in the fall of 2018 and works as a primary care provider at the Southwest Federico Pena Family Health Center. Clinical duties also include working with residents in continuity clinic and 4 weeks per year as an inpatient attending on the pediatric wards.
Nick enjoys all things Colorado, especially skiing, camping, and the Denver Broncos. All other free time is spent with his wife, Brooke, and his son, Max.
Anne Frank, MD
Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine
Primary Care Physician Denver Health
Dr. Frank is an attending physician at Denver Health practicing primary care for adults and children and an assistant professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at University of Colorado School of Medicine. She received her Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Dayton and her M.D. from Indiana University School of Medicine. She completed a combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program at Brown University Warren Alpert School of Medicine.
Anne is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics and practices Primary Care at Denver Health. She is active in medical education at the undergraduate and graduate level, including working as a director of the Denver Health Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship. She received a certificate from Teaching Scholars Program at the University of Colorado, and has used this training in curricular design for the residency program, including Academic Half Day Curriculum, CO-REACH (Race, Education, Advocacy, in Public and Community Health).
Anne has additional interests in advocacy and care of vulnerable populations, specifically children in Foster and Kinship care. She works in the Connections for Kids Foster Care Clinic and acts as a Peds Trans/GNB Health Champion. She is also is an active member of the CO-AAP, including the legislative policy committee.
In her free time, Anne enjoys spending time with her husband, 3 children, and dog camping at new sites around Colorado. She is also an avid runner (road and trail) and loves to cross-country ski.Joseph Kay, MD
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Director of Colorado's Adult and Teen Congenital Heart Disease Program (CATCH)
Dr. Kay has appointments in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics,
and works as a staff cardiologist at both Children’s Hospital Colorado
and University of Colorado Hospital. He received his M.D. from State
University of New York at Buffalo, and then completed his combined
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics residency at the University of
Michigan, were he stayed on for an additional year as a Pediatric Chief
Resident. He then proceeded to complete a combined fellowship in both
adult and pediatric cardiology at Duke University Hospital. Dr. Kay has been on faculty at the University of Colorado
School of Medicine since 2004, and has serviced as the CATCH Program
Director since 2006.
His clinical and research focus remain outcomes of Adults
with congenital heart disease, and he is a member of the Alliance of
Adult research in Congenital Disease (AARCC), whose mission is to foster
multicenter research in adults with congenital heart disease.
In addition, he is an invasive cardiologist, performing interventions on children and adults with congenital heart disease. Joe is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology, and a member of the American Heart Association.
Amber Khanna, MD
Associate Professor Cardiology
Medical Director Cardiovascular Center
Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Resident Mentor
Amber’s clinical and research interests are congenital heart
disease, Marfan syndrome and related disorders, and pregnancy associated
heart disease. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University
of South Dakota and started medical school there. She finished medical
school at the University of Texas Southwest Medical Center. She did her
internal medicine and pediatrics training at the University of North
Carolina – Chapel Hill. At Mayo Clinic, she did an adult cardiology
fellowship and an adult congenital heart disease fellowship.
She joined the faculty of University of Colorado in the Department of Medicine and Department of Pediatrics in 2011. She sees patients in her outpatient clinics, reads echocardiograms at University of Cardiology Hospital, and attends on the adult cardiology inpatient service.
She enjoys spending time with her husband and their three children. They all like skiing, hiking, and travelling.
Mark Kissler, MD
Instructor of Internal Medicine - Hospital Medicine
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Mark received his bachelor's degree from the University of Colorado, holds a Masters in Narrative Medicine from Columbia University, and completed medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
He is a proud alumnus of the University of Colorado Med-Peds residency program. He has taught at the University of Colorado Center For Bioethics and Humanities and at the University of Colorado Boulder campus, and works as a hospitalist at University of Colorado Hospital. His academic interests include medical humanities, literature, and medical education.
Outside of work Mark loves spending time with his wife and three children.
Diana Whitney, MD
Primary Care Physician Denver Health
Continuity Clinic Faculty at Sloan's Lake Clinic
Resident Mentor
Diana grew up in the Pacific Northwest, Northern California, and Texas before high-tailing it eastward to Vassar College, where she majored in psychology. After college she spent a year in Nepal helping rural farmers access medical care in Kathmandu (she speaks fluent Nepali) before doing her post-bacc at Tufts in Boston. She later returned to Texas to complete medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.
Her academic interests lie in care for the urban underserved, with a focus on advocacy, particularly as it relates to improving access to care for our most medically disenfranchised patients. She especially loves that she gets to do “local global health” here in Denver, working with refugee and immigrant patients, as well as those struggling with homelessness, mental health diagnoses, and substance use. She is also proud to be one of over 50 affirming primary care providers for the Denver Health LGBTQ+ Center of Excellence.
On her days off, you can find her out hiking with husband Max and son Arlo, running with her dog Lola, doing yoga, or tackling various projects around her 1892 house!
Other Med-Peds Faculty:
Debra Anoff, MD - Adult Hospitalist, University of Colorado Hospital
Adam Beitscher, MD - Med-Peds Hospitalist, Denver Health
Elizabeth Boggs, MD - Adult Hospitalist, University of Colorado Hospital
Brian Bost, MD - Med-Peds Hospitalist, CHCO, Kaiser
Geoffrey Capes, MD - Primary Care, University of Colorado Hospital
Ethan Cumbler, MD - Adult Hospitalist, University of Colorado Hospital
Robin Deterding, MD - Pediatric Pulmonary, CHCO
Hillary Dunlevy, MD - Adult Infectious Disease, University of Colorado Hospital
Eleanor Floyd, MD - Primary care, care of complex adult transitions clinic, CHCO
Lauren Galpin, MD - Primary Care, Kaiser
Flavia Hoyte, MD- Allergy/Immunology, National Jewish Health/UCH
Steven Humphrey, MD- Pediatric Hospitalist, CHCO
Arun Kannappan, MD - Adult Intensivist, University of Colorado Hospital
Madhukar Kollengode - Adult Congenital Cardiologist, Kaiser
Rebecca McGourty, MD- Primary Care, Kaiser
Ricky Mohan, MD - Pediatric Pulmonary, CHCO
Adam Palazzari, MD - Primary Care, private practice
Daniel Reirden, MD - Adolescent Medicine and Infectious Disease, CHCO, former Med-Peds Program Director
Sarah Rowan, MD - Adult Infectious Disease, Denver Health
Kevin Sullivan, MD - Med-Peds Hospitalist, University of Colorado Hospital and CHCO
Jennifer Taylor-Cousar, MD - Pulmonary Sciences & Critical Care, National Jewish Health/ University of Colorado Hospital