Faculty
Denver Health Track
Morris Askenazi, MD
Education: University of Texas Health Sciences Center – San Antonio; University of Colorado Residency - Rose Hospital
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: La Casa Quigg Newton Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Informatics, chronic diseases, obstetrics, procedures.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Senior Instructor, University of Colorado School of Medicine.
Email: morris.askenazi@dhha.org
Melissa Beagle, MD, MPH
Education: University of California, Davis, BS; Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, MD; University of New Mexico, MPH; University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Preceptor Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: La Casa Quigg Newton Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Maternal-child health, obstetrics, procedures, public and community health.
Awards, Recognitions, & Appointments: Currently appointed to the Maternal Wellness Preconception Health Advisory Committee through the Colorado Department of Public Health.
Personal Interests: Family and friends, cooking, gardening, photography, reading, travel.
Email: melissa.beagle@dhha.org
Michael J. Benavidez, MD
Education: University of Notre Dame; St. Louis University School of Medicine, Medical School
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Family medicine, diabetes and refugee health.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: 5280 Magazine Top Doc - Family Medicine; University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency Doctor-Patient Relationship Award.
Personal Interests: Spending time with family, college football (especially Notre Dame), traveling, theme parks.
Email: michael.benavidez@dhha.org
Lauren Bergstrand, MD
Education: University of Arizona in Tucson, BA, MD
Attending Site: Denver Health
Precepting Site: Montbello Family Health Clinic
Clinic Site: Montbello Family Health Clinic
Medical Areas of Interest: A passion for guiding patients through lifestyle changes to improve their health. She has a robust population of weight loss patients, and has done specific work on pediatric obesity and investigating group models for obesity. Also very passionate about medical education, and enjoys teaching learners of all stages.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Larry Green Award 2016, Resident of the Year 2016, Member of MyChart committee and Obesity Workgroup.
Personal Interests: Nutrition, reading, snuggling my cats and fiancée, traveling.
Email: lauren.bergstrand@dhha.org
Jessica Bull, MD
Education: University of Cincinnati SOM, MD; University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency-Denver Health Track
Attending Site: Denver Health
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Substance use treatment, refugee and immigrant health, women’s health and family planning, underserved medicine, LGBT health.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Denver Health Faculty of the Year Award in 2017.
Personal Interests: Family, urban homesteading, singing with my daughters, hiking, plant-based diets and political activism.
Email: jessica.bull@dhha.org
Henry Colangelo, MD, MPH
Education: University of North Carolina School of Medicine, MD; University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Park Hill Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Addiction medicine/MAT, LGBTQ health (including gender-affirming care and hormone treatment), STI screening and treatment, practice improvement/QI, medical student education.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine.
Personal Interests: Spending time with family, snowboarding, hiking, cooking, college basketball.
Kurt Cook, MD
Education: Westmont College, Santa Barbara, BA; University of Southern California, MD; International Health and Tropical Medicine, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, MSc; London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, DTM&H; North Colorado Medical Center, Greeley, Residency
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Denver Health Lowry Family Health Clinic
Clinic Site: Denver Health Westwood Clinic
Medical Areas of Interest: Health in developing countries; tropical medicine, tuberculosis; public health; cross-cultural health care; health of immigrants; sexually transmitted diseases.
Personal Interests: Hiking, running, exploring the mountains, traveling, spending time with wife and kids.
Email: kurt.cook@dhha.org
Sara Foster Fabiano, MD
Education: Furman University, BA; Wake Forest University School of Medicine, MD
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center, Denver Health
Clinic Site: Lowry Family Health Center, Montbello Family Health Center, Denver Health
Medical Areas of Interest: Global health and education, refugee and immigrant health, urban underserved populations.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Junior Faculty Fellow, University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency; Denver Health focus on Refugee and Community Medicine.
Personal Interests: International travel, hiking, sketching, premier league and international soccer competitions.
Stephanie B. Gold, MD
Education: University of Virginia School of Medicine; University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency; Fellowship in Health Policy, Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Center
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Health policy, particularly related to integrated behavioral health and primary care, payment reform, practice transformation; health behavior change, underserved medicine.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Board member, Colorado Academy of Family Physicians; Associate Professor, University of Colorado; Scholar, Eugene S. Farley, Jr. Health Policy Center.
Personal Interests: Yoga, hiking, skiing, reading science fiction/fantasy.
Harriet Huang, MD
Education: Stanford University, BS; University of Michigan Medical School, MD; University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency – Denver Health Track
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Westwood Family Health Center, Federico F. Pena Southwest Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Refugee and immigrant health, LGBTQ health, family planning, addiction medicine.
Personal Interests: Camping, travel, cooking, trying new restaurants, dinosaurs.
Email: harriet.huang2@dhha.org
Robert Keeley, MD
Education: Stanford University, Medical School; University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine / St. Anthony’s Family Medicine Residency, Denver
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Level One Physicians Clinic, Denver Health
Medical Areas of Interest: Consulting methods (motivational interviewing), chronic pain, depression, cardiovascular disease.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Distinguished Paper, NAPCRG 2003.
Personal Interests: Fishing, beekeeping, watching hockey.
Email: robert.keeley@dhha.org
Amber Koch-Laking, MD
Education: University of Wisconsin School of Medicine; Rose Family Medicine Residency, Colorado
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Westwood Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Obstetrics, outpatient surgical procedures, women’s health.
Awards, Recognitions, & Appointments: Chief Resident, Rose Family Medicine; 2010-2011 University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine Clinical Rising Star Award.
Personal Interests: Hiking, camping, ethnic cuisine.
Email: amber.koch-laking@dhha.org
Daniel Kortsch, MD
Education: Eastern University, PA, BS in Biology; University of Virginia School of Medicine, MD
Attending Site: Lowry Family Health Center, Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Informatics, refugee and immigrant health, tobacco.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Associate Chief Medical Information Officer, Denver Health; Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine. Board certified in Family Medicine and Informatics.
Personal Interests: All outdoor endeavors, wood working, photography, my family.
Email: daniel.kortsch@dhha.org
Elizabeth Kvach, MD
Education: University of Oklahoma, BA, Women’s Studies; University of York, MA, Post-War Recovery Studies; Yale School of Medicine, MD; University of Wisconsin- Madison Family Medicine Residency, Chief Resident; St. Joseph Family Medicine Program, Maternity Care Fellowship
Attending Site: Denver Health Hospital
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Women’s health and family planning; LGBT+ health; refugee health; substance use treatment; UCFMR Social Justice Work Group.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Medical Director, Denver Health LGBT Center of Excellence; Assistant Professor of Family Medicine; Director of DH Refugee Health Elective; Denver Health Faculty of the Year Award (2016).
Personal Interests: Traveling (and eating while traveling), camping, hiking and snowshoeing with my dogs, cooking, working in my vegetable garden, organizing a feminist book club and political engagement.
Email: elizabeth.kvach@dhha.org
Charity Lehn, MD
Education: Saint Louis University School of Medicine, undergraduate degree and medical schoolNorthwestern Family Medicine Residency – Humboldt Park
Attending Site: Denver Health
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Westwood Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Maternal child health, underserved care, immigrant health, medical education, procedures, global health.
Personal Interests: Running, hiking, backpacking, skiing, cooking and eating.
Email: charity.lehn@dhha.org
Lucy Loomis, MD
Education: Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, MD; University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, MSPH; Yale University, BS; University of Connecticut Family Medicine Residency
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Lowry Family Health Center, La Casa Quigg Newton Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Practice transformation, contraception, PCMH, care coordination for high risk families, and cancer screening.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Director of Family Medicine at Denver Health, 2010 Leadership Award, University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine.
Personal Interests: Hiking, skiing, gardening, and bicycling.
Email: lucy.loomis@dhha.org
Michelle C. Mang, MD
Education: State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences; University of Rochester Family Medicine Residency
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: La Mariposa Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Providing health care to underserved communities.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: SUNY at Buffalo’s Academic Excellence in Family Medicine.
Personal Interests: Traveling, reading mysteries, providing a safe, happy (and silly) home to our recently adopted children.
Email: michelle.mang@dhha.org
George Olsen, MD
Education: University of Colorado School of Medicine, MD; University of Colorado Swedish Family Medicine Residency.
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Park Hill Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: OB and Maternity Care, Medication Assisted Treatment for Substance Use, Medical Education, Primary Care for Underserved Populations.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Assistant Professor, Clinical Skills Coach, Director of Acting Internships – Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Swedish Family Medicine Residency Chief Resident.
Personal Interests: Travel, Running, Television, Aviation.
Email: george.olsen@dhha.org
Lara Penny, MD
Education: Dartmouth/ Brown School of Medicine; UCSF San Francisco General Hospital, Residency
Attending Site: Inpatient Adult Family Medicine Service, Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Team Lead at Montbello Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Community health, chronic disease management, group medical visits.
Personal Interests: Slam dancing with my three crazy boys, ice hockey, cycling and running.
Email: lara.penny@dhha.org
Haley Ringwood, MD, MPH
Education: Duke University, Interdisciplinary: Psychosocial Aspects of Health & Illness; University of North Carolina, Gillings School of Global Public Health, Public Health; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine; University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency-Denver Health Track
Attending Site: Denver Health
Email: haley.ringwood@ucdenver.edu
Roberto Silva, MD
Education: Medical School: University of New Mexico School of Medicine Residency: University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency, Denver Health Track
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center, Park Hill Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Park Hill Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Chronic disease management, physician-patient relationships, medical student education, primary care workforce development, care of underserved patient populations, rural health care.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado School of Medicine; Assistant Director, University of Colorado School of Medicine Rural Track; Co-Director, Undergraduate Medical Education, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado; Director, University of Colorado School of Medicine Integrated Longitudinal Medicine Clerkship.
Email: roberto.silva@cuanschutz.edu & roberto.silva2@dhha.org
Daniel White, MD
Education: University of Tennessee Knoxville, BA in Philosophy; University of North Carolina School of Medicine, MD; University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency-Denver Health Track
Attending Site: Lowry Family Health Center, Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Inpatient family medicine, refugee and immigrant health, tropical medicine, viral hepatitis, addiction medicine.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine; Director, Adult Family Medicine Service; Completed University of Colorado Junior Faculty Development Fellowship in Inpatient Family Medicine, Leadership, and Refugee Health in 2017.
Personal Interests: Hiking and outdoor endeavors, small home improvement projects, zymurgy, LOTR and mostly my family. (I have a toddler and an infant, so really no time for any of the other interests outside of work).
Email: daniel.white2@dhha.org
Alicia Wong, MD, MPH, MA
Education: Bowdoin College, BA; Boston University School of Public Health, MPH; Boston University School of Medicine, MD/MA; University of Colorado Family Medicine
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Level One
Medical Areas of Interest: Primary care for people with disabilities, disability health equity, refugee health.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Instructor/Faculty Fellow, University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine.
Personal Interests: Hiking, backing, piano, adaptive sports.
Email: alicia.wong@cuanschutz.edu
Jessica Wongward, DO
Education: University of Colorado, Boulder, BS; Touro University- California, DO; Saint Joseph’s Family Medicine Residency, Denver, Colorado
Attending Site: Denver Health Medical Center
Precepting Site: Lowry Family Health Center
Clinic Site: Peña Southwest Family Health Center
Medical Areas of Interest: Women’s health, obstetrics, and prenatal care, eating disorders, osteopathic manipulative medicine.
Awards, Recognitions & Appointments: Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Department of Family Medicine.
Personal Interests: Cooking, traveling, hiking, yoga, dancing.
Email: jessica.wongward@dhha.org