Career Advising in Family Medicine
Family Medicine Undergraduate Medical Education is committed to helping you "find your fit" in medicine and a sustainable, joyful career. We are available for general and family medicine specific career advising.
Please contact Kasie Holcomb at kasie.holcomb@cuanschutz.edu to be scheduled with one of our core advisors - listed below - based on their availability, or your specific preference based on their areas of advising expertise.
Family Medicine Undergraduate Medical Education - Core Advisors
Melissa Johnson, MD
Professional Interests: Medical student education, outpatient family medicine (all ages), women's health (IUDs, Nexplanon placement, colposcopy), office-based procedures (shoulder and knee injections), and minor skin procedures.
Advising Expertise: 4th-year applications, self-discovery and specialty selection, work-life balance, interview preparation.
Kari Mader, MD MPH
Professional Interests: Women’s health including obstetrics, refugee & immigrant healthcare, community-based research and organizing for achieving health equity, innovative care for underserved populations, team-based care, leadership training.
Advising Expertise: Supporting students in finding their "place" in any specialty,
Cleveland Piggott, MD MPH
Professional Interests: Health equity and social justice, behavioral health, academic medicine, leadership development, public health, and achieving the quadruple aim.
Advising Expertise: Colorado residency programs and those in the South East, connections to colleagues who have trained at many family medicine programs around the country.
Roberto Silva, MD
Professional Expertise: Community health center (CHC) medicine, medical education, maternity care, office-based procedures.
Advising Expertise: Students who are undecided about residency choice, community health center/federally qualified health center residencies, rural medicine & residencies.
Mark Deutchman, MD
Professional Expertise: Oral health, practicing in ambulatory and hospital settings including maternity care, ultrasonography, and clinical procedures.
Advising Expertise: Colorado programs and rurally focused residencies.
Deb Seymour, PsyD
Professional Interests: Medical education and remediation, medical communication, integrated primary care, care for underserved populations and mental health.
Advising Expertise: Development of professional identity, navigation through challenging parts of medical education, adjustment issues in medical education, discovering your specialty.
Alison Shmerling, MD MPH
Professional Interests: Policy/research, OB/maternity care, women's health, mental health disorders.
Advising Expertise: Applying to family medicine including communication with programs and coordinating a wide geographic application process, northeast programs.