Residency Leaders
Murray Korc, M.D. Chair, Department of Medicine, Joseph M. Huber Professor of Medicine, Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology
Dr. Korc completed his undergraduate studies at Brooklyn College in 1968, majoring in Biology. He received his medical degree in 1974 from Albany Medical College. In 1977, he completed a residency in internal medicine at Albany Medical Center. In 1979, he completed training in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at University of California, San Francisco. He also completed three years of postdoctoral training at the same Institution in 1981. He then joined the faculty of the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona in Tucson as an Assistant Professor. In 1985 be became an Associate Professor, with joint appointments in Medicine and Biochemistry at that Institution. In 1989 he moved to UC Irvine to become the Chief of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, and Professor of Medicine and Biological Chemistry. He was also a member of the UC Irvine Cancer Center, and a Program Leader in Growth Factor Signaling at the Cancer Center. In 1996 he also received an appointment in the Department of Pharmacology at that Institution. In 2003, Dr. Korc joined the faculty at Dartmouth as the Joseph M. Huber Professor and Chair of Medicine and Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Dr. Korc's clinical interests are Thyroid, Pituitary, and Adrenal diseases, Diabetes, and Osteoporosis. Research Interests: Molecular biology of pancreatic cancer; mechanisms of action of peptide hormones and growth factors; abnormal gain of function through negative pathways; resistance of cancer cells to apoptosis; tumor angiogenesis.
Dr Harley Friedman, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine; Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Dr. Friedman became Program Director in May 2003 after serving as Associate Program Director / Director of Ambulatory Education since 1998. He earned his undergraduate degree in biology from McGill University and received his M.D. in 1994 from the University Massachusetts. Dr. Friedman completed his residency training at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston, joining the General Internal Medicine faculty at DHMC in 1997. He has been deeply involved with the residency program along with his rotating patient care duties on the inpatient wards, consult service, and GIM clinic. He is active in the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM), a national organization dedicated to the improvement of residency education. Dr. Friedman spends most of his free time being entertained by his two young princesses and chasing after his two large dogs. He is fascinated by chaos theory and non-linear dynamics, and he is hopelessly addicted to Duplicate Bridge. Bridge anyone? Dr. Kieffer became the PCT Program Director in October, 2002, after serving as the PCT Resident Curriculum Coordinator since January, 2002. She became Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the same time. She earned her undergraduate degree at Johns Hopkins University. She is a graduate of the Joint Medical Program of the University of California, Berkeley/University of California San Francisco, a program emphasizing case-based and small group learning in the pre-clinical years. She graduated from the program with an MS from UC Berkeley and an MD from UCSF. Dr. Kieffer completed her internship and residency at DHMC, served as Chief Medical Resident and remained here as a staff attending in the Section of General Internal Medicine. She serves on the Internship Selection Committee and Department of Medicine Education Committee. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her two young sons, running, skiing, and gardening. Dr. Block became Associate Program Director in May 2004. He has been involved with the Internal Medicine Residency Program since 2002 as a member of the Intern Selection Committee. He earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in 1984 from Stanford Univeristy, his Master of Science in Biological Sciences from Stanford in 1984, and his Medical Degree in 1989 from the Univeristy of California, San Francisco. Dr. Block did his internship and residency training at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill from 1989 to 1992 and he was a Chief Medical Resident there from 1992-1993. He then went on to complete a fellowship in Nephrology and Hypertension at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research interests are in 1) Improvement of Pre-dialysis and Dialysis Care, 2) Critical Care Nephrology, and 3) Glomerular Disease. Edward J. Merrens, M.D. (Photo to follow) Section Chief for Hospital Medicine, Medical Director for Inpatient Medicine and Associate Program Director of our Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Merrens is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Dartmouth Medical School. With a background in forest biology, he did tropical research in Borneo, Indonesia prior to embarking on a medical career. Dr. Merrens did his Medical Internship and Residency at the University of Washington in Seattle and a Chief Residency at Seattle's County Hospital, Harborview Medical Center. Returning to DHMC, Dr. Merrens worked in General Internal Medicine for 5 years and then transitioned to focus primarily on the inpatient hospital setting for his clinical and administrative efforts. He developed the concept of a Hospital Medicine program at DHMC in 2004 and now leads the section, which is one of the largest in the Department of Medicine. Dr. Merren's role at DHMC is as a clinician-educator in Hospital Medicine, providing care to inpatients as well as mentoring and teaching residents and students. His research interests include quality improvement and inpatient anticoagulation.
Kelly A. Kieffer, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine; Program Director, Primary Care Track; Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Clay Block, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine; Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Mary-Margaret Andrews, M.D. Associate Professor of Medicine; Residency Research Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Dr. Andrews was the Program Director of our Internal Medicine Residency Program from 1999 to October 2003 at which time she became the Residency Research Director of the Program.
She earned her undergraduate degree in biochemistry from Swarthmore College and received her M.D. in 1991 from the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons.
Dr. Andrews completed her internship and residency at DHMC, and remained here to do her clinical and research fellowship in the Section of Infectious Diseases. She is also the Program Director for the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Family HIV Program. Dr. Andrews' research interests include Staphylococcus aureus bacterial pathogenesis, care of HIV-infected women and HIV/Hepatitis C co-infection.
Dr. Andrews has so many outside interests, she doesn't have time to pursue them all.
Jonathan M. Ross, M.D., F.A.C.P., Vice Chair for Education, Department of Medicine
Dr. Ross received his B.A. from Brooklyn College and his M.D. from State University of New York. He completed his internship and residency at the New York University - Bellevue Medical Center in NY, NY. Before joining the faculty of the DHMC Dr. Ross was an Attending Physician at the Bellevue Hospital Center, Kings County Hospital and State University Hospital and the WRJ, VA Hospital.
Currently Dr. Ross is a General Internal Medicine physician in the Section of General Internal Medicine at the DHMC and he is also Director of the Department of Medicine Morbidity and Mortality Conference.
Gregory W. Froehlich, M.D. Assistant Professor of Medicine; VA Residency Program Coordinator Dr. Froehlich became the VA Residency Program Coordinator in June 2003.
He earned his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Harvard University in 1982 and his M.D. in 1986 from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. In 1995 he received his MS from the Dartmouth School of Evaluative Clinical Sciences.
Dr. Froehlich completed his residency training at the University of Connecticut in 1989 followed by a one year Chief Residency. He did his GIM fellowship at the White River Junction VAH and after completion in 1996 he joined their faculty.
Dr. Froehlich is the author of various publications on primary care issues and is the PI on a research study involving the impact of patient education on repeated decisions to screen for prostate cancer.
