Faculty and Fellows

Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship

The Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine Fellowship is designed to equip trainees with the skills and attitudes required to be life-long learners, effective teachers of families and other members of the health care team and productive members of the larger community.

Program Director
Jotishna Sharma, MD, DCH, MEd

Associate Program Director
Charisse I. Lachica, MD

Program Coordinator
Sarah King, MS, C-TAGME

Fellows
Zeel Bhatt, MD
Trevor Cabrera, MD
Carlie Gatlin, DO
Elizabeth Loughman, MD
John Morelli, MD
Aleksei Pak, MD
Jermaine Romald, MBBS
Kedar Tilak, MBBS

Faculty

Gangaram G Akangire, MD
Mahdi Alsaleem, MD
Jessica L Brunkhorst, MD
Brian S. Carter, MD
Alain C. Cuna, MD
Krishna Dummula, MD, MPH
Ikechukwu I. Ekekezie, MD
Lovya George, MD
Kamal Gurung, MD
Dena K. Hubbard, MD
Jodi K. Jackson, MD
Howard W. Kilbride, MD
Sara A Kilbride, DO
Amy C. Knapitsch, MD
Charisse I Lachica, MD
Tamorah R. Lewis, MD, PhD
Chaitali N Mahajan, MD

Winston M. Manimtim, MD, FAAP
Emily M. McNellis, MD
Christopher R. Nitkin, MD
Michael F. Nyp, DO
Steven Olsen, MD
Adebayo A. Oshodi, MD
Vishal Pandey, MD
Joshua E. Petrikin, MD
Ayan Rajgarhia, MD
Danielle Reed, MD
Christine M Robertsen, MD
Venkatesh Sampath, MBBS
Jotishna Sharma, MD, MEd, DCH
Elizabeth Simpson, MD
William Truog, MD
Julie A. Weiner, DO

Full Neonatology Team

Meet the team from Neonatology.

Alumni

Class of 2021
Dr. Jamesia Donato- Sunflower Neonatologist Associates, Overland Park, Kan.
Dr. Yonatan Kurland- Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kan.
Dr. Megan Tucker- Children’s Mercy, Kansas City, Mo.

Class of 2020
Dr. Taylor Hansen – Avera, Sioux Falls, S.D.
Dr. Karishma Rao – Children’s Mercy, Kansas City, Mo.

Class of 2019
Dr. Betsy Cammack – Auroa BayCare Medical Center, Green Bay, Wis.
Dr. Lauren Cummings – St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo.

Class of 2018
Dr. Lovya George – Children’s Mercy, Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Samuel Lee – St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Nicholas Townley – Creighton Medical Center and Omaha Children’s Hospital, Omaha, Neb.

Class of 2017
Dr. Gangaram (Sanjay) Akangire – Children’s Mercy, Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Timothy Ulrich – St Luke’s System – Boise, Idaho

Class of 2016
Dr. Jasminkumar Patel – St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Craig Sitzman – Heartland Neonatology Associates, Lincoln, Neb.

Class of 2015
Dr. Jessica Brunkhorst – Children’s Mercy, Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Jamie Rosterman – St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo.

Class of 2014
Dr. Vydehi Murthy – St. Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City, Kansas City, Mo.
Dr. Kim Thornton – Mercy Hospital Northwest Arkansas, Rogers, Ark.