Laura Bishop, MD, FAAP

Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine & Pediatrics Residency Program
Associate Professor, Departments of Medicine & Pediatrics
Executive Director, Louisville Lectures
University of Louisville
Louisville, Kentucky

Dr. Bishop is an Associate Professor at the University of Louisville in the Departments of Internal Medicine & Pediatrics where she practices as a Med-Peds Hospitalist. She is a graduate of the University of Louisville Internal Medicine and Pediatrics Residency Program and relishes her position as the Associate Program Director for the Med-Peds program.

She is passionate about medical education at the graduate and undergraduate levels. She is active in the undergraduate medical school as a facilitator for problem-based learning groups, mentor in the intro to clinical medicine course, builds curriculum surrounding clinical skills and created/piloted clinician-pathologist dyad teaching in the Disease & Therapeutics MS-2 course. In her graduate medical education work, she has expanded clinical learning as well as crafting opportunities to learn about less-often taught topics like communication, bias, business of medicine and transition of care. She has received several teaching awards from residents and students and has completed seminars on Teaching/Active Learning, Care of the LGBTQ Patient, Medical Education Research and the Leadership & Innovation in Academic Medicine program. She is a co-founder of Louisville Lectures (as a resident) and now she serves as Director.

Clinically, her research interests include healthcare equity for patients and medical education equity for learners, managing microaggressions and bridging transitions to/from the hospital in patients with substance use disorders.

Her other interests including nail art, infusing wellness into everyday, trying everything at Trader Joe’s, planning Walt Disney World vacations, keeping her pool from turning into a pit of algae, cooking and entertaining. She and her husband own a comic book and board game store and website and she has a skincare business.

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Aneisha Crossbourne, MD, FHM

Assistant Professor
Med Center Health
Bowling Green, Kentucky

Hospitalist since 2011 at Med Center Health at Bowling Green. She attended medical school at the University of the West Indies Mona graduating in 2002. She went on to complete residency in Internal Medicine at SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University where she developed a keen interest in palliative care and providing patients with dignity at the end of life. A passionate teacher who was involved in the inception of the Internal Medicine residency program in Bowling Green in 2014 and continues to contribute to the education of residents in that program.

Dr. Crossbourne now practices hospitalist medicine in various locations with US Acute Care Solutions.

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Joy Engblade, MD, MMM, FACP

Assistant Professor
Division Chief , Internal Medicine
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Joy Engblade, MD graduated medical school from the University of Toledo and completed her residency in Internal Medicine at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle. She has worked in Honolulu HI, Newport Beach CA and most recently Bishop CA as a hospitalist and physician leader. Building on her physician leadership skills, she earned her Masters of Medical Management from the University of Southern California in 2017. In 2019, she joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at UK for 1 year and had such a great experience that she rejoined the division in 2023. She assumed the duties of the Chief of the Division of Hospital Medicine in March 2024 and hasn't looked back!

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Eloise Fourie, DO

Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

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John Frandina, MD

Hospital Medicine
Baptist Health-Lexington
Lexington, KY

John Frandina attended medical school at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, NY. He completed Family Medicine Residency in 2022 at Case Western Reserve MetroHealth in Cleveland, OH where he served as education chief and participated in homeless and underserved outreach during the pandemic. Following residency, he worked as a locums hospitalist before joining Baptist Health Lexington as a nocturnist in 2023. He is from Buffalo, NY and has been a member of the Bills Mafia since 1991.

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Adam Gray, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Internal Medicine Clerkship Director
Division of Hospital Medicine
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Adam Gray earned his MD at Ross University. He completed his internal medicine residency and a chief resident year at the University of Kentucky. He stayed on as a hospitalist. In addition to patient care he enjoys teaching, and he serves as the director for the internal medicine clerkship.

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Alexandra Macpherson, DO

Assistant Professor
Hospital Medicine
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

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Kurt Myers, MD

Assistant Professor
Hospital Medicine
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

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Lakshmi Naidu, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Dr. Lakshmi Naidu received her medical degree from Sri Ramachandra Medical College & Research Institute, India. Upon completing her residency in internal medicine at Advocate Health, Chicago, IL, she worked as hospitalist and in outpatient primary care setting at Lexington Clinic and Saint Joseph Hospital. Since 2019 she is working as a hospitalist at the University of Kentucky. She is board certified in internal medicine and wound care.

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Reema Patel, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Hematology and Oncology
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Lexington, Kentucky

Dr. Reema Patel graduated from Quillen College of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine residency and Hematology and Medical Oncology at the University of Kentucky. She is the associate program director of the Hematology & Medical Oncology Fellowship at UK and holds a faculty appointment as an assistant professor of medicine in the Division of Medical Oncology. She specializes in the treatment of bone and soft-tissue sarcomas, and gastrointestinal malignancies in the setting of a multidisplinary cancer center.

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Mark Rudy, MD

Assistant Professor
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

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Emma Scott, MD

Hospitalist
Baptist Health-Lexington
Lexington, Kentucky

Emma Scott, MD, graduated medical school from the University of Kentucky. She completed her Internal Medicine - Pediatrics residency and a chief residency in quality and patient safety through the University of Kentucky. She is a hospitalist at Baptist Health-Lexington with interests in patient education, quality improvement, and evidence-based care.

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Kaitlyn Shrake, MD

Assistant Professor
Internal Medicine, Pulmonary
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Kate is a Midwesterner at heart! Originally from Ohio, she now happily calls Kentucky home. She practices general pulmonology and critical care medicine at the University of Kentucky. Ever passionate about medical education, she spends her non-clinical time as a medical educator and core faculty for the Internal Medicine Residency program, keeping busy with curriculum building, mentoring, and patient-facing educational tools.

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Alicia Thompson, DO

Assistant Professor
Division of Endocrinology
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

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Daniel Weaver, MD, FACP, FASAM

Associate Chief
Division of Hospital Medicine
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Dr. Daniel Weaver received his medical degree from University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland. He completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Kentucky and joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in 2015, where he is now an Associate Professor. In 2018 he helped develop the addiction consult service and education service at the University of Kentucky and is one of the physicians that rotates on that service. Additionally, he an Associate Chief within the Division of Hospital Medicine. He is board certified in internal medicine and addiction medicine.

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Megan Wolak, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program
Division of Hospital Medicine
University of Kentucky
Lexington, Kentucky

Dr Megan Wolak graduated from Ross University School of Medicine and completed her Internal Medicine residency at the University of Kentucky where she served as chief resident She joined the Division of Hospital Medicine at UK as an academic hospitalist and also serves as an Associate Program Director for the UK Internal Medicine Residency Program enjoying her roles in patient care and student and resident education.

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