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Speakers
Laura Bishop, W. Graham Carlos, Joy Engblade, Derek Forster, Alan Hall II, Sean Lockwood, John Romond, Joseph Sweigart, Sarah Vick, Megan Wolak
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.
W. Graham Carlos, MD, MSCR, FACP, ATSF
Bicentennial Professor of Medicine
Joseph J. Mamlin Chief of Medicine
Eskenazi Hospital
Indianapolis, Indiana
Dr. W. Graham Carlos is a 2001 graduate of Notre Dame and a 2005 graduate of IUSM. He completed his Residency in Internal Medicine at St. Vincent Hospital in Indianapolis where he served as Chief Resident. Following his residency Dr. Carlos completed a 3 year fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at IUSM and concomitantly earned a master’s degree in clinical research from IUPUI. He began his faculty tenure in 2011 and was thereafter appointed Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care for Eskenazi Health. In 2017, he was honored with the St. Margaret Hospital Guild "Achievement in Medicine" Award for his work in reducing harm from hospital acquired infections, this lead to his recent appointment as Chief of Medicine for Eskenazi Health. In this role he fills the Joseph J. Mamlin chair of medicine. Dr. Mamlin, known for his medical work in Kenya, shares this passion for international healthcare with Dr. Carlos who has been to Nairobi on three medical mission trips.
Widely recognized for his outstanding teaching and clinical care, Dr. Carlos is a member of the Gold Humanism Honor Society and Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. He was recognized as Teacher of the Year for the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course and IUSM Internal Medicine Teacher of the Year. He was also awarded the IU School of Medicine Golden Apple Award for most outstanding professor by the graduating classes of 2016, 2017 and 2018. He has served as MS4 sub-internship clerkship director and assistant dean for the phase 3 clinical curriculum. Annually, he travels to all nine IUSM campuses in his efforts to livestream "Pulmonary Grand Rounds" - a case based discussion series designed to integrate all phases of the curriculum for the MS2 UDOS Pulmonary course.
In addition to his efforts locally, Dr. Carlos is very engaged with the American Thoracic Society. He serves on multiple committees and has authored several publications ranging from bedside teaching to pulmonary fibrosis.
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!
Derek Forster, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Clinical Provider
Bluegrass Care Clinic
Medical Director
Infection Prevention & Control
UK HealthCare
Lexington, Kentucky
Derek Forster, MD received his medical degree from the University of Louisville School Of Medicine in Louisville, KY where he also completed his residency in internal medicine. He then completed his Infectious Disease Fellowship training at Wake Forest University – Bowman Gray School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, NC. He is currently an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Kentucky College Of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases. His clinical interests include HIV, hepatitis C and hospital acquired infections. He also serves as the medical director for Infection Prevention and Control for the University of Kentucky Healthcare system.
Alan Hall II, MD
Associate Professor, Hospital Medicine & Hospital Pediatrics
Assistant Dean of Curriculum Integration
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Lexington, Kentucky
Alan Hall attended medical school at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and completed a residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Michigan. He is an associate professor and hospitalist in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Kentucky College of Medicine, where he also serves as the Assistant Dean for Curriculum Integration.
Sean Lockwood, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Lexington VA Medical Center &
University of Kentucky
VA Site Director, UK IMRP
Chief, Hospitalist Section, Lexington VA
Medical Center
Lexington, Kentucky
Dr. Lockwood attended medical school at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. He completed an Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Kentucky and served as Chief Resident. He is currently working as Chief of the Hospitalist section at the Lexington VAHCS and is serving as Site Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program and mentor to the VA Chief Resident in Quality and Safety. His academic interests lie in quality reporting/improvement, mentorship, geriatric principles, and goals of care discussions. He loves yard work, weight training, and coaching his boys’ sports teams.
John Romond, MD
Assistant Professor, Medicine
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Hospitalist
UK HealthCare
Lexington, Kentucky
Dr. Romond earned an MD from the University of Kentucky, College of Medicine in Lexington. He completed residency at the University of Kentucky Medical Center.
Joseph Sweigart, MD, SFHM, FACP
TeamHealth Hospitalist
Georgetown Community Hospital
Georgetown, Kentucky
Joseph R. Sweigart is a TeamHealth hospitalist at Georgetown Community Hospital in Georgetown, Kentucky. Dr. Sweigart studied political science at the University of Notre Dame, then graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and completed his internal medicine residency at the University of Colorado. He is actively involved in the Society of Hospital Medicine, including chairing the national Education Committee and serving as a chapter leader for the Kentucky Chapter of SHM.
Sarah Vick, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
University of Kentucky College of Medicine
Lexington, Kentucky
Sarah Vick, MD received her undergraduate degree from Saint Louis University and graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine. She matched at the University of Kentucky for residency and served as chief resident. She joined the Division of Hospital Medicine in 2018 and has a passion for teaching both on wards and in the classroom. She serves as Associate Program Director for the residency and is co-leader for the Hospital Medicine Track. Additionally, she is a course director for a 3rd year medical student course with the College of Medicine. Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her husband and two young kids.
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.
