The Team You'll Be Joining

Our educational leadership team includes top teachers and researchers with a variety of backgrounds. Our Program Directors are national leaders in Pediatrics. Our faculty members are diverse with broad representation in all fields. Most importantly, our residents as your colleagues are outstanding peers, colleagues, and teammates. We work hard together, but also have fun in a supportive environment.

As a large residency, we have a large team of dedicated faculty educators. The core Program Leadership is listed below. In addition, we receive immeasurable support and active participation from faculty, residents and educational support staff.

Program Directors and Leadership

	Jerry Rushton MD, MPH is the Pediatric Program Director. Jerry is in his 9th year as Program Director. He was previously a resident and Chief at IU. He was a fellow at the University of North Carolina and completed an MPH at UNC in 1999. Dr. Rushton was on faculty at the University of Michigan in General Pediatrics and Health Services Research. He has published several articles on ADHD and mental health disorders in primary care. Dr. Rushton's clinical practice is at Riley Hospital in the outpatient General Pediatrics clinic. He is on the national Board of Program Directors (APPD).
	D. Wade Clapp, MD is the Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics. He is a neonatologist and physician-scientist who completed his training at Indiana and Case Western. His research work has been pioneering in neurofibromatosis and Fanconi Anemia. His team's research in the Wells Center has translated into clinical trials and improved care. He is still involved actively in clinical care in the NICU. Wade is also a dedicated teacher and mentor, serving as the director of the IU MD/PhD training program.
	Mary Ciccarelli, MD is the Associate Chair for Education of the Department of Pediatrics. Dr. Ciccarelli was the first graduate of the IUSM Medicine-Pediatrics residency program in 1986. She joined the faculty in 1991 and became the first combined Medicine-Pediatrics program director in 1993 until assuming the role of Associate Chair in 2006. She is past president of the Medicine-Pediatrics Program Directors' Association and a participant in the American Board of Pediatrics Residency Review and Redesign Project Committee. She is a primary care Medicine-Pediatric physician, and serves as the medical director of the Center for Youth and Adults with Conditions of Childhood which promotes the transition of youth with special health care needs into successful adulthood.
	Alex Djuricich, MD is the Program Director for Medicine-Pediatrics. Growing up in Chicago and attending Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, he subsequently received his Med-Peds residency training here at Indiana University. He has worked as a Med-Peds physician in a primary care group practice in Michigan. After completing a primary care faculty development fellowship program at Michigan State University, he returned to Indiana University in 2001. His clinical practice includes both adults and children. He has a special interest in adolescent medicine. He is the past President of the national MedPeds Program Director association (MPPDA).
	Michael McKenna, MD is an Associate Program Director. His clinical responsibilities include precepting continuity clinics at the Pediatric and Adolescent Care Center at Methodist Hospital and staffing the pediatric wards at Methodist Hospital, Riley Hospital for Children and IU Health West Hospital. Michael went to medical school at the IU School of Medicine, remained there for his pediatrics residency and was named as one of the Chief Residents. He joined the PD Team in April 2010 and organizes the EBM curriculum, resident retreats and the IU Chief Resident Workshop.
	Bobbi Byrne, MD is an Associate Program Director. She is an attending neonatologist at Riley Children's Hospital. Bobbi is one of the leaders in simulation education, the Neonatal Resuscitation Program, and has an interest in medical ethics. Her previous training includes medical school at the University of Pittsburgh and Residency/Fellowship at Vanderbilt University.
	Lori Price, MD is an Associate Program Director and Director of Continuity Clinics. She did her first two years of residency at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, then transferred to Johns Hopkins for her last year. She was in private practice for almost 11 years before joining the faculty in 2007 as a continuity clinic preceptor at the Pediatric and Adolescent Care Center as well as an attending on the Newborn Unit at Methodist Hospital.