Program Directors and Chairs of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Program Director
 James F. Bale, M.D., is the Director of the Pediatric Residency Program and Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology. He is the Associate Chairman of Pediatric Education and works frequently with the med peds and pediatric residents on the wards and in the pediatric neurology clinics at Primary Children's Medical Center. Dr. Bale completed his medical training at the University of Michigan Medical School and his pediatric and neurology residencies at the University of Utah in 1980. He joined the faculty at the University of Iowa following the completion of his fellowships in pediatric infectious diseases and neurovirology in 1982. He rejoined the faculty at the University of Utah in 1997 and has been active in the leadership of the combined med-peds program since 2004. |
Program Co-Directors
 Sara M. Lamb, M.D., is a Clinical Instructor in the Divisions of General Internal Medicine and the Division of Inpatient Pediatrics and is a combined internal medicine and pediatric hospitalist at the University of Utah and Primary Children's Medical Center. She completed her undergraduate education at Albion College in Albion, Michigan and went onto complete her medical training at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine. She has been at the University of Utah since 2000. She completed her combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Utah and has been active in the program leadership of the Combined Med-Peds Residency Program since 2004. |
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 Caroline Milne, M.D., is the director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at the University of Utah School of Medicine. She has been a Co-Director of the Med Peds Residency Program since 2004. She is the Program Director of the Categorical Internal Medicine Residency Program and has been a faculty member at the University of Utah since 1998. She completed her medical training at the Medical College of Wisconsin and her residency training in internal medicine at the University of Utah. She completed her fellowship in Academic General Internal Medicine in Pittsburgh prior to returning to the University of Utah to partake in the leadership of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Milne is an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine and attends in the continuity clinics at the Veterans Administration Medical Center as well as on the general internal medicine wards.
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Chair for Department of Internal Medicine
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 John Hoidal, M.D., is the Chair of the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine, and currently holds the Clarence M. and Ruth N. Birrer Presidential Endowed Chair. Dr. Hoidal received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota, served an internship in internal medicine at the University of Colorado Medical Center, then returned to the University of Minnesota to serve as chief resident in internal medicine and fellow in pulmonary medicine. He became Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1987, and was interim chair of Internal Medicine before becoming Chair in 2004. Dr. Hoidal is an active clinician, and has been named repeatedly to the Best Doctors in America. His research lab focuses on the study of enzymes that cause disruption of the alveoli, and he has numerous publications dealing with mechanisms of lung injury related to emphysema, lung scarring processes, and transplantation.
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Chair for Department of Pediatrics
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 Ed Clark, M.D., is Chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah School of Medicine. Dr. Clark received his medical degree from Albany Medical College, then served an internship at Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital. He served residencies at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and Johns Hopkins Hospital, then received a fellowship in pediatric cardiology at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to being Chair of Pediatrics, Dr. Clark is also Medical Director of Primary Children's Medical Center. He holds adjunct professor positions in Obstetrics & Gynocology and in Bioengineering at the University of Utah, and is the current Wilma T. Gibson Presidential Professor.
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