Education

EDUCATION: Rheumatology

The Rheumatology Fellowship Program, which underwent a successful review in 2013 by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), combines a rich and rigorous clinical experience with both basic science and clinical research opportunities. The comprehensive training program is designed to develop rheumatologists who will be successful in a variety of fields and settings, whether academic medicine (basic science, clinical research, clinical education) or in private practice. The two-year program, directed by Donald Kimpel, is ACGME accredited and offered to those who have completed a three-year internal medicine residency program. Upon completion of the program, fellows are eligible for the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) certification examination in rheumatology.

In spring 2013, two fellows completed the program: Caroline D’Souza, MBBS, who was appointed an assistant professor in the Division; and Michael Indelicato, DO, who plans to join a private practice in Delray Beach, Florida.

Rheumatology’s current fellows are:

Second Year

Mariam Ameri, MD
Internal Medicine residency completed at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland
Kalpita Hatti, MD
Internal Medicine residency completed at Rochester General Hospital in New York

First Year

Shriram Lokare, MD
Internal Medicine residency completed at Christ Hospital, Cincinnati
Shailendra Singh, MD
Internal Medicine & Geriatric Medicine residencies completed at University of Maryland Baltimore

In September 2012, the annual meeting of the Virginia Society of Rheumatologists was hosted by the UVA Division of Rheumatology and organized by faculty members Donald Kimpel (VSR Vice President), Janet Lewis, and Vince Giuliano. The program included presentations by Dr. Lewis and Dr. A. Bobby Chhabra, who recently accepted the position of Chair of the Department of Orthopaedics at UVA, as well as other nationally recognized speakers, on vasculitis, Sjogren’s syndrome, ocular inflammation, and lupus.