Leadership
The medicine and pediatrics departments are very supportive of the combined program. Two fourth year chief residents are chosen to serve as the medicine/pediatrics chief residents each year. Two medicine-pediatrics faculty members serve as the residency program director and associate director. The two chief residents, program directors and additional resident representatives serve on pediatric and medicine departmental committees, providing a voice for the combined program within its parent departments. Faculty, program directors, chief residents, and administrative personnel from both the medicine and pediatric departments participate actively in the coordination and support of the combined program.

Alex Djuricich, MD Alex Djuricich, M.D., is the Program Director for Medicine-Pediatrics and Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Pediatrics. Growing up in Chicago and attending Loyola University Stritch School of Medicine, he subsequently received his Med-Peds residency training here at I.U. 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 I.U. in 2001. His clinical practice includes both adults and children at the North Arlington Health Center, one of the Wishard community health centers. His clinical interest is in diabetes and adolescent medicine, while his educational interests include quality improvement and assessment of resident skills within the ACGME competencies.

Mary Ciccarelli, M.D. is currently the Associate Program Director and had served as the Medicine-Pediatrics Program Director since 1993.  In 2006 she was appointed as the Associate Chair for Education in the Department of Pediatrics.  She is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and Clinical Pediatrics, having joined the faculty in 1991. She was raised in New York, received her medical degree from Albany Medical College and residency training here at Indiana University. She worked in private practices in a suburb of Washington, D.C. and Madison, Wisconsin. She is a past president of the Medicine Pediatrics Program Directors Association. She has a primary care clinical practice, serving adults and children at one of the county community health centers within Wishard Health Services. She is the mother of four children. Her career interests include program development in medical education, primary care, palliative care, and medical care for the disabled. Mary Ciccarelli, MD

Becky Jacobs was born and raised in Pittsburgh, PA. As a military spouse for 17 years, she used her skills in volunteer work within military communities in the U.S. and Europe. Choosing eventually to settle in Indianapolis, she worked for twelve years for the Federal Government prior to becoming Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Program Coordinator in 1997. She enjoys gardening, walking, water aerobics and spending lots of quality time with her family and grandchildren.

Janee Bey , M.D. grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio with her five younger siblings.  A Buckeye football fan, she went to medical school at Ohio State University.  She lives in the Broad Ripple area with her husband, Aaron, and daughter, Sarah.  She enjoys hanging out with them, jogging, reading, and playing indoor soccer.  She is interested in pursuing a hospitalist career path combining medicine and pediatrics but has also thought about adult critical care.

 

M. Rhonda Sneeringer, M.D.

Rhonda Sneeringer grew up in St. Louis Missouri, moved to Chapel Hill North Carolina for university and then to Chicago for Medical school.  She lives in the Broad Ripple Area with her black lab Gunnar.  She enjoys running, biking, triathlons and has recently started rowing at Eagle Creek Park.  Her clinical interests include Childhood Obesity, Diabetes, and Public Health.