Robert Campbell, PhD
General Internal Medicine
Assistant Professor
Start Date: December 18, 2017

Dr. Campbell received his doctoral degree in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He recently completed his post-doctoral fellowship under the direction of Drs. Andrew Weyrich and Matthew Rondina at the University of Utah. The primary goal of Dr. Campbell’s research is to determine how blood clots induce robust transcriptional and translational responses in immune cells, which promotes inflammation and thrombosis. During his training, he focused on dissecting the mechanisms behind how cells alter coagulation under normal and disease situations. Recently, he has begun to examine how hemostasis and thrombosis in turn alters platelet and immune cell inflammatory response.

Laura Certain, MD, PhD
Infectious Diseases
Assistant Professor
Start Date: October 30, 2017

Dr. Certain received her MD and PhD degrees from the University of Washington in Seattle. She then completed Internal Medicine Residency and Infectious Disease Fellowship at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. After fellowship,
she spent several years doing research at the Wyss Institute of Harvard University, studying the effect of antibiotics on chronic orthopedic infections. 
Dr. Certain is interested in improving care for patients with chronic infections, particularly infections associated with implanted orthopedic devices, but also any patient requiring prolonged antibiotic therapy. To this end she is working
with the Orthopedic Surgery department on both research and quality improvement projects.

She sees patients in the infectious disease outpatient clinic and on the inpatient infectious disease consult services at the University of Utah Hospital. Her particular area of interest is orthopedic infections, and she works closely with the Orthopedic Surgery department to improve care for patients with these infections. That said, she enjoys the variety offered by a general ID practice and is happy to see patients with any infectious complaint.

Shaun Chandna, MD
Gastroenterology
Clinical Assistant Professor
Start Date: January 8, 2018

Dr. Shaun Chandna received his medical degree from Western University of Health Sciences in Pomona, California. He then completed his training in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology at the University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. Chandna is board certified in Internal Medicine, Gastroenterology, and Transplant Hepatology.

Dr. Chandna is seeing patients at the Liver and Transplant Clinics at the University of Utah.

Michael Farrell, DO, MBA
Geriatrics
Clinical Assistant Professor
Start Date: January 16, 2018

Dr. Michael Farrell is Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He received Bachelors’ degrees in Psychology and Neuroscience from Loyola Marymount University and Westminster College in 2003 and 2007 respectively. He earned his Doctor of Osteopathy (D.O.) at Touro University California College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2011 and attended residency training in Family and Preventive Medicine at College Medical Center in Long Beach, CA from 2012 – 2013. He completed a fellowship in Geriatrics at the University of Utah in 2018. In addition, Dr. Farrell earned a Master’s in Business Administration with Healthcare Emphasis from the University of Massachusetts in 2015.

Dr. Farrell is board-certified by the American Osteopathic Board of Family Medicine in Geriatrics, the American Board of Addiction Medicine, and the Hospice Medical Director Certification Board.

Kristin Hueftle, MD
Geriatrics
Assistant Professor
Start Date: October 1, 2017

Dr. Hueftle is an assistant professor in the Division of Geriatrics at the University of Utah. Dr. Hueftle received her M.D. from Creighton University School of Medicine in Omaha, NE. She then completed her residency in internal medicine followed by fellowship training in geriatrics at the University of Utah.

Dr. Hueftle's current clinical practice is in the University of Utah Geriatric Patient-Centered Medical Home, where she provides primary care for the geriatric population using a multidisciplinary team-based approach. She also provides comprehensive evaluations focusing on a variety of common geriatric syndromes such as cognitive impairment, frailty, and polypharmacy. In addition, Dr. Hueftle is interested in caring for both short-term rehabilitation patients and long-term care patients in the skilled nursing home setting.

Dr. Hueftle is board-certified in internal medicine and geriatric medicine. She is a member of the American Geriatrics Society, the Utah Geriatrics Society, the American College of Physicians, and the Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine.

Line Kemeyou,  MD
Cardiovascular Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor
January 15, 2018

Dr. Kemeyou is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Utah. She received her medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School (UTSW) in Dallas. Dr. Kemeyou completed her training in Internal Medicine and in Cardiovascular Diseases at Parkland Hospitals and University of Florida respectively. She continued her training with an Advanced Heart failure and Transplantation Fellowship at the Utah Transplant Affiliated Hospitals.
Dr. Kemeyou’s clinical interests include improvement in health care delivery, care of patients with severe congestive heart failure including the use of mechanical circulatory support devices and cardiac transplantation.

Mary Jo Pugh, PhD, RN
Epidemiology
Professor
Start Date: November 16, 2017

Mary Jo Pugh PhD, RN is a Professor in the Division of Epidemiology in the Department of Internal Medicine. After retiring as an Air Force nurse, she received her PhD in Developmental Psychology followed by a post-doctoral fellowship in Health Services Research at the Center for Health Quality, Outcomes and Economic Research and Boston University. Dr. Pugh leads the Trajectories of Resilience, Community and Health (TORCH) Lab where she uses longitudinal methodology and advanced statistical analyses to conduct research on the long-term outcomes of military experiences using merged national health system data from the Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs, mail/online surveys, and interviews. Areas of methodological focus include identification of comorbidity phenotypes in Veterans deployed in support of Post-9/11 military operations that incorporate emergence of chronic disease, mental health conditions, and sequelae of trauma. Clinical areas of focus include traumatic brain injury, pain, epilepsy, and indicators of vulnerability such as suicidality, overdose, and homelessness. Current research is examining how trajectories of treatment and quality of healthcare are associated with emergence of different comorbidity phenotypes.

Juliana Simonetti, MD
Endocrinology
Clinical Assistant Professor
Start Date: January 16, 2018

Dr. Simonetti received her medical degree from the University of Utah School of Medicine in 2009. She completed her residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a fellowship in clinical nutrition and obesity at Boston University Medical Center. After practicing internal medicine and running a weight management department in Boston she has returned to the University of Utah as faculty in the Division of Endocrinology. She is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Obesity Medicine.
Dr. Simonetti’s clinical interests include weight management, different care models of chronic disease management, as well as caring for patients in the pre and post-op phase of bariatric surgery and patients with weight-loss device implantations.
She directs the Bariatric Medicine Program and co-directs the Comprehensive Weight Management Center at the University of Utah. Dr. Simonetti works alongside bariatric surgeons to create a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary approach to care for patients with obesity.