New Employee Spotlight - March

John Saunders, PharmD
Clinical Pharmacist
Epidemiology - NPS Building

John has lived in Utah his whole life. He grew up in Brigham City and now lives in Salt Lake City. John worked as a pharmacy technician in the retail setting for ten years before pursuing his PharmD at the University of Utah. After graduating in 2019, he completed an anticoagulation-focused research fellowship with the U of U’s College of Pharmacy. He specialized in extracting, reporting, and analyzing data for cohort and case-control studies. He is now performing data management for the PharmICO study with the PARCKA team. While John is not particularly adventurous, he has had the privilege of scuba diving with sharks just off the island of St. Martin twice. There were no cages and the guide fed the sharks fish stuck on the end of a stick.

Laura Frye
Associate Professor
Pulmonary

Shaun Chatelain, DO
Assistant Professor
Geriatrics - U of U Hospital, Madsen Geriatrics Clinic and Stansbury Health Center

Shaun Chatelain is a geriatrician in the Stansbury Health Center and Madsen Health Center Geriatrics clinics. As a geriatrician he loves taking care of older patients and learning from them. He has a particular interest in bone health and preventing/treating osteoporosis. He also has an appreciation for geriatric behavioral health and de-prescribing in the setting of polypharmacy.

Originally from snowy Utah, Shaun studied osteopathic medicine at Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine and graduated in 2014. He then went on to Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Arizona in Tucson. After finishing residency, he completed a fellowship in Geriatrics at the University of Utah.

Dr. Chatelain attended The Utah State University and majored in biological engineering prior to medical school. He is an avid supporter of Utah State athletics, in particular, Aggie basketball. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, skiing, and fly fishing and spending time with his wife and Pomeranian.

Adriana Pinegar
Graduate Research Assistant
Epidemiology

Bahard Alimadadi
Clinical Research Coordinator
Epidemiology

Danilo Iannetta
Postdoc Res Assoc
Geriatrics

Fabio Laginestra
Postdoc Res Assoc
Geriatrics

Hannah Eyre
Software Design Engineer Sr
Epidemiology

Jacob Crook
Clinical Data Manager
Epidemiology

Joshua Siefke
Cell Therapy Tech
Cell Therapy/Regenerative Medicine

Juliemar Colon Medina
Clinical Study Assistant
Pulmonary

Lisa Sumner
Academic Program Manager
Internal Medicine Admin - Education Office

Lisa was born in North Carolina, but raised for most of her life in Utah.  She has been with the U for over 15 years with the last 10 being in Gastroenterology.  With her background recently being in Fellowship, she decided that Residency would be the next big opportunity for her to learn.  Lisa enjoys spending her time with her two little girls- going on adventures and  crafting all kinds of different projects.