Internal Medicine Department Chair

John Hoidal, M.D., is Chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Utah, and is also a professor of medicine and the current holder of the Clarence M. and Ruth N. Birrer Presidential Endowed Chair. 

Dr. Hoidal received his medical degree from the University of Minnesota.  After serving an internship in internal medicine at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver, he served as chief resident in internal medicine and as a fellow in pulmonary medicine at the University of Minnesota.  Dr. Hoidal became Chief of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine in 1987.  He served as interim chair of the Department for 2 ½ years before becoming Chair in 2004.

Dr. Hoidal is active in several professional societies.  An active clinician, he has been named repeatedly to the Best Doctors in America.  He has written more than 180 scientific papers dealing with mechanisms of lung injury related to emphysema, lung scarring processes, and transplantation.  His laboratory, funded continually by the NIH for over 25 years, focuses on the study of enzymes that cause disruption of the alveoli.

Residency Program Director

Caroline K. Milne, M.D., is Associate Professor and Program Director of the Internal Medicine Training Program at the University of Utah, and is also Director of Clinical Skills within the School of Medicine.  She graduated from the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and completed her residency training at the University of Utah where she also served as Chief Medical Resident.  She then completed a fellowship in medical education research at the University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Milne's research interests are in medical education and have focused on the use of dependable measures to assess residents’ competence in the Six Core Competencies.

Dr. Milne also directs the clinical skills exam program in the medical school as well as the implementation of the use of standardized patients in geriatric training at the resident training level on the nationally supported Reynold’s Grant.  Her clinical duties are at the VAMC where she continues to see patients and teach residents in both the outpatient and inpatient settings.

Dr. Milne is also a mother to three young children and enjoys trail running.  

Associate Program Directors:

Barbara Cahill, M.D., graduated from the University of Illinois Medical School in Peoria in 1985.  She completed her residency at the University of Minnesota Hospitals in 1988 and then completed a fellowship in Pulmonary/Critical Care from the University of Minnesota Hospitals in 1992. She was named Associate Program Director in 2001 and Associate Dean of Studnet Affairs in 2005. 

Dr. Cahill remains clinically active as an inpatient pulmonary ward attending and is Director of Lung Transplantation at the University of Utah. 

 
Corwin Edwards, M.D., is a Professor of Medicine, Associate Program Director, and Director of Graduate Medical Education at Intermountain Medical Center.  Following graduation from the University of Utah School of Medicine, he completed an Internal Medicine Residency at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, then served as Chief Medical Resident at the University of Utah. 

Dr. Edwards has published research in diabetes mellitus, hemochromatosis, and anemia and pregnancy-associated liver disease.  He received the Leonard H. Tow M.D. Award for Humanism and Professionalism in Medicine from the Arnold P. Gold National Foundation.

 
Richard (Rick) Rose, M.D., is Associate Program Director and Director of Resident Ambulatory Education at the VAMC.  He graduated from medical school at the University of Washington.  He competed his residency training at the University of Utah where he also served as Chief Medical Resident.

His research interests are in resistant hypertension. 

Outside of the hospital, he and his wife enjoy rock climbing, biking, hiking, cooking and spending time with their daughter. 

 
Sara Lamb, M.D., is an Assistant Professor 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 medical training at Michigan State University College of Human Medicine her combined residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the University of Utah.  She has been the Program Director of the Combined Med-Peds Residency Program since 2004.  She is also a Curriculum Director and serves as an active member of the Curriculum Transformation Committee in the medical school. 

 
Scott Stevens, M.D, F.A.C.P., is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine.  He was born and raised in California where he completed undergraduate studies at Westmont College, in Santa Barbara.  He attended Loma Linda University School of Medicine and then successfully completed his Medicine Residency at LDS Hospital, Salt Lake City, Utah.  He remained at LDS Hospital as the Chief Medicine Resident prior to his clinical faculty appointment in 1999. 

His research intersts are in thromboembolic diseases.

His wife Lisa is a Pediatrician and together they have a daughter, Cathryn.  He enjoys skiing and cycling.

 
Barry Stults, M.D., is a Professor and Chief of the Division of General Medicine and an Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. 

He graduated from medical school at the University of Rochester.  He completed his residency training at the University of Utah and a fellowship in pulmonary medicine at the University of Rochester. 

His focus is on the educational and quality improvement curricula, particularly for ambulatory care.  He has particular interests in hypertension, diabetes, venous thromboembolism, and obstructive airway diseases.