Marc Shalaby, MD – Chairman, Department Medicine
Marc Shalaby, MD is the Chairman of the Department of Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital and a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition to his administrative and teaching responsibilities, Dr. Shalaby works clinically as a general internist – serving as a primary care physician and also regularly attending on the general medicine inpatient teaching services.
Dr. Shalaby attended college and medical school at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and completed his internal medicine residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Shalaby then took a faculty position at the Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pennsylvania where he ultimately served as the program director of the internal medicine residency. Dr. Shalaby returned to Penn in 2012 to serve as the residency program director of the Internal Medicine-Primary Care Program, a position he held for nine years prior to coming to Pennsylvania Hospital to serve as the Chair of Medicine. Dr. Shalaby is a nationally recognized pioneer in internal medicine residency redesign, having developed the original X+Y program model, and has published and presented widely in this area.
David Henry, MD – Vice-Chairman, Department of Medicine
David Henry, MD is a graduate of Princeton University and received his MD degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School. He is a practicing medical oncologist/hematologist at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia where he is also a Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.
In addition to his clinical responsibilities, he is a member of the American Society of Hematology Committee on Communications and a principal investigator for the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group. He is also principal investigator for several AIDS oncology and cytokine studies which are his principal areas of publication
and research. He is a sometime reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of Clinical Oncology, and the Archives of Internal Medicine and co-editor of Community Oncology Journal. Dr. Henry also hosts Blood and Cancer, a weekly podcast for MDEdge Hematology and Oncology, which interviews leading experts in the field and covers the latest hot topics.
For his teaching, he is a past winner of the Blockley-Osler Award at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and he is the Director of the University of Vienna medical exchange program in Philadelphia.
Alex Glaser, MD – Program Director
Alex Glaser, MD is the Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency program at Pennsylvania Hospital. Graduating from Middlebury College with a degree in Mathematics, he started his career teaching middle school math, science, and engineering in Washington, DC. Ultimately, he enrolled at Duke University for medical school, and completed his residency training at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania with an extra year as a chief resident. Dr. Glaser joined the faculty at Pennsylvania Hospital in 2018 as the assistant medical director of the J. Edwin Wood Clinic, the primary care site for the residency program, and transitioned to the program director role in 2020. Dr. Glaser has distinguished himself as a medical educator locally and nationally, having sat on national committees studying transitions in education, and leading workshops on curricular development for residency education. Clinically, Dr. Glaser continues to see patients with the residents in the Wood Clinic, attends on the resident Hospitalist service, and supervises inpatient consults.
Doug Beach, MD – Associate Program Director
Doug Beach, MD graduated with a BA from Rutgers University and received his MD degree from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. He completed a residency at UMDNJ-Cooper University Hospital where he was also a Chief Resident. He stayed at Cooper University Hospital for his fellowship in Hematology-Oncology. He is currently board certified in Internal Medicine, Hematology, and Medical Oncology.
He is the Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program and a practicing medical oncologist/hematologist at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia where he is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. He treats all blood disorders and cancers, but has special interest in CLL, lymphoma, breast cancer, and prostate cancer. Aside from his clinical responsibilities, he is the current Co-Chair of the Hematologic Malignancies Disease Team and the Director of the Breast-Ovarian Cancer Risk Assessment Program at Pennsylvania Hospital. He is also actively involved in clinical research and is the principal investigator on a number of clinical trials for hematologic malignancies and HIV oncology.
Mindi Roeser, MD – Associate Program Director
Mindi Roeser, MD is an Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency at Pennsylvania Hospital, and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Dr. Roeser is a graduate of Bucknell University and received her MD from the University of Maryland; she completed her medical residency at Temple University, where she also served as Chief Resident. Her career at Pennsylvania Hospital first started in the Emergency Department where she worked for 13 years, but ultimately she moved to the inpatient service in 2007 and became Section Chief of Hospital Medicine in 2010. Under her leadership, the section grew from six physicians to a 20 physicians, all of whom are actively involved in the department’s educational mission. In 2020, Dr. Roeser stepped aside as Section Chief, but remains the Associate Section Chief of Hospital Medicine.
Dr. Roeser is recognized for her teaching skills and has been a recipient of the Dinon Teaching Award, Patient Advocacy Award, Relationship Based Care Award, and was the first Hospitalist elected to the Academy of Master Clinicians of University of Pennsylvania. In addition to providing outstanding teaching, leadership, and patient care, Dr. Roeser was instrumental in the creation of the Palliative Care service, the Physician Advisor program, and numerous other collaborative programs throughout the hospital and the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
Lauren Catalano, MD – Associate Program Director
Lauren M. Catalano, MD, ScM graduated with her BA and MD with distinction from SUNY Stony Brook and received her Masters in Clinical and Translational Research from Brown University. She completed residency at Rhode Island and The Miriam Hospitals where she was also a Chief Resident. During her fellowship in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at Brown University, she was named an NIH K12 Scholar in Patient Centered Outcomes Research. She is currently board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, and Critical Care Medicine. Dr. Catalano joined Pennsylvania Hospital in 2016 as a core faculty member and Medical Director of Respiratory Therapy, and her role has rapidly expanded. In addition to being a practicing pulmonary and critical care doctor at Pennsylvania Hospital and the Harron Lung Center at Washington Square, she is also a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. In 2020, she was appointed as an Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program. Known for her bedside teaching and clinical research background, she has become a valued resource in education. She facilitates the biostatistical and research training for the housestaff, and supervises the critical reading and interpretation curriculum. She has worked to expand procedural skill training in the simulation center, and at the bedside. Dr. Catalano runs a series of “mock code” sessions where housestaff learn how to take control in the event of an emergency, and how to healthily debrief afterwards. She mentors trainees throughout the fellowship decision-making, application and selection process. She was awarded the Edward D. Viner Teaching award in her first year on staff, which is a testament to her tireless efforts to promote and encourage well rounded medical education.
Ehren Dancy, MD – Ambulatory Associate Program Director
Ehren Dancy, MD is the Ambulatory Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine residency program at Pennsylvania Hospital. After graduating from Emory University with a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology and Human Biology, she earned her medical degree at Emory University School of Medicine in 2017. Dr. Dancy completed her residency training in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where she met both Dr. Glaser (Chief Resident at the time) and Dr. Shalaby (the Primary Care Program Director). Following her first year of residency, she was accepted into the Penn Internal Medicine-Primary Care program where she further developed her interests in Medical Education by co-developing a method to amplify medical student shadowing experiences. She proceeded to serve as Chief Resident for the Internal Medicine residency program at Lankenau Medical Center in 2020-21. Dr. Dancy then joined the faculty at Pennsylvania Hospital as the Assistant Medical Director of the Penn Internal Medicine-J Edwin Wood practice, where the residents practice outpatient medicine. Working with Drs. Glaser and Wu, she built out the “Y” part of “X+Y” experience for Internal Medicine residents. Dr. Dancy also sees patients herself in her own primary care practice in Wood. Dr. Dancy was appointed Ambulatory Associate Program Director in January of 2023 and through this role has developed an outpatient experience for residents that allows them to grow their primary care skills and further develop their career interests. Dr. Dancy is particularly interested in helping develop skills around indirect patient care activities and continuing building her clinician-educator skillset. She is active member of the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM) and the American College of Physicians (ACP).
Teddy Wu, MD – Medical Director for the J. Edwin Wood clinic and Assistant Program Director
Edward “Teddy” Wu, MD, MS is the Medical Director of the J. Edwin Wood Clinic, where the residents have their outpatient clinic practice. Dr. Wu graduated in 1996 from Harvard University with a degree in biochemical sciences and earned his MD from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine in 2001, along with an MPA from the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service in Health Policy and Management. He completed a residency in General Internal Medicine at Rhode Island Hospital/Alpert Medical School of Brown University in 2004 and then a general internal medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh in 2006, earning an MS in medical education. Dr. Wu was in practice at Delancey Medical Associates, affiliated with Pennsylvania Hospital, from 2009 to 2013, and precepted in the Wood Clinic as well. He became Assistant Director of the Wood Clinic in 2013, and then Medical Director in 2017. Dr. Wu is dedicated to the care of the Wood Clinic’s patients as well as the education of the residents. He was the 2019 recipient of the Viner Teaching Award from the housestaff of the Department of Medicine at Pennsylvania Hospital. Dr. Wu has published articles on physical examination skills, procedural skills of medical students, and perceptions of medical student abuse. He is active in the Society of General Internal Medicine (SGIM) as well as the Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine (APDIM). Dr. Wu was appointed Assistant Program Director in September 2020 and is excited to work in the residency leadership team.