Clinical Care
Clinical and Patient Care Successes in 2024-25
Physician specialists within the Department of Medicine’s 10 divisions provide patient-centered, quality-driven care in all areas of internal medicine, across the state of Indiana. The staff and faculty of each division provide gateways for medical excellence through specialty centers they operate for clinical and research purposes. They also play a key component in the education and training of medical students, residents and fellows. Trainees work alongside faculty to enhance clinical care and to progress the field of internal medicine.
Primarily, the Department of Medicine’s faculty work within the IU Health Medical Group, Eskenazi Health, and at the Richard L. Roudebush Veterans’ Administration Medical Center.
IU Health
About 56% of all Medical Directors working at the Adult Academic Health Campus are members of the Department of Medicine faculty. Thanks to their leadership, these clinical care specialties were ranked in 2024 as highly performing by the U.S. News & World Report:
- Cancer treatment
- Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Surgery
- Gastroenterology & GI Surgery
- Geriatrics
- Pulmonology & Lung Surgery
Notable, Cardiology improved 83 spots in the 2024 U.S. News & World Report, and Pulmonology maintained a score of 5 – or Excellent – in both survival and discharge to home scores from 2023 to 2024.
IU Health Medical Group is transitioning to Epic for its electronic health record system. Ashina Singh, MD, an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, and Scott Childers, MD, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine in Division of General Internal Medicine, are serving as Physician Champions and lending their expertise in Epic to the transition team. IU intends to go live with Epic in 2027.
Richard L. Roudebush Veterans’ Administration Medical Center
Lindsey Temnykh, MD, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, serves as the Chief of Medicine at the Roudebush VA. In the last year, the team at the VA has developed a multi-disciplinary heart failure and pulmonary hypertension program with the leadership of Mitha Naik, MD; and has made significant improvements in facility sepsis and tobacco metrics, now putting them above the national average. The pulmonary oncology team is leading efforts to detect and treat early lung cancer. Catherine Sears, MD, is local site investigator for the VALOR study, which has recruited about 150 veterans so far. And new academic initiatives, in collaboration with chief residents, include coding and billing training, expansion of post discharge clinic, and morning case conferences.
Eskenazi Health
The Department of Medicine at Sidney & Lois Eskenazi Hospital experienced key leadership changes: Kirithika Doriaraj , MD, became the endocrinology division chief; Claire Willard , MD, became the palliative care division chief; and Upasana Jarori, MD, became the cardiology division chief. Bree Weaver, MD, remains the hospital’s Chief of Medicine.
Professor Emeritus of Medicine David Crabb, MD handed the titled of Eskenazi Health Chief Medical Officer over to emergency medicine specialist Daniel Rusyniak, MD, in March 2025. Crabb held the CMO post since 2017, and remains on the team at Eskenazi Health as an attending physician in gastroenterology.