
Illinois Surgical Quality Improvement Collaborative
Working Together to Achieve Rapid and Sustained Improvement for Surgical Patients
Coordinating Center

Remi Love, MPPA
Project Manager

Lindsey Kreutzer, MPH
Project Manager

Meagan Shallcross, MPH
Research Project Manager

Brianna D’Orazio, BA, MPH
Project Manager

Kirsty Engelhardt, BA
Program Coordinator

Ying Shan, MS
Statistical Analyst

Reiping Huang, PhD
Research Associate

Nathan Monson, MS
Developer

Karen Miller, BS
Administrative Assistant

Eileen Ngo, MPH
Administrative Assistant

Erin Wymore, MS
Research Project Manager

Karl Bilimoria, MD, MS
Program Director

Anthony Yang, MD, MS
Associate Director

Julie Johnson, MSPH, PhD
Associate Director of Evaluation

David Bentrem, MD
Project Leader

Jeanette Chung, PhD
Statistician

Amy Halverson, MD
ACS Chapter Liaison

Yue-Yung Hu, MD, MPH
Project Leader

Michael McGee, MD
Project Leader

Ryan Merkow, MD, MS
Project Leader

Kevin O’Leary, MD
Project Leader

David Odell, MD, MMSc
Project Leader

Mehul Raval, MD
Project Leader

Jonah Stulberg, MD, PhD, MPH
Project Leader

Mark Williams, MD
Consultant

Caryn Etkin, PhD, MPH
Administrative Director
Process Improvement Leaders

Katie Dienes, MS, LSSBB
Process Improvement Leader

Mark Schumacher, MS
Process Improvement Leader

McKay Barra
Process Improvement Coach

Barb Buckley, RN, MS
Process Improvement Coach

Sara Howland, MA
Process Improvement Coach

Jorge Munoz, MS, MBA
Process Improvement Coach
Current Fellows

Rhami Khorfan, MD
2018-2020

MeiXi Ma, MD
2018-2020

Cary Schlick, MD
2018-2022

Tarik Yuce, MD
2018-2020

Lindsey Zhang, MD
2018-2020

Brian Brajcich, MD
2019-2021

Matthew Chia, MD
2019-2021

Martha-Conley Ingram, MD
2019-2021

Chelsea Fischer, MD
2019-2021
Past Fellows

Ryan Ellis, MD
2017-2019

Lina Hu, MD
2017-2019

Jessica Liu, MD
2017-2019

Julia Coughlin, MD
2017-2019

Eddie Blay, MD
2016-2018

Kathryn Engelhardt, MD
2016-2018

Daniel "Brock" Hewitt, MD
2016-2018

Kristen Ban, MD
2015-2017

Elizabeth Berger, MD
2014-2016

Julia Berian, MD

Christina Minami, MD
2014-2016

Mike Wandling, MD
2014-2016

Ravi Rajaram, MD
2013-2015