Faculty
Sylvester Domme - Faculty
Education: 1975 - Washburn University, BS; 1978 - University of Kansas School of Medicine, Kansas City, M.D. Postgraduate Training: 1990-93 - KU School of Medicine, Family Medicine Residency Program, St. Francis Regional Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas Board Certification: 1993 - ABFP Board Certification; 2000 - ABFP Board Recertification
Richard Leu - Faculty
Education: 1970 - University of Iowa, BS; 1974 - University of Iowa College of Medicine, M.D. Postgraduate Training: 1974-77 - St. Francis Family Medicine Residency Program, Peoria, Illinois Board Certification: 1977 - ABFP Board Certification; 1983 - ABFP Board Recertification; 1988 - Certification of Added Qualifications in Geriatric Medicine; 1989 - ABFP Board Recertification; 1995 - ABFP Board Recertification; 1997 - Certification of Added Qualifications in Sports Medicine; 1998 - Recertification - Geriatric Medicine
Leslie Greenberg - Faculty
Education: 1991 - Northwestern University, BA; 1995 - University of Nevada School of Medicine, M.D. Postgraduate Training: 1995-98 - KU School of Medicine, Family Medicine Residency Program, St. Joseph Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas Board Certification: 1998 - ABFP Board Certification
Why Via Christi? My husband and I (Mark Stovak, MD) couples matched here 13 years ago. We loved the broad-based learning, the vibrant and hard-working fellow residents, and the procedures!
Passions: I love to spend time with my family and. . . . refurbish furniture, bake, make crafts, read books, exercise at the YMCA, travel, explore, and relax. I'd like to try everything at least once--change my oil in my car, cut my kids' hair, make a mosaic. . .
Favorite Books: Does Better Homes and Gardens magazine count? Parenting books.
Favorite Quotes: "Simplify." "Reduce. Reuse. Recycle." & "Enjoy life!"
After residency plan: We graduated FM residency in 1998 and went to Indiana for 1 1/2 years for my husband's primary care sports medicine fellowship. I worked there on faculty and realized that I loved teaching. I joined VCFM when we returned to Wichita. We have three children: Luke (8), Nate (5), and Jenna (3). Life is full and beautiful.
Home town: Reno, Nevada
Residency stats: 13 years of colonoscopies, EGDs, vaginal deliveries, forceps, vacuum--too many of each to count.
Doug Neef - Faculty
I was in private practice 11 years before returning to Wichita as faculty for the last 10 years. I have 7 children and a wife whom I love. I enjoy my job here working with the excellent faculty and residents. I am grateful to the God who has loved me and saved me.
Why Via Christi? Strong residency. Great people!
Passions: Read/study the Bible. Play music. Recreational sports. Time on the lake. Generally longer on passion than talent.
Favorite Books: Bible
Kara Cox - Faculty
Grew up in Wichita, Northwest High School and Friends University graduate. Medical school training at University of Kansas. Residency at U. of Kansas Family Medicine Residency at Via Christi. Additional training at U. of Kansas Sports Medicine Fellowship at Via Christi. Stayed on as faculty. Head Team physician for Newman University, shared team physician duties for Wichita Public Schools, Wichita State University, Thunder Hockey, Wingnuts Baseball, and Wild Arena Football. Husband, Matt Smith. We love to cycle, run, and be outdoors!
Home town: Wichita
Douglas Lewis - Faculty
Education: 1991 MidAmerica Nazarene University - BA, 1996 KU School of Medicine, Kansas City - M.D. Postgraduate Training: 1996-1997 St. Joseph Family Medicine Residency Internship, Via Christi Medical Center, St. Joseph Campus, Wichita, Kansas 1997-1999 KU School of Medicine, Family Medicine Residency Program, Via Christi Regional Medical Center, St. Joseph Campus, Wichita, Kansas
Why Via Christi? I was a resident at St Joseph before the hospitals and programs merged. I chose this program because I felt like it most closely mirrored private practice, and it seemed logical to learn medicine that way. This is the best Family Medicine Residency Program in the country, and I am excited to be a part of it as an educator.
Passions: My Family- Wife, Karmen, and boys, Jack (10) and Jace (8), Triathlon, Colorado 14ers and 13ers, KU Basketball, CU Football, Starbucks Coffee, Good Rock (Alter Bridge, 3 Doors Down, Stone Temple Pilots, AC/DC), Faculty Rock Band, Tattoos, A good bottle of wine and an evening with friends, Missional Churches, Felt Bicycles, Watching the Tour De France.
Favorite Books: Surprised By Hope, NT Wright; Simply Christian, NT Wright; Mere Christianity, CS Lewis; Into Thin Air, John Krakauer; Into The Wild, John Krakauer; Deep Survival, Lawrence Gonzales; The Way of the Wild Heart, John Elderedge; Velvet Elvis, Rob Bell; Sex God, Rob Bell; Divine Nobodies, Jim Palmer; A New Kind of Christian, Brian McLaren; The Story We Find Ourselves In, Brian McLaren; The Last Word and The Word After That, Brian McLaren; A Generous Orthodoxy, Brian McLaren.
Favorite Quotes: \\\"He is not a tame lion.\\\" - Mr. Tumnus \\\"That which does not kill me makes me stronger.\\\" - Friedrich Nietzsche
After residency plan: Already doing it. Was in private practice in Osawatomie, KS, for 3 years before coming to join the VC residency faculty full time. I was at VC for 5 years. Then in 2007-2008 I worked as a full time Family Medicine Hospitalist for Kansas Inpatient Services, a practice that was started by VC graduates. I am now back on the faculty full time doing what I now know I truly love to do, educate and mentor residents.
Home town: Born: LaMesa, CA. Home is Colorado.
Residency stats: Writer and Editor of the residency newsletter, \\\"The Bigger Dog.\\\"
Philip Cherven - Faculty
Director of Pediatric Medical Education
Scott Stringfield - Faculty
I have been on the faculty for 12 years and have the pleasure of being in charge of the recruitment process for the residency. It seems to fit my style of what I like to do in that I am allowed the privilege of meeting so many new students, some of whom become our residents. I have become convinced that my primary role here is not to teach, administrate, or see patients, although that is much of what I do. My primary role or calling here is to INFLUENCE and MENTOR residents and students to grow and change and see all that they can be both for themselves and for others.
Why Via Christi? They allowed me to come and be a faculty member who could freely mentor, influence and emphasize my passions with the residents.
Passions: My faith in Christ - this is my primary desire and passion, although I fail often at keeping this foremost in my life. Nevertheless, it is my goal to be clearly a Christian in my interactions with others. My life verse is Genesis 6:9 - "This is the account of Noah. Noah was a righteous man, blameless among the people of his time, and he walked with God." This is my hope - to live rightly with others in accordance with what I believe, to be blameless among others (even those who may not like what I believe) and treat them as they desire and in doing so honor my Lord and God. In addition, I desire to be walking with my God in all things (although as I said before, this is a weak area for me).
Favorite Books: The Bible - top of the list (I try to read it through every other year). Margin - Richard Swenson - the most profound and impacting book I have read other than the scriptures. It changed my life's direction and how I have chosen to live. I highly recommend it. Mere Christianity - CS Lewis - So simple and yet so profound.
Favorite Quotes: "Real success is when those who know you the best, love you the most." John Maxwell
After residency plan: I have no plans for leaving the residency in the near future, but if I left I have always been intrigued with and interested in politics and influence. Who knows?
Home town: Manhattan, KS
Residency stats: Vaginal Deliveries (over 24 years): Medical School (8-10); Residency (university trained plus extra elective months - 90); Private practice (320 ~ 40/year); Faculty Position (supervising and assisting - 600 ~ 50/year). C-sections (Prior to Faculty work): 85 Forceps: 40+ Vacuum Extractions: 60+ (but now prefer forceps when assistance is needed) Stress testing: 100+ Colposcopy: 100+ OB Ultrasound: Performed - 500+, Supervised - 5000+
Sheryl Beard - Faculty
I am married with two beautiful girls. I graduated from the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita. I was a 2002 Via-Christi Family Medicine Residency graduate. I then spent four years in the USAF after residency training, during which I spent a short deployment in Iraq. After separating from the Air Force, I spent 1.5 years in private practice before joining faculty at the residency.
Why Via Christi? I am from the area and have always wanted to teach. It was a nice fit.
Passions: Spending time with family and friends.
Favorite Books: Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice"
Home town: Haysville
Tim Scanlan - Faculty
Program Director. Education: BA from St. John's University in Collegeville, MN, MD from the University of Minnesota in 1971, MBA from Wichita State University in 1988. FP residency at the Univ. of Minn. Family Practice: I practiced in a small town in Minn. for 5 years, and then in Wichita and Salina, KS, since 1978. I have been an educator in family medicine since the mid-70s. Board Certified in Family Medicine since 1976. This is my second stint as a program director - prevously at Smoky Hill FP residency in Salina from 1982-1984. Also was Assoc. Program Director at St. Francis FP residency (now part of Via Christi FP) from 1978 - 1982. I was Vice President of Medical Affairs and Director of Medical Education for St. Joseph Medical Center (now part of Via Christi) from 1990 to 1997. Academic appointment: Clinical Professor, Dept. of Family and Community Medicine at the Univ. of Kansas School of Medicine in Wichita. Family: Married - wife Kim, 2 children and 4 grandchildren.
Todd Stephens - Faculty
Medical education obtained at KUSM-Wichita 5/89; Residency in Family Medicine at Via Christi St. Joseph Campus 7/89-6/92. Practiced in Olathe, KS, Minneola, KS and missionary work in Kenya and Rwanda, Africa prior to Wichita.
Why Via Christi? I had a great experience here as a resident myself (then St. Joseph). I've always enjoyed teaching and I loved practicing medicine overseas (in Africa). When the position of directing the new International Medicine Fellowship was offered to me, it seemed like a great fit. Having a chance to encourage young men and women toward medical missions is a worthwhile pursuit.
Passions: My family; wife, Dawnita and 4 children, Sarah, Sam, Lauren and Leigh Anne. World travel, the mountains, hiking, hunting, missions, Kenya, birds, mountain flora, vacations, maps, evangelism, scuba, South Africa, spending time with missionaries.
Favorite Books: Out of Africa, bird books, books on missionaries/missions, Grisham books, books on church growth.
Favorite Quotes: lines from Monty Python, and The Scarlet Pimpernel
Home town: Minneola, KS
Marc Stephens - Faculty
Education: 1977, AA, Central College, McPherson, Kansas; 1979, BA (Biology/Chemistry), Greenville College, Greenville, Illinois; Postgraduate Training: 1979-1980 - Dept. of Physiology, University of Kansas Graduate School, Lawrence, Kansas; 1980-1984, Doctor of Osteopathy, Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences, Kansas City, Missouri; Post-Doctoral Training: 1984-1987 - University of Kansas School of Medicine Family Medicine Residency, Wesley Medical Center, Wichita, Kansas; Board Certifications: 1987, 1993, 2000, 2007 - American Board of Family Medicine; 2007 - American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians; ---Work Experience: --1987-1988, 2003-present, Clinical Instructor, Dept. Of Family Medicine, Univ. of Kansas School of Medicine, Wichita, KS --1988-1997 Private Practice, Minneola, KS --1997-2003 Private Practice, Greenville, Illinois; --2003-present Associate Director, Via Christi Family Medicine Residency; --2006-present Medical Director, Via Christi Family Medicine Clinics; --2007-present Director, Via Christi Osteopathic Family Medicine Residency; ****I married a beautiful, intelligent (except that she liked me), and musically talented nurse in 1981, raised 6 kids from 1986 until forever, worked with an awesome country doctor (my dad) in a little town in west Kansas for a decade, then worked with an awesome young family doctor and my best friend (and cousin) in a little town in southern Illinois for 6 years, and got to deliver 500 or so babies, then got chased out of Illinois by skyrocketting liability insurance premiums (87 grand a year!!!), and landed the most awesome job of all....working with an incredible bunch of faculty and residents every day. I am so blessed! I hope I can be a blessing to my patients and colleagues, and especially to our residents, for whom I have been "called."
Passions: serving God, loving my family, playing basketball, watching basketball, eating and drinking basketball, anything to do with computers, PDAs, information technology, electronics, magic, Dr. Pepper, frozen Reese's, fettucini alfredo.
Favorite Quotes: I'll never forget what my grandfather always told me. He said, "grandson.. .always...no, never...., no, always...oh, I forget...."
Home town: Minneola, Kansas
Residency stats: Residency & Practice Numbers: 1100 vaginal deliveries; 120 C-sections; 300 forceps/vaccuum; 6 twins; 3 breech deliveries (Kenya); most deliveries in 24 hrs: 14 (residency); most c-sections in 24 hrs: 6 (Kenya); 1 epiglottitis (residency moonlighting); 1 buffalo stampede victim (Minneola, KS); 200 colonoscopies, 400 EGDs; hundreds of treadmills; 7400 hospital admissions; 92,000 clinic encounters; 284,800 oz of Dr. Pepper consumed.
Mark Stovak - Faculty
Born - Reno, NV; College - University of NV; Med school - University of NV; Married - Dr. Leslie Greenberg; 3 kids - Luke, Nate, Jenna
Why Via Christi? The administration is great to work with & very supportive, the faculty are great peers, the residents & fellows are strong & the medical community is the best I have seen.
Passions: hobbies - exercising, yardwork; passions - family; interests - sports medicine
Favorite Books: Sports Illustrated; only non-medical books i have read since college - Fatherhood by Paul Reiser (it is a very short list).
Favorite Quotes: "If you laugh a little, cry a little & learn a little - you have had a very full day." - Jim Valvano (former coach at N. Carolina state University)
Home town: Reno, NV