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Pediatrics Residency Greenville - Faculty

Program Administration

Amanda Hartke, MD PhD

Program Director, Pediatric Residency

Dr. Hartke received her MD/PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2009 and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Texas Southwestern. After residency, she joined the faculty at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas where she received the Clinical Teaching Award for Core Clerkship Teachers. In 2014, Dr. Hartke returned to South Carolina and joined the Greenville faculty as a pediatric hospitalist. Since that time, she has committed herself to pediatric medical education, and received the 2017 USCSOM Greenville Golden Peach Award for Excellence in M4 Education, the 2020 Outstanding Faculty Research Award from Prisma Health Upstate, and the 2022 Exemplary Character Award from the Pediatric Residency. She served as the USCSOM Greenville Pediatric M4 Director for 7 years and the Pediatric Residency Associate Program Director for 6 years prior to transitioning to the Program Director position in 2021. Dr. Hartke is also the faculty co-advisor for the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Her academic interests include pediatric hospital medicine, humanism in medicine, and medical education including the transition from medical school to residency.

Mark Krom, DO

Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency

Dr. Krom received his medical degree from the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine – Virginia Campus in 2013. During his pediatric residency at Greenville Health System, he received the Miracle Maker award and medical student teaching award. He then completed one year as chief resident before joining the pediatric faculty. Dr. Krom also serves as the Chair for the Pediatric Peer and Quality Review Committee. His academic interests include medical education, physician wellness, and mentorship.

Kindal Dankovich, MD

Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency

Dr. Dankovich (more affectionately known as Dr. Kindal to her patients) received her medical degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville in 2016 where she was honored to be part of the charter class. While at USCSOMG, she was inducted into the AOA Honor Medical Society and the Gold Humanism Honor Society. During her residency at Prisma Health, she won the Outstanding House Staff Research Award, First Place at the SCAAP for her Quality Improvement project, the Miracle Maker Award, and Pediatric Resident Teacher of the Year. After graduation from residency, she served as Pediatric Chief Resident for a year and subsequently joined the faculty at Prisma Health and has been honored with the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award for the past 3 years (2020-2022). Her academic interests include graduate and undergraduate medical education, simulation education, physician wellness, and mentorship.

Natalie Bikulege, MD

Assistant Program Director / Chief Resident

Bennett Mack, MD

Assistant Program Director / Chief Resident

Sudha Garimella, MD

Fellowship and Subspecialty Liaison

Dr. Sudha Garimella joined the residency team in 2017 to provide additional assistance to residents preparing for and applying to fellowship programs. Prior to joining Prisma Health, Dr. Garimella helped lead the Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship at SUNY Buffalo. She is also an actively funded researcher, pursuing projects including biomarkers for obesity related chronic kidney disease and is also a leader in simulation-based medical education at USCSOM Greenville. Dr. Garimella acts as a resource to residents in identifying both internal and external subspecialty mentors, developing subspecialty research and quality improvement projects, grant and manuscript submission, as well as CV and fellowship application planning.

Sarah Hinton, MD

Program Director, Medicine Pediatrics Residency

Dr. Hinton is a native of South Carolina. She received her undergraduate degree from Wofford College and her medical degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She completed her Med-Peds residency at Prisma Health and served as chief resident in her 4th year. Following residency, she worked at a federally qualified health center in the. She returned to Prisma Health in 2016. During her time at Prisma Health, Dr. Hinton has served as the adolescent medicine rotation director, the medical director of Student Health Services at Furman University, the assistant medical director for the Center for Family Medicine, and associate program director for the Med-Peds residency program. She is currently the chairperson of the Prisma Health Pediatric to Adult Care Transition committee. Her special interests include caring for under-resourced communities, adolescent medicine, LGBT+ care, pediatric to adult care transition, and advocacy.

Robin N. LaCroix, MD

Chair, Department of Pediatrics / Medical Director, Children’s Hospital

Dr. LaCroix received her MD degree from the University of South Carolina in 1986. She did a Pediatric internship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then completed her Pediatric Residency at the Greenville Health System in 1989. After residency, Dr. LaCroix was in private Pediatric practice for 2 ½ years before leaving to do a fellowship at Emory University in Pediatric Infectious Disease. In 1995, Dr. LaCroix returned to Greenville to establish the Division of Infectious Disease at the Children’s Hospital and served as the Center for Pediatric Medicine associate clinic director for several years. In 2001 when the Med-Peds residency was created, Dr. Lacroix served a Co-program director of the residency until 2008. She is Pediatric Hospital Epidemiologist and was Vice Chair of Quality and Medical Staff Affairs for Pediatrics until 2017 when she became Medical Director of Children’s Hospital and Chair of Department of Pediatrics. Dr. LaCroix is still practicing Pediatric Infectious Disease at Children’s Hospital.

Mandy Komenko

Program Administrator, Pediatric Residency

Phone: 864-455-7895
Email: mandy.komenko@prismahealth.org

Mandy, a Florida native, moved to Greenville in 2008. Shortly after, she accepted a position with Prisma Health. In 2012 she moved into the role as the Pediatric Residency Program Coordinator. What she loves most about her job is EVERYTHING. Mandy says it’s rewarding to watch the residents grow from interns into confident physicians and knowing in some way she played a part in it. Mandy and her husband Bobby have been married since 2001. They have a daughter named Madison and 2 very happy but rambunctious chocolate labs named Hershey and Sophie. In her free time, Mandy enjoys watching football (GO TIGERS), going to see theatrical plays with her daughter and anything fall weather related.

Diana Magana

Program Assistant, Pediatric Residency

Pediatrics General Teaching Faculty

The responsibilities of a general pediatrician have the potential to encompass a wide variety of clinical environments, such as the inpatient ward, outpatient clinic, or newborn nursery, as well as a spectrum of patient ages and concerns, ranging from the well child to one that is medically-complex. Our general pediatric teaching faculty reflect these roles as many maintain their skills in multiple arenas. This also mirrors our goal as a residency in building a strong foundation in general pediatrics, affording our residency graduates confidence in the innumerable possible clinical scenarios they will encounter in post-residency life.

Blakely Amati, MD

Clinic / Nursery

Jessica Boyd, MD

Clinic / Nursery

Ryan Bromm, DO

Clinic / Nursery

Elizabeth Burton, MD

Clinic

Kindal Dankovich, MD

Hospitalist / Clinic / Nursery

Yasmin Deliz, DO

Clinic / Pediatric Sports Med

Raquel Denis, MD

Nursery

Karen Eastburn, MD

Hospitalist / Clinic

Megan Fuqua, MD

Hospitalist / Nursery

Jeffrey Gerac, MD

Hospitalist / Chief Medical Information Officer

Matt Grisham, MD

Hospitalist / Clinic

Amanda Hartke, MD PhD

Hospitalist / Outpatient Clinic

Dr. Hartke received her MD/PhD from the Medical University of South Carolina in 2009 and completed her pediatric residency at the University of Texas Southwestern. After residency, she joined the faculty at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas where she received the Clinical Teaching Award for Core Clerkship Teachers. In 2014, Dr. Hartke returned to South Carolina and joined the Greenville faculty as a pediatric hospitalist. Since that time, she has committed herself to pediatric medical education, and received the 2017 USCSOM Greenville Golden Peach Award for Excellence in M4 Education and the 2020 Outstanding Faculty Research Award. She served as the USCSOM Greenville Pediatric M4 Director for 7 years and the Pediatric Residency Associate Program Director for 6 years prior to transitioning to the Program Director position in 2021. Dr. Hartke is also the faculty co-advisor for the Gold Humanism Honor Society. Her academic interests include pediatric hospital medicine, humanism in medicine, and medical education including the transition from medical school to residency.

Sarah Hinton, MD

Clinic

Dr. Hinton is a native of South Carolina. She received her undergraduate degree from Wofford College and her medical degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She completed her Med-Peds residency at Prisma Health and served as chief resident in her 4th year. Following residency, she worked at a federally qualified health center in the. She returned to Prisma Health in 2016. During her time at Prisma Health, Dr. Hinton has served as the adolescent medicine rotation director, the medical director of Student Health Services at Furman University, the assistant medical director for the Center for Family Medicine, and associate program director for the Med-Peds residency program. She is currently the chairperson of the Prisma Health Pediatric to Adult Care Transition committee. Her special interests include caring for under-resourced communities, adolescent medicine, LGBT+ care, pediatric to adult care transition, and advocacy.

Carley Howard Draddy, MD

Nursery

Jenny Hudson, MD

Newborn Nursery

Kent Jones, MD

Pediatric Complex Care Clinic

Russell C. Kolarik, MD

Hospitalist / Clinic

Mark Krom, DO

Hospitalist / Clinic

Julie Linton, MD

Clinic / Assoc. Dean of Admissions

Saylor McCartor, DO

Hospitalist

Easter Pennington, MD

Clinic / Nursery

Nick Potisek, MD

Hospitalist / Nursery

Senthuran Ravindran, MD

Med-Peds Hospitalist

Walt Roberts, MD

Clinic

Kerry K. Sease, MD, MPH

Clinic / Med. Dir. Bradshaw Institute for Community Child Health & Advocacy

Andreea Stoichita, MD

Clinic / Pediatric Complex Care Clinic

Liz Tyson, MD

Hospitalist / Vice Chair Quality

Cady Williams, MD

Pediatric Complex Care Clinic

Alex Yu, MD

Clinic / Nursery

Subspecialty Teaching & Affiliated Faculty

Under the mentorship of an ever-expanding team of more than 100 medical and surgical pediatric subspecialists, residents at Prisma Health / USC SOM Greenville receive training that will prepare them for general practice, academic medicine or the fellowship of their choosing. With more than 30 specialties represented, Prisma Health Children’s Hospital offers more comprehensive “whole child” care than many of the country’s major medical centers. With only a single fellowship in the Department of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics, our residents gain invaluable clinical experiences through one-on-one teaching with subspecialty attendings while on electives.

Adolescent Medicine

Austen Carter, MD

Mike Guyton-Nunley, MD

Sarah Hinton, MD

Dr. Hinton is a native of South Carolina. She received her undergraduate degree from Wofford College and her medical degree from the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. She completed her Med-Peds residency at Prisma Health and served as chief resident in her 4th year. Following residency, she worked at a federally qualified health center in the. She returned to Prisma Health in 2016. During her time at Prisma Health, Dr. Hinton has served as the adolescent medicine rotation director, the medical director of Student Health Services at Furman University, the assistant medical director for the Center for Family Medicine, and associate program director for the Med-Peds residency program. She is currently the chairperson of the Prisma Health Pediatric to Adult Care Transition committee. Her special interests include caring for under-resourced communities, adolescent medicine, LGBT+ care, pediatric to adult care transition, and advocacy.

Laila Hussein, MD

Joseph Laterza, MD

Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics (DBP)

Meghan Doyle, MD

Charles Hatcher, MD

Des Kelly, MD

Sarah Lilly, MD

Steven Ma, MD

Nancy Powers

Karen Ratliff-Schaub

Forensic Pediatrics

Mary-Fran Crosswell, MD

Nancy Henderson, MD

Lyle Pritchard, MD

Pediatric Allergy & Immunology

Ashley Ekman, NP

Erin Mullaney, MD

John Pulcini, MD

Carolina Raymond, PA

Pediatric Cardiology

Susan Haynes, MD

Benjamin Horne, III, MD

Jon Lucas, MD

David Malpass, MD

Austin Raunikar, MD

Pediatric Critical Care

Mike Avant, MD

Eric Berning, MD

Jonathan Boyd, MD

Christina Goben, MD

Darryl Gwyn, MD

Jennifer Walker, MD

Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Zach Burroughs, MD

Erika Crawford, MD

Susan Demartini, MD

Ann Dietrich, MD

Joyce Granger, MD

Matthew Neal, MD

Kevin Polley, MD

James Sierakowski, DO

Jeremiah Smith, MD

Pediatric Endocrinology

James Amrhein, MD

Elaine Apperson, MD

Ryan Dyess, MD

Katherine Lewis, MD

Pediatric Gastroenterology

Liz Dancel, MD

Michael Dougherty, MD

Douglas Johnston, DO

Jonathan Markowitz, MD, MSCE

Vice Chair Academics

Colston McEvoy, MD

Lindsay Moye, MD

Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology

Dianna Gurich, MD

Medical Education: University of South Alabama College of Medicine

Residency: Greenville Health System

Casey S. Hopkins, WHNP

Medical Education: Emory University

Mary Lane, NP

Benjie Mills, MD

Medical Director

Medical Education: University Of Alabama/Birmingham

Residency: University Of Alabama/Birmingham

Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Alan Anderson, MD

Nichole Bryant

Rebecca Cook

Chandni Dargan, MD

Leslie Gilbert, MD

Steve Martin, MD

Kathryn Muschick, APRN

Aniket Saha, MD

Pediatric Infectious Disease

Joshua Brownlee, MD

Sue Jue, MD

Robin N. LaCroix, MD

Chair, Department of Pediatrics / Medical Director, Children’s Hospital

Dr. LaCroix received her MD degree from the University of South Carolina in 1986. She did a Pediatric internship at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and then completed her Pediatric Residency at the Greenville Health System in 1989. After residency, Dr. LaCroix was in private Pediatric practice for 2 ½ years before leaving to do a fellowship at Emory University in Pediatric Infectious Disease. In 1995, Dr. LaCroix returned to Greenville to establish the Division of Infectious Disease at the Children’s Hospital and served as the Center for Pediatric Medicine associate clinic director for several years. In 2001 when the Med-Peds residency was created, Dr. Lacroix served a Co-program director of the residency until 2008. She is Pediatric Hospital Epidemiologist and was Vice Chair of Quality and Medical Staff Affairs for Pediatrics until 2017 when she became Medical Director of Children’s Hospital and Chair of Department of Pediatrics. Dr. LaCroix is still practicing Pediatric Infectious Disease at Children’s Hospital.

Katherine Richardson, MD

Pediatric Neonatology

India Chandler, MD

Benton Cofer, MD

Nicole Cothran, MD

Matthew Halliday, MD

Britni Maple, MD

Catrinel Marinescu, MD

Bryan Ohning, MD

Jeffrey Ruggieri, MD

Michael Stewart, MD

Pediatric Nephrology and Hypertension

Matthew Eison, MD

Sudha Garimella, MD

Dr. Sudha Garimella joined the residency team in 2017 to provide additional assistance to residents preparing for and applying to fellowship programs. Prior to joining Prisma Health, Dr. Garimella helped lead the Pediatric Nephrology Fellowship at SUNY Buffalo. She is also an actively funded researcher, pursuing projects including biomarkers for obesity related chronic kidney disease and is also a leader in simulation-based medical education at USCSOM Greenville. Dr. Garimella acts as a resource to residents in identifying both internal and external subspecialty mentors, developing subspecialty research and quality improvement projects, grant and manuscript submission, as well as CV and fellowship application planning.

Scott Walters, MD

Pediatric Neurology

Michael Babcock, MD

Adrienne Bruce, MD

Emily Foster, MD

Addie Hunnicutt, MD

Sunjay Nunley, MD

Jessica Wharton, MD

Pediatric Neurosurgery

Casey Judy, PA

Katie Lichty, DNP

Christopher Troup, MD

Medical Director

Pediatric Ophthalmology

Keith McCormick, MD

Joshua Robinson

Janette Elaine White, MD

Medical Director

Pediatric Orthopedic Oncology

Richard “Trey” Gurich, MD

Scott E. Porter, MD, MBA

Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

Michael Beckish, MD

Christopher Bray, MD

David Lazarus, MD

Pediatric Otolaryngology

Nathan Alexander, MD

Kelly Hughes, PA

Edward Penn, Jr., MD

Pediatric Pain Management

Crystal Beacham, APRN FNP-C

Robert Blake Windsor, MD

Medical Director

Pediatric Palliative Care

Jessica Rabon, PhD

Abigail Rishovd, NP

Arun Singh, MD

Cary Stroud, MD

Cheryl Taylor, MD

Pediatric Plastic Surgery

J. Cart de Brux, Jr., MD

Medical Director

Pediatric Psychiatry

Carrie Andrews, MD

Warren DePonti, DO

Kunhee Lee, PA

Karen Lommel, DO

Elizabeth Mason, MD

Kaye McGinty, MD

Michael Sierra, MD

Megan Zappitelli, MD

Pediatric Psychology

Ermindo Natale, Psy.D.

Pediatric Pulmonology

Michael J. Fields, MD, PhD

Erin Kallam, DO

Steve Snodgrass, MD

Roni Socher, MD

Pediatric Radiology

Michael Brinkley, MD

Michael Evert, MD

Erin Horsley, DO

Pediatric Rheumatology

Matthew Clark, MD

Lara Huber, MD

Sarah Payne-Poff, MD

Pediatric Sleep Medicine

Dominic Gault, MD

Megan Hiott, NP

James Hungerford, MD

Roni Socher, MD

Pediatric Surgery

John Chandler, MD

Robert Gates, MD

James Green, MD

Robert Ricca, MD

Keith Webb, MD

Pediatric Urology

Lisa Cartwright, MD

Melissa Hulbert, PA

Regina Monroe, MD

Lynn Teague, MD