Faculty

100% of the PHM faculty at MUSC have completed post-residency fellowships or chief residencies. Click on the link for each faculty member to learn more about his or her training and follow subsequent links to their publications. 

William T. Basco Jr. M.D., MSCR

Dr. William (Bill) Basco earned his MD from Louisiana State University. He completed his residency training in Pediatrics at MUSC. He was an Academic Generalist Fellow at Johns Hopkins and earned his MSCR at MUSC. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Generalist Physician Faculty Scholar. Dr. Basco’s research interests and experience are broad, but his most recent work focuses on medication safety, look-alike sound-alike medication errors, and opioid prescription pharmaco-epidemiology in children. He has been funded by AHRQ for his work on medication errors. He served as the PI of HRSA Academic Administrative Units in Primary Care grant, a HRSA ACA Primary Care Residency Expansion grant, and is currently the MUSC site-PI on an AHRQ grant that evaluates hospital-based quality of care for patients with mental health conditions and the quality of transitions of care for these patients.

Jamel Brown, M.D., MBA

Dr. Brown is a native of the low country. He went to The Citadel for his undergraduate education and to MUSC for medical school.  After completing residency at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, he came back to MUSC to serve on faculty as a Med/Peds Hospitalist. He is in the South Carolina Army National Guard, where he has served since 2010. His academic focus is on medical education and diversity of the physician workforce.

David G. Bundy, M.D., MPH

Dr. David Bundy earned his MD from the University of Michigan. He then went on to earn his MPH at University of California, Berkeley. He completed his residency in Pediatrics at Seattle Children’s Hospital. He was a Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Dr. Bundy is a Quality and Patient Safety expert and has recently been appointed Chief Patient Safety Officer for the entire MUSC enterprise. He has extensive research training and experience in health services research, quality improvement research, and dissemination and implementation science. His areas of content expertise include sickle cell disease and reducing diagnostic errors in pediatrics. He has received funding from numerous grants, including serving as co-investigator on 3 recent AHRQ R01s related to the quality and safety of ambulatory pediatric care.

Stephanie Kwon, DO 

Dr. Sarah Mennito earned her MD at the University of Maryland School of Medicine. She completed her residency training in Medicine/Pediatrics at MUSC, followed by a year as pediatric chief resident. She was an Academic Generalist Fellow at MUSC, where she earned her MSCR. She has been the Program Director for the Med/Peds residency program since 2009. She is passionate about medical education, having won numerous teaching awards as selected by the College of Medicine and the pediatric residency program. Her research interests include transition medicine and standardizing care for infant sepsis evaluations. She has collaborated with community pediatricians on grants related to the transitional care of patients with sickle cell disease and participates in a national health care transition learning collaborative.

David Mills, M.D.

Dr. David Mills earned his MD from Case Western Reserve University. He completed his residency training in Pediatrics at MUSC, followed by a year as pediatric chief resident. As of July 1, 2019, he is the Program Director for the pediatric residency program, after six years as an Associate PD. He is passionate about medical education, having won numerous teaching awards as nominated by the College of Medicine and the residency program. His research interests include simulation training's impact on resident education and observation of medical students' clinical skills. He serves as a faculty liaison for the Children's Hospital Patient and Family Advisory Council and is a co-leader for the Solutions for Patient Safety committee on reducing falls in the Children's Hospital.

Betsy Oddo, M.D.

Dr. Betsy Oddo earned her MD from Wright State University and then completed her residency training in Pediatrics at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, TN. She then completed a fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine at The Medical University of South Carolina, during which time she earned her Masters in Public Health. She is now a pediatric hospitalist at MUSC Shawn Jenkin’s Children’s Hospital, and Associate Program Director of the Pediatric Hospital Medicine fellowship program. Dr. Oddo’s academic interests include child health advocacy and gun violence prevention. Her research has focused on the mental health consequences of pediatric firearm injuries and on educating families and pediatric trainees on safe firearm storage. 

John Pastore, M.D., MBA, FAAP

Kelly Roelf, M.D.

Dr. Kelly Roelf earned her MD at the David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles. She completed her residency training in Pediatrics at Boston Children’s Hospital followed by fellowship training in Pediatric Hospital Medicine at University of California, San Diego. Dr. Roelf is passionate about medical education and has been heavily involved in medical student and resident education at her prior institutions. In addition to medical education, her personal research interests include clinical outcomes, quality improvement and patient safety. She has experience with large data sets, including both local electronic health records and Pediatric Health Information Systems. 

Annie Simpson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor Department of Healthcare Leadership and Management
Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

Annie Simpson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Departments of Healthcare Leadership and Management (primary) and Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery (secondary) at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. Simpson received her bachelors of science in Statistics from North Carolina State University, a Master’s in Computer Science from the University of York, UK, and a PhD from MUSC in Health and Rehabilitation Science, Health Services Research. Dr. Simpson is a Health Services Researcher and Biostatistician who specializes in applied collaboration for team science and in methods development for bias reduction in observational studies.  She has over 15 years of experience as an analysis and database specialist for multiple observational and investigational health care studies, including international multi-center clinical trials. Dr. Simpson is a Principal Investigator of grants from NIH/NIDCD and the MUSC CTSA’s Carolinas Collaborative and is a Co-Investigator on multiple research teams across the MUSC campus including; pediatrics, critical care, addiction science, hearing loss, and telehealth. She is a primary quantitative scientist for the first ever HRSA Telehealth Center of Excellence. Dr. Simpson teaches doctoral level classes in statistical programming, multivariable linear modeling, and evidence-based decision-making/comparative effectiveness study methods. Dr. Simpson is supported by the Division of General Pediatrics and much of this effort is focused on mentoring PHM fellows in their research projects.

Andrea Summer M.D., MSCR

Dr. Andrea Summer earned her M.D. from MUSC. She completed her residency training in Pediatrics at the University of Virginia. She was an Academic Generalist Fellow at MUSC during which time she earned her MSCR. She then joined the MUSC faculty where she has almost 15 years of experience caring for hospitalized children. She is Co-Director for the MUSC International Adoption Clinic, Director of the MUSC Pediatric Travel Medicine Clinic, and program director of the Global Health Certificate Program and the Global Health Track for pediatric residents. In addition to global health, her research interests include improving care delivery to the underserved areas of rural South Carolina. She has an active global health research program including a recently completed pilot project of community health workers in rural India aimed at improving growth and developmental outcomes in infants.

Ronald J. Teufel II M.D., MSCR

Dr. Teufel earned his MD from West Virginia University. He completed residency in Medicine/Pediatrics at MUSC. He completed an Academic Generalist Fellow focused on Health Services Research at MUSC during which time he earned an MSCR degree. He is the section director of Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM). Dr. Teufel has served in national research roles including abstract chair and planning committee research representative for the PHM Annual Meeting, Associate Editor for Hospital Pediatrics, and planning subcommittee for Academy Health’s Annual Meeting. He has been actively involved in research training including the research content for the AAP’s annual PHM fellows’ conference in Salt Lake City, numerous workshops at national meetings, and publications focused on expanding PHM research. Dr. Teufel’s personal research interests and experience focus on developing innovative approaches to care for hospitalized children. He is experienced with the use of large data sets including local electronic health records, Medicaid, Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project, Health Information and Management Systems Society, American Hospital Association, and Pediatric Health Information Systems. His methodological experience includes SAS programming, modeling, propensity score, and cost effectiveness analysis. His most recent research funding uses mobile health technology to improve care for children with asthma.

Mason Walgrave, M.D., MSCR

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
walgrave@musc.edu 

Dr. Mason Walgrave earned his degree at Chicago Medical School. He then completed residency training in Medicine and Pediatrics at the Medical University of South Carolina. Following residency, he served as a year as a Chief Resident in Pediatrics and transitioned after this to a fellowship in Pediatric Hospital Medicine remaining at the Medical University of South Carolina. During his chief year and continued into fellowship, In addition to primarily clinical practice, Mason is passionate about medical education including serving as a clinical instructor for medical students for six semesters. He is also interested in the intersection between efficiency and physician wellness and has experience with both qualitative and quantitative studies to explore these areas.

Daniel C. Williams, M.D., MSCR

 
Dr. Williams earned his MD from East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine and completed his residency in Pediatrics at MUSC. He then went on to complete a Chief Resident year followed by the Academic Generalist Fellowship. He earned his MSCR from MUSC. Dr. Williams’ research interests include pediatric head injuries, electronic health record adoption and laboratory stewardship. He is passionate about medical education, having won numerous teaching awards from the College of Medicine and the pediatric residency program including the Attending of the Year Award as selected by the pediatric residents. As the Medical Director of Informatics and Information Technology, he is actively involved in optimizing Epic implementation at MUSC. He has received funding from the South Carolina Telehealth Alliance to assess a telehealth management strategy for pediatric patients with acute asthma exacerbations.