Transitional Year Residency Program
Meet the Faculty

Scott Stevens, MD
Transitional Year Program Director
Assistant Program Director, Internal Medicine Residency, University of Utah Affiliated Hospitals

Dr. Stevens received his medical degree from Loma Linda University. He completed a residency in internal medicine at LDS Hospital, where he also served as Chief Medical Resident. Dr. Stevens received both the Intern of the Year and the Resident of the Year awards at LDS Hospital. In medical school Dr. Stevens received the Comstock Award for outstanding performance in internal medicine and was inducted into the Alpha Omega Alpha national honor society. Dr. Stevens is an active volunteer at Wasatch Homeless Healthcare in Salt Lake City and is engaged in research in venous thromboembolism.

C. Gregory Elliott, MD, MACP, FCCP
Chairman, Department of Medicine

Dr. Elliott completed his undergraduate education at Brown University and medical education at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, where he graduated with honors. He served his internal medicine internship and residency and chief medical residency at the University of Maryland Hospitals in Baltimore, Maryland and his fellowship in pulmonary and critical care medicine at the University of Utah Hospitals. Dr. Elliott is board certified in Internal Medicine and Pulmonary Diseases.

Corwin Q. Edwards, MD
Director, Graduate Medical Education Intermountain Health Care Urban Central Region Hospitals
Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine, University of Utah, LDS Hospital and VA Hospital

Dr. Edwards graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine. He completed an Internship and Residency in Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Edwards was Chief Medical Resident at the University of Utah School of Medicine. He is Professor of Medicine and is Associate Director of the Internal Medicine Training Program at the University of Utah, LDS Hospital and VA Medical Center. He is a member of the Division of General Internal Medicine at the University of Utah. He has performed research in disorders of iron metabolism, hemochromatosis, iron loading among Africans and African-Americans and in porphyria cutanea tarda, and also in diabetes mellitus and the use of an insulin infusion pump during pregnancy.

Mark Ott, MD
Chairman, Department of Surgery

Dr. Ott is currently the Chairman in the Department of Surgery at LDS Hospital. Prior to this he was an Assistant Professor of Surgery at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Mark J. Ott obtained a BA of Chemistry as well as his M.D. from the University of Utah. Dr. Ott performed his Internship, Residency and Fellowship (research and clinical) at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. Dr. Ott is board certified as a physician of General Surgery and Surgical Oncology. He continues to care for patients with complex Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic, Gastrointestinal, Endocrine, and Soft Tissue tumors. Dr. Ott was named one of Boston's Best Doctors in Surgical Oncology in the Boston Magazine 2002. He has received many awards and honors throughout his career including: Young Clinician award from the Society for Surgery of the Alimentary Tract. He has made regional, national and international contributions through invited and plenary presentations. He received the Anthony L. Imbembo 1996 Surgical Resident Teaching Award at Johns Hopkins Hospital General Surgery department. Dr. Ott has written multiple articles on various surgical/oncology related topics, as well as several reviews and chapters.

R. Dirk Noyes, MD
Course Director

Dr. Noyes is the LDS Hospital program director for surgical education and is responsible for surgical resident and medical student education at the LDS Hospital. Dr. Noyes graduated from University of Rochester medical school, completed surgical residency at the University of Utah, and fellowship training at MD Anderson Hospital, University of Texas. His leadership and ability as a teacher have been recognized repeatedly by the University Utah Department of Surgery. Dr. Noyes' clinical and research interests are in the area of oncologic surgery. He has been active in the application of new cancer staging techniques and the development of national clinical research protocols for new therapies in cancer patients. He is the clinical co-director of the melanoma program for the Huntsman Cancer Institute and is the Intermountain representative for the Commission on Cancer representing the American College of Surgeons.

Ray Price, MD
Course Director

Dr. Price is co-director of the surgery residency training program at LDS Hospital, as well as chief of the division of General Surgery. He graduated from Harvard Medical School and completed a surgical residency at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Dr. Price's clinical and academic interests focus on abdominal surgery, particularly laparoscopic surgery. His skill and commitment to residency education have been noted at both Harvard ad the University of Utah.

James F. Orme Jr., MD
Course Director, Shock-Trauma ICU

Dr. Orme is a critical care physician and medical director of the Shock/Trauma/Respiratory Unit at LDS Hospital. He has been director of the houseofficer program in the Shock/Trauma Unit, director of LDS Transitional Year Residency Program, and is serving as an active participant in the University of Utah Internal Medicine Residency teaching program. He is a professor of medicine at the University of Utah. Dr. Orme's background includes a medical degree from Harvard University, internship at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, medicine residency at the University of Colorado, and pulmonary fellowship at the University of Utah. Between internship and residency he served as general medical officer with the Indian Health Service, New Mexico. In addition to education and patient care interests, Dr. Orme is actively engaged in clinical research primarily focused on ARDS.

Jeffrey Anderson, MD
Course Director, Coronary Care ICU

Dr. Jeffrey L. Anderson attended medical school at Harvard, graduating with honors, after receiving an undergraduate degree at the University of Utah in Chemistry. He completed a post-doctoral fellowship in Cardiology at Stanford University and joined the faculty at the University of Utah in 1980 after 2 years at the University of Michigan. Dr. Anderson attained the rank of Professor of Medicine, University of Utah, in 1989. He is board certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, and Clinical Electrophysiology. He is a fellow of the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association's Clinical Council. He is a master of the American College of Physicians and past governor for the Utah Chapter. He currently is president, Utah Chapter, American Heart Association. Dr. Anderson has contributed to cardiovascular research over a broad area, including thrombolytic and antithrombotic therapy of acute myocardial infarction and unstable angina, antiarrhythmic therapy, trials in congestive heart failure, and, currently, research on genetic polymorphisms and other new risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Dr. Anderson is Associate Chief of Cardiology, LDS Hospital, where he also is Co-Director of Cardiac Research and Professor of Internal Medicine (with tenure), University of Utah. He continues to teach medical and pre-medical students, housestaff, cardiology fellows, and physicians, and has a busy cardiology clinical practice.

Craig Shane, MD
Course Director, Emergency Medicine

Dr. Shane is the course director for emergency medicine at the LDS Hospital Emergency Department. He graduated from the University of Utah School of Medicine, completed residency in emergency medicine at Georgetown University/George Washington University Combined Emergency Medicine Residency in Washington, D.C. He is also a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Dr. Shane serves as the assistant medical director of the Intermountain Health Care Life Flight Adult Medical Services.

Anthony Musci, MD
Course Director, Ambulatory Medicine

Dr. Musci is the medical director of the LDSH Outpatient Clinic. A native of the Chicago area, he graduated from Loyola University School of Medicine in 1987, completed his Internal Medicine residency at LDS Hospital in 1990, and after a year of serving as Chief Resident, joined the clinical faculty. Dr. Musci also serves on the LDSH Human Subjects and Research Committee, and in the House of Delegates of the Utah Medical Association. Outside of medicine, Dr. Musci is the chair of the Utah chapter of Common Cause, and enjoys playing ice hockey.