About Us
The following information about the University of Kansas School
of Medicine-Wichita has been compiled for the convenience of the
media, potential medical students and residents and the interested
public.
For further information, contact the Division of University Relations
at 316-293-2643, or e-mail wicur@kumc.edu
Clinical Departments
Anesthesiology, Robert McKay, MD, chair – 268-6147
Anesthesiology Residency Program, Robert McKay, MD, program director – 268-6147
Family and Community Medicine, Rick Kellerman,
MD, chair – 293-2607
Family Medicine Residency Program – Via Christi
Regional Medical Center, Richard Leu, MD, program director – 268-5996
Sport Medicine Fellowship @ Via Christi, Mark Stovak, MD, program
director – 268-5738
Via Christi Osteopathic Internship Program, Paula Knabe, DO,
program director – 268-5996
Family Medicine Residency Program – Smoky Hill, Salina,
Kan., Robert Freelove, MD, program director – 785-825-7251
Family Medicine Residency Program - Wesley Medical Center, Paul
Callaway, MD, program director – 962-3976
Internal Medicine, Jon Schrage, MD, MPA, chair – 293-2650
Internal Medicine Residency Program, Garold Minns, MD, program
director – 293-2650
Medicine/Pediatrics, Katherine Melhorn, MD, and Garold Minns,
MD, co-program directors – 293-2631
Obstetrics and Gynecology, Douglas Horbelt,
MD, chair – 962-3182
Obstetrics and Gynecology Residency Program, Travis Stembridge,
MD, program director – 962-3182
Pathology, Joe Lin, MD, chair – 268-5420
Pediatrics, Robert Wittler, MD, chair – 293-2631
Pediatric Residency Program, Katherine Melhorn, MD, program director – 293-2631
Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Doren Fredrickson, MD, interim chair and professor - 293-2627
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Russell Scheffer, MD, chair and professor - 293-2669
Psychiatry Residency Program, Don Brada, MD, interim program director – 293-2645
Radiology, David Brake, MD, chair – 962-2900
Radiology (Diagnostic) Residency Program, Charles McGuire, MD,
program director, 962-2211
Women’s Imaging Fellowship, Charles McGuire, MD, program
director – 962-2211
Surgery, Alex Ammar, MD, chair – 268-5990
Surgery Residency Program, Jacqueline Osland, MD, program director – 268-5990
Orthopaedic Surgery Residency Program, David McQueen, MD, program
director – 268-5988
Adult Reconstructive Surgery Fellowship, John Schurmann, II,
MD, program director – 858-1909, ext. 124
Via Christi Osteopathic Family Medicine Program,
Paula Knabe, DO, program director – 268-5996  Top
Faculty
Fulltime – 54
Parttime – 77
Volunteer – 908
Total Faculty - 1,039
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Students
Students Enrolled
Class of 2008 – 51
Class of 2009 – 55
Total Students – 106
1,504 graduates since first class graduated in 1975
About half have gone into primary care specialties – family
medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics,
psychiatry and surgery.
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Staff
Total Classified/Unclassified Staff - 131
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Major Teaching Affiliates of KUSM-W
Department of Veterans Affairs Robert J. Dole Medical Center
and Regional Office
Via Christi Regional Medical Center – St. Francis campus– St.
Joseph campus
Wesley Medical Center
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Residencies
13 ACGME-accredited residency programs
The 13 programs in Wichita are administered by the Wichita
Center for Graduate Medical Education (WCGME) and the one program
in Salina is administered by the Salina Health Education Foundation
(SHEF).
260 positions for residents
60 percent of resident graduates (70 percent in family medicine)
eventually establish practices in Kansas
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Buildings
Building 90 – 1010 N. Kansas – 98,743 sq.ft.
Building 92 (Daniel K. Roberts Center for Research/Kansas Health
Foundation Center For Primary Care) – 29,443 sq.ft.
Total – 128,186 sq.ft.
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Budget
FY 2008 Total Budget - $25,957,545
(State Appropriations - salaries & operations - $11,385,345)
(State Appropriations - residents - $3,985,342)
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Tuition (year)
Resident -- $22,486
Non-Resident -- $39,877
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KUSM-W Milestones
September 1971
Board of Regents creates the “Wichita
State University
Branch of the University of Kansas School of Medicine” D.
Cramer Reed, MD, named 1st dean
1972
Medical school office established on WSU campus
Medical school moves
to WSU’s Fairmount Towers
dormitory
1973
1st 15 medical students arrive to begin clinical
training
1974
LCME accredits the medical school
1975
First graduating class (14 students)
Medical school moves to E.B.
Allen Hospital
1980
KUSM-W Family Practice Residency Program at Smoky Hill,
Salina, Kan., opens
1992
Children’s Primary Care Clinic opens at Sedgwick
County Health
Department
1996
Roberts Center For Research/ Kansas Health Foundation
For
Primary Care completed
1998
WSU study names KUSM-W an “economic driver” (Repeated
in
2004)
1999
Project Access established
2000
NBME Testing Center opens on campus. (Only one of seven
on-campus centers in US)
2001
S. Edwards Dismuke, MD, MSPH, becomes 5th Dean of KUSM-W
2002
KU Internal Medicine – Midtown opens
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