Residents & Fellows

UNLV Health provides the highest quality academic medical care for the Las Vegas Community. 

Our internal medicine primary care location provides general and specialist services to our patients in a friendly and comforting setting.

All of our highly-qualified resident doctors and fellows are teamed with our attending faculty physicians to provide comprehensive care. Our goal is to provide exceptional patient care.

What is the difference between a resident, a fellow, and an attending physician?

• RESIDENTS have graduated from medical or osteopathic school and passed a national licensing exam. A resident is a licensed “MD” (osteopaths are called “DO”) but they cannot practice medicine without supervision until they have completed a minimum of three years of hands-on training.​
• FELLOWS operate at a level of responsibility just below attending physicians. They are physicians who have completed their primary residency and have chosen to pursue advanced training (a fellowship) in a particular specialty. Fellows may have little direct patient contact and it may not be obvious that a fellow is participating in your treatment. Be sure to ask, since fellows, like other residents, can write orders in your chart and make decisions about your treatment plan.
• ATTENDING PHYSICIANS have completed a residency program and many also have advanced specialty education from a postdoctoral fellowship program. They are board-certified, which means they have demonstrated a mastery of the knowledge and skills that define their specialty. Being a faculty physician means you are a university-based doctor, and regularly participating in world-class biomedical research. They have access to medical resources and specialists that are only found in a fully-accredited academic medical institution.

Internist Services

• Wellness and annual exams
• Chronic disease management
• Diabetes management
• Flu shots
• Heart disease prevention and management
• High-blood pressure management
• Preventive care
• Treatment of acute illnesses such as back pain, colds, rashes, muscle aches and UTI
• Weight-loss and maintenance
• Women’s Health

Gastroenterology

• Acid reflux 
• Biliary disease
• Celiac disease
• Colon cancer screening
• Crohn’s disease
• Diarrhea
• Gastrointestinal bleeding
• Heartburn and ulcer disease
• Inflammatory bowel disease
• Irritable bowel syndrome
• Pancreatic disorder
• Ulcerative colitis

Pulmonology

• Advanced endobronchial therapies
• Asthma and occupational lung disease
• Chronic bronchitis and emphysema (COPD)
• Chronic cough
• Infectious lung disease
• Lung and other chest cancers
• Pleural disease
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Smoking cessation

Cardiology

• EKG