Our varied and caring faculty are ready to help you reach your career goals, whether it is primary care, subspecialty training, or hospitalist medicine in a clinical practice or in academic medicine. Residents work with both the employed FAU faculty as well as affiliate faculty and fellows across many subspecialties, so there is broad exposure to different teaching and practice styles.
Leadership

Cornelia P. Charles, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine | Associate Program Director for the Internal Medicine Residency Program
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine

Daena Flaxman-Erlich, M.D
Associate Program Director of Internal Medicine Residency and Assistant Professor of Medicine
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Internal Medicine
Boca Raton Campus

Rachel J. Pyngolil, M.D., M.P.H., M.S.
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Associate Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine

Touqir Zahra, M.D
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Interim Program Director of the Internal Medicine Residency
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine
Core Faculty

Stephan Buteau, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Academic Internist
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine

Jacqueline Cortizo, M.D
Assistant Professor of Geriatric Medicine
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine

Allison H. Ferris, M.D., FACP
Assistant Dean of Faculty Development | Chair, Department of Medicine | Professor of Medicine
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine
Boca Raton Campus

Daniel S. Gutman, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine

Lisa C. Martinez, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Medicine Clerkship Director
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine

Ralph Palumbo, M.D.
Program Director, Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Fellowship and Clinical Affiliate Professor
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Boca Raton Campus

James Parkkonen, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine in the Department of Medicine, Academic Hospitalist and UME Educator
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine

Roozbeh Nazarian Rostami, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine

Stacy Rubin, M.D., FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine

Sachin S. Sule, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine
Boca Raton Campus | BC 71 Room 340

Jeffrey Wilson, M.D
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Medicine
Boca Raton Campus