Internal Medicine

Dr. Amber Champion is originally from Washington state, but has practiced in Baltimore and Nebraska prior to joining the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. She graduated from The Flinders University School of Medicine of South Australia in 2005. She completed Internal Medicine Residency in Spokane, WA, and Endocrinology fellowship at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Rajany V. Dy, MD graduated from the De La Salle Health Sciences Institute, Manila, The Philippines in 2007. She trained in Internal Medicine at the Yale New Haven Hospital and Pulmonary / Critical Care Medicine at University at Buffalo. She specializes in pulmonary diseases and the care of critically ill patients. Her interests include interstitial lung diseases, COPD, ARDS and fluid management in the ICU. Dr.

Dr. Angelica Honsberg, an assistant professor in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Internal Medicine, graduated from the Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia. 

She completed her internal medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University and a pulmonary fellowship at the University of Arizona. 

Dr. Honsberg is board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Nazia Khan, an assistant professor in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Internal Medicine, received her medical degree at Dow Medical College in Pakistan.

Board certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine, she completed a residency at the University of Nevada Reno School of Medicine.

Her research includes work done at the LDS Hospital Cardiovascular Research Division in Salt Lake City, UT. 

Dr. Kush Modi, an assistant professor in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Internal Medicine, received his medical degree Gujarat University in Ahmedabad, India.

He completed his Masters in Public Health at Drexel University. He completed residency in internal medicine at Drexel University and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care at State University of New York at Buffalo.

Dr. Modi is associate fellowship program director for pulmonary and critical care at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV.

Dr. Gordon Ohning, a professor in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Internal Medicine, graduated from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine

He completed a residency in internal medicine at the University of Iowa and a fellowship in gastroenterology from UCLA. 

After 30 years as a professor at UCLA — he also was a prolific researcher with the CURE: Digestive Diseases Research Center there — Ohning said the opportunity to help create the new UNLV School of Medicine was too good to pass up. 

Jill Sharma, MD, who specializes in the management of pulmonary diseases and the care of critically ill patients, is an assistant professor in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Internal Medicine.

Dr. Sharma earned her medical degree from the Mercer University School of Medicine in Georgia. At the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine, she completed an internal medicine residency and a fellowship in pulmonary and critical care.

Dr. Misti Song, an assistant professor in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Internal Medicine, received her medical degree from Loma Linda University. 

She is board certified in internal medicine by the American Board of Internal Medicine. 

Dr. Sandhya Wahi-Gururaj, an associate professor in the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV Department of Internal Medicine, is a board-certified general internist and currently serves as the internal medicine residency program director. 

A member of the American College of Physicians, Dr. Wahi-Gururaj has helped to shape curricula and training programs for local fellows and residents while maintaining a clinical presence that centers on establishing long-lasting, communicative relationships with her primary care patients.

Ji Won Yoo, MD, is the Nevada Interprofessional Healthy Aging Network Program Director and Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine at UNLV. Nevada is a very popular place to retire, especially, with the baby boomer generation. At the same time, the number of providers of medical care in Nevada has not kept pace with the overall population and specifically, not with the geriatric population.  For example, Nevada ranks 48th out of 50 states in primary care provider shortage. As we age, care often becomes more complex.