SIU Family Medicine Residency Program

The Family Medicine Residency Program is accredited by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA), the American Medical Association (AMA), and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

Our program faculty is comprised of the director, an assistant director, and nine faculty physicians, all of whom are board certified in family medicine. One behavioral scientist and three physician assistants are also on the faculty. Practicing family physicians from Carbondale and the surrounding area are part-time faculty.

Seminars and conferences sponsored by the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale and by the Memorial Hospital of Carbondale are scheduled weekly. Community physicians, faculty, and residents present these. Topics include medical ethics, practice management, behavioral science, and clinical case presentations as well as formal medical, surgical, pediatric, and obstetrical lectures and discussions.

	Penelope K. Tippy, M.D., director of the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale since 1984 and associate chairperson of the Department of Family and Community Medicine, is a graduate of Knox College and the University of Illinois School of Medicine. After completing her residency training at Wilson Memorial Hospital in Johnson City, New York, she was in solo practice in West Frankfort, Illinois. Dr. Tippy is a board-certified family physician. She is also the medical director of the SIU Physician Assistant Program.

	Sharon Smaga, M.D., assistant director and director of Undergraduate and Graduate Affairs of the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale, obtained her medical degree from the University of Chicago. After completing her residency at the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale, Dr. Smaga practiced with the Family Practice Specialty Center in Cape Girardeau for two years. Dr. Smaga is board certified in family medicine, CAQ certified in Geriatrics, and a full-time faculty member of the SIU School of Medicine.

	Andrea Humphrey, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical & Family Medicine, obtained her medical degree from SIU School of Medicine and completed her residency at the Springfield Family Medicine program. Dr. Humphrey was in private practice in Waupun, Wisconsin with a Family Medicine OB practice prior to relocating to southern Illinois. She is board cretified family physican.

	Jon Humphrey, M.D., Assistant Professor of Clinical Family & Community Medicine, is Associate Director of the Sports Medicine Felloship, and a team physician for John A.Logan College and the Southern Illinois Miners baseball team. He received his medical degree from SIU and completed his Family Medicine residency at SIUC's Springfield program. Dr.Humphrey was a Family Medicine physician in Waupun, Wisconsin prior to relocating to southern Illinois. He recently completed a Sports Medicine fellowship in Carbondale and is Board-Certified in Family Medicine with a CAQ in Sports Medicine. He is a member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, American College of Sports Medicine and American Academy of Family Physicians.

	Marci Moore-Connelley, M.D., assistant professor of clinical family and community medicine at SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale. Dr. Moore-Connelley completed her family medicine residency at the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale in 2001. She also received her medical degree from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1998. Dr. Moore-Connelley is a board certified family physician.

	Sara Malone, M.D.,assistant professor of clinical family and community medicine at SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale. Dr.Malone completed her family medicine residency at the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale in 2010. She also received her medical degree from University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria in 2006.

	Kyaw Naing, M.D./Ph.D., associate director of Outreach Services of SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale, received his medical degree from the Institute of Medicine I, Rangoon, Burma. Dr. Naing completed his residency at the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale. He is a board-certified family physician and a full-time faculty member.

	Scott Schonewolf, D.O., Director of Sports Medicine at the Family Medicine Residency Program, physician at SIU student Health Program and Assistant Team Physician at SIU. Dr. Schonewolf received his medical residency at Harrisburg Family Practice Residency in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. He completed his Sports Medicine fellowship at Utah Valley Sports Medicine and Family Practice and is Board-certified in Family Medicine with a CAQ in Sports Medicine.

	Quincy O. Scott, Jr. D.O. , Professor and associate director of the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale and serves as Osteopathic director, Director of Medical Education, and Director of Student Medical Education of Kirksville OPTI, completed his family medicine residency at the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale in 1993. Dr. Scott received his medical degree from the Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine, Chicago, Illinois. After residency, Dr. Scott was in the solo practice in Hillsboro, Illinois. He is board certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians. He is an American Academy of Family Physicians fellow. Dr. Scott is a full-time faculty member.

	Max Baier, P.A.; APRN, BC, is a physician assistant for the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale. He is involved in a collaborative program with the SIU Physician Assistant Program and the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

	Yolanda Gunzel, L.C.S.W., a social worker at the SIU Family Medicine Residency Program-Carbondale, received her BWS at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and MSW at the University of Southern Indiana. She is a full-time faculty member of Southern Illinois University.