UW Project ECHO
1000 E. University Ave. Dept. 4298
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-2977
Email: projectecho@uwyo.edu
Alanna J. Brickley, M.D. completed her medical degree at Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons. She completed her pediatric residency at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh and stayed on to complete an additional year as a Chief Resident of the program.
Dr. Brickley is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Utah in the Division of General Pediatrics. She sees patients both at the University Pediatric Clinic and the Sugar House Health Center. She additionally spends half of her time working as a developmental pediatrician in the University Developmental Assessment Clinics. Her interests include child development and adolescent medicine. Her goals are to understand each child’s unique developmental journey and to foster support for patients and families in order to help them reach their greatest potential. She also loves working with the adolescent population, focusing on safely encouraging independence as they enter adulthood.
Feliciana Turner serves as the maternal and child health (MCH) unit manager in the Wyoming Department of Health, Public Health Division (WDH-PHD). In this role, she works to advance equitable outcomes for MCH populations. She is responsible for administrative oversight of planning, budgeting, personnel management/supervision, information processing, and programmatic evaluations for three program areas: Women and Infant Health, Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs, and Youth and Young Adult Health. She previously served as WDH-PHD's performance improvement and health equity manager where she worked to expand the use of data and equity principles to improve public health delivery and supported workforce development. With over a decade of public health experience, she passionately builds partnerships and engages with others who are working to optimize health for all Wyomingites.
Kirk B. Bjella, M.D. is a board-certified pediatrician providing care from the newborn period through adolescence. His interests include autism, developmental disabilities, preventative care, and underserved populations. He enjoys being involved in medical student and resident education. During his free time, he can often be found hiking or camping with his wife and dogs.
Sean Cunningham, Ph.D. currently serves as an Associate Professor in the Division of General Pediatrics, University of Utah School of Medicine. He sees patients at the University Developmental Assessment Clinics for ongoing care of medical and behavioral/psychiatric conditions. He has dual graduate degrees in clinical and educational psychology and is licensed at the doctoral level as a psychologist in the State of Utah. More specifically, Dr. Cunningham focuses on the assessment of children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental conditions at risk for behavioral and cognitive sequelae.
Dr. Cunningham is involved with supervising and mentoring psychology graduate and
post-doctoral students as well as teaching medical students and pediatric residents
during clinical care and didactic sessions. Engagement with individuals’ learning
also includes Dr. Cunningham’s involvement with the Utah Regional Leadership Education
in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (URLEND).
Jennifer D. Ellzey, M.D. received her medical degree from the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and completed residency training in general pediatrics at Children's Mercy Kansas City. She practiced general outpatient pediatrics for ten years in Kansas City prior to relocating to Salt Lake City and joining the faculty at the University of Utah School of Medicine in the Division of General Pediatrics as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics.
Dr. Ellzey sees infants, children, and adolescents at the Sugar House Health Center and the University Pediatric Clinic. Her interests include mental health, immigrant and refugee health, body image in children and adolescents, and fostering weight-neutral health-promoting behaviors in the context of preventive health care. She also has an interest in resident education, having participated in the creation of a bilingual resident longitudinal outpatient experience in Kansas City that focuses on enhancing medical Spanish skills and cultural competence in providing pediatric primary care in Spanish. Dr. Ellzey speaks English and Spanish and has maintained a bilingual medical practice for over ten years.
Zainab Kagen, M.D. is a board-certified Pediatrician seeing patients at Sugar House Health Center.
As a pediatrician, Dr. Kagen loves caring for patients of all ages; from premature newborns to adolescents entering adulthood. She has a warm personality and enjoys managing the full spectrum of pediatric and adolescent medical conditions. Dr. Kagen also welcomes new parents with newborns.
Dr. Kagen received her medical degree from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in 2011 and completed her Pediatric residency at University of Tennessee - Chattanooga in 2014. Dr. Kagen and her family moved to Utah in 2017 and enjoy many of the outdoor activities Utah has to offer.
Kathryn M. Murray, M.D. Dr. Murray received her medical degree and pediatric residency training from the University of Utah. She is interested in behavior and development, with a special interest in autism. She is also interested in adolescent medicine. Dr. Murray loves the field of medicine for many reasons, one of which is that we will never stop learning. In her leisure time she enjoys hiking, skiing (water and snow), and spending time with family. Dr. Murray currently sees patients at Sugar House Health Center.
Quang-Tuyen Nguyen, M.D. Dr. Nguyen received her medical degree from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, and completed her Pediatric Residency at the Tufts Floating Hospital for Children in Boston, MA. She stayed on as Chief Resident of her class. Afterwards she served in private practice for a large multi-specialty group in the Seattle area before joining the University.
She is board-certified in General Pediatrics and currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah, Department of Pediatrics, Division of General Pediatrics. She is currently working at the University Pediatric Clinic and in the Child Development Program the University Developmental Clinics. Her specific clinical interests are in developmental disorders as well as normal child development, developmental disabilities, obesity, healthy lifestyles and healthy families, and patient safety in medical systems.
Elizabeth R. Smith, M.D. has a commitment to education that started during her residency, which she completed at the University of Utah Affiliated Clinics in 2004. She stayed
on as a chief resident for the academic year of 2004-2005. During that year, she was
responsible for three times weekly morning report conferences and monthly Morbidity
and Mortality conferences with the other chief resident.
Dr. Smith then spent 6 years (2005-2011) in a university-based outpatient clinic where
she was the only pediatrician. She served as a preceptor for family medicine residents,
medical students and physician assistant students. She was also an ongoing community
preceptor for pediatric residents at the University of Utah during their continuity
clinic experience – precepting a total of four residents in five years.
In 2010, Dr. Smith returned to the University of Utah part-time as adjunct faculty
in the University Pediatrics clinic where her main responsibility was teaching third-year
medical students and interns. In 2011, she left the community practice to spend all
of her time in the School of Medicine. With this move came the change from adjunct
professor to assistant professor in the Department of Pediatrics. She has a private
practice and spends the rest of her time precepting students in the same-day clinic
and residents in their longitudinal outpatient experience (continuity clinic) at University
Pediatric Clinic (Clinic 6).
Her clinical interests include well child care, adolescent health care, educating families and maximizing mental health care in the primary care setting. She has assisted with the transition of the Division of General Pediatrics to the EpicCare electronic medical record. She continues to work with the EpicCare team to develop templates and complete quality improvement within the EMR.
UW Project ECHO
1000 E. University Ave. Dept. 4298
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-2977
Email: projectecho@uwyo.edu