Leadership and faculty make our program special.
Our program faculty consists of 37 pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists with diverse training backgrounds. Pediatric nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, psychologists, child life specialists and others are also active participants in the teaching program.
Meet our Faculty:
Suzanne Wright, M.D. - Program Director, Pediatric Residency
School: Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX (1992)
Internship and
Residency:Pediatrics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (1995)
Board Certification: Pediatrics (1996)
Academic Appointments: Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Uzoma C. Okorie, M.D.
School: Cornell University Weill Medical College -New York, NY (2005)
Internship and Residency: Cornell University - New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY (2008)
Fellowship: Pediatric Cardiology, New York University - Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
Board Certification: Pediatrics (2010); Pediatric Cardiology (2014)
Academic Appointments: Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Neil D. Fernandes, M.D.
School: Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India (2014)
Internship and Residency: Pediatrics, MetroHealth Medical Center, Cleveland, OH (
8)
Fellowship: Pediatric Critical Care Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA (2021)
Board Certification: Pediatrics (2018); Pediatric Critical Care Medicine (2022)
Academic Appointments: Clinical Adjunct Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Nicole I. Francis, M.D.
School: Charles University - First Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic (2015)
Internship and Residency: Pediatrics, Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield, WI (2020)
Board Certification: Pediatrics (2020)
Brittany D. Samson, M.D.
School: Saba University School of Medicine, SAva, Dutch Caribbean (2016)
Internship and Residency: Pediatrics, Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield, WI (2019)
Fellowship: University of Arizona - College of Medicine, Tucson, AZ (2022)
Board Certification: Pediatrics (2019)
Carmen G. Verwoerd, M.D.
School: Ross University School of Medicine, Miramar, FL (2014)
Internship and Residency: Pediatrics, Marshfield Clinic Health System, Marshfield, WI (2018)
Fellowship: University of Wisconsin - American Family Children's Hospital, Madison, WI (2021)
Board Certification: Pediatrics (2020)
Current Residents:
To learn more about the current Marshfield Clinic Pediatric Residency Program trainees, please view
this pictorial.
