Geriatrics Fellowship
Faculty
Irene Hamrick, MD
Associate Professor & Geriatrics Division Director
Geriatric Fellowship Director
Dr. Hamrick received her medical degree from East Carolina University School of Medicine after completing a nursing degree at Western Carolina University. She did her residency in Family Medicine and fellowship in geriatrics, also at East Carolina University. She joined the geriatrics faculty after completing her fellowship in 1999. She is the medical director of a local nursing home, and has been involved in quality improvement on the department and medical school level. Her special interest in computers has led to the development of a computer simulated home visit, geriatric templates for our electronic health records and national presentations on EHRs and PDAs. Her clinical and research interests include osteoporosis, nutrition, dementia, and home visits. Her husband is a child and adolescent psychiatrist with ECU. Their two sons born in 1981 and 1983 are a computer engineer and an artist. Her outside interests include jogging, knitting, traveling and snow skiing.
hamricki@ecu.edu
Kenneth Steinweg, MD
Professor & Interim Chairman
Department of Family Medicine
BA Washington and Jefferson College, 1971
MD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1975
Internship in Categorical Family Practice, Womack Army Community Hospital, 1976
Residency in Family Medicine, Womack Army Community Hospital, 1978
Faculty Development Fellowship in Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1981
Fellowship in Geriatrics, East Carolina University, 1987
Interests include cognitive impairment, poly pharmacy, falls, long term care
steinwegk@ecu.edu
Emily Bray, MD
Clinic Director
Clinical Associate Professor
Dr. Bray graduated from medical school at the University of Illinois in Chicago. After her residency in family medicine, she helped found a community health center in Chicago which specialized in serving the underserved. After a geriatrics fellowship at Rush Presbyterian St. Luke’s hospital, she moved with her family to rural Maine and practice the full range of family medicine in a small mountain community. She has been practicing and teaching at ECU since 1997 and enjoys the opportunity to learn again by “teaching” students, residents, pharmacists, and fellows. While spending most of her clinical time in geriatrics, she has a strong professional interest in community medicine. Dr. Bray enjoys traveling with her husband, dabbling in art and her weekend home on the river. She is most proud of her two adult daughters, one a choreographer and the other who is studying to become a physician.
braye@ecu.edu
Maria Knupp
Physician Extender
Maria Knupp is a family nurse practitioner who graduated from the UNC Graduate Nursing School's FNP Program at Chapel Hill, NC. Prior to becoming a member of our geriatric faculty, she has worked in a variety of settings to include private practice as a nurse practitioner; teaching registered nurses for a total of 17 years at community colleges in Eastern North Carolina and for a total of 6 years at UNC Chapel Hill and ECU. She became a registered nurse after training at the University of Maryland School of Nursing at Baltimore, Maryland in 1973. As she continued her education, she completed a MSN at the University of Maryland Graduate School of Nursing, a Geriatric Nurse Practitioner Certificate at SUNY at Buffalo, and a flight nurse certification through the Air Force. Working with elderly is her favorite clinical calling. She enjoys sharing and learning with, for , and from all types of learners, including her patients at the nursing home. Research interests include polypharmacy, osteoporosis, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, depression, and dementia. Maria Knupp has numerous hobbies to include throwing and selling her pottery, painting, gardening, reading, learning languages, and traveling. She is married to Charles L. Knupp who has been a hematologist with ECU School of Medicine for 25 years. Her two children live close by. Her son works as a structural engineer in Raleigh, NC and her daughter is now studying to become a physician.
Tae Joon Lee, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Lee received his medical degree at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his family medicine residency in 2004 and geriatrics fellowship training in 2005 at Swedish Family Medicine Residency in Seattle, Washington. He coordinates geriatrics teaching for the resident physicians at the local teaching nursing home where he serves as the medical director. His interests include nursing home patient care and medical direction. He is also heavily involved in creating and maintaining a geriatrics course website. His wife and two boys love Greenville and you may find them on the local tennis courts or parks after work.
leetae@ecu.edu
Ann Marie Nye, PharmD
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Dr. Nye received her Doctor of Pharmacy in 2001 and a Certificate in Aging Studies in 2000 from Virginia Commonwealth University Medical College of Virginia. After completing a geriatric pharmacy residency at the University of Texas and Audie Murphy Veteran's Hospital, she joined the faculty of Campbell University as an assistant professor of pharmacy practice and the Geriatric Division at ECU in 2002. She is a Certified Geriatric Pharmacist and Fellow of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists. Her primary clinical role is providing patient care at Golden Living Center, a teaching nursing home. She also conducts a geriatric pharmacotherapy clinic and provides medication counseling. Her clinical interests include management of multiple medications and chronic disease. She is the director of a one year pharmacy residency which emphasizes geriatrics. Dr. Nye precepts pharmacy students and residents in the nursing home and geriatric clinic. She has worked on research on predictors of success in pharmacy school, the economics of administering medications in the nursing home, drugs for weight gain, osteoporosis medications, and use of the electronic medical record. Her husband is the Coordinator of Distance Education at Pitt County Community College. They spend time with their yellow lab Daisy and work on home improvement projects.
nyea@ecu.edu
Stanley P. Oakley, Jr., MD, FAPA
Dr. Oakley was born and raised in Charlotte, North Carolina. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, where he was a Morehead Scholar. He received his Medical Degree and Residency Training in Psychiatric Medicine from East Carolina University School of Medicine. He then completed a Fellowship in Forensic Psychiatric and Geriatric Psychiatry at Hillcrest Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia. Following his return from Australia, Dr. Oakley joined the faculty at East Carolina University School of Medicine and is the former Director of Residency Training. He is currently an Associate Professor and Director of Continuing Medical Education. He is Board Certified in General Adult and Geriatric Psychiatry and his interests include geriatric psychiatry, student health psychiatry and medical education.
Leonard Wilk, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Wilk received his medical degree at Karol Marcinkowski University of Medical Sciences in Poznan, Poland in 2003. He completed his family medicine residency training in 2006 at East Carolina University in Greenville, NC. His geriatric fellowship training was completed in 2007 also at ECU. His interests include hospital care, end of life issues, preventive care, and dementia.
wilkl@ecu.edu
