Directors

The Family Medicine Residency Program benefits from a large and varied faculty, including more than 100 Scottsdale Healthcare volunteer medical staff physicians. Full-time Heuser Family Medicine Center faculty are listed below.

Robert J. Creager, M.D., Program Director
graduated from Harvard and attended the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He completed his residency at Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix and obtained a Master's degree in Education from Arizona State University. Realizing his enjoyment of the challenges and the stimulation of academic medicine, he joined our faculty in 1981. He has been program director since 1986. He currently holds the title of Clinical Associate Professor with the University of Arizona College of Medicine. His special interests include the use of computers in medicine and legal medicine. Dr. Creager and his wife, Theresa, have 3 sons, Brandon, Chase, and Nick. His free time is devoted to computers, recreational sports, and caring for his family's numerous animals.






Marvin Moe Bell, M.D., M.P.H., Associate Director
graduated from Occidental College with a Bachelor of Arts in Chemistry and attended the University of Southern California Medical School. Dr. Bell returned to his hometown of Scottsdale to complete his residency and joined the faculty in 1985. He has pursued interests in preventive medicine, health promotion, hyperlipidemia, geriatrics, and treadmill testing, resulting in a number of publications including a book titled "Wellness Prescriptions...Simple Steps to a Longer, Healthier Life." He received a Master's of Public Health degree in 1999 from the Arizona Graduate Program in Public Health. Dr. Bell currently serves as medical director of Scottsdale Healthcare's Community Health Services, and is a Clinical Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. He has climbed to the highest point of all 50 states and keeps in shape hiking, biking, or climbing fourteeners with his wife, Carrie, and children, Brian and Emily.



Robert A. Marlow, M.D., M.A., Associate Director
graduated from the University of Colorado with a Bachelor of Arts in mathematics and attended the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He completed his family medicine residency at the University of Colorado Medical Center in Denver. He entered private practice in rural Colorado for a number of years prior to moving into academic medicine. Dr. Marlow completed an academic family medicine fellowship at the Family Practice Faculty Development Center of Texas and has a Master's degree in statistics from Arizona State University. Among other duties, he serves as our Director of Research and has experience as an editorial board member of a family medicine journal. He is also a Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Dr. Marlow and his wife, Loraine, have two daughters, Courtney and Kimberly. Courtney is teaching a Special Education class in the Chandler,AZ school district. Kimberly received her degree in biology, is married, and hopes to enter a health profession. Dr. Marlow's hobbies include guitar, music recording/editing, computers, reading, and movies.



Cynthia L. Kegowicz, M.D., Associate Director
attended Georgetown University where she received a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and attended Georgetown University School of Medicine. She completed her family medicine residency at Scottsdale Healthcare, followed by a Faculty Development Fellowship at the University of Arizona. Dr. Kegowicz joined the faculty in September 1999. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine as well as an Adjunct Assistant Professor for the Midwestern University Arizona College of Osteopathic Medicine. Dr. Kegowicz was chosen as the Arizona nominee for the American Academy of Family Physicians Exemplary Teaching Award this past year. She is the Clerkship Director for all medical students that rotate through our Heuser Family Medicine Center and on our inpatient service. Dr. Kegowicz's academic interests include OB and women's health, adolescent medicine, pediatrics, and patient education. Her husband, Alex Onofrei, MD, is also a graduate of the Scottsdale Healthcare Family Medicine Residency Program. They are the proud parents of Megan, their school age daughter. Dr Kegowicz's hobbies include cooking, gardening, shopping and travel.


Wendy Danto Ellis, M.C., L.P.C., DHEd(c), Behavioral Science Director
received her Master of Counseling degree from Arizona State University. She is currently a candidate for a Doctorate in Health Education at A.T. Still University of Health Management (anticipated November 2009). Prior to joining the Family Medicine Residency in March 1998, she divided her professional activities between graduate and post-graduate education and training, consultation, and clinical private practice. Wendy is a Clinical Instructor of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine. Her clinical areas of interest include individual and family therapy, women's issues, enhancing coping and adjustment to chronic and critical illness, change management, and critical incident stress management/debriefing. Wendy's academic interests include collaborative and relationship centered care, the process of change and the social construction of illness, as well as the impact of the Electronic Medical Record on the doctor-patient relationship. Her co-authored book, "Relationships are Everything", was recently published. In her free time she enjoys movies, reading, photography, writing, cooking, traveling, spending time with friends, family, her husband, Larry, and their dogs.



Additional Faculty

• Rahul Athalye, MD (Family Medicine)
• Jeffrey Baird, MD (Family Medicine)
• Martin Catero, MD (Family Medicine, Inpatient & Outpatient, Clinical Instructor & Medical Director of NOAH)
• Andrea Darby-Stewart, MD (Family Medicine, Inpatient & Outpatient)
• Frederick Dicke, MD (Family Medicine, Inpatient)
• Philip Gideon, MD (Cardiology, Inpatient)
• Glenn Hinchman, MD (Family Medicine, Inpatient)
• Peter Levins, MD (Family Medicine, Inpatient)
• Richard Levinson, MD (Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine, Inpatient)
• Mark Mederios, MD (Family Medicine, Outpatient)
• Darlene Moyer, MD (Family Medicine, Inpatient & Outpatient)
• Irv Rollingher, MD (Internal Medicine, Geriatrics)
• Marcia Sistek, MD (Family Medicine, Outpatient)
• Alan Tenaglia, MD (Cardiology, Inpatient)
• Alvin Wong, DO (Internal Medicine, Inpatient)

Our OB/GYN Faculty (all are Boarded in Obstetrics and Gynecology)

• Andrew Carter, MD
• Dennis Eckel, MD
• Brenda Martin, MD
• Jean Moon, MD
• Sally Wareing, MD
• Eric Reuss, MD

Additionally, we have over 120 community physicians (primary care and specialists) who enthusiastically participate as voluntary residency preceptors for our program.