Program Leadership
The leadership of the residency program is an innovative group of physician directors, chief residents, and resident representatives who are actively involved in residency training. Educational issues, curriculum innovations, and professional development strategies are openly discussed in regular planning meetings. We offer resident retreats each year for each class, and involve the residents in curriculum planning. There are scheduled luncheons with the program directors, and an annual program evaluation that provides extensive resident involvement in program development.
Donna Holland, MD, FACP
Associate Program Director, Pediatrics Residency Program
Director, Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Residency Program
A native Texan, Dr. Holland received her medical degree from the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in Houston in 1992. She came to Phoenix to complete residency training in the Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program at Banner Good Samaritan Regional Medical Center, which is affiliated with the Phoenix Children's Hospital/Maricopa Medical Center Pediatric Residency Program. She is now the Residency Program Director for the Combined Medicine/Pediatrics Program and an Associate Program Director for the Pediatrics Residency Program. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and of the American College of Physicians. She is board certified in both Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. She is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of Arizona College Of Medicine and is Director of the Combined Medicine/Pediatrics clinical rotation for medical students. She has clinical responsibilities both in the ambulatory and inpatient settings where she is involved in resident education, junior faculty development projects, and community outreach.
Ryan Bode, MD
Associate Program Director, Pediatrics Residency Program
Dr. Bode was born and raised in Ohio and completed his medical school training at The Ohio State University. He completed his pediatric residency training at Phoenix Children's Hospital/ Maricopa Medical Center and was a Chief Resident during his final year. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, board certified in Pediatrics, and Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Arizona. In addition to his role within Medical Education, Dr. Bode the Division Chief of the very active and rapidly growing KidsLink Hospitalist Division. His research interests revolve around both his roles in Medical Education and Hospitalist medicine as well as Evidence-Based Medicine. His wife Sara, also faculty within the Outpatient General Pediatrics Division, and their three children enjoy Phoenix and all that the weather and outdoors has to offer but still manage to attend as many Ohio State football games as possible.
Vasudha Bhavaraju , MD, FACP
Associate Program Director, Pediatric Residency Program
Dr. Bhavaraju, born and raised a true "Jersey Girl", studied music in college before earning her medical degree from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. She then completed her residency at the Phoenix Children’s Hospital/Maricopa Medical Center Program where she spent a year as Chief Resident. Following graduation, Dr. Bhavaraju worked as a hospitalist in the Scottsdale Healthcare system before joining the faculty in the inpatient and nursery divisions at the Maricopa Medical Center. Dr. Bhavaraju took a position as an Associate Program Director in 2009 and has shared some of our innovative educational practices at national conferences. She is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, board certified in Pediatrics, an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Arizona, and a recipient of the residency annual faculty teaching award. In her spare time, Dr. Bhavaraju is the mother of three children and has run several marathons, including Boston.
Salil Pradhan, MD
Associate Program Director, Pediatrics Residency Program
Dr. Pradhan, a native New Yorker, received his medical degree from New York Medical College in Valhalla, NY in 1992. He then came to Phoenix to complete residency training in the Phoenix Children’s Hospital/Maricopa Medical Center Pediatric Residency Program. He is now the Associate Program Director for the Pediatric Residency Program. He is also the Medical Director of inpatient services at Maricopa Medical Center. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics and is board certified in Pediatrics. He is an Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at the University of Arizona College Of Medicine. Dr. Pradhan has clinical responsibilities both in the ambulatory and inpatient settings where he is involved in resident education.
Lilia Parra-Roide, MD, FAAP
Associate Program Director, Pediatrics Residency Program
Lilia Parra-Roide, MD, was born and raised in California and earned her medical degree in 1993 from Stanford University School of Medicine. She moved to Phoenix to complete her internship and residency in pediatrics at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix, Arizona. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, certified by the American Board of Pediatrics, Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics for the University of Arizona College of Medicine and Assistant Clinical Professor of Pediatrics for Creighton University School of Medicine.She has been a medical educator for most of her career teaching residents and medical students. In this role she has been instrumental in the development of various curricula and faculty development. Dr. Parra-Roide’s clinical responsibilities are in the ambulatory and newborn nursery settings. Her interests and activities are medical education, quality improvement, patient safety, care of children with special health care needs, chronic illness, community outreach and asthma. She and her husband have two teenagers. She is Latina and fluent in Spanish. Her hobbies are reading, Pilates, yoga, going to the movies and travel.
Dana Ursea, MD
Associate Program Director, Pediatrics Residency Program
Dr. Ursea graduated with a BS in Mathematics and Physics from Ion Luca Caragiale Lyceum in Bucharest, Romania. In 1992 she received her medical degree from Carol Davila School of Medicine also in Bucharest. Dr. Ursea completed her residency in Pediatrics and was appointed Chief Resident in Pediatrics at New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York City. She also received fellowship training in Pediatric Gastroenterology at New York Presbyterian Hospital, Weill Cornell Medical Center. In addition to her role in Medical Education, Dr. Ursea is the Medical Director of the multidisciplinary Swallowing Rehabilitation Clinic at Phoenix Children’s Hospital. Dr. Ursea has received numerous awards and recognitions among them the Charles H. Revson Foundation Fellowship in Biomedical Research, and the Distinguished House Staff Award by the Cornell Medical Center Alumni Council. Dr. Ursea is well published on a variety of topics in Pediatric Gastroenterology. She is board certified in Pediatric Gastroenterology and Pediatrics by the American Board of Medical Specialties. Dr. Ursea’s research and areas of interest are in mentorship in medical education, feeding disturbances in children, gastrointestinal problems in children with Autism, Hepatitis C, novel endoscopic techniques and capsule endoscopy.
