Site Capabilities

Community Health Network physicians, nurses, pharmacists and physical therapists are currently conducting research in the following areas:

• Behavioral Health
• Cardiovascular
• Nursing
• Oncology
• Orthopedics
• Women's Care

Community Health Network serves 539,000 patients in the Indianapolis and Kokomo areas. Overall patient demographics are:

• White/Caucasian – 75%
• Black/African American– 10.2%
• Hispanic/Latino – 3.2%
• Asian 1.3%
• Native American - .1%
• Other/Unknown – 10.2%

Facilities and Resources

• Community Health Network has eight (8) hospitals, 1,056 hospital beds, 20 walk-in clinics, 12 ambulatory health pavilions, 11 surgery and endoscopy centers, 11 behavioral health outpatient and inpatient care sites, and four (4) long-term care facilities.
• Inpatient and outpatient capabilities in all regions
• Access to multiple exam rooms at each location
• Dedicated research staff
• Electronic EMR (EPIC) – monitors have access
• High speed internet
• Copier/Fax/Scanner in each location
• Secure records storage
• Dedicated monitoring spaces
• Centrifuges (ambient and refrigerated)
• Secured drug storage (locked and temperature controlled)
• Freezers (-20 and -70)
• Micro and clinical laboratory
• Pharmacies
• Dedicated research pharmacists
• Radiology/Imaging – MRI, X-ray, Dexa, CT, PET
• ECG machine and access

Cardiovascular

• M. Ishti Ali, MD
• Martin Bielawski, NP
• Amy Clayton, NP
• Angela Cornelius, NP
• Sandeep Dube, MD
• Megan Frey, NP
• JoAnn Hanchar, NP
• Nadine Henning, NP
• Ben Leonardo, NP
• Kelly Lowe, NP
• JoAnn Mader, NP
• Jothiharan Mahenthiran, MD
• Jeanne Majors, NP
• Krishna Malineni, MD
• Penny Norris, NP
• Anil Purohit, MD
• Michael Robertson, MD
• Mindy Rutan, NP
• Muhamad Safiia, MD
• Jennifer Davel, MD
• Scott Sharp, MD
• Deovrat Singh, MD
• Srinivas Vallapuri, MD
• Rey Vivo, MD
• Jeffrey Weinberger, MD

Breast Oncology

• Tim Goedde, MD
• Christina Kim, MD
• Chace Lottich, MD
• Nate Thepjatri, MD
• Erin Zusan, MD

Medical Oncology

• Anuj Agarwala, MD
• Pablo Bedano, MD
• Sumeet Bhatia, MD
• Mary Lou Mayer, MD
• Annette Moore, MD
• Shiroo Parshad, MD
• Natraj Reddy Ammakkanavar, MD
• John Salter, MD
• Bilal Siddiqui, MD
• Radhika Walling, MD

Radiation Oncology

• Jianan Graybill, MD
• Chandrika Patel, MD
• Daniel Weed, MD
• Jack Wei, MD

• Darla Baker, PT
• Scott Bauman, PT
• Rodney Benner, MD
• Laura Bray-Prescott, PT
• Bill Claussen, PT
• Diane Davidson, PT
• Sarah Eaton, PT
• Emma Feingold, PT
• K. Donald Shelbourne, MD