RECENT GRADUATES
Tatiana Cardoso, MD
Dr. Tatiana Cardoso was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, where she also trained as an internal medicine physician. She worked as an occupational physician and an emergency room physician in Brazil for four years. She was invited to the University of Kentucky as a visiting scholar to do research with leishmaniasis, a disease that plagues marginalized populations in Brazil. Dr. Cardoso then decided to pursue a career in family medicine in the United States. She graduated from the St. Claire Family Medicine Residency Program in 2009. Dr. Cardoso will be joining a family medicine private practice in Vancouver Canada. Her hobbies are dancing and literature.
Sudha Challa, MD
Dr. Sudha Challa was born in Guntur, India. She trained and worked as a rural family physician in Bharatpur, Nepal. Dr. Challa moved to the United States in 2003 and decided to pursue a career as a family physician working with the underserved. She graduated from the St. Claire Family Medicine Residency Program in 2009. She is currently completing a Fellowship in Geriatric Medicine at the University of Louisville. Her hobbies are tennis, mountain hiking, reading and travelling.
Denis Aliker, MD
Denis was born in Gulu, Northern Uganda. He lived and attended school both in Kenya and Uganda. He continued his education at Berea College where he obtained his undergraduate studies. Dr. Aliker graduated from University of Kentucky College of Medicine in 2005. He rotated at St. Claire Regional as 4th year medical student and has a strong interest in the medically underserved and international medical missions.
Denis graduated from the SCR Family Medicine Residency program in 2008. Dr. Aliker joined the medical staff of St. Claire Regional Medical Center and is currently seeing patients at St. Claire Regional Family Medicine - Frenchburg.
Interest : outdoor sports especially soccer.
Tetyana Tackett, MD
Dr. Tetyana Tackett was born in the Ukraine and trained there as a pediatrician. She moved to the United States several years ago and has decided to pursue a career as a family physician working with the underserved. Her interests include maternal/child health issues, especially obstetrics. She is also an accomplished musician.
Tetyana graduated from the SCR Family Medicine Residency program in 2008. Dr. Tackett joined the New Lexington Clinic as an outpatient family physician.
