GME Staff Directory

Jenny Boyd

Jenny Boyd, MD
Chief Medical Officer

Yara Park

Yara Park, MD
Designated Institutional Official

Kelly Cash

Kelly King, MHA, C-TAGME
Director, Graduate Medical Education

Nikki Binz

Nikki Binz, MD
Associate Designated Institutional Official


Sarah Longenbach, C-TAGME Sarah Longenbach

GME Operations Manger
984-974-7831, Sarah.Longenbach@unchealth.unc.edu

Ms. Longenbach is responsible for the oversight of the credentialing and onboarding process for all GME residents and fellows. She also oversees our team of GME Specialists.

Siobhan Gallagher

Siobhan Gallagher

Institutional Coordinator
984-974-7836, Siobhan.Gallagher@unchealth.unc.edu

Ms. Gallagher manages the data and information systems for the department to support its credentialing, training, and accreditation functions. She is the primary contact for questions regarding MedHub. She is also the primary contact for the McLendon Labs programs.

Ginny Mays, C-TAGME

Ginny Mays

Business Manager
984-974-7840, virginia.mays@unchealth.unc.edu

Ms. Mays monitors and reconciles financial accounts related to insurance premiums, operating budgets, billing and all other financial aspects of graduate medical education.

Sarah Gonzalez, C-TAGME

Sarah Gonzalez

Institutional Coordinator
984-215-4441, Sarah.Gonzalez@unchealth.unc.edu

Ms. Gonzalez is the Institutional Coordinator with the ACGME and serves as the Training Program Liaison with the ECFMG/Intealth for foreign medical graduates wishing to train at UNC Health. She also acts as the Institutional Administrator with NRMP related to the MATCH process. Ms. Gonzalez also coordinates the PLA/TLA (Program Letter of Agreement/Training Letter of Agreement) process for Visiting Residents and UNC Trainees wishing to participate in away rotations at other medical centers.

Josie Santos

Josie Santos

Administrative Coordinator
984-974-7837, Josie.Santos@unchealth.unc.edu

Ms. Santos is the primary contact person for questions regarding moonlighting, freedom pay and work hours. She supports the Moonlighting Subcommittee of the Graduate Medical Education Committee. Ms. Santos is the primary contact for the following training programs: Medical Physics, Pastoral Care, Pharmacy, Physical Therapy/Allied Health and Rehab Therapy Services. She also serves as back-up to Christy Ray on verification requests.

Christy Ray

Christy Ray

Executive Administrative Assistant.
984-974-7832, Christy.Ray@unchealth.unc.edu

Ms. Ray provides support and assistance to Dr. Yara Park and Kelly King. Ms. Ray is also the primary contact person for employment verification requests and loan forgiveness/deferment forms for past and present trainees.

GME Specialists:

GME Specialists are responsible for maintaining GME residents’ and fellows’ training records and handling matters relating to their appointments including credentialing, facilitating resident training licensure, processing personnel action requests and other human resources functions, and providing support if necessary for benefits administration. Additionally, GME Specialists are responsible for the oversight, monitoring, education and training of the Residency Training Coordinators to ensure that institutional policies, ACGME requirements and federal and state laws are followed, and compliance is maintained.

Jessica Cote

Jessica Cote

GME Specialist
984-974-7835, Jessica.Cote@unchealth.unc.edu

Ms. Cote is the primary contact for the following programs: Allergy & Immunology, Emergency Medicine and subspecialties, General Practice Residency, Internal Medicine/Pediatrics, Medical Genetics and Genomics, Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, Pediatrics and subspecialties, and Pediatric Dentistry.

Danielle Pavoni

Pavoni

GME Specialist
984-974-7839, Danielle.Pavoni@unchealth.unc.edu

Ms. Pavoni is the primary contact for the following programs: Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Radiation Oncology, Surgery & subspecialty, Orthopaedics & subspecialty, Urology and Ophthalmology.

Christina Cumberbatch

Christina Cumberbatch

GME Specialist
984-974-7833,  Christina.Cumberbatch@unchealth.unc.edu

Ms. Cumberbatch is the primary contact for the following programs: Anesthesiology and subspecialties, Family Medicine and subspecialties, Obstetrics and Gynecology and subspecialties, Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Dermatology & subspecialty, Pathology & subspecialties

Raven West

Christina Cumberbatch

GME Specialist
984-974-2871, Raven.west2@unchealth.unc.edu

Ms. West is the primary contact for the following programs: Internal Medicine and Internal Medicine subspecialties

Kim Marks 

Kim Marks

GME Specialist

984-974-7834, kim.marks2@unchealth.unc.edu  

Ms. Marks is the primary contact for following programs: Neurology & subspecialties,  Radiology & subspecialties, Psychiatry & subspecialties. 

Contact Us

UNC Graduate Medical Education
170 Manning Drive
Room B132 CB 7514
Chapel Hill, NC 27514

Office Hours: 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Thursday with Fridays being remote. We are located on the basement floor of the POB/Houpt Building. 

Phone: 984-974-1072
Fax: 984-974-0290