Faculty

Cathy is a native Hoosier, who graduated from DePauw University (1986) and received her medical degree from Indiana University School of Medicine (1990). She trained in family medicine at the former St. Paul-Ramsey Medical Center (now Regions) in St. Paul, MN. After practicing for 4 years in community health in South Minneapolis, Cathy returned to Indianapolis in 1998 to practice here with the residency.

Cathy practiced full spectrum Family Medicine, delivering babies and doing inpatient, from residency until 2012, when she stopped  working in L&D.  She stopped hospital medicine in 2021, but continues to staff all patients, including prenatal care, in the FM clinic, and to see her own patients in a nearby private practice.

In her time away from the office she is also a full-time mother of two teenage boys. They keep her busy attending multiple basketball practices and games and other activities. She also leads a middle-school small group in Sunday school on most weeks and is otherwise quite active at her church.  For her own pleasure in her spare time, she finds it hard to choose between multiple activities she enjoys, which include (but are not limited to) walking (while listening to podcasts), biking, sewing, knitting, reading, or just meeting up with good friends for food and conversation. (Cathy loves to talk!)

Puja joined the faculty in May 2016 after moving to Indianapolis from Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she was previously faculty at the University of Minnesota Medical Center Family Medicine Residency Program. She completed a Faculty development fellowship there and was very active in high risk OB management. Puja enjoys practicing the full spectrum of family medicine, with a special interest in obstetrics and women's health procedures including OB ultrasound and colposcopy. She has an interest in caring for underserved populations, particularly those who have cultural barriers to care.

In her few spare moments, Puja enjoys reading historical fiction, watching movies and going for walks on the Monon trail with her young daughter and husband.

Betty is an Indiana native. She went to Purdue University for her undergraduate degree in Behavioral Neuroscience before attending Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine for her medical training. During medical school, Betty also completed a fellowship in Lifestyle Medicine to better prepare to treat patients in a holistic manner. After med school, she completed her residency at our very own St. Vincent Family Medicine program where she served as Chief resident. She enjoys working with the residents as faculty in the clinic.

In her spare time, Betty enjoys going to different state parks with her husband and young daughter and son as well as playing with their puppy.

Anne is our faculty member associated with St. Vincent the longest.  She was born here at St Vincent in what is now the Internal Medicine department. She came back to St. Vincent for residency and stayed on to do a fellowship in geriatrics before going into private practice nearby.

Anne rejoined the St Vincent family in 2012. She has a passion for the geriatric population and for making nursing home day the best day of the month! She and her husband enjoy spending time with their three boys, two dogs and two cats. She likes being outside and has a life-long goal of building her own tree house in the backyard.

After completing her residency in Family Medicine at St Vincent, Heidi joined the faculty of the residency program.  Her special areas of interest involve women and children's health.  As a faculty member, she enjoys seeing residents transition from students to colleagues during their training.  Heidi and her husband have two adult children.

Liz knew a good place when she found one, so after having completed four years of the IM/FM residency at St. Vincent, she jumped at the chance to stay on as faculty.  She worked for 10 years teaching residents and medical students in the hospital and clinic, and now teaches in the outpatient setting as well as sees her own patients in the FM clinic at the Primary Care Center. She is the faculty in charge of recruiting, medical students, and the didactic curriculum.

She grew up in Upland, Indiana (home of Ivanhoes, the best ice cream shop in Indiana) and studied sociology and anthropology at Wheaton College in Illinois. She spent 6-months in Peru, South America for an internship during college. She grew to appreciate the importance of healthcare in people's lives through that experience and was drawn to medicine. She graduated from Indiana University School of Medicine and then came to St. Vincent.

She enjoys spending time with her husband (who is a radiologist at Indiana University) and children, kayaking, and avoiding the home improvement projects her husband foists on her.

Todd Foster is trained in Biological Anthropology and Medical Science from Indiana University-Bloomington under the direction of Dr. Paul Jamison. His fields of expertise include Human Biological Growth & Development, Human Adaptation, and Human Variation. His dissertation, “A Nutritional and Anthropometric Assessment of Marshallese School Children,” explored the differences found in growth outcomes and dietary habits among private and public school children in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. This work also surveyed children on the capital atoll, Majuro, to allow for the expansion of a population-specific growth chart from ages 5 to 14.

In January 2011, Todd took a position of Clinical Research Scientist at St. Vincent Women’s Hospital working with the Center for Prenatal Diagnosis and the Ob/Gyn residency program. During this time, Todd worked on research studies exploring pre-term birth, cerclage, sex education, and cognitive development within higher order multiples. In 2014, Todd moved to the Office of Research & Regulatory Affairs within St. Vincent Health where he would begin assisting all St. Vincent associates including staff and resident physicians, nurses, genetic counselors, etc. Assistance runs the gamut from literature reviews and protocol development to data acquisition and storage to statistical analysis and poster/manuscript formation.

Todd’s current research interests include pediatric growth and obesity, race in medicine, the use of anthropometrics in medicine, and medical anthropology. In addition to working at St. Vincent Hospital-Indianapolis, Todd is an adjunct professor in the department of Anthropology at Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis. When Todd is not assisting others or conducting his own research, he is trail running through the forest, gardening, and/or listening to heavy metal.

Eric is originally from El Salvador and moved to the states at the age of nine. He has a bachelor's degree from Indiana Wesleyan University in General Studies with an emphasis in Mathematics. He loves making lists and has a passion for helping others. He loves anything basketball and working out. He also enjoys reading and spending time with his wife and kids. He has as many 4-legged family members as 2-legged, with a Pomeranian named Bruiser, an 85 pound terrier named Margo, an uber-sensitive cat named Charlie and an introverted cat named Gracie.