Faculty

Puja Samudra, MD
Associate Program Director

Hometown: Singapore
Undergraduate: Case Western Reserve University - BS
Medical School: University of Michigan Medical School

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 Johnson, DO

Associate Program Director

Hometown: West Lafayette, IN
Undergraduate: Purdue University
Medical School: Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine

​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.

Cathy Bryant, MD
Core Faculty​
Hometown: Indianapolis
Undergraduate: DePauw University
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine

​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!)

Heidi L. Harris-Bromund, MD, FAAFP
Clinic Director
Hometown: Springfield, IL
Undergraduate: Butler University
Medical School: Southern Illinois School of Medicine

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.​

Anne Knox, MD
Geriatrician/Core Faculty
Hometown: Springfield, OH
Undergraduate: Miami University
Medical School: University of Toledo College of Medicine and Life Sciences
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.

Liz Roth, MD, FACP
Core Faculty
Hometown: Upland, Indiana
Undergraduate: Wheaton College, Wheaton, IL
Medical School: Indiana University School of Medicine
Other Training/Fellowship: Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship, Michigan State University

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.