Elizabeth D. Ennis, M.D., FACP

Group Chief Medical Officer
Designated Institutional Official
 

Elizabeth D. Ennis, M.D., FACP, is the Designated Institutional Official (DIO) of Graduate Medical Education at Brookwood Baptist Health and the Group Chief Medical Officer of the five Brookwood Baptist Health acute care hospitals in central Alabama. Over the years, Dr. Ennis has held multiple leadership roles in Graduate Medical Education serving both as a faculty member and program director before assuming the DIO position. In her CMO role, Dr. Ennis is intensely focused on quality improvement, patient safety, peer review and other physician related operational activities.

Dr. Ennis is currently board certified in Internal Medicine as well as Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism. She received her medical degree from The University of South Alabama College of Medicine and completed her residency and fellowship at the University of Alabama Hospitals (UAB). Dr. Ennis has held leadership positions in local, state and national organizations, has authored peer-reviewed endocrinology publications and has served as the principal investigator for numerous clinical research studies.

Erin Townsley, M.D., FACP

Internal Medicine Program Director

Dr. Townsley loves internal medicine and trainees! She is from Trussville, Alabama - a suburb of Birmingham. Her mom was a Spanish professor for over 30 years at Samford University, which is where Dr. Townsley completed her undergraduate degrees in Spanish and Biology. She attended the University of Alabama School of Medicine (UAB Heersink School of Medicine) for medical school and completed her post-graduate training in internal medicine at this program - called Baptist Health System at the time. She has been teaching faculty at Brookwood Baptist Health since completing residency in 2008, and the rest is history. She has served in all aspects of resident training both as Transitional Year Associate Program Director, Internal Medicine Associate Program Director, and Continuity Clinic Director for many years before assuming the role of Program Director of the IM program in 2019. She has navigated the residency with great leadership through COVID and changing ACGME requirements. She is a fierce advocate for residents and works to ensure excellent clinical training and curricular development. You will see Dr. Townsley in all practice sites - she attends in clinic, supervises the inpatient medicine teaching service, and maintains a faculty practice clinic. Her educational interests are mentoring and board preparation. Clinically she enjoys teaching on diabetes, obesity, and preventive care. When not at Princeton or Grandview, you can find her at local youth sports events with her 2 elementary aged boys and her husband who is a cardiac anesthesiologist by day and the boys’ basketball coach by night.

Kenny J. Murray, M.D., MPH

Associate Program Director

Dr. Murray is a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Medicine and the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health. He completed his Internal Medicine residency at Brookwood Baptist Health in Birmingham, AL. He served as Chief Resident and has been a member of the teaching faculty since 2015. Dr. Murray has been a practicing hospitalist and supervises and mentors residents in the inpatient and outpatient settings. He champions our ethics curriculum, and leads ethics focused morning reports and didactic conferences. His clinical interests include sepsis, quality/process improvement, and palliative care.

Allison Rogers, M.D.

Internal Medicine Core Faculty

Dr. Rogers serves as Internal Medicine core faculty. Originally from Madison, MS, she attended the University of Alabama for her undergraduate degree in communication studies. She graduated from the University Of Mississippi School Of Medicine in 2015 with selections to both AOA and Gold Humanism Honor Society. She then completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2018 where she received the Housestaff Spirit Award voted on by her co-residents and led the Resident Wellness Committee. She is involved with the Alabama ACP regional meeting planning committee and enjoys helping residents prepare and submit abstracts to local, regional, and national meetings. Dr. Rogers is the co-chair of the AL Early Career Physicians and recently piloted a program within the ACP to connect newly graduating residents with a mentor in their area of interest. Her favorite things to teach at BBH are the clinic small group sessions on Tuesday mornings at Princeton and morning report at Grandview on Wednesdays at noon. When asked what the best part of the program is, Dr. Rogers says it is the genuinely wonderful people she gets to work with every day - residents, staff, students and faculty - towards the common goal of serving patients. Dr. Rogers is board certified in Internal Medicine and achieved status as Fellow of the ACP in 2021.

She is married with a daughter, son, and dog. She lives in Homewood and her hobbies include book club, thrifting/dumpster diving, and getting involved in her local community through PTO and her church.

Carrie Alexander, M.D.

Internal Medicine Core Faculty

Dr. Alexander is a native of Alabama. She attended medical school at University of Alabama at Birmingham and completed her Internal Medicine training in the Birmingham Baptist Health System. Before joining the teaching faculty in 2021, she spent her first ten years in a traditional medicine practice and the last ten years doing outpatient medicine only. She enjoys teaching in the outpatient continuity clinic and helping with noon lectures. Her areas of interest include chronic disease management and preventative care. Outside of work, she is married with two grown boys and enjoys gardening, exercise and cooking/eating international food.

Lauren Pacheco, M.D.

Internal Medicine Core Faculty

Dr. Pacheco is the Program Director for the BBH Transitional Year Program. She also serves as core faculty for the Internal Medicine program as well as director of the mentorship program that includes both Transitional Year and Internal Medicine residents.

Born and raised in Arkansas, Dr. Pacheco attended the University of Arkansas for her undergraduate degree in biology followed by medical school at University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences where she graduated in 2016 and was selected to AOA. She then completed her internal medicine residency at University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2019 during which she led the Resident Wellness Committee and was awarded the Housestaff Spirit award voted on by her colleagues. Dr. Pacheco serves nationally as the ACP's Wellbeing Champion representing the state of Alabama. She is passionate about medical education, curriculum development, mentorship, and physician wellness. She created the Clinician Educator elective within the IM curriculum to further share her love of teaching with residents wanting to foster their skills in this area. Another recent project she has spearheaded has been improving the didactic curriculum specifically focusing on high quality lectures and board relevant content. Her hobbies include spending time with her husband and children, going to the lake, watching any Arkansas Razorback sport, and eating at the amazing restaurants Birmingham has to offer.

Pegah Kannar, MD

Internal Medicine Core Faculty

Dr. Kannar grew up in many parts of Alabama (really, ask her and she will recount it) and calls it home. She completed medical school at University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine and residency training at East Alabama Health Internal Medicine. To say she has a passion to learn is an understatement.

When she isn’t taming feral cats or forgetting passwords to everything, she is learning to navigate new realms of mom-dom and resident training while continuing to train herself. She hopes to bring the same enthusiasm to BBH for Internal Medicine that her previous attendings exhibited for their interests in point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS), outpatient primary care, patient/personal education, hospital medicine and high quality patient care.

Mark Wilson, MD

Internal Medicine Core Faculty

Dr. Mark Wilson grew up in Charlotte, N.C. He earned an engineering degree from Georgia Tech and then his medical degree from UNC Chapel Hill. He received his residency training at Emory University (Atlanta) and Carolinas Medical Center (Charlotte). Following residency training, he moved to Birmingham to join the staff of Cooper Green Mercy Hospital, the county’s public hospital. During his twenty years at Cooper Green, he practiced inpatient and outpatient medicine, and supervised UAB School of Medicine students and residents during their clinical rotations there. He also served in several medical staff leadership roles. He is board certified in Internal Medicine.

Dr. Wilson left Cooper Green when he was appointed Jefferson County (Alabama) Health Officer and head of the Jefferson County of Health. During his twelve years as Health Officer, worked with community partners to bring about policy change and new initiatives, including statewide naloxone and fentanyl test strips access laws, local indoor smoke-free ordinances, the Red Rock Trail System to promote outdoor physical activity, the Recovery Resource Center to assist people with addiction, a Nurse-Family Partnership to improve maternal and infant health, a Hospital-linked Violence Intervention Program to address gun violence, and Cool Green Trees, an organization that plants trees in urban heat islands. He also led the county public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Wilson loves working with residents and medical students, and he has a particular interest in patient care for underserved populations. He and his wife have three grown children and two grandchildren. His activities outside of work include gardening, long distance running, playing the ‘cello and planting trees.

David Wynne, MD, FACP

Internal Medicine Core Faculty

Dr. Wynne is a graduate of the University of Alabama School of Medicine. He completed his Internal Medicine Residency training at Baptist Health System. Dr. Wynne is a native of Birmingham and has a well-established primary care clinic. He has been on the teaching faculty with Brookwood Baptist Health since he completed training in 1999. He enjoys being a preceptor in the ambulatory setting as well as attending on inpatient general medicine wards. He loves bringing clinical cases for discussion to our weekly conferences.