Program Director: Kimberly Insel, MD, MPH
Kim graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 2011 and completed her family medicine training at University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency in Denver in 2014. She completed a faculty development global health fellowship at the Center for Global Health at University of Colorado in 2015. She has a Masters in Public Health from Boston University. She also completed a fellowship in applied epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and an internship with the World Health Organization in Ankara, Turkey. After fellowship, Dr. Insel worked as an Assistant Professor at Oregon Health and Sciences University in the Richmond Clinic. She then worked for five years as the Director of Fellowship Programs at St. Anthony North Family Medicine Residency in Westminster, Colorado. As Program Director, Dr. Insel’s greatest joy is helping passionate learners thrive and find their niche in community medicine. When not at work, she enjoys reimagining health care delivery, adventure hikes with her two lovely daughters, and trail running.
Associate Program Director, Lauren Rhoades MD
Lauren graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine in 2013 and completed her family medicine training at Rose Family Medicine Residency in Denver in 2016. She has been at the Montbello clinic since 2016. She has a fiery passion for medical education, and has taught hundreds of medical students, residents, and APP students. She has advanced experience in curriculum design and evaluation, and clinical expertise in women’s health, obstetric ultrasound, lifestyle medicine/weight management and medical aid in dying. Her scholarly interests include weight bias in medicine and residents educators. When she’s not doing a vasectomy or a dating ultrasound in clinic, Lauren loves reading, traveling, and spending time with her loving husband and three children.
Stephanie Augustine, MD (she/hers)
Dr. Augustine is a board-certified Family Medicine physician who graduated from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and completed residency training in Phoenix, Arizona. Since completing residency, Dr. Augustine has provided full spectrum care at the Montbello Clinic for the past 12 years. With more than eight years of experience as a Resident Mentor, Dr. Augustine has been deeply involved in medical education. She has served as clinical preceptor for both the University of Colorado Family Medicine and Preventive Medicine residencies. Her dedication to training the next generation of physicians extends to medical students as well—serving as a preceptor for the Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship and the Foundations of Doctoring Curriculum.
In addition to mentoring residents and students, Dr. Augustine has provided care and supervision in several Denver Health School-Based Clinics and currently serves as the Medical Director of Mobile Health providing care throughout the city of Denver with community-based partners. She is also serving as the Secretary for the Medical Staff Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the Cancer Screening Workgroup managing Quality Improvements projects throughout Ambulatory Care. A member of the Navajo Nation, Dr. Augustine is committed to community-centered care and health equity. Her clinical work and leadership reflect a deep-rooted passion for serving vulnerable and historically marginalized communities.
Bijan Ghaffari, MD
Bijan is a combined Family Medicine and Psychiatry physician, early in his career after completing his residency at Boston Medical Center. Denver Health has been a special place for him since his time as a medical student at the University of Colorado. Bijan’s professional interests have spanned global health, immigrant and refugee health, integrated behavioral health, community mental health, reproductive mental health, substance use treatment, and medical education. Outside of medicine, Bijan has been enjoying his early journey into parenthood, and he trusts that he will eventually be able to find time for other interests again, including cooking, gardening, cycling, and hiking.
Daniel Holligan MD
Dan went to medical school at the University of California, Davis School of Medicine in Sacramento, California. He did residency training in family medicine at Swedish Family Medicine Residency Program in the south Denver metro area and has been at Denver Health since 2015. He enjoys practicing full spectrum outpatient family medicine and has interests in caring for medically complex adults and chronic disease management including diabetes, patients with chronic pain, MAT, and sports related injuries. He acts as the team leader for the Montbello Clinic, and with his guidance our clinic has achieved exemplary quality measures. He is a competitive runner and is usually training for a marathon.
Charity Lehn, MD
Charity Lehn has worked as a Family Physician with Obstetrics at Denver Health since 2017. She completed residency at Northwestern Family Medicine Residency and a Maternal Child Health fellowship at PCC in Chicago, IL. Dr. Lehn provides full-spectrum care including operative obstetrics, substance use treatment, and outpatient procedures. She is a member of the Colorado Maternal Mortality Review Committee.
Andrew Levy, MD
Andy Levy started working at Denver Health in October 2024. He is originally from White Plains, N.Y. (just outside of New York City) but has been in Colorado now for almost 14 years (undergrad at University of Denver, medical school at University of Colorado, and residency at Saint Joseph's Hospital Family Medicine Residency Program) and doesn't intend to leave any time soon. He has a particular passion in medical education and in particular clinical reasoning, and enjoys practicing broad spectrum medicine (Obstetrics, Inpatient Adult Medicine, and Outpatient Primary Care including Pediatrics, Obstetrics, and Adults). Outside of work he loves anything outdoors (mountain biking, skiing, hiking), traveling when able to both domestically (mostly with his wife who runs competitive dog agility with their two awesome border collies) and abroad, is a huge Colorado Avalanche fan, and is developing his passion for soccer (he started playing soccer goalie less than two years ago!).
Allie Lindbloom MD
Allie is a fifth-generation Coloradan, born and raised in beautiful Boulder. She tried out both coasts, heading to Stanford for undergrad and Penn for medical school, before realizing the error of her ways and coming back to Colorado. She completed residency training at the University of Colorado Family Medicine Residency on the Denver Health track in 2021. After finishing residency, she stayed on at Denver Health because she loves its mission to provide high-quality medical care for the most vulnerable members of our community. She currently provides outpatient care at the Peña Clinic in southwest Denver, where she works with a mainly Spanish-speaking population and help lead the clinic’s prenatal care, refugee care, and quality improvement initiatives. She also delivers babies and directs the inpatient family medicine service at Denver Health hospital. She feels lucky to have the opportunity to care for the community that raised her, particularly our most vulnerable moms and babies, and she is passionate about training up the next generation of physicians who will continue to strengthen this work. She loves the variety of skills that family medicine requires, and she is energized and inspired by helping trainees reach their full potential to meet the needs of our community. When she’s not working, you’ll find her trying to teach my dog how to ride our stand-up paddleboard or helping her husband decide which of Denver’s many ice cream stores serve up the best cone.
Susana Peralta, DO, FAAFP
Dr. Peralta is originally from Pueblo, Colorado, and is a first-generation college and medical school graduate. She earned her medical degree from Des Moines University College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2015 and completed her Family Medicine residency at Iowa Lutheran Hospital in 2018. Following residency, Dr. Peralta provided care at a rural Federally Qualified Health Center before joining Denver Health in 2019. As a full-time clinician-educator, she is passionate about medical education and committed to delivering comprehensive, patient-centered care to historically marginalized and minoritized communities. Her clinical interests include preventive care, chronic disease management (including chronic kidney disease, diabetes, and asthma/COPD), prenatal care, and gynecological care. Outside of work, Dr. Peralta enjoys reading, hiking, and spending time with her partner, son, and dog.
Cherriese Thompson, MD
Raised in the Washington, D.C./Maryland area, Cherriese went to college at Washington Adventist University. She then graduated from University of Maryland School of Medicine in 2019 and completed her family medicine training at Santa Rosa Family Medicine Residency in 2022. Given her passion for obstetrics and comprehensive family medicine care, she pursed and completed her Surgical Obstetrics Fellowship at Saint Joseph Family Medicine Residency in 2023. Dr. Thompson has been working at Denver Health since 2023 providing full spectrum care and Park Hill and Montbello Family Health Centers. Dr. Thompson is passionate about care for underserved and under resourced populations, black maternal health and newborn care. When she is not in clinic or on labor and delivery, she enjoys going to reformer pilates and Zumba, trying out new restaurants, traveling new destinations, or spending time with family or friends.
Program Coordinator: Erin Greenfield
Erin joined Denver Health in Fall 2023 to support the ASPIRe APP specialty and Montbello Family Medicine residency programs. She recently moved to Denver from Seattle, where she previously served as a fellowship program coordinator at Seattle Children’s Hospital. Prior to that, she began her healthcare administration career at Virginia Mason Medical Center, where she supported regulatory compliance, safety, and emergency management. Outside of work, Erin is a classically-trained musician performing with ensembles in the Denver area, and enjoys knitting and cheering for the Kraken with her spouse and two cats.
