Med-Peds Faculty
Christopher L. Sweeney, M.D.
Program Director, Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Training Program
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine
Dr. Chris Sweeney attended Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, graduating in 1995. He remained at Southern Illinois University and Affiliated Hospitals completing a combined Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency in 1999. Following his residency training, Dr. Sweeney served as chief resident in the Department of Internal Medicine at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. He has held faculty positions at Michigan State University-Kalamazoo Center for Medical Studies and Creighton University. At Creighton University he was the associate program director for the combined Internal Medicine-Pediatric residency program. In 2008, he joined U of L as the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics residency program director.
Dr. Sweeney’s clinical and research interests include resident education, international health, musculoskeletal and sports medicine, preventative medicine and alternative healthcare. He is married to Dr. Brooke Sweeney, a med-peds physician. They have a daughter, Avelin. Dr. Sweeney’s recreational interests include fishing, gardening, and eating Brooke’s cooking. He is also a novice snow skier.
Dianne Muchant, M.D.
Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics
Pediatric Nephrologist
Dr. Dianne Muchant attended West Virginia University School of Medicine, graduating in 1986. She remained at WVU for her residency in Internal Medicine-Pediatrics. Upon finishing her residency in 1990, she moved to Charlottesville, VA to complete her fellowship in Pediatric Nephrology at the University of Virginia. In 1994, Dr. Muchant returned to West Virginia University as an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics and became the first Pediatric Nephrologist at WVU. She remained there for nearly 10 years and worked to develop a comprehensive program for children with renal disease, the first of its type in the state of WV.
Dr. Muchant joined the faculty at the University of Louisville in 2003 as one of three Pediatric Nephrologists. Her interests in Pediatric Nephrology include hypertension in children and congenital renal diseases. Dr. Muchant is dedicated to her work with children with renal disease, and to her teaching of residents and students. She has remained active in the Med-Peds Program and served as the Interim Program Director of the Internal Medicine-Pediatrics Residency Training Program from 2007 - 2008, critical to the program's first accreditation.
Brooke Sweeney, M.D.
Assistant Clinical Professor for Medicine and Pediatrics
Dr. Brooke Sweeney accompanied her husband, Dr. Chris Sweeney, to University of Louisville. Together they provide a powerful aspect of teamwork to the department. She is the Ambulatory Clinic Curriculum Coordinator for the program. She is the Director of Healthy for Life!, a multidisciplinary resource for overweight children. She is also a member of the Obesity Consultant Group to the Obesity Leadership Workgroup of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
She received a Bachelors of Science Degree from Creighton University, completed medical school at Michigan State University, and completed residency at Michigan State University. Her areas of interest are Combined Internal Medicine and Pediatrics, treatment of pediatric obesity, adolescent medicine, healthy lifestyles and preventative medicine, diabetes, women's health, and Integrative Medicine.
Amy Holthouser, M.D.
Associate Medicine Clerkship Director
Dr. Holthouser is a native of Louisville who completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Notre Dame, 1991-1995. She attended the University of Louisville for her Postgraduate Training, 1995-1997. Dr. Holthouser graduated from The University of Louisville School of Medicine in 2002, and completed her residency in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the same institution in 2006. She subsequently joined faculty at U of L in 2006. Her academic responsibilities include directing the Interdisciplinary Clinical Cases course for first and second year medical students and assisting with the Internal Medicine Clerkship for third and fourth year students, as well as clinical patient care and bedside teaching for residents and students at Kosair Children's Hospital and the University Hospital on the U of L Health Science campus. Educational honors include: The Excellence in Clinical Education Award as a resident in 2003 and 2004, election to AOA as one of three residents out of a campus of 600 candidates by the medical school class of 2005, The Internal Medicine Program Professionalism Award given by consensus of her fellow residents in 2006, and winning the Gender Equity Award from the American Medical Student Association in 2007.
Dr. Holthouser's area of primary interest is student education, with a special interest in forging links between basic science knowledge and the clinical care of patients. She is married to Tom Pierce, a freelance writer. She has a stepson Ian (age 17) and two daughters, Cady (age 4) and Evie (age 3). Areas of interest outside of the medical field include cooking, gardening, home improvement, real estate, and fiction reading.
Charlene K. Mitchell, M.D., M.S.P.H.
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics
Dr. Mitchell graduated from the University of Illinois College of Medicine, completing her Combined Internal Medicine-Pediatric Residency there in 1988. She earned her MSPH in Decision Science at the University of Louisville School of Public Health and Information Sciences in May 2004. She joined the faculty at UofL in 1989 and currently holds the academic title of Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Pediatrics. Dr. Mitchell has held several administrative teaching positions and also served as the Program Director for the UofL Combined Internal Medicine/Pediatric Residency Program from 1989 to 2003. Her clinical teaching responsibilities include precepting medical students, pediatric and medicine/pediatric residents in the Children & Youth Pediatric and Ambulatory Internal Medicine clinics. Dr. Mitchell is also Normal Newborn attending at the University of Louisville Hospital. She is actively involved in research and recently served as co-investigator for a three-year (completed in April 2007) study on the Louisville Integrated Primary Care Training Program for the Department of Health and Human Services Administration’s Graduate Psychology Education Program.
