Community Faculty Advisory Board

Reka P. Danko, M.D.

Clinical Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Northern Nevada Medical Center, Hospitalist
Northern Nevada HOPES, Chief Medical Officer/ Medical Director

Reka Danko, M.D., earned her medical degree at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine, where she also completed her postgraduate internship and residency in Internal Medicine. Following board certification, Dr. Danko joined a hospitalist practice at Northern Nevada Medical Center, an acute care hospital in Sparks, Nevada. In 2013, Dr. Danko also began working at Northern Nevada HOPES, a Federally Qualified Health Center in Reno, where she offers primary care and specialty services to patients. In 2014, she accepted the position of Chief Medical Officer. Dr. Danko has also remained active at the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine as a clinical assistant professor since completion of her postgraduate training. In Practice of Medicine and Advanced Clinical Skills courses, she is a preceptor to students, in a variety of inpatient and outpatient clinical settings, through the fall, spring and summer semesters of the medical curriculum. Dr. Danko has also had teaching appointments as course director in Practice of Medicine, a systems based clinical skills course, where she contributed to curriculum development, standardized patient instruction, and clinical case development with focus on the bio-psycho-social-spiritual (BPSS) model. She also remains active as community faculty in advising students, giving classroom lectures, academic hospitalist work, and student remediation

Peter R. Fenwick, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
State of Nevada Alternate Delegate to the American Medical Association (AMA)

Peter Fenwick, M.D., FAAFP, was one of four original School of Medicine preceptors that began teaching students in 1981 when the school converted to a four-year program. He is the only one of the four who still precepts in northern Nevada, continuing his involvement with the medical school by precepting at the Student Outreach Clinics. Originally from England, Fenwick graduated from the 600-year-old St. Andrews University in Scotland. Following postgraduate training in neurosurgery, general surgery and obstetrics, he volunteered to go to countries with minimal medical care and was sent to Anguilla in the British West Indies. His broad background was quite helpful there as he was the only physician on the island of 7,000 people for a period of two and a half years. Following this, he spent nine years in the Royal Air Force as a Squadron Medical Officer. He then came to Reno in the late 1970s and ended up taking a position as an emergency medicine physician at what was then the Washoe Medical Center, now known as Renown Health. From there, he moved into private family practice for the next 30 years. During that period he was Chief of the Family Practice Department at both major Reno hospitals and spent nine years on the Board of Hometown Health. In 1981, he was approached by the School of Medicine to precept first- and third-year medical students. He was honored in 2007 with the University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine's Thomas J. Scully Praeceptor Carissimus Award.

Charles Francis, CCC-SLP

Clinical Instructor of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Speech Pathologist with Washoe County School District

Abigail Freeman, PA-C

Clinical Instructor of Physician Assistant Studies, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Physician Assistant with Urology Nevada

Joseph L. Olivarez, PA-C

Clinical Assistant Professor of Physician Assistant Studies, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Physician Assistant with Spine Nevada

Sowjanya Reganti, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Hematologist/Oncologist with Cancer Care Specialists

Paul Y. Shonnard, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine President and Physician at Nevada Orthopedics

Jonathan Slothower, D.O.

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine Physician at Slothower Pediatrics in Elko, NV

Mitchell B. Strominger, MD

Professor of Clinical Pediatrics and Surgery, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Pediatric Neuro-Ophthalmologist with Renown Regional Medical Center

Katherine Wallisch, CCC-SLP

Clinical Instructor of Speech Pathology and Audiology, University of Nevada, Reno School of Medicine
Speech Pathologist with Therapy Blocks, LLC Las Vegas
CEO of AAC Speech Clinic and Autism & Brain Institute -- Las Vegas and Reno, NV