Richmond

Medical Director

Jim Mumper, MD

Dr. Mumper helped found PartnerMD(r) in November 2002 as the next step in an impressive career.

Dr. Mumper has been a highly respected family physician for 19 years in the Richmond area offices of Virginia Physicians. During that time, he served for 13 years as Clinical Investigator for the practice and in 1997 was named Medical Director of the group's Department of Clinical Research. Dr. Mumper has been the principal investigator in more than 25 Phase II, III, and IV clinical trials dealing with several of his areas of particular expertise, including diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, and infectious diseases. He served as Chairman of the Institutional Review Board for Virginia Physicians from 1994 to 1997 and Chairman of the Department of Family Practice for McGuire Medical Group in Richmond from 1991 to 1997. He also was a member of the Board of Directors for McGuire Medical Group from 1994 to 2000.

Dr. Mumper received a B.A. in 1979 from Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Va., and earned his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine in 1983. He completed his residency at Roanoke Memorial Hospital in Roanoke, Va., serving as Chief Resident from 1985 to 1986.

Dr. Mumper is a member of the American Academy of Family Physicians and the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians. He is licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia and certified by the American Board of Family Practice. Dr. Mumper lives in Richmond with his wife Pamela and two grown children, Laura and John.

Virginia W. Kladder, MD, MPH

Dr. Kladder joined PartnerMD in May 2004 to continue a career dedicated to providing quality primary care and preventive medicine for both men and women and older adolescents.

Dr. Kladder is an Internist. She has had extensive training in health issues that both males and females face today. These areas include management of diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hypothyroidism. Dr. Kladder's practice is devoted to the education, proactive care and management of individuals as well as couples and families.

Before coming to PartnerMD, Dr. Kladder served as an internist for men at the Richmond VA Medical Center and as a physician with expertise in bone health and osteoporosis. She was a periodic provider in the VA's Metabolic Bone Clinic. Dr. Kladder has had formal training in gynecology and breast health, and she evaluates and counsels women on the health implications of lifespan transitions, menopause, and hormones.

Dr. Kladder received a B.S. in Chemistry from Virginia Commonwealth University. She received both Master of Public Health and Doctor of Medicine degrees from the Medical College of Virginia. She is a member of the Richmond Academy of Medicine and the American College of Physicians, and is licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia and certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Dr. Kladder is a native of Richmond, Virginia and currently resides in Glen Allen with her husband Jon, daughter Sofie, and son Erik.

Stuart Solan, MD

Voted "Best Family Physician in Richmond" for 1998, 2000 and 2004 in a poll by Richmond Magazine, Dr. Stuart Solan has now joined PartnerMD(r) to continue a remarkable career in medicine.

Dr. Solan has held various leadership positions in the Virginia Academy of Family Physicians since 1985, including president in 1993-94. He has served as a Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Practice at the Medical College of Virginia since since 1982, and Associate Clinical Professor of Family Practice since 2000.

After receiving a B.A. in Psychology in 1973 from West Virginia University, Dr. Solan earned his M.D. from the Medical College of Virginia in 1977. He completed his residency in Family Practice at Riverside Hospital in Newport News, Va., serving as Chief Resident from 1979 to 1980.

Dr. Solan is licensed by the Commonwealth of Virginia and certified by the American Board of Family Practice. He has served on many boards, including the Trigon Blue Cross/Blue Shield Managed Care Advisory Panel for Virginia. Dr. Solan says he loves family practice because he gets to "take care of a little bit of everything." Two of several focal points of his practice are depression and anxiety disorders.

Dr. Solan lives in Richmond with his wife Carol. They have two grown children.

Leon O. Spiers, MD

Dr. Spiers has practiced family medicine in Richmond for over 20 years and joined PartnerMD on May 1, 2006.

He is an active leader in the Richmond medical community, and is also familiar to television viewers in Richmond as the physician face and voice of "Health Team Six," which aired on WTVR for a remarkable ten years. He was also a health commentator on South Carolina's "Good Morning, Columbia" program.

Dr. Spiers has been chairman of the Department of Family Practice at both Saint Mary's Hospital and Henrico Doctors Hospital. He has served on the credentials committees of both hospitals. He currently chairs a committee at St. Mary's Hospital overseeing quality of care and patient safety.

Dr. Spiers received a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies and his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Virginia. He completed his residency and fellowship at the University of South Carolina's Richland Memorial Hospital. In addition, Dr. Spiers was Assistant Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Bon Secour Richmond's Blackstone Family Practice Residency Program from 2002-2004.

He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Practice, and is certified by the American Board of Family Medicine.

Dr. Spiers is married and has three children. His hobbies are hiking, travel and reading.

David Wu-Pong, M.D.

A 2006 and 2007 Richmond Magazine "Top Doc" family physician, Dr. David Wu-Pong, joined PartnerMD in May 2007. Originally from Northern California, he has practiced medicine for the past 14 years in Virginia.

After receiving a B.A. in Biology with highest honors in 1986 from the University of California, Santa Cruz, Dr. Wu-Pong earned his M.D. from the University of California, San Francisco in 1990. He completed his residency in Family Medicine at the Community Hospital of Sonoma County, Santa Rosa.

Dr. Wu-Pong is licensed by the State of California and the State of Virginia and certified by the American Board of Family Practice. He has been an Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine at VCU/MCV for first and second year medical students since 1995. He also has been the team physician for Deep Run High School in Glen Allen since 2001. Dr. Wu-Pong's professional interests include women's health, the treatment of mood disorders, and health promotion/disease prevention.

Dr. Wu-Pong lives in Richmond with his wife Susanna and his two sons. His hobbies include volleyball, fly-fishing, canoeing, and gardening.

Patricia Burkwall , M.D.

A native of Mechanicsville, Virginia, Dr. Burkwall offers a wealth of internal medicine experience to the members of PartnerMD. She has completed extensive research on diabetes and has also published numerous medical journal articles on the subject. In addition, Dr. Burkwall has special treatment interests in the areas of hypertension, women's health and depression/mood disorders.

Prior to joining PartnerMD, Dr. Burkwall worked with Internal Medicine Associates of Virginia. She received her medical degree from the University of Virginia and completed her internal medicine residency at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. She has also received a master's degree in Molecular Physiology from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

Dr. Burkwall and her husband David have two children and reside in Mechanicsville. In her spare time, she enjoys tennis, water skiing and hiking.