South Campus (Wilkes-Barre)

The South Campus of Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine is headquartered in Wilkes-Barre, PA, with office space at Geisinger South Wilkes-Barre, 25 Church St., Fourth Floor. The South Campus serves the following counties: Carbon, Columbia, Luzerne and Schuylkill.

South Campus leadership

The following core team of educators manage clinical rotations throughout years three and four, when students are living full-time in each regional campus:

Mary Elizabeth Sokach, DO
Regional Assistant Dean, South Campus
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Kimberly Kovalick, DO
Regional Assistant Dean, Northeast
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Lisa Holtz, MD
Regional Education Coordinator of Pediatrics, South Campus
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics

Matthew Joseph, DO
Regional Education Coordinator of Family Medicine, South Campus
Assistant Professor of Family Medicine

Steve Kafrissen, MD
Regional Education Coordinator of Psychiatry, South Campus
Associate Professor of Psychiatry 

Joseph Stella, DO
Regional Education Coordinator of Surgery, South Campus
Associate Professor of Surgery 

Gehred Wetzel, DO
Regional Education Coordinator of OB-GYN, South Campus
Assistant Professor of OB-GYN

Jessica Zingaretti, DO
Regional Education Coordinator of Medicine, South Campus
Associate Professor of Medicine