Faculty

Dr. Van Putten, MD, FASA - Program Director

Dr. Van Putten was born and raised in the Los Angeles area. He is a lifelong tumbleweed, and knew from an early age that he was destined to wander. As a teenager, if he wasn’t riding his bike from his home in Inglewood, CA to San Diego, he was hopping a train to Seattle or backpacking around New England. His undergraduate education took place in Durham, NC, Walla Walla, WA, and California—broken up by a teaching stint in Tokyo, Japan. After completing medical school at Harvard, he began his residency training in Boston and finished it in Seattle. It is shocking to those that know him that he has actually stayed put in one place—Fresno, for 26 years. This speaks to the easy livability and deep kindness evident of this community. It is also a testament to the intangible benefits accrued by loving his job as an Anesthesiologist and supporting a faith-based health ministry at Saint Agnes.

Linet R D’Morias, MD - Associate Program Director

MD: TD Medical College, Kerala, India 
Residency: Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York

Dr. D’Morias is a core faculty member of the Internal Medicine Residency Program at Saint Agnes Medical Center and the Associate Program Director of the Transitional Year Program. Dr. D’Morias and her physician husband have lived in Fresno since 1990. She graduated from TD Medical College, Kerala, India and completed Internal Medicine residency training at Wyckoff Heights Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York. After completion of her residency, she joined the VA Medical Center in Fresno where she worked in the department of Medicine and the UCSF Fresno Internal Medicine Residency Program as Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine. She trained Internal Medicine Residents who rotated at the VA Medical Center in the inpatient and Ambulatory settings for about 13 years. In 2002, Dr. D’Morias started her Internal Medicine private practice in the community with admitting privileges at Saint Agnes Medical Center. In 2012 she became a full time Hospitalist at Saint Agnes Medical Center and was the Lead Hospitalist for the Vituity Physician Group. Dr. D’Morias is a proud mother of three well accomplished children and the grandmother of two adorable grandchildren. Cooking is her passion and helps her decompress. Her personal philosophy to quote is Ralph Waldo Emerson: "To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children’ to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to leave the world a better place."

Pankaj Bharati, MD

Medical School: JIMCH, Bangladesh
Residency: SUNY Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse
Fellowship: Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon NH

After graduating from medical school, I came to USA and matched at SUNY Upstate for internal medicine residency then fellowship in Critical Care. I enjoy taking care of critically ill patients and enjoy my time in the hospital as each day brings lot of excitement. I started working at Saint Agnes in 2019 . ICU is a core rotation for all residency program and I’m among the few fortunate to have the opportunity to teach and nurture residents form all residency program offered at this institution. I love outdoors, photography and music.

Peter Dornhofer, MD

MD: Oral Roberts University
Residency: Emergency Medicine Residency, Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center

The ability to “fix people” was my childhood dream that began to be fulfilled at Oral Roberts University School of Medicine in Tulsa, Oklahoma. I then furthered my training in Emergency Medicine at Martin Luther King Jr. Medical Center, an inner-city Los Angeles County Hospital, in Compton, CA. There were more people to fix than I could have ever imagined. Over the past 28 years, I have had a fulfilling career at Saint Agnes Medical Center and have had the privilege of providing emergency care to many in our community. I contributed to the beginning stages of developing our current Emergency Medicine residency program and am excited to help teach our first class of emergency medicine residents and our first class of Transitional year residents. I am married with 4 children and two grandchildren. I love the outdoors, mountains, and the ocean and enjoy a variety of outdoor sports in those settings.