The UF College of Medicine Welcomes 164 New Faculty Members
The 2018 UF College of Medicine fall faculty reception honored all faculty members hired since March 2018.
Oct. 23, 2018 – During the annual UF College of Medicine fall faculty reception held Tuesday evening, 164 new faculty members were welcomed to the UF College of Medicine by interim dean Joseph Tyndall, M.D., M.P.H., and other college leadership. Below is a complete list of the new faculty members, who began their new roles between March and August 2018:
Department of aging and geriatric research
Mamoun Al Mardini, Ph.D., assistant professor
Sung Min Han, Ph.D., assistant professor
Deepa Ramamurthi, M.D., assistant professor
Department of anatomy
Moira Jackson, Ph.D., research associate professor
Lingtao Jin, Ph.D., assistant professor
Nadja Makki, Ph.D., assistant professor
Department of anesthesiology
Hatem Al-Takrouri, M.B.B.S. (M.D.), clinical associate professor
Meghan Brennan, M.D., M.S., clinical assistant professor
Melissa Burger, M.D., assistant professor
Christopher Edwards, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Michael Franklin, D.O., assistant professor
Matthew Hernandez, D.O., clinical assistant professor
T. Everett Jones, M.D., assistant professor
Andrew McNeil, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Juan Mora, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Alexander Multak, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Anna Oviedo, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Arvin Trippensee, D.O., clinical assistant professor
Department of biochemistry
Melike Caglayan, Ph.D., assistant professor
Department of biostatistics
Rhonda Bacher, Ph.D, assistant professor
Subharup Guha, Ph.D., associate professor
Ji-Hyun Lee, Ph.D., professor
Zhigang Li, Ph.D., professor
Yichao Yu, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor
Department of community health and family medicine
Brian Fitzgerald, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Karyn Governale, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Brenda McMahon, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Lara Rybak, M.D, assistant professor, MD., assistant professor
Monica Silvian, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Department of dermatology
Marjorie Montanez-Wiscovich, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor
Douglas Robins, M.D., clinical associate professor
Abel Torres, M.D., J.D., M.B.A., professor and chair
Department of emergency medicine
Torben Becker, M.D., assistant professor
David Crabb, M.D., assistant professor
Mary Patterson, M.D., professor
Joel Rowe, clinical assistant professor
Jasmin Tanaja, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Meredith Thompson, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Department of epidemiology
Catalina Lopez-Quintero, M.D., Ph.D., clinical assistant professor
Huaizhen Qin, Ph.D., research assistant professor
Department of medicine
Neeka Akhavan, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Rozina Ali, clinical assistant professor
Mohammad Al-Khdarat, M.D., assistant professor
Dawn Becker, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Magalie Bruneus, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Michael Capozza, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Lyda Cuervo Pardo, M.D., assistant professor
Osama Dasa, M.D., assistant professor
Bahram Dideban, M.D., assistant professor
Matthew Fowler, D.O., clinical assistant professor
Ronald Garcia, M.D., assistant professor
Martin Gibbs, clinical assistant professor
Diana Gomez-Manjarres, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Adriana Herrera, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Maher Homsi, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Jessen Jacob, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Vidhu Kariyawasam, M.D., assistant professor
Richard Kerensky, M.D., clinical professor
Romina Lomonaco, M.D., assistant professor
Senthil Meenrajan, M.D., clinical associate professor
Juan Munoz-Pena, clinical assistant professor
Olanrewaju Olaoye, clinical assistant professor
Angela Pham, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Zhijian Qian, Ph.D., associate professor
Michael Robinson, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Matthew Schaller, assistant professor
Yogesh Scindia, Ph.D., assistant professor
Amy Sheer, M.D., M.P.H., clinical assistant professor
Vilma Torres, M.D., clinical professor
James Wever Pinzon, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Brendan Williams, D.O., clinical assistant professor
Corey Wilson, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Whitney Woodmansee, M.D., clinical professor
Andreas Zori, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Department of neurology
Maria Bruzzone Giraldez, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Aaron Carlson, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Adam Kelly, M.D., chief and clinical associate professor
Demetrius Maraganore, M.D., professor
Neal Weisbrod, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Fumiaki Yokoi, Ph.D., assistant scientist
Department of neuroscience
Jose Abisambra, Ph.D., associate professor
Erica Dale, Ph.D., research assistant professor
Amanda Dossat, Ph.D., lecturer
Joseph McQuail, Ph.D., assistant professor
Department of neurosurgery
Hassan Azari, Ph.D., assistant scientist
Justin Hilliard, M.D., visiting clinical assistant professor
Lan Hoang Minh, Ph.D., assistant scientist
Changlin Yang, Ph.D., assistant scientist
Department of obstetrics and gynecology
Reem Abu Rustum, M.D., clinical associate professor
Sarah Cappleman, M.D., visiting clinical assistant professor
Department of opthalmology
John LiVecchi, M.D., clinical associate professor
Department of orthopaedics and rehabilitation
Luis Felipe Pulido Sierra, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Tracy Roberts, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Department of otolaryngology
James Coticchia, M.D., assistant professor
Rex Haberman, M.D., associate professor
Timothy Lian, M.D., associate professor
Thomas Schrepfer, M.D., assistant professor
Department of pathology and laboratory medicine
Fatima Aly, M.D., clinical Associate Professor
Alessandra Nascimento, clinical associate professor
Daniel Perry, research assistant scientist
Julia Ross, M.D., Ph.D., clinical assistant professor
Brian Stewart, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Lerah Sutton, Ph.D., senior lecturer
Department of pediatrics–Congenital Heart Center
Matthew Steiner, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Megan Tzeng, M.D., visiting clinical assistant professor
Department of pediatrics
Osman Ahmad, M.D., assistant professor
Stephanie Battistini, M.D., visiting clinical assistant professor
Megan Behm-Downes, M.D., visiting assistant professor
William Bortcosh, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Albert Chan, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Joon Choi, D.O., assistant professor
Montserrat Corbera-Hincapie, M.D., visiting clinical assistant professor
Kristin Dayton, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Martina Drawdy, M.D., assistant professor
Berrin Ergun-Longmire, M.D., clinical associate professor
Melissa Fitzgerald, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Douglas Hyder, M.D., clinical associate professor
Jamie Jackson, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Laura Jacobsen, M.D., assistant professor
Nancy Joseph, M.B.B.S. (M.D.,) clinical assistant professor
Ali Kurady, M.D., assistant professor
Nicole Lawrence, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Carmen Leon Astudillo, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Mauro Lodolo, M.D., clinical associate professor
Natalia Martinez Schlurmann, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Larry Patterson, M.D., clinical associate professor
Sonja Rasmussen, M.D., professor
Desiree Rivera Nieves, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Erlyn Smith, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Leandra Woolnough, M.D., M.S., clinical assistant professor
Carla Zingariello, D.O., assistant professor
Department of pharmacology
Daniel Kopinke, Ph.D., assistant professor
Department of physiology
Andrew Chuanyin Liu, Ph.D., associate professor
Department of psychiatry
Damon Lamb, Ph.D., assistant professor
John Lewis, Ph.D., assistant professor
Andres Pumariega, M.D., chief and clinical professor
Regilda Romero, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor
Joe Thornton, M.D., clinical associate professor
Department of radiation oncology
Mark Artz, Ph.D., clinical assistant professor
Adam Holtzman, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Natalie Lockney, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Raymond Mailhot, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Department of radiology
Andrew Blum, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Hugh Davis IV, M.D., clinical assistant professor
David Gilland, senior lecturer
Abdullah Malkawi, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Lidia Nagae, M.D., clinical associate professor
Jeffrey Vogel, M.D., clinical assistant professor
School of Physician Assistant Studies
Nina Multak, Ph.D., professor
Department of surgery
Michol Cooper, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor
Trajan Cuellar, M.D., clinical assistant professor
Daniel Demos, M.D., assistant professor
Ian Driscoll, M.D., clinical associate professor
Eric Jeng, M.D., M.B.A., assistant professor
Crystal Johnson-Mann, M.D., assistant professor
Guanyi Lu, Ph.D., research associate professor
Tomas Martin, M.D., professor and director
Meir Meerkov, M.D., assistant professor
Robin Petroze, M.D., assistant professor
Thomas Read, M.D., professor and chief
Jaimar Rincon, Ph.D., assistant professor
Ashish Sharma, M.B.B.S. (M.D.,) Ph.D., associate professor
Michael Yacoub, M.D., assistant professor
Department of urology
Christopher Bayne, M.D., clinical assistant professor