August/September 2017 New Faculty

August 2017 New Faculty

Anesthesiology
Name:  Matthew Andoniadis, M.D.
 
Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Multispecialty Anesthesia
Location obtained MD:  University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois
Name:  Amanda Frantz, M.D.
 
Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Location obtained MD:  St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies
Biochemistry
Name:  Bowen Yan, Ph.D.
 
Department:  Biochemistry
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:   Research Focus is the study how epigenetic landscape changes modulate drug response in chemo-resistance acute myeloid leukemia.
Location obtained PhD:  China Agricultural University
Community Health & Family Medicine
Name:  James Medley, M.D.
 
Department:  Community Health & Family Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Clinical interests include disease prevention, musculoskeletal injections, dermatology and skin procedures, medical education, and office based procedures.
Location obtained MD:  University of Florida
Name:  Abha Tewari-Washam, M.D.
 
Department:  Community Health & Family Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Teaching and public health; faculty member in the Student Health Care Center
Location obtained MD:   Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
Congenital Heart Center
Name:  Mark Wesley, M.D.
 
Departments:  Congenital Heart Center and Anesthesiology
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia
Location obtained MD degree:   University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Name:  Philip Chang, M.D.
 
Department:  Congenital Heart Center
Rank:  Associate Professor
Specialty:  Congenital heart disease; Intracardiac electrophysiology study (EPS);  Pediatric Cardiology
Location obtained MD:  University of Maryland
Dermatology
Name:  Addie Walker, M.D.
 
Department:  Dermatology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Medical Director of the Dermatopathology Laboratory
Location obtained MD degree:   Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Medicine
Name:  Sharon Aroda, M.D.
 
Department:  Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  General Internal Medicine
Location obtained MD degree:  Florida State University
Name:  Felix Emolenko, M.D. (Ascension Sacred Heart Health System, Pensacola, Florida)
 
Department:  Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Hospitalist
Location obtained MD degree:  Russian State Medical University
Name:  Xiucheng Fan, Ph.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Pulmonary Division
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:
Location obtained PhD:
Name:  Lara Beth Gadkowski, M.D.
 
Department:  Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Infectious Disease
Location obtained MD degree:  Jefferson Medical College
Name:  Robert Hamburger, D.O.
Department:  Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained DO degree:
Name:  Ellen Keeley, M.D.
 
Department:  Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Rank:  Professor
Specialty:  Cardiovascular Disease; Interventional Cardiology
Location obtained MD degree:  Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Name:  Kavita Krishnasamy, M.D.
 
Department:  Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology, with interests in implantation of cardiac devices and ablations of cardiac arrhythmias
Location obtained MD degree:  Northeast Ohio Medical University
Name:  Borna Mehrad, M.D.
 
Department:  Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Rank:  Professor
Specialty:  Chief, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine; clinical interest is Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD)
Location obtained MD degree:  University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
Name:  Raju Reddy, M.D.
 
Department:  Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Pulmonary Disease; Critical Care Medicine
Location obtained MD degree:  Ross University School of Medicine,
Name:  John Retzloff, D.O. (Ascension Sacred Heart Health System, Pensacola, Florida)
 
Department:  Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine Residency Program Director
Specialty:  Hospitalist
Location obtained DO degree:  Midwestern University (Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine)
Name:  Andrew Shychuk, M.D.
 
Department:  Medicine, Division of Internal Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:   General Internal Medicine
Location obtained MD degree:  University of Florida
Name:  Erica Thomson, M.D. (Ascension Sacred Heart Health System, Pensacola, Florida)
 
Department:  Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Hospitalist
Location obtained MD degree:   Louisiana State University
Name:  Pichapong Tunsupon, M.D.
 
Department:  Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD); Pulmonary rehabilitation
Location obtained MD degree:  Mahidol University, Bangkok Thailand
Neurology
Name:  Yulia Orlova, M.D., Ph.D.
 
Department:  Neurology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  General Neurology/Headache
Location obtained MD and PhD degrees: M.D. obtained at Medicine Siberian State Medical University;
 Ph.D. obtained at the Neurology Novosibirsk Medical Institute
Name:  Addie Patterson, M.D.
 
Department:  Neurology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Movement Disorders
Location obtained MD:  Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Name:  Kerry Katz, M.D.
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Department:  Obstetrics & Gynecology
Rank:  Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  OB/GYN generalist
Location obtained MD:  The Ohio State University Medical School
Name:  Ann Ross, M.D.
 
Department:  Obstetrics & Gynecology (Pensacola – Sacred Heart Hospital)
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Obstetrics and Gynecology Generalist
Location obtained MD:  Columbia University, New York, NY
Ophthalmology
Name:  Ankit Shah, M.D.
 
Department:  Ophthalmology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:   Cataract adult; cataract removal; corneal injury; corneal transplant; corneal ulcers and infections; pterygium
Location obtained MD:  University of South Florida
Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Name:  Justin Deen, M.D.
 
Department:  Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Adult Arthroplasty and Joint Reconstruction
Location obtained MD:  Florida State University
Name:  Stephanie Giammittorio, D.O.
 
Department:  Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Musculoskeletal Sports Medicine
Location obtained DO:  Virginia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Pathology
Name:  Alan Siroy, M.D.
 
Department:  Pathology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Dermatopathology
Location obtained MD:  Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois
Pediatrics
Name:   Ahmed Asfari, M.D.
 
Department:  Pediatrics/Congenital Heart Center
Rank:  Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Pediatric Cardiology
Location obtained MD:  University of Aleppo Faculty of Medicine
Name:  Sumita Bhaduri-McIntosh, M.D., Ph.D.
 
Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Associate Professor
Specialty:  Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Location obtained MD and PhD degrees: Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College, Pune, India;
Medical College of PA and Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, PA
Name:  Michael McIntosh, Ph.D.
 
Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Associate Professor
Location obtained PhD:  Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Name:  Amanda Strobel, M.D.
 
Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
Location obtained MD:  University of Mississippi School of Medicine
Name:  Matthew Washam, M.D.
 
Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Location obtained MD:   The Ohio State University College of Medicine
Psychiatry
Name:  Ana Turner, M.D.
 
Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Outpatient psychiatry
Location obtained MD:  University of Florida
Surgery
Name:  Dean Arnaoutakis, M.D.
 
Department:  Surgery
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy
Location obtained MD:  Cornell University
Name:  Martin Rosenthal, M.D.
 
Department:  Surgery
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Acute Care Surgery
Location obtained MD:  Mercer University School of Medicine, Macon, Georgia
Name:  Michael Walters, M.D.
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Department:  Surgery
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Acute Care Surgery
Location obtained MD:  Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

September 2017 New Faculty

Health Outcomes & Policy
Name:  Yonghui Wu, Ph.D.
 
Department:  Health Outcomes & Policy
Rank:  Assistant Professor
Specialty:   Clinical Natural Language Processing; Machine Learning; Pharmacovigilance
Location obtained PhD:  Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China
Medicine
Name:  Seth Fowler, M.D. (Ascension Sacred Heart Health System, Pensacola, Florida)
 
Department:  Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Hospitalist
Location obtained MD:  University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Name:  Markus Agito, M.D.
 
Department:  Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Gastroenterology
Location obtained MD:  University of Santo Tomas, Manila, Philippines
Name:  Anupa Nadkarni, M.D.
 
Department:  Medicine, Pulmonary Division
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Internal Medicine; Pulmonary Disease; Critical Care Medicine
Location obtained MD:  Goa Medical College, India
Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Name:  Monica Banez Coronel, Ph.D.
 
Department:  Molecular Genetics & Microbiology
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:
Location obtained PhD:  Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Neurology
Name:  Giridhar Kalamangalam, M.D.
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Department:  Neurology
Rank:  Associate Professor
Specialty:  Chief, Division of Epilepsy; Medical Director, Neurodiagnostics
Location obtained MD degree:  Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research
Name:  Nivedita Jerath, M.D.
 
Department:  Neurology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  General Neurology; Neuromuscular Medicine; Peripheral Neuropathy; Clinical Neurophysiology; and Charcot Marie Tooth Disease
Location obtained MD:  Mayo Medical School, Rochester, Minnesota
Otolaryngology
Name:  Deepa Danan, M.D.
 
Department:  Otolaryngology
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery
Location obtained MD degree:  Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
New York City, NY
Pediatrics
Name:  Wanda Averhart, M.D.
 
Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  General Pediatrics
Location obtained MD degree:  University of Illinois College of Medicine
Name:  Gulnur Com, M.D.
 
Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Pediatric Pulmonology
Location obtained MD degree:  Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine
Name:  Jacqueline Michel, D.O.
 
Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  General Pediatrics
Location obtained DO degree:  Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine
Name:  Adrienne Mott-Young, M.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  General Pediatrics
Location obtained MD degree:  Medical College of Georgia
Name:  Bevin Weeks, M.D.
 
Department:  Pediatrics – Congenital Heart Center (Pensacola)
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Pediatric Cardiology
Location obtained MD degree:  University of Connecticut
Psychiatry
Name:  Matthew Daley, Ph.D.
 
Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Medical Psychology
Location obtained PhD degree:  University of Florida
Name:  Jason Hunt, M.D.
 
Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Addiction Medicine
Location obtained MD degree:  University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
Name:  Sang-Wahn Koo, M.D.
 
Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Location obtained MD degree:  Yonsei University, College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea
Name:  Kristin Moffett, PhD
 
Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Chief, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Location obtained PhD degree:  University of Florida
Name:  Marcia Morris, M.D.
 
Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Anxiety Disorders
Location obtained MD degree:  Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
Radiation Oncology
Name:  Kathryn Hitchcock, M.D., Ph.D.
 
Department:  Radiation Oncology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Translational engineering research; Clinical therapeutic studies in head and neck cancers; Genitourinary cancers; Gastrointestinal cancers
Location obtained MD and PhD degrees:  MD and PhD degrees both obtained at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio
Urology
Name:  James Mason, M.D.
 
Department:  Urology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Genitourinary reconstructive surgery; Upper and Lower urinary tract trauma; Erectile dysfunction; Male/female urinary incontinence; Prosthetics
Location obtained MD degree:  Quillen College of Medicine, Johnson City, Tennessee