March-June 2018 New Faculty

March 2018

Anesthesiology
Name:  Alexander Multak, M.D.
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Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:  Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Multispecialty and Vascular
Location obtained MD:   Temple University School of Medicine
Medicine, Pulmonary Division
Name:  Diana Gomez Manjarres, MD
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Interstitial Lung Disease
Location obtained MD:  Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Colombia
Neuroscience
Name:  Erica Arden Dale, PhD
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Department:  Neuroscience
Rank:  Research Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Spinal cord injury
Location obtained PhD:  2011 at University of Wisconsin, Madison (Comparative Biomedical Science)
Neurosurgery
Name:  Lan Hoang Minh, Ph.D.
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Department:  Neurosurgery
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:  Glioblastoma and Primary Cilia Research, Neural Stem Cell Research, Biomedical Engineering
Location obtained PhD:  University of Florida
Orthopaedics
Name:  Luis Felipe Pulido Sierra, MD
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Department:  Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Adult Arthroplasty and Joint Reconstruction
Location obtained MD:  Instituto de Ciencias De La Salud, CES
Pathology
Name:  Brian Stewart, MD
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Department:  Pathology, Immunology & Laboratory Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  General Surgical Pathology
Location obtained MD:  Tulane University
Pediatrics, Neurology Division
Name:  Douglas James Hyder, MD
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Department:  Pediatrics, Neurology Division
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Psychiatry and Neurology, Child Neurology
Location obtained MD:  University of Chicago
Pediatrics, Neurology Division
Name:  Mauro Lodolo, MD
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Department:  Pediatrics, Neurology Division
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Neurology
Location obtained MD:  University of Perugia, Italy
Psychiatry
Name:  Andres Pumariega, MD
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Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Professor
Specialty:  Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Location obtained MD:  University of Miami School of Medicine
Radiology 
Name:  David Gilland, PhD
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Department:  Radiology
Rank:  Senior Lecturer
Specialty:  Clinical Radiological Physics
Location obtained PhD:  University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Surgery
Name:  Jaimar Rincon, PhD
Department:  Surgery
Rank:  Assistant Scientist

April 2018

Anesthesiology
Name:  Ana Maria Oviedo Baena, MD
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Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:  Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Acute and perioperative pain medicine
Location obtained MD:   Universidad CES, Medellin, Colombia
Epidemiology
Name:  Catalina Lopez-Quintero, MD, PhD
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Department:  Epidemiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained MD and PhD:  MD obtained at the Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario, Colombia; PhD obtained at the School of Public Health and Community Medicine, Hebrew University- Hadassah, Israel
Medicine, Division of Hematology & Oncology
Name:  Zhijian Qian, PhD
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology
Rank:  Associate Professor
Specialty:  Stem cell Biology, Hematology
Location obtained PhD:  Shanghai Institute of Cell Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Neurosurgery
Name:  Changlin Yang, Ph.D.
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Department:  Neurosurgery
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:  Immunotherapy for Glioma
Location obtained PhD:  Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology
Wuhan, China
Psychiatry
Name:  Damon Geoffrey Lamb, PhD
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Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Translational research and education in human neuroimaging for psychiatric and related disorders
Location obtained PhD:  Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia
Psychiatry
Name:  John Ben Lewis, Ph.D.
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Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Neurobiological deficits associated with fetal alcohol exposure
Location obtained PhD:  University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Psychiatry
Name:  Regilda Romero, PhD
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Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Neuropsychological assessments, neurodevelopmental disorders, multicultural psychology and assessment and treatment of autism spectrum disorders
Location obtained PhD:   Palo Alto University, Palo Alto, California
Radiology
Name:  Hugh Craven Davis, IV
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Department:  Radiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained MD:

May 2018

Dermatology
Name:  Douglas Robins, MD
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Department:  Dermatology
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  General Dermatology
Location obtained MD:  George Washington University Medical School
Neurology
Name:  Adam Kelly, MD
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Department:  Neurology
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Chief of the Stroke/Neurovascular Division; Medical Director of the UF Health Shands Comprehensive Stroke Center
Location obtained MD:  University of Rochester
Pathology
Name:  Lerah Sutton, PhD
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Department:  Pathology
Rank:  Senior Lecturer
Specialty:  Human decomposition
Location obtained PhD:  University of Florida
Surgery
Name:  Tomas Martin, M.D.
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Department:  Surgery
Rank:  Professor
Specialty:  Director, UF Health Aortic Disease Center (ADC); Assistant Medical Director, Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit
Location obtained MD:  University of Texas Southwestern

June 2018

Biochemistry
Name:  Melike Caglayan, Ph.D.
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Department:  Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Rank:  Assistant Professor
Specialty:  DNA repair and Genome Integrity
Location obtained PhD:  Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
Neurology
Name:  Aaron Carlson, M.D.
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Department:  Neurology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Behavioral Neurology
Location obtained MD:  Mayo Clinic School of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota
Neurology
Name:  Fumiaki Yokoi, Ph.D.
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Department:  Neurology
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:  Movement Disorders
Location obtained PhD:  Nagoya University, Japan
Neuroscience
Name:  Jose Abisambra, Ph.D.
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Department:  Neuroscience
Rank:  Associate Professor
Specialty:  His research program investigates fundamental biological processes critical to neuronal function that converge with endoplasmic reticulum (ER) proteins
Location obtained PhD:  University of South Florida, Tampa
Ophthalmology
Name:  John LiVecchi, M.D.
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Department:  Ophthalmology
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Oculoplastic Surgery
Location obtained MD:  Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, University of Rome, Rome, Italy
Orthopaedics
Name:  Tracey Roberts, M.D.
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Department:  Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:Pediatric Orthopaedics
Location obtained MD: University of Florida
Pediatrics
Name:  Natalia Martinez Schlurmann, M.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Pediatric Critical Care
Location obtained MD:  Universidad Central de Caribe School of Medicine, Bayamon, Puerto Rico
Psychiatry
Name:  Joe Thornton, M.D.
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Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Adult Psychiatry and Chief Psychiatry Consultation Liaison Service
Location obtained MD:  University of Texas
Surgery
Name:  Ashish Sharma, M.D., Ph.D.
Department:  Surgery
Rank:  Associate Professor
Location obtained MD and PhD:  Medical degree obtained at the MR Medical College, Gulbarga, India; PhD obtained at the University of Virginia