| Anesthesiology |
| Name: Lauren Berkow, M.D. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Neuroanesthesia |
| Location obtained MD degree: University of Maryland School of Medicine |
| Name: Lorent Duce, M.D. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Cardiothoracic Anesthesia |
| Location obtained MD degree: University of South Florida |
| Name: Brandon Lopez, M.D. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Obstetric Anesthesia |
| Location obtained MD Degree: Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center |
| Name: Heather Reed, M.D. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Cardiothoracic Anesthesia |
| Location obtained M.D. Degree: Saba University School of Medicine, Saba, Netherlands-Antilles |
| Biochemistry |
| Name: Mingyi Xie, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Biochemistry |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Gene expression regulation by non-coding RNAs; microRNA biogenesis |
| Location obtained PhD Degree: Arizona State University |
| Community Health & Family Medicine |
| Name: Lisa Chacko, M.D. |
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| Department: CHFM |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Family Medicine |
| Location obtained MD Degree: University of Pennsylvania |
| Name: Asim Merchant, M.D. |
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| Department: CHFM |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Family Medicine with CAQ in Sports Medicine |
| Location obtained Medical Degree: St. Matthew’s University, Cayman Islands |
| Emergency Medicine |
| Name: Daniel Dickinson, M.D. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Emergency Medicine |
| Location obtained MD Degree: Upstate Medical University; Syracuse NY |
| Epidemiology |
| Name: Hui Hu, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Epidemiology |
| Rank: Research Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: His research interests focus on health effects of environmental exposures, substance use, and racial disparities in health outcomes. |
| Location obtained PhD Degree: University of Florida |
| Name: Jinying Zhao, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Epidemiology |
| Rank: Professor |
| Specialty: Dean’s Professor and Director of the Division of Genetic Epidemiology |
| Location obtained MD/PhD degrees: She received her MD at the Zhengzhou University School of Medicine in China (1989), her first PhD in Molecular Genetics at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (1996), and her second PhD in Statistical Genetics & Genetic Epidemiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston. |
| Health Outcomes & Policy |
| Name: Sarah Szurek, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Health Outcomes & Policy |
| Rank: Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: A medical anthropologist who specializes in understanding the social and cultural factors that influence health outcomes among vulnerable populations. She has worked with Mexican immigrants in Alabama to examine how personal social networks affect diabetes risk, and with African Americans in Florida on projects related to racism, cardiovascular disease, and the local food environment. Dr. Szurek currently oversees the Florida Health Kids Program evaluation, which examines the quality of care that children receive in the state. |
| Location obtained PhD Degree: The University of Alabama |
| Medicine – General Internal Medicine Division |
| Name: Marika Alois, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, General Internal Medicine Division |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Integrative Medicine |
| Location obtained MD Degree: Georgetown University School of Medicine |
| Name: Ralph Atkinson, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, General Internal Medicine Division |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Primary Care Section Chief and Assistant Chief of Ambulatory Care Service at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center |
| Location obtained MD Degree: University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica |
| Name: Paige Barker, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, General Internal Medicine Division |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospice and Palliative Medicine |
| Location obtained M.D. Degree: University of Florida |
| Medicine, Endocrinology Division |
| Name: Sushma Kadiyala, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained M.D. Degree: St. George University, School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies |
| Medicine, Hematology Division |
| Name: Nosha Farhadfar, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained M.D. Degree: St. Matthew University School of Medicine, Cayman Islands |
| Name: Hemant Murthy, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained M.D. Degree: St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies |
| Neurology |
| Name: Miguel Chuquilin, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Neuromuscular |
| Location obtained M.D. Degree: Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru |
| Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| Name: Lakeema Bruce, M.D. |
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| Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained M.D. Degree: Florida State University College of Medicine |
| Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation |
| Name: Christopher William Reb, D.O. |
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| Department: Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Orthopaedics Foot and Ankle |
| Location obtained DO Degree: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Name: Bradley Schoch, M.D. |
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| Department: Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Shoulder and elbow surgery |
| Location obtained M.D. Degree: University of Iowa Carver COM |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Moanaro Biswas, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: Biotechnology |
| Location obtained Ph.D. Degree: National Institute of Virology, India |
| Name: Yazmin Enchautegui-Colon, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Medical Genetics |
| Location obtained M.D. Degree: Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico |
| Name: S. Parrish Winesett, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric epilepsy |
| Location obtained M.D. Degree: University of South Florida |
| Pharmacology & Therapeutics |
| Name: Olga Guryanova, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pharmacology |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Research interests include cancer, hematopoietic stem cells, epigenetics, and drug discovery |
| Location obtained MD/PhD Degrees: Lomonasov Moscow State University School of Medicine, Moscow, Russia and her PhD from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia |
| Name: Peter Hook, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pharmacology |
| Rank: Research Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Molecular mechanisms of muscle diseases |
| Location obtained Ph.D. Degree: Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
| Physiology & Functional Genomics |
| Name: Elaine Sumners, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Physiology |
| Rank: Research Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: Basic scientist |
| Location obtained PhD Degree: University of Florida, Department of Physiology |
| Psychiatry |
| Name: Melissa Munson, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Psychiatry |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained Ph.D. Degree: Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana |
| Name: Anthony Russell, M.D. |
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| Department: Psychiatry |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Addiction Medicine, pain management, substance use disorders, evaluation and management of dual-diagnosis pain and substance use disorders, and substance-related impairment. |
| Location obtained MD Degree: New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York |
| PA Program |
| Name: Breann Garbas, D.H.Sc. |
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| Department: School of Physician Assistant Studies |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained D.H.Sc. Degree: |
| Surgery |
| Name: Alexander Ayzengart, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Clinical interests include bariatric surgery, endoscopy and hernia repair |
| Location obtained M.D. Degree: University of Michigan |
| Name: Moiz Mustafa, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Clinical interests include Hirschsprung’s disease |
| Location obtained M.D. Degree: New Jersey Medical School |