August 2017 New Faculty
| Anesthesiology |
| Name: Matthew Andoniadis, M.D. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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) |
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| 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 |
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| Location obtained PhD: |
| Name: Lara Beth Gadkowski, M.D. |
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| 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. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Cardiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained DO degree: |
| Name: Ellen Keeley, M.D. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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) |
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| 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. |
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| 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) |
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| Department: Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist |
| Location obtained MD degree: Louisiana State University |
| Name: Pichapong Tunsupon, M.D. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Department: Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Adult Arthroplasty and Joint Reconstruction |
| Location obtained MD: Florida State University |
| Name: Stephanie Giammittorio, D.O. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Associate Professor |
| Location obtained PhD: Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA |
| Name: Amanda Strobel, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology |
| Location obtained MD: University of Mississippi School of Medicine |
| Name: Matthew Washam, M.D. |
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| 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. |
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| Department: Psychiatry |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Outpatient psychiatry |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Surgery |
| Name: Dean Arnaoutakis, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy |
| Location obtained MD: Cornell University |
| Name: Martin Rosenthal, M.D. |
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| 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. |
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| 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) |
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| Department: Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist |
| Location obtained MD: University of Tennessee College of Medicine |
| Name: Markus Agito, M.D. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Department: Molecular Genetics & Microbiology |
| Rank: Assistant Scientist |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: General Pediatrics |
| Location obtained MD degree: University of Illinois College of Medicine |
| Name: Gulnur Com, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Pulmonology |
| Location obtained MD degree: Istanbul University, Cerrahpasa School of Medicine |
| Name: Jacqueline Michel, D.O. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Department: Psychiatry |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Medical Psychology |
| Location obtained PhD degree: University of Florida |
| Name: Jason Hunt, M.D. |
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| Department: Psychiatry |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Addiction Medicine |
| Location obtained MD degree: University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois |
| Name: Sang-Wahn Koo, M.D. |
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| 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 |
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| Department: Psychiatry |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Chief, Child & Adolescent Psychiatry |
| Location obtained PhD degree: University of Florida |
| Name: Marcia Morris, M.D. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |