| List of new faculty members from December 2018 for Faculty Newsletter |
| Community Health and Family Medicine |
| Name: John E. Trainer, III, M.D. |
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| Department: Community Health and Family Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Student Health Care Center |
| Location obtained MD: Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC |
| Medicine |
| Name: Lubna Al Hourani, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Sleep Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: University of Jordan |
| Neurosurgery |
| Name: Jacques Farkas, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurosurgery at Halifax |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Neurotrauma, spinal surgery, brain tumors |
| Location obtained MD: Rush Medical College in Chicago |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Silvana Carr, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric infectious diseases |
| Location obtained MD: Federal University of Bahia (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil) |
| Pharmacology |
| Name: Santhi Pondugula, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pharmacology |
| Rank: Research Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Cancer biology, Chromatin and Epigenetics, ESC/iPSC Modeling, Neurodevelopment, Single Molecule DNA methylation,NGS and high throughput -omics |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Florida |