December 2018 New Faculty

 List of new faculty members from December 2018 for Faculty Newsletter
Community Health and Family Medicine
Name:  John E. Trainer, III, M.D.
Trainer
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.
hourani
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.
farkas
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.
carr
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.
Pondugula
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