July 2016 New Faculty

 

Anesthesiology
Name:  Ajay Antony, M.D.
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Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:   Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Chronic pain
Location obtained MD degree:   St. George University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies
Name:  Penelope “Penny” Reynolds, PhD.
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Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:   Assistant Professor
Specialties:  Fluid resuscitation strategies for hemorrhagic shock, application of experimental design principles to basic research, improving the quality of animal-based research, and therapeutic/technological applications to treatment of traumatic injury
Location obtained PhD degree:  University of Wisconsin
Community Health & Family Medicine
Name:  Gregory Westwood, M.D.
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Department:  CHFM
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:   Family medicine
Location obtained MD degree:  Saba University School of Medicine, Netherlands Antilles
Emergency Medicine
Name:  Torey Kikukawa, D.O.
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Department:  Emergency Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Emergency medicine
Location obtained DO Degree:  Western University, Pomona, California
Medicine – Cardiology
Name:  Mohammad Massoomi, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Interventional cardiology
Location obtained M.D. Degree:  Medical College of Georgia
Name:  Maithili Shenoy, M.D.
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Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Non-Invasive Imaging/Echocardiography
Location obtained MD Degree:  Topiwala National Medical College, Mumbai, India
Medicine – Hospital Medicine
Name:  Kellee Taylor, D.O.
Department:   Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
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Location obtained DO Degree:
Medicine – Hematology
Name:  Jessica Schmit, M.D.
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Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Palliative care
Location obtained Medical Degree:  University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Medicine – Infectious Disease
Name:  Gautam Kalyatanda, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Infectious Disease
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Infectious Diseases and Drug-Resistant tuberculosis
Location obtained MD Degree:    St. Vincent’s Hospital, Worcester, MA
Medicine – Pulmonary
Name:  Andres Pelaez, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:    Medical Director, Lung Transplant Program, Co-Director, Adult Respiratory ECMO
Location obtained MD Degree:    Centro De Estudios De La Salud Santander, Spain
Neurology
Name:  Katharina Busl, M.D.
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Department:  Neurology
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Neuro critical care
Location obtained MD degree:  Technical University of Munich, Germany
Neurosurgery
Name:  Kristin Weaver, M.D., Ph.D.
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Department:  Neurosurgery
Rank:  Visiting Clinical Lecturer
Specialty:  Adult and pediatric neurosurgery, complex spine surgery, brain tumors, spinal cord tumors
Location obtained MD/PhD Degrees:  University of Mississippi Medical Center
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Name:  Kathleen Green, M.D.
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Department:  Obstetrics & Gynecology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Gynecology
Location obtained MD Degree:    University of Texas Southwestern
Orthopaedics
Name:  Matthew Patrick, M.D.
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Department:  Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Orthopaedics Trauma
Location obtained MD Degree:  Medical University of South Carolina
Pathology
Name:  Jaya Asirvatham, M.D.
Department:  Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Breast pathology
Location obtained M.D. Degree:     Madras Medical College, India
Name:  Sherri Flax, M.D.
Department:  Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
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Location obtained M.D. Degree:
Name:  Ruifeng Guo, M.D., Ph.D.
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Department:  Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
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Location obtained M.D./PhD Degrees:
Name:  Liping Liu, M.D./Ph.D.
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Department:  Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Pulmonary pathology
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   Beijing Medical University
Name:  Jonathan Whittamore, Ph.D.
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Department:  Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rank:  Research Assistant Scientist
Specialty:    Epithelial solute and water transport
Location obtained Ph.D. Degree:  University of Exeter, U.K
Pediatrics
Name:  Callah Antonetti, M.D.
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DepartmentPediatrics (Sacred Heart)
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Hospital Medicine
Location obtained MD Degree:  University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Name:  Michael Davis, M.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  General Pediatrics and Pediatric Gastroenterology
Location obtained M.D. Degree:  Medical College of Georgia
Name:  Dipankar Gupta, M.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Clinical Lecturer
Specialty:  Pediatric Cardiology and Critical Care Medicine
Location obtained M.D. Degree:    University of Delhi, India
Name:  Diane Howell, M.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:   Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Assistant Director, Child Protection Team
Location obtained M.D. Degree:  University of Florida
Name:  Hazel Levy, Ph.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:   Research Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Molecular Biology and Gene Therapy Vector Development; Dr. Levy is one of the very first African-American women to open a research lab in the UF College of Medicine
Location obtained Ph.D. Degree:  University of Florida
Name:  Jessica Ruoss, M.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:   Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:   Neonatology
Location obtained M.D. Degree:  Florida State University
Name:  Luis Seguias, M.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:      General Pediatrics
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   Universidad Central de Venezuela
Name:  Puneet Tung, D.O.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:   Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:   General Pediatrics
Location obtained D.O. Degree:  Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Psychiatry
Name:   Kishan Nallapula, M.D.
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Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Location obtained M.D. Degree:  Kasturba Medical College, India
Radiology
Name:  Mariam Hanna, M.D.
Department:  Radiology
Rank:   Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Diagnostic Radiology, Abdominal imaging
Location obtained MD Degree:  Florida State University
Name:   Frances Tardy Rivera, M.D.
Department:  Radiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Diagnostic Radiology, Abdominal imaging and ultrasonography
Location obtained M.D. Degree:    Ponce School of Medicine; Ponce, Puerto Rico
Surgery
Name:   Joshua Carson, M.D.
Department:  Surgery
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Acute care surgery, acute burn care
Location obtained M.D. Degree:    Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
Urology
Name:  Brandon Otto, M.D.
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Department:  Urology
Rank:   Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Endourology, Minimally Invasive Surgery, Nephrolithiasis, Prostate & Kidney Cancer
Location obtained M.D. Degree:  Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY