| List of new faculty members from July 2018 for Faculty Newsletter |
| Aging & Geriatrics |
| Name: Mamoun Al Mardini, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Aging & Geriatrics |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Computer Science |
| Location obtained PhD: University of North Carolina at Charlotte |
| Anesthesiology |
| Name: Matthew Hernandez, D.O. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Critical Care Medicine |
| Location obtained DO: Lake Erie College of Medicine in Sarasota, FL |
| Anesthesiology |
| Name: Andrew McNeil, D.O. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pain Medicine |
| Location obtained DO: Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific in Pomona, California |
| Anesthesiology |
| Name: Juan Mora, M.D. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pain Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: Universidad Nacional de Colombia |
| Anesthesiology |
| Name: Arvin Trippensee, D.O. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Critical Care Medicine |
| Location obtained DO: College of Osteopathic Medicine & Surgery, Des Moines University |
| Emergency Medicine |
| Name: Mary Patterson, M.D. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Professor |
| Specialty: Associate Dean, Center for Experiential Learning and Simulation |
| Location obtained MD: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine |
| Medicine |
| Name: Lyda Cuervo, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Rheumatology & Clinical Immunology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Allergy and Immunology |
| Location obtained MD: Universidad del Valle Medical School, Cali, Colombia |
| Medicine |
| Name: Vilma Torres, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Cardiology |
| Rank: Clinical Professor |
| Specialty: Electrophysiology |
| Location obtained MD: State University of New York at Stony Brook School of Medicine |
| Medicine |
| Name: Andreas Zori, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, Hepatology & Nutrition |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Director, Liver Transplant Outreach & Development |
| Location obtained MD: Albany Medical College in Albany, New York |
| Medicine |
| Name: Michael Capozza, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Internal Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: University of South Florida |
| Medicine |
| Name: Adriana Herrera-Sindelar, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Internal Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago |
| Medicine |
| Name: Brendan Williams, D.O. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Internal Medicine |
| Location obtained DO: Lincoln Memorial University |
| Medicine |
| Name: Corey Wilson, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Specialty: Family Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Medicine |
| Name: Dawn M. Becker, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Infectious Diseases |
| Location obtained MD: Medizinische Fakultat Heidelberg, Ruprecht-Karls-Universitat Heidelberg, Germany |
| Medicine |
| Name: Yogesh Scindia, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Immunology, Iron metabolism, Acute Kidney Injury, and Lupus Nephritis |
| Location obtained PhD: Mumbai University, Mumbai, India |
| Neurosurgery |
| Name: Justin Hilliard, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurosurgery |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) |
| Location obtained MD: University of Virginia |
| Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| Name: Sarah Cappleman, M.D. |
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| Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Obstetrics & Gynecology |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Name: Fatima Aly, M.D. |
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| Department: Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: |
| Location obtained MD: |
| Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Name: Julia Ross, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: General surgical pathology and cytopathology |
| Location obtained MD and PhD: MD/PhD obtained at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Stephanie Battistini, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Sacred Heart Hospital |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hospital Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: Florida State University College of Medicine |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Megan Behm-Downes, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hospital Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: Florida Atlantic University |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: William Bortcosh, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Critical Care |
| Location obtained MD: Albany Medical College |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Albert Chan, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Division of Gastroenterology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Gastroenterology |
| Location obtained MD: St. George’s University in Grenada, West Indies |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Montserrat Corbera-Hincapie, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hospital Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Kristin Dayton, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Endocrinology |
| Location obtained MD: Wake Forest University |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Laura Jacobsen, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Division of Endocrinology |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Endocrinology |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Nancy Joseph, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hospital Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: Kasturba Medical College, India |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Larry Patterson, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Division of Nephrology |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Care of children with chronic kidney disease |
| Location obtained MD: Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Sonja Rasmussen, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Child Health Research Institute |
| Rank: Professor |
| Specialty: Genetics |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Desiree Rivera Nieves, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Gastroenterology |
| Location obtained MD: Universidad Autonoma de Guadalajara |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Megan Tzeng, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Division of Pediatric Critical Care; Congenital Heart Center |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care |
| Location obtained MD: Northeast Ohio Medical University |
| Radiation Oncology |
| Name: Adam Holtzman, M.D. |
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| Department: Radiation Oncology – Jacksonville |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Proton therapy for skull-based and central nervous system malignancies |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Radiology |
| Name: Andrew Blum, M.D. |
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| Department: Radiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Cardiac & Thoracic Imaging |
| Location obtained MD: Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| Radiology |
| Name: Abdullah Malkawi, M.D. |
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| Department: Radiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Abdominal Imaging |
| Location obtained MD: MBBS, Faculty of Medicine, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Irbid, Jordan |
| Radiology |
| Name: Jeffrey Vogel, M.D. |
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| Department: Radiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Vascular & Interventional Radiology |
| Location obtained MD: University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska |
| Surgery |
| Name: Eric Jeng, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery |
| Location obtained MD: University of Illinois, Chicago |