| List of new faculty members from July 2019 for Faculty Newsletter |
| Anesthesiology |
| Name: Svetlana Chembrovich, M.D. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Acute Pain and Perioperative Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: Belarussian State Medical University |
| Name: Shirley Cruz Beltran, M.D. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Anesthesiology |
| Location obtained MD: Fundacion Universitaria de Ciencias de la Salud, Hospital de San José in Bogotá, Colombia |
| Emergency Medicine |
| Name: Brittany Beel, M.D. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Emergency Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Name: Rosemarie Fernandez, M.D. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Using simulation to understand and improve resuscitation processes for in-hospital and out-of-hospital emergencies |
| Location obtained MD: University of Michigan Medical School |
| Name: Joshua Gordon, M.D. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Emergency Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: Florida State University |
| Name: Lisa Merck, M.D. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Emergency Medicine Research |
| Location obtained MD: The Chicago Medical School |
| Name: Derek Merck, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Research Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Imaging Education and Research |
| Location obtained PhD: University of North Carolina |
| Name: Taylor Zeglam, M.D. |
| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Emergency Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences |
| Medicine |
| Name: Raed Al Yacoub, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospice and Palliative Medicine; Hospital Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: University of Jordan |
| Name: Mohammad As Sayaideh, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist |
| Location obtained MD: University of Jordan |
| Name: Norman Beatty, MD |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Tropical medicine and neglected tropical diseases; currently researching the prevalence of Chagas disease in Florida and throughout the U.S. |
| Location obtained MD: Ross University School of Medicine |
| Name: Robert Bender, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist |
| Location obtained MD: University of Texas |
| Name: Kassandra Brown, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist |
| Location obtained MD: Loma Linda University |
| Name: Celine Cattier, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Palliative Care |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Palliative Care |
| Location obtained MD: Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit, Michigan |
| Name: Gajapathiraju Chamarthi, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Hypertension |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hypertension |
| Location obtained MD: Sri Siddhartha Medical College, Tumkur, India |
| Name: Jonathan Chatzkel, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Medical oncology, GU |
| Location obtained MD: Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania |
| Name: Julian Chung, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: Ross University School of Medicine |
| Name: Guy El Helou, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease and Global Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Transplant infectious disease |
| Location obtained MD: Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, Lebanon |
| Name: Roland-Austin Federico, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Name: Venkata Sai Gogineni, M.D |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Preventive health care, cardiovascular medicine and fitness |
| Location obtained MD: Ross University |
| Name: Christopher Harden, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Interstitial Lung Disease |
| Location obtained MD: Ross University School of Medicine |
| Name: Stephen Magar, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist |
| Location obtained MD: Wayne State University |
| Name: Brian Ramnaraign, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Medical oncology, GU |
| Location obtained MD: St. George’s University School of Medicine |
| Name: Kanika Rathi, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist |
| Location obtained MD: Pandit Bhagwat Daval Sharma University |
| Name: Alaina Ritter, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Orthopedic infections, Clostridium difficile infection |
| Location obtained MD: University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, Virginia |
| Name: Abbas Shahmohammadi, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Acute respiratory distress syndrome, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation, and pulmonary hypertension |
| Location obtained MD: Ross University School of Medicine |
| Name: Mohamad Taha, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist |
| Location obtained MD: Al-Quds University |
| Name: Jodi-Anne Wallace, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Name: Janelle Wilkinson, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist |
| Location obtained MD: Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland |
| Neurology |
| Name: Bhavana Patel, D.O. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Movement Disorders |
| Location obtained DO: West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Name: Michael Pizzi, D.O., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Acute ischemic stroke, traumatic brain injury |
| Location obtained DO & PhD: DO obtained at Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine; PhD obtained at Medical College of Wisconsin |
| Neuroscience |
| Name: Argyle Bumanglag, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Neuroscience |
| Rank: Research Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hippocampal pathophysiology in temporal lobe epilepsy |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ |
| Name: Valerie Joers, Ph.D |
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| Department: Neuroscience |
| Rank: Research Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Investigating the role of cannabinoid type 2 receptors to regulate neuroinflammation in models of Parkinson’s disease |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI |
| Name: Mariadelourdes “Malú” Tansey, Ph.D |
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| Department: Neuroscience |
| Rank: Professor |
| Specialty: Neuroinflammation and immune responses in brain health and neurological disorders |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas |
| Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Name: Bradley Bruggeman, M.D |
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| Department: Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Academic Specialist of General Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Name: Georgia Graham, M.D. |
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| Department: Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Academic Specialist of General Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Location obtained MD: University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine |
| Name: David McLean, M.D. |
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| Department: Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Maternal Fetal Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: University of West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica |
| Name: Melissa Bright, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| Rank: Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: Maternal and child health outcomes |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Georgia |
| Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| Name: Joanna Chaffin, M.D. |
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| Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hematopathology & Gastrointestinal Pathology |
| Location obtained MD: St. Louis University School of Medicine in Missouri |
| Name: Stefan Prokop, M.D. |
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| Department: Pathology and Laboratory Medicine |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Neuropathology |
| Location obtained MD: Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany |
| Name: Yan Ge, Ph.D. (start date 7/9/19) |
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| Department: Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Rank: Research Assistant Scientist |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Ryan Boggs, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Cardiology |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida College of Medicine |
| Name: Michael Brock, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Cardiology |
| Location obtained MD: Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents University |
| Name: Jose Hernandez Rivera, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: Universidad – Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Santa Tecla, El Salvador |
| Name: Olivia Butters, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hospital Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: University of South Alabama |
| Name: Daniel Castro, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hospital Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: Florida International University |
| Name: Zachary Gohsman, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: General Pediatrics |
| Location obtained MD: Mercer University in Savannah, Georgia |
| Name: Madhuri Penugonda, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Sacred Heart Health System |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric pulmonology |
| Location obtained MD: Universidad Iberoamericana in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| Name: Stephen Rohl, D.O |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Sacred Heart Health System |
| Rank: Visiting Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hospital Medicine |
| Location obtained DO: Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Name: Frances Saccoccio, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric infectious diseases |
| Location obtained MD & PhD: Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia |
| Name: Brian Stover, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology |
| Location obtained MD: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston |
| Name: Raymond Veras, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric pulmonary |
| Location obtained MD: Universidad Iberoamericana in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic |
| Psychiatry |
| Name: Brian Harlan, M.D. |
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| Department: Psychiatry |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas |
| Radiation Oncology |
| Name: Yawei Zhang, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Radiation Oncology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Novel image reconstruction methods development, imaging dose reduction in radiotherapy, Cone-beam CT imaging, and image registration. |
| Location obtained PhD: Rutgers University |
| Radiology |
| Name: Harold Hunt, M.D |
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| Department: Radiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Orthopaedic radiology |
| Location obtained MD: American University of the Caribbean, Cupecoy, St. Maarten |
| Surgery |
| Name: Jun Cai, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery |
| Rank: Research Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Vascular surgery |
| Location obtained MD & PhD: MD obtained at JiaoTong University, Shanghai, China; PhD obtained at |
| PhD: Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK |
| Name: Chang Zoon Chun, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Surgery, Division of Vascular Surgery |
| Rank: Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: Vascular surgery |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Conneticut |
