June 2017 New Faculty
| Aging and Geriatrics |
| Name: Susan Schneider, M.D. |
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| Department: Aging and Geriatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Memory care, syndromes of aging, and healthy living. |
| Location obtained MD: University of Missouri – Kansas City |
| Health Outcomes & Policy |
| Name: Alyson Young, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Health Outcomes & Policy |
| Rank: Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: Maternal and young child health, mixed methods research, and environmental health disparities. |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Arizona |
| Medicine – Hematology and Medical Oncology |
| Name: Leylah Drusbosky, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hematology and Medical Oncology |
| Rank: Research Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Molecular Cell Biology |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Florida |
| Medicine – Cardiology |
| Name: Ramil Goel, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Cardiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Cardiac Electrophysiologist at the VA Hospital |
| Location obtained MD: All-India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India |
| Medicine – Nephrology and Hypertension |
| Name: Mohcine Madkour, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Nephrology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Computer Science, Health Informatics |
| Location obtained PhD: Mohamed 5 University, in Rabat Morroco |
| Ophthalmology |
| Name: Ekaterina Lobanova, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Ophthalmology |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Conducts research aimed to develop mutation-independent treatments for retinal diseases |
| Location obtained PhD: M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia |
July 2017 New Faculty
| Aging and Geriatrics |
| Name: So Dam Kim, M.D. |
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| Department: Aging & Geriatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Clinical interests include fall, frailty, wound care and preventive medicine. |
| Location obtained MD: Catholic University of Korea |
| Name: Hyo-Jin Park, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Aging & Geriatrics |
| Rank: Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty:Research interests include neurodegenerative disorders, age-related hearing loss, and ototoxic drug-induced hearing loss. |
| Location obtained PhD: Korea University |
| Anesthesiology |
| Name: Daryl Reust, M.D. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology |
| Location obtained MD: Texas A&M University |
| Name: Cameron Smith, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Acute Pain Medicine |
| Location obtained MD and PhD degrees: Both degrees were obtained at Medical College of Virginia/Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia |
| Community Health & Family Medicine |
| Name: Samuel Dickmann, M.D. |
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| Department: Community Health and Family Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Clinical Interests include preventive medicine and chronic disease management |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Name: Nicholas Dorsey, M.D. |
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| Department: Community Health and Family Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Clinical Interests include preventive medicine, medical education, and obesity |
| Location obtained MD: St. George’s University, Grenada, West Indies |
| Emergency Medicine |
| Name: Benjamin Abo, D.O. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Research interests include anything EMS, EMS for children, international EM/EMS, mentorship, resiliency and sustainability in emergency services, disaster medicine, educational and experiential processes, wilderness/austere medicine and technical rescue practices. |
| Location obtained DO: Touro University in California |
| Name: Charles Hwang, M.D. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Name: Kenneth Krabacher, M.D. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Kendall Moore, M.D. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Medicine |
| Medicine – Division of Cardiology *practices mainly in Ocala |
| Name: Ashraf AbuSara, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Cardiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Interventional Cardiology |
| Location obtained MD: University of Jordan |
| Medicine – Division of Endocrinology |
| Name: Hiba Basheer, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Endocrinology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism |
| Location obtained MD: University of Baghdad College of Medicine, Iraq |
| Medicine – Division of Endocrinology |
| Name: Ashok Srihari, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Endocrinology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism |
| Location obtained MD: St. George’s University, Grenada |
| Medicine – Division of General Internal Medicine |
| Name: Pojchawan Yampikulsakul, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: General Internal Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University Bangkok, Thailand |
| Medicine – Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Name: Omer Afzal, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Brittany Hoyes, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Aneil Parhar, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Jaymin Patel, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Neha Solanky, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Livia Tsien, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Muhammad Zaman, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Medicine – Division of Nephrology |
| Name: Kawther Alquadan, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Nephrology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: Jordan University of Science Technology |
| Medicine – Pulmonary Division |
| Name: Abbas Shahmohammadi, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Pulmonary Division |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pulmonary Disease |
| Location obtained MD: Ross University School of Medicine |
| Neurology |
| Name: Marc-Alain Babi, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Neurocritical care |
| Location obtained MD: Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY |
| Name: Carolina Barbosa-Maciel, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Neurocritical care |
| Location obtained MD: Universidade Federal Fluminense in Brazil |
| Name: Wissam Deeb, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Movement disorders |
| Location obtained MD: University of Balamand, Lebanon |
| Name: Tirisham Gyang, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Multiple sclerosis |
| Location obtained MD: St George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies |
| Name: Scott Heller, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Neuromuscular medicine |
| Location obtained MD: New York Medical College, Valhalla, New York |
| Name: Christopher Robinson, D.O. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Neurocritical care |
| Location obtained DO: West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Name: Hans Shuhaiber, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: General Neurology |
| Location obtained MD: Saint George’s University School of Medicine |
| Name: Alexis Simpkins, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Stroke/Neurovascular medicine |
| Location obtained MD and PhD: Medical College of Georgia |
| Neurosurgery |
| Name: Jason Blatt, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurosurgery |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Neurosurgery |
| Location obtained MD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| Name: Lance Governale, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurosurgery |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Neurosurgery |
| Location obtained MD: Harvard Medical School |
| Name: Cory Hartman, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurosurgery |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Brain tumors, Spinal deformity and spinal cord tumors |
| Location obtained MD: Medical College of Wisconsin |
| Name: Chandan Reddy, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurosurgery |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Peripheral nerve neurosurgery, Movement Disorders, Deep Brain Stimulation |
| Location obtained MD: University of Michigan Medical School |
| Name: Jerzy Rokicki, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Neurosurgery |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Spinal deformity and spinal cord tumors |
| Location obtained MD and PhD: Tulane University School of Medicine |
| Name: Jay Vachhani, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurosurgery |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Endovascular surgery, vestibular schannomas, and radiosurgery. |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida |
| Ophthalmology |
| Name: Erich Horn, M.D. |
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| Department: Ophthalmology |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Comprehensive Ophthalmology |
| Location obtained MD: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA |
| Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation |
| Name: Chung Ming Chan, M.D. |
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| Department: Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Orthopaedic Oncology; Hand and Upper Extremity |
| Location obtained MD: National University of Singapore |
| Name: Leaha Neville, D.P.M. |
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| Department: Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Podiatry |
| Location obtained DPM: Ohio College of Podiatric Medicine, Cleveland, OH |
| Pathology |
| Name: Peng Li, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pathology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hematopathology/Flow Cytometry |
| Location obtained PhD: |
| Name: Nemanja Rodic, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pathology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Dermatopathology |
| Location obtained MD and PhD: |
| Name: Robert Seifert, M.D. |
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| Department: Pathology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hematopathology/Flow Cytometry |
| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Archana Shenoy, M.D. |
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| Department: Pathology |
| Rank: Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: Pediatric pathology |
| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Dianne Torrence, M.D. |
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| Department: Pathology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Bone and soft tissue pathology |
| Location obtained MD: |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Andrew Boulos, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: James Buscher, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Matthew Cascio, D.O. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology |
| Location obtained DO: |
| Name: Robert Dillard, M.D. *Sacred Heart* |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Adriana Elena Fernandez Bowman, M.D. *Sacred Heart* |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Matthew Furst, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Congenital Heart Center |
| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Biljana Horn, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology |
| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Nancy Joseph, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Alan Sacks, M.D. *Sacred Heart* |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Gastroenterology |
| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Jeffrey Schwartz, M.D. *Sacred Heart* |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology |
| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Elahe Shychuk, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: General Pediatrics |
| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: Thao Vu, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: General Pediatrics |
| Location obtained MD: |
| Physiology |
| Name: Erin Bruce, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Physiology |
| Rank: Lecturer |
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| Location obtained PhD: |
| Psychiatry |
| Name: Nikhil Rao, M.D. |
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| Department: Psychiatry |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Child and adolescent psychiatry |
| Location obtained MD: University of Oklahoma |
| Name: Laura Rodriquez-Roman, M.D. |
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| Department: Psychiatry |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Adult – Inpatient. Research interests is in innovative teaching methods in the treatment of psychiatric disorders, generalized anxiety disorder, and major depressive disorder |
| Location obtained MD: Universidad Central del Caribe School |
| Radiology |
| Name: Matthew Franzen, M.D. |
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| Department: Radiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Vascular and Interventional Radiology |
| Location obtained MD: |
| Name: John Rees, M.D. |
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| Department: Radiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
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| Location obtained MD: |
| Surgery |
| Name: Narendra Battula, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Transplantation surgery |
| Location obtained MD: Manipal Medical University in India |
| Name: Olusola Oduntan, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Cardiovascular and thoracic surgery |
| Location obtained MD: College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria |
| Urology |
| Name: Charles Henderson, M.D. *The Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Sacred Heart* |
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| Department: Urology |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric urology |
| Location obtained MD: University of South Alabama College of Medicine, Mobile, AL |