List of new faculty members from March 2017 for Faculty Newsletter
Anesthesiology
Name: Robert Loeb, M.D.
Department: Anesthesiology
Rank: Clinical Professor
Specialty: Multispecialty anesthesia
Location obtained Medical degree: University of Maryland
Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
Name: Raad Gharaibeh, Ph.D.
Department: Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology
Rank: Research Assistant Professor
Specialty: Director, Microbiome Genomics for UFHCC
Location obtained PhD Degree: University of North Carolina
Neuroscience
Name: Kaustuv Saha, Ph.D.
Department: Neuroscience
Rank: Research Assistant Professor
Specialty: To identify novel pharmacological approaches to decrease the rate of dopamine neuronal dysfunctions implicated in Parkinson’s disease and drug addiction.
Location obtained PhD Degree: University of Houston, Texas
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Name: Mehmet Genc, M.D., Ph.D.
Department: Obstetrics & Gynecology
Rank: Clinical Professor
Specialty: Maternal Fetal Medicine
Location obtained Medical and PhD Degrees: Medical degree obtained at Istanbul University in Istanbul, Turkey; PhD degree obtained at Uppsala University in Uppsala, Sweden
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Name: Jinping Lai, M.D., Ph.D.
Department: Pathology
Rank: Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty: Research Director, GI/Liver Unit
Location obtained Medical and PhD Degrees: Hunan Medical University (now named as Xiangya School of Medicine, Central South University), Changsha, Hunan, China
Pediatrics
Name: Krystal Bittar, Psy.D.
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Department: Pediatrics
Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty: Clinical Psychology
Location obtained Psy. Degree: Carlos Albizu University, Miami, Florida