October 2016 New faculty

Anatomy & Cell Biology
Name:  Rene Opavsky, Ph.D.
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Department:  Anatomy and Cell Biology
Rank:   Associate Professor
Specialty:    Role of DNA methyltransferases in normal and malignant hematopoiesis
Location obtained PhD degree:   Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
Anesthesiology
Name:  Richa Wardhan, M.D.
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Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Acute Pain Medicine
Location obtained MD degree:     PT. Jawahar Lal Nehru Memorial Medical College, Raipur, India
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Name:  Huacheng Luo, Ph.D.
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Department:  Biochemistry
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:
Location obtained PhD Degree:
Dermatology
Name:  Kiran Motaparthi, M.D.
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Department:  Dermatology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:   Dermatopathology; Assistant Residency Program Director
Location obtained MD Degree:  Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas
Medicine
Name:  Monica Aggarwal, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained Medical Degree:   Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism
Name:  William Donahoo, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Obesity medicine
Location obtained MD Degree:  University of Colorado School of Medicine
Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine
Name:  Keely Fischbach, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Internal medicine
Location obtained MD Degree:   University of South Florida
Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Name:  Zhiwei Xu, Ph.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:   Infection Immunity and Autoimmunity
Location obtained PhD Degree:  Peking University
Neurosurgery
Name:  Kate Candelario, Ph.D.
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Department:  Neurosurgery
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:
Location obtained PhD Degree:    University of New Mexico School of Medicine
Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Name:  Jena Auerbach, D.O.
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Department:  Pathology & Laboratory Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained DO degree:
Pharmacology
Name:  Erica Levitt, Ph.D.
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Department:  Pharmacology
Rank:  Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Cellular and molecular mechanism of G Protein-coupled receptors targeted by drugs of abuse
Location obtained Ph.D. Degree:  University of Michigan
Psychiatry
Name:  Gregory Jones, M.D.
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Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:   Addiction
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia
Radiation Oncology
Name:  Meng Wei Ho, M.Sc.
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Department:  Radiation Oncology
Rank:  Assistant In
Specialty:  Clinical Radiotherapy Physics (proton, LINAC, and Brachytherapy)
Location obtained M.Sc. Degree:    National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Surgery
Name:  Karl Reyes, M.D.
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Department:  Surgery, Congenital Heart Center
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Neonatal heart surgery, adult congenital heart surgery, mitral and aortic valve repair, minimally invasive cardiac surgery, hybrid cardiac surgery and extracorporeal life support
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   University of the East College of Medicine, Quezon City, Philippines