| List of new faculty members from October 2018 for Faculty Newsletter |
| Anatomy |
| Name: Nadja Makki, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Anatomy |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Human genetics |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Utah School of Medicine |
| Anesthesiology |
| Name: Melissa Burger, M.D. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Critical Care Medicine and Cardiothoracic Anesthesia |
| Location obtained MD: University of Miami |
| Community Health & Family Medicine |
| Name: Eileen Lauzardo, M.D. |
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| Department: Community Health & Family Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Family Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: University of Florida College of Medicine |
| Dermatology |
| Name: Marjorie Montanez-Wiscovich, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Dermatology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: General Dermatology |
| Location obtained MD and PhD: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio |
| Medicine |
| Name: Ronald Garcia, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Cardiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Non-invasive Imaging/Echocardiography |
| Location obtained MD: East Tennessee State University |
| Medicine |
| Name: Romina Lomonaco, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Diabetes, Lipids, Obesity |
| Location obtained MD: Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, School of Medicine in Argentina |
| Medicine |
| Name: Matthew Schaller, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Cellular Immunology |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Neurology |
| Name: Wei Hu, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Research Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Director, UF Health International Center; Movement Disorders & Neurorestoration |
| Location obtained MD and PhD: MD obtained at Shanghai Jiaotong University Medical School; PhD obtained at Heinrich Heine University of Dusseldorf, Germany |
| Otolaryngology |
| Name: Timothy Lian, M.D. |
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| Department: Otolaryngology |
| Rank: Professor |
| Specialty: General otolaryngology |
| Location obtained MD: Tulane University, New Orleans, LA |
| Pharmacology |
| Name: Daniel Kopinke, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pharmacology |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Tissue regeneration; primary cilia and cilopathies; fatty fibrosis; and drug discovery |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Utah School of Medicine |
| Surgery |
| Name: Robin Petroze, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Surgery |
| Location obtained MD: University of Cincinnati |
| Surgery |
| Name: Michael Yacoub, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery, at Halifax Health |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Vascular Surgery |
| Location obtained MD: Ross University, Dominica |