October 2017 New Faculty
| Aging & Geriatrics |
| Name: Anna Gardner, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Aging & Geriatrics |
| Rank: Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: Long-term health outcomes among sepsis survivors; caregiver burden within the ICU |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Florida |
| Community Health & Family Medicine |
| Name: Omobola Oduntan, M.D. |
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| Department: Community Health & Family Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Preventive health care and women’s health |
| Location obtained MD: University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria |
| Medicine |
| Name: Keith March, M.D., Ph.D., F.A.C.C. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Rank: Professor |
| Specialty: Director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine & Vice Chief of Cardiology for Research |
| Location obtained MD and PhD: Indiana University |
| Name: Dmitry Traktuev, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine |
| Rank: Research Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Molecular and Cellular Vascular Biology and Therapeutics |
| Location obtained PhD: Moscow State University |
| Molecular Genetics & Microbiology |
| Name: Brooke Armfield, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Molecular Genetics & Microbiology |
| Rank: Research Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Developmental Biology |
| Location obtained PhD: Kent State University |
| Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation |
| Name: Nataly Montes-Chinea, M.D. |
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| Department: Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation |
| Location obtained MD degree: University of Puerto Rico School of Medicine |
| Otolaryngology |
| Name: Brian Lobo, M.D. |
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| Department: Otolaryngology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Advanced Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery |
| Location obtained MD: University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas |
| Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Name: Seung-Chul Choi, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Rank: Research Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: Immunology |
| Location obtained PhD degree: Chonbuk National University in South Korea |
| Name: Sara Falzarano, M.D., Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Genitourinary Pathology |
| Location obtained MD and PhD degrees: University of Siena, Italy |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Debra Cohen, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Sacred Heart Hospital |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Hematology/Oncology |
| Location obtained MD degree: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine |
| Name: Theresa Roca, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Sacred Heart Hospital |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Cardiology |
| Location obtained MD degree: Tulane University School of Medicine |
| Name: David Shapiro, D.O. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Sacred Heart Hospital |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Infectious Diseases |
| Location obtained DO degree: New York College of Osteopathic Medicine |
November 2017
| Medicine |
| Name: Pegah Ghafourian, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Hospitalist (Internal Medicine Trained) |
| Location obtained MD: Mercer University School of Medicine, Savannah, Georgia |
| Pathology |
| Name: Georges Abboud, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pathology |
| Rank: Research Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: Infection-Autoimmunity |
| Location obtained PhD: Pasteur Institute of Lille |
| Pharmacology |
| Name: Jonathan Bird, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pharmacology |
| Rank: Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Molecular mechanisms of hearing and deafness |
| Location obtained PhD: University College London |
| Surgery |
| Name: Gilbert Upchurch, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Professor and Chair |
| Specialty: Vascular Surgery; appointed as Chair, Department of Surgery |
| Location obtained MD: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
December 2017
| Medicine |
| Name: Christine Lin, M.D. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care & Sleep Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Lung transplant |
| Location obtained MD: University of California, San Diego, California |
| Radiology |
| Name: Izabella Barreto, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Radiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Radiation Physics |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Florida |