September 2016 New faculty

 

Anesthesiology
Name:  John Parsons, Ph.D.
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Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:   Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Neuroscientist specializing in blast-induced post-traumatic epilepsy
Location obtained PhD degree:   Virginia Commonwealth University
Name:  Jiepei Zhu, M.D., Ph.D.
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Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:  Research Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Animal model development and monitoring, including traumatic brain injury and trauma & hemorrhagic shock with resuscitation, as well as en route care (trauma-injured soldier transportation), decompression sickness (diving accidents), and air (gases) embolism.
Location obtained MD and PhD degrees:   Medical degree from Hengyang Medical College in Hunan, China and PhD from Virginia Commonwealth University
Community Health & Family Medicine
Name:  Danielle Nelson, M.D., M.P.H.
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 Department:  Community Health & Family Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Family medicine
Location obtained MD Degree:  Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston
Medicine
Name:  Carlos Alviar, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Cardiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  General Cardiology/Non-Invasive Imaging
Location obtained MD Degree:  Universidad CES in Medellin, Colombia
Name:  Vikas Patel, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Hospital Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained Medical Degree:
Neurology
Name:  Teddy Youn, M.D.
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Department:  Neurology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Neurocritical care and vascular neurology
Location obtained MD Degree:   Brown University, Rhode Island
Neuroscience
Name:  Maria Gallego Iradi, Ph.D.
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Department:  Neuroscience
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:   Neurodegeneration
Location obtained PhD Degree:    Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Otolaryngology
Name:  Natalie Silver, M.D.
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Department:  Otolaryngology
Rank:  Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Head and neck oncologic surgery
Location obtained MD Degree:     Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC
Pathology
Name:  Marino Leon, M.D.
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Department:  Pathology
Rank:  Clinical Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained MD Degree:    Cayetano Heredia Peruvian University
Pediatrics
Name:  Vijayendran Chandran, Ph.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics, Child Health Research Institute
Rank:  Research Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Neurogenetics
Location obtained Ph.D. Degree:   University of Bielefeld, Germany
Name:  Eric Nelson, M.D., Ph.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics, Child Health Research Institute
Rank:  Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Global Health, Hospital Medicine
Location obtained M.D. and Ph.D. Degrees:  Tufts University, Boston, MA
Name:  Leilanie Perez-Ramirez, M.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics, Allergy and Immunology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Allergy and Immunology
Location obtained M.D. Degree:      University of Puerto Rico, San Juan
Name:  Mikah Thompson, M.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:   Hospital Medicine
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   St. Christopher Iba Mar Diop College of Medicine, Luton, England
Radiology
Name:  Mehmet Albayram, M.D.
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Department:  Radiology
Rank:  Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Diagnostic radiology
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   Istanbul University, Istanbul Medical School, Turkey
Surgery
Name:  Jessica Ching, M.D.
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Department:  Surgery
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  General pediatric plastic surgery, cranial vault surgery, orthognathic surgery, cleft surgery and facial reconstruction.
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston