| List of new faculty members from September 2018 for Faculty Newsletter |
| Aging & Geriatric Research |
| Name: Deepa Ramamurthi, M.D. |
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| Department: Aging & Geriatric Research |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Assistant Program Director, Geriatric Medicine Fellowship Program |
| Location obtained MD: Ross University School of Medicine, Commonwealth of Dominica, West Indies |
| Anesthesiology |
| Name: Michael Franklin, D.O. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Cardiothoracic Anesthesia |
| Location obtained DO: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Anesthesiology |
| Name: T. Everett Jones, M.D. |
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| Department: Anesthesiology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Cardiothoracic Anesthesia |
| Location obtained MD: Emory University |
| Community Health & Family Medicine |
| Name: Lara Rybak, M.D. |
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| Department: Community Health & Family Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Family Medicine |
| Location obtained MD: University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada |
| Emergency Medicine |
| Name: Joel Rowe, M.D. |
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| Department: Emergency Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Associate Director of Emergency Medicine for Lake County |
| Location obtained MD: Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia |
| Medicine |
| Name: Rozina Ali, D.O. |
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| Department: Medicine, Division of Nephrology, Hypertension & Renal Transplantation |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Nephrology |
| Location obtained DO: Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine |
| Neurology |
| Name: Demetrius Maraganore, M.D. |
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| Department: Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Professor |
| Specialty: Behavioral and Cognitive Neurology/Neurodegeneration |
| Location obtained MD: Northwestern University Medical School |
| Neuroscience |
| Name: Joseph McQuail, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Neuroscience |
| Rank: Research Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Aging, Stress, Prefrontal Cortex, Hippocampus, Memory |
| Location obtained PhD: Wake Forest University |
| Otolaryngology |
| Name: Thomas Schrepfer, M.D. |
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| Department: Otolaryngology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Otolaryngology |
| Location obtained MD: University of Zurich |
| Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Name: Alessandra Nascimento, M.D. |
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| Department: Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Rank: Clinical Associate Professor |
| Specialty: Surgical Pathology |
| Location obtained MD: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
| Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Name: Daniel Perry, Ph.D. |
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| Department: Pathology & Laboratory Medicine |
| Rank: Research Assistant Scientist |
| Specialty: Immune function and how its dysregulation can result in autoimmunity |
| Location obtained PhD: University of Florida |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Joon Choi, D.O. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: General Pediatrics |
| Location obtained DO: University of New England |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Martina Drawdy, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Endocrinology |
| Location obtained MD: Charles’s University – Czech Republic |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Ali Kurady, M.D. |
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| Department: Pediatrics, Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Pediatric Nephrology |
| Location obtained MD: University of Al-Mustansiriya – Iraq |
| Pediatrics |
| Name: Carla Zingariello, D.O. |
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| Department: Pediatrics |
| Specialty: Pediatric Neurology |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Location obtained DO: University of New England |
| Surgery |
| Name: Daniel Demos, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Thoracic & Cardiovascular Surgery |
| Location obtained MD: Wayne State University |
| Surgery |
| Name: Crystal Johnson-Mann, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Gastrointestinal Surgery |
| Location obtained MD: Medical University of South Carolina |
| Surgery |
| Name: Meir Meerkov, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Clinical Assistant Professor |
| Specialty: Acute Care Surgery – Trauma |
| Location obtained MD: University of Michigan |
| Surgery |
| Name: Thomas Read, M.D. |
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| Department: Surgery |
| Rank: Clinical Professor |
| Specialty: Chief, Division of Gastrointestinal Surgery |
| Location obtained MD: UC San Francisco |