August 2016 New Faculty

 

Anesthesiology
Name:  Lauren Berkow, M.D.
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Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:   Clinical Associate Professor
Specialty:  Neuroanesthesia
Location obtained MD degree:   University of Maryland School of Medicine
Name:  Lorent Duce, M.D.
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Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:   Cardiothoracic Anesthesia
Location obtained MD degree:   University of South Florida
Name:  Brandon Lopez, M.D.
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Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Obstetric Anesthesia
Location obtained MD Degree:   Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
Name:  Heather Reed, M.D.
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Department:  Anesthesiology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Cardiothoracic Anesthesia
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   Saba University School of Medicine, Saba, Netherlands-Antilles
Biochemistry
Name:  Mingyi Xie, Ph.D.
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 Department:  Biochemistry
Rank:  Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Gene expression regulation by non-coding RNAs; microRNA biogenesis
Location obtained PhD Degree:  Arizona State University
Community Health & Family Medicine
Name:  Lisa Chacko, M.D.
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Department:   CHFM
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Family Medicine
Location obtained MD Degree:  University of Pennsylvania
Name:  Asim Merchant, M.D.
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 Department:  CHFM
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Family Medicine with CAQ in Sports Medicine
Location obtained Medical Degree:  St. Matthew’s University, Cayman Islands
Emergency Medicine
Name:  Daniel Dickinson, M.D.
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Department:  Emergency Medicine
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Emergency Medicine
Location obtained MD Degree:    Upstate Medical University; Syracuse NY
Epidemiology
Name:  Hui Hu, Ph.D.
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Department:  Epidemiology
Rank:  Research Assistant Scientist
Specialty:   His research interests focus on health effects of environmental exposures, substance use, and racial disparities in health outcomes.
Location obtained PhD Degree:    University of Florida
Name:  Jinying Zhao, M.D., Ph.D.
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Department:  Epidemiology
Rank:  Professor
Specialty:  Dean’s Professor and Director of the Division of Genetic Epidemiology
Location obtained MD/PhD degrees:    She received her MD at the Zhengzhou University School of Medicine in China (1989), her first PhD in Molecular Genetics at the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences & Peking Union Medical College (1996), and her second PhD in Statistical Genetics & Genetic Epidemiology at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Health Outcomes & Policy
Name:  Sarah Szurek, Ph.D.
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Department:  Health Outcomes & Policy
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:  A medical anthropologist who specializes in understanding the social and cultural factors that influence health outcomes among vulnerable populations. She has worked with Mexican immigrants in Alabama to examine how personal social networks affect diabetes risk, and with African Americans in Florida on projects related to racism, cardiovascular disease, and the local food environment. Dr. Szurek currently oversees the Florida Health Kids Program evaluation, which examines the quality of care that children receive in the state.
Location obtained PhD Degree:   The University of Alabama
Medicine – General Internal Medicine Division
Name:  Marika Alois, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, General Internal Medicine Division
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Integrative Medicine
Location obtained MD Degree:    Georgetown University School of Medicine
Name:  Ralph Atkinson, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, General Internal Medicine Division
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Primary Care Section Chief and Assistant Chief of Ambulatory Care Service at the Malcom Randall VA Medical Center
Location obtained MD Degree:  University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Kingston, Jamaica
Name:  Paige Barker, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, General Internal Medicine Division
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   University of Florida
Medicine, Endocrinology Division
Name:  Sushma Kadiyala, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained M.D. Degree:      St. George University, School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies
Medicine, Hematology Division
Name:  Nosha Farhadfar, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained M.D. Degree:    St. Matthew University School of Medicine, Cayman Islands
Name:  Hemant Murthy, M.D.
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Department:  Medicine, Division of Hematology & Medical Oncology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   St. George’s University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies
Neurology
Name:  Miguel Chuquilin, M.D.
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Department:  Neurology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Neuromuscular
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru
Obstetrics & Gynecology
Name:  Lakeema Bruce, M.D.
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Department:  Obstetrics & Gynecology
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained M.D. Degree:   Florida State University College of Medicine
Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Name:  Christopher William Reb, D.O.
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 Department:  Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Orthopaedics Foot and Ankle
Location obtained DO Degree:  Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine
Name:  Bradley Schoch, M.D.
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Department:  Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:   Shoulder and elbow surgery
Location obtained M.D. Degree:  University of Iowa Carver COM
Pediatrics
Name:  Moanaro Biswas, Ph.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:  Assistant Scientist
Specialty:  Biotechnology
Location obtained Ph.D. Degree:    National Institute of Virology, India
Name:  Yazmin Enchautegui-Colon, M.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:   Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Medical Genetics
Location obtained M.D. Degree:  Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara, Mexico
Name:  S. Parrish Winesett, M.D.
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Department:  Pediatrics
Rank:   Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Pediatric epilepsy
Location obtained M.D. Degree:  University of South Florida
Pharmacology & Therapeutics
Name:  Olga Guryanova, M.D., Ph.D.
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Department:  Pharmacology
Rank:   Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Research interests include cancer, hematopoietic stem cells, epigenetics, and drug discovery
Location obtained MD/PhD Degrees:  Lomonasov Moscow State University School of Medicine, Moscow, Russia and her PhD from Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia
Name:  Peter Hook, Ph.D.
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Department:  Pharmacology
Rank:  Research Assistant Professor
Specialty:    Molecular mechanisms of muscle diseases
Location obtained Ph.D. Degree:   Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Physiology & Functional Genomics
Name:  Elaine Sumners, Ph.D.
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Department:  Physiology
Rank:   Research Assistant Scientist
Specialty:  Basic scientist
Location obtained PhD Degree:   University of Florida, Department of Physiology
Psychiatry
Name:   Melissa Munson, Ph.D.
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Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained Ph.D. Degree:   Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Name:  Anthony Russell, M.D.
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Department:  Psychiatry
Rank:   Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Addiction Medicine, pain management, substance use disorders, evaluation and management of dual-diagnosis pain and substance use disorders, and substance-related impairment.
Location obtained MD Degree:  New York University, School of Medicine, New York, New York
PA Program
Name:   Breann Garbas, D.H.Sc.
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Department:  School of Physician Assistant Studies
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:
Location obtained D.H.Sc. Degree:
Surgery
Name:   Alexander Ayzengart, M.D.
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Department:  Surgery
Rank:  Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Clinical interests include bariatric surgery, endoscopy and hernia repair
Location obtained M.D. Degree:    University of Michigan
Name:  Moiz Mustafa, M.D.
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Department:  Surgery
Rank:   Clinical Assistant Professor
Specialty:  Clinical interests include Hirschsprung’s disease
Location obtained M.D. Degree:    New Jersey Medical School