New faculty

Thirty-one new faculty members have joined the UNMC College of Medicine. They are:

Assistant professors

• Duaa Abdallah, MBBS, internal medicine-hospital medicine
• Benjamin Arbeiter, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine
• Stephen Brannan, MD, anesthesiology
• Rebecca DeVries, DO, radiology
• James Dreessen, MD, anesthesiology
• Christopher Edwards, MD, pediatrics-hospitalists
• Ellen Kerns, MPH, pediatrics-child health
• Nathaline Khoury, MD, internal medicine-GI
• Natalie Lynch, DO, family medicine
• Sarah Malik, MBBS, internal medicine-GI
• Melissa Mathes, MD, obstetrics/gynecology
• Subin Mathew, MBBS, neurological sciences
• Chelsea McElroy, DO, internal medicine-hospital medicine
• Andreea Newtson, MD, obstetrics/gynecology
• Thang Nguyen, DNP, emergency medicine
• Atchuyta Pachigolla, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine
• Anery Patel, MBBS, internal medicine-DEM
• Sean Rajnic, MD, anesthesiology
• Tony Richa, MD, otolaryngology-hand and neck surgery
• Anum Samdani, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine
• Varun Sharma, MD, psychiatry
• Erin Smith, MD, neurological sciences

Instructors

• Rakesh Bhatia, PhD, biochemistry and molecular biology
• Jeffrey Cannatella, MD, pathology/microbiology
• Rocky Esteraich, MD, psychiatry
• Farid Khan, MD, ophthalmology and visual sciences
• Bernadette Lamb, MD, internal medicine-education
• Rachel Marlow, MD, pediatrics-critical care
• Jessica Rydberg, DO, internal medicine-education
• Kyle Wilson, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine
• John Wright, MD, ophthalmology and visual sciences