New medical faculty, September 2023

Thirty-four new faculty members joined the UNMC College of Medicine in July and August. They are:

Professors

  • Heidi Castillo, MD, pediatrics-developmental medicine
  • Alex Foy, MD, pediatrics-cardiology
  • Jonathan Porter, MD, pediatrics-developmental medicine

Associate professors

  • Dinesh Pradhan, MD, pathology/microbiology

Assistant professors

  • Richard Amendola, MD, orthopaedic surgery
  • Ariana Bauer, MD,  internal medicine-palliative medicine
  • Allison Bird, DO, family medicine
  • Kaveh Bookani, MD, internal medicine-cardiovascular medicine
  • Alexandra Burt, MD, psychiatry
  • Joseph Clemons, MD, emergency medicine
  • Jennifer Davis, MD, internal medicine-infectious diseases
  • Zachary Ehresman, MD, family medicine
  • Michael Facciolo, MD, pediatrics-critical care
  • Vincent Gonzalez, MD, pediatrics- cardiology
  • Michael Haddadin, MBBS, internal medicine-oncology/hematology
  • Ahmad Halawa, MD, ophthalmology and visual sciences
  • Amissabah Kanley, MD, pediatrics-general
  • Grace Lai, MD, neurosurgery
  • Mobasser Mahmood, MBBS, internal medicine-cardiovascular medicine
  • Taylor Meyer, MD, anesthesiology
  • Amal Musa, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine
  • Keith Ozanne, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine
  • Leilanie Perez Ramirez, MD, pediatrics-allergy
  • Jaeda Pitlick, MD, internal medicine-general medicine
  • Vivek Rai, MD, biochemistry and molecular biology
  • David Taylor, MD, PhD, psychiatry
  • Nathan Teague, MD, anesthesiology
  • Morgan Walgren, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine
  •  Jian Xie, PhD, pathology/microbiology
  • Pengwei Zhang, PhD, pathology/microbiology

Instructors

  • Julie Held, DO, emergency medicine
  • Shereen Zia, MD, pathology/microbiology
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