{"id":65605,"date":"2019-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/07\/17\/new-faculty-36\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T16:10:24","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T21:10:24","slug":"new-faculty-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/newsroom\/2019\/07\/17\/new-faculty-36\/","title":{"rendered":"New faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\"><p>A total of 58 new faculty members have joined the College of Medicine. They include one professor\/department chair, two associate professors, 30 assistant professors and 25 instructors.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Professor<\/strong><br \/>\nAviva Abosch, MD, PhD, neurosurgery<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Associate professors<\/strong><br \/>\nAmie Hollard, MD, obstetrics\/gynecology<br \/>\nMuhammad Rafique, MBBS, anesthesiology<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Assistant professors<\/strong><br \/>\nNurlan Aliyev, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine<br \/>\nDavid Anderson, PhD, ophthalmology and visual sciences<br \/>\nMichael Baine, MD, radiation oncology<br \/>\nAleh Bobr, MD, pathology\/microbiology<br \/>\nMelissa Caha, DO, pediatrics general<br \/>\nSarah Cameron, MD, internal medicine-general medicine<br \/>\nJie Chen, MD, PhD, pathology\/microbiology<br \/>\nGeorge Chesteen, MD, radiology<br \/>\nAndrew Christiansen, MD, surgery-urologic surgery<br \/>\nRao Chundury, MD, ophthalmology and visual sciences<br \/>\nNicolas Cortes-Penfield, MD, internal medicine-infectious diseases<br \/>\nJesse Cox, MD, PhD, pathology\/microbiology<br \/>\nKevin Denton, MD, radiology<br \/>\nKarisa Hajek, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine<br \/>\nJessie Jenkins, MD, internal medicine-general medicine<br \/>\nAnupam Kotwal, MBBS, internal medicine-diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism<br \/>\nJoshua Lauarila, DO, internal medicine-general medicine<br \/>\nErnesto Martinez Duarte, MD, pathology\/microbiology<br \/>\nThomas Meredith, MD, family medicine<br \/>\nAlex Nester, MD, internal medicine-oncology\/hematology<br \/>\nValerie Rinehart, MD, pediatrics hospitalists<br \/>\nLindsey Schindler, DO, family medicine<br \/>\nAfsaneh Shirani, MD, neurological sciences<br \/>\nBronwyn Small, MD, internal medicine-pulmonary<br \/>\nShubra Srinivas, MD, pediatrics hospitalists<br \/>\nVeronica Taylor, MD, pediatrics nephrology<br \/>\nRobert Taylor, MD, surgery-general surgery<br \/>\nMelissa Thoene, PhD, pediatrics newborn medicine<br \/>\nHope Voto, DO, physical medicine &amp; rehabilitation<br \/>\nTesia Winter, DO, internal medicine-general medicine<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<strong>Instructors<\/strong><br \/>\nAbhjit Aithal, PhD, biochemistry and molecular biology<br \/>\nSkye Bakker, MD, anesthesiology<br \/>\nAndrew Baumgartner, MD, psychiatry<br \/>\nMollie Brittan, MD, internal medicine-general medicine<br \/>\nKristy Carlson, PhD, internal medicine-hospital medicine<br \/>\nSeoung Ryoung Choi, PhD, pathology\/microbiology<br \/>\nRaghubendra Dagur, PhD, internal medicine-gastroenterology<br \/>\nAmanda Dimmitt, MD, radiology<br \/>\nKevin Dowlatshahi, MD, pathology\/microbiology<br \/>\nShailendra Gautam, PhD, biochemistry and molecular biology<br \/>\nVenugopal Gunda, PhD, pediatrics computational chemistry<br \/>\nRichard Hankins, MD, internal medicine-infectious diseases<br \/>\nTate Johnson, MD, internal medicine-general medicine<br \/>\nJeffrey Klug, MD, radiology<br \/>\nKylie Liermann, DO, pediatrics general<br \/>\nMiranda Mesloh, MD, emergency medicine<br \/>\nAsit Misra, MD, emergency medicine<br \/>\nKate-Lynn Muir, DO, internal medicine-general medicine<br \/>\nGopalakrishnan Natarajan, PhD, biochemistry and molecular biology<br \/>\nDalton Nelsen, MD, emergency medicine<br \/>\nWeston Ross, DO, emergency medicine<br \/>\nSusmita Sil, PhD, pharmacology\/experimental neuroscience<br \/>\nAnnadural Thangaraj, PhD, pharmacology\/experimental neuroscience<br \/>\nMeilinh Thi, DO, internal medicine-pulmonary<br \/>\nJill Wagoner, MD, internal medicine-general medicine<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"display: none;\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" title=\"Tqevil rbG t\">Tqevil rbG t<\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A total of 58 new faculty members have joined the College of Medicine. 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