Faculty Recruits

July 1, 2012-Nov. 1, 2015

From the start of Fiscal 2013 until Nov. 1, 2015, P&S added more than 600 individuals—more than half of them women—to its faculty.

Department of Anesthesiology

Martin Chen, MD
Jennifer Danielsson, MD
Daniela Darrah, MD
Nicholas Davis, MD
John Gaudet, MD
David Kiamanesh, MD
Vibhuti Kowluru, MD
Allison Lee, MD
Ka-Eun Lee, MD
Richard Levy, MD
Albert Lin, MD
Lisa Lynch, MD
Matthew Monteleone, MD
Teresa Mulaikal, MD
Alexander Rusanov, MD
Cortessa Russell, MD
Vikram Saxena, MD
Christopher Webb, MD
Paul Weyker, MD
Isaac Wu, MD
Gene Yocum, MD

Department of Biochemistry & Molecular Biophysics

Stavros Lomvardas, PhD
Chaolin Zhang, PhD

Department of Biomedical Informatics

Joseph Finkelstein, PhD
Karthik Natarajan, PhD
Nicholas Tatonetti, PhD

Department of Dermatology

Lindsey Bordone, MD
Larisa Geskin, MD
Filamer Kabigting, MD
Vishal Patel, MD

Department of Genetics & Development

David Goldstein, PhD
Alberto Ciccia, PhD

Department of Medicine

Carrie Aaron, MD
Marwah Abdalla, MD
Ali Aboufares, MD
Darryl Abrams, MD
Melissa Accordino, MD
Jason Adelman, MD
Cara Agerstrand, MD
Wooin Ahn, MD
Olabiyi Akala, MD
Yorg Al Azzi, MD
Ziad Ali, MD
Jacqueline Angles, MD
Rene Ashworth, MD
Anca Askanase, MD
Rupali Avasare, MD
Stacy Baird, MD
Shailesh Balasubramanian, MD
Matthew Baldwin, MD
Veroushka Ballester Vargas, MD
Emily Baneman, MD
Susan Bates, MD
Natalie Bello, MD
Elana Bernstein, MD
Rachel Bernstein, MD
Biren Bhatt, MD
Magdalena Bogun, MD
Leah Bralow, MD
Keith Brenner, MD
Sean Campbell, MD
Wellington Cardoso, MD, PhD
Katherine Carson Straus, MD
Richard Carvajal, MD
Jorge Caviglia, MD, PhD
Paola Chamorro, MD
Bani Chander Roland, MD
Bernard Chang, MD
Jae Chang, MD
Jairaj Chaudhry, MD
Pooja Chitneni, MD
David Christensen, MD
Donald Colbourn, MD
Remi Creusot, PhD
Natalie Cusano, MD
Nishil Dalsania, MD
Joyeeta Dastidar, MD
Urmi Desai, MD
Kerry Donegan, MD
Teresa Doucet, MD
Esteban Escolar, MD
Erin Ferenchick, MD
Richard Findling, MD
Tsion Firew, MD
Antonio Fojo, MD, PhD
Alyson Fox, MD
Martin Jay Frankel, MD
Mark Frattini, MD, PhD
Daniel Freedberg, MD
Lena Furmark, MD
Arthur Garan, MD
Yana Garger, MD
Yevgeniya Gartshteyn, MD
James Gettler, MD
Jonathan Ginns, MD
Monica Goldklang, MD
Claire Gordon, MD
Rishi Goyal, MD
Philip Green, MD
Francis Gress, MD
Muhammad Hamza Habib, MD
Samreen Hasan, MD
Ramin Hastings, MD
Mark Heaney, MD, PhD
Bruce Heckman, MD
Andrew Higgins, MD
Jason Hill, MD
Tai Hang Ho, MD
Jaime Hook, MD
Julia Iyasere, MD
Vivek Iyer, MD
Helen Jan, MD
Nisha Jhalani, MD
Walkiria Jimenez-Loo, MD
Joseph Jurcic, MD
Sean Kalloo, MD
Dimitrios Karmpaliotis, MD
David Kauvar, MD
Omar Khalique, MD
Ali Khan, MD
Minesh Khatri, MD
Mona Kinkhabwala, MD
Irina Klyatis, MD
Benjamin Krantz, MD
Suneeta Krishnareddy, MD
Evgenia Krotova, MD
Solomon Krow, MD
Deepa Kumaraiah, MD
Joyce Kuo, MD
Angelena Labella, MD
Arta Lahiji, MD
Nicole Lamanna, MD
Garrett Lawlor, MD
David Lee, MD
Jacklyn Lee, MD
Jonathan Lee, MD
Joseph Lee, MD
Gary Lehrman, MD
David Lessman, MD
Hao Wei Li, MD, PhD
Simon Lichtiger, MD
Emerson Lim, MD
Sewanti Limaye, MD
Judy Lin, MD
Jacqueline Lonier, MD
Michelle Love, MD
Jining Lu, PhD
Sujata Malhotra, MD
Gulam Manji, MD, PhD
Bora Mardechia, MD
Benjamin Mason, MD
Bindu Mathew, MD
Martin Melman, MD
Edward Merker, MD
Benjamin Miko, MD
Nathalie Moise, MD
Heather Morris, MD
Mythili Murthy, MD
Muhammad Mustafa, MD
Shunichi Nakagawa, MD
Paul Oberstein, MD
Daniel O’Connor, MD, PhD
Max O’Donnell, MD
Elizabeth Oelsner, MD
Yvette Ortiz, MD
Lale Ozcan, PhD
Madhavi Parekh, MD
Tina Park, MD
Pooja Paunikar, MD
Dora Piccirilli, MD
Todd Pulerwitz, MD
Andong Qiu, MD
Jianwen Que, BMed, PhD
Ivonne Ramirez, MD
Zankhana Raval, MD
Shilpa Ravella, MD
Kashif Raza, MD
Shahzad Raza, MD
Ran Reshef, MD
Kabir Rezvankhoo, MD
Naiyer Rizvi, MD
Todd Rosenblat, MD
Gregg Rosner, MD
Dana Sacco, MD
Yvonne Saenger, MD
Fereshteh Sani, MD
Simone Sanna-Cherchi, MD
Kiran Saraf, MD
Ahmed Sawas, MD
Sameer Sayeed, MD
Elizabeth Scharle, MD
Gary Schwartz, MD
Sasha Shapiro, MD
Ari Shechter, PhD
Victoria Sheen, MD
Tian Shen, PhD
Catherine Shu, MD
Jessica Singer, MD
Lalitha Sitaraman, MD
David Solarz, MD
Frank Soroka, MD
Jonathan Soverow, MD
Marie Pierre St. Onge, PhD
Richard Strongwater, MD
Monica Suarez, MD
Edward Suh, MD
Yee-Ping Sun, MD
Cara Taubman, MD
Juan Terre, MD
Raleigh Todman, MD
Sonia Tolani, MD
Veli Topkara, MD
Lucille Torres-Deas, MD
Anil Trindade, MD
Elena Tsai, MD
Emily Tsai, MD
Torsten Vahl, MD
Athina Vassilakis, MD
David Veal, MD
Anthony Velasquez, MD
Joseph Vozzolo, MD
Romina Wahab, MD
Gina Waight, MD
Tonya Walker, MD
Julian Watkins, MD
Leigh-Ann Webb, MD
Heng Chao Wei, MD
Steven Weisen, MD
Max Werth, PhD
Elaine Wan, MD
Mary Wolfe, MD
Anette Wu, MD, PhD
Siqin Ye, MD
Jae Yun, MD
Emmanuel Zorn, PhD

Department of Neurological Surgery

Christopher Mandigo, MD
Marc Otten, MD
Sameer Sheth, MD, PhD
Adam Sonabend Worthalter, MD

Department of Neurology

Dritan Agalliu, PhD
Estela Area Gomez, PhD
Stephanie Assuras, PhD
Lisa Bateman, MD
Sanda Carniciu, MD
Denise Chou, MD
Comana Cioroiu, MD
Jeffrey Cole, PhD
Jahannaz Dastgir, DO
Yunglin Gazes, PhD
Sylvie Goldman, PhD
Yian Gu, PhD
Jose Gutierrez Contreras, MD
Matthew Harms, MD
Arezou Heshmati, MD
Sarah Janicki, MD
Kelly Janke, PhD
Un Kang, MD
Paul Kent, MD, PhD
Inna Kleyman, MD
Teri Kreisl, MD
William Kreisl, MD
Sheng-Han Kuo, MD
Victoria Leavitt, PhD
Tiffani McDonough, MD
Jacqueline Montes, EdD
Yazmin Odia, MD
Hwamee Oh, PhD
Soojin Park, MD
Qolamreza Razlighi, PhD
James Riviello, MD
Lauren Schaff, MD
Hiral Shah, MD
Kiran Thakur, MD
Rebecca Traub, MD
Christina Ulane, MD, PhD
Badri Vardarajan, PhD
Wendy Vargas Deming, MD
Andrew Westwood, MD
Marianna Shnayderman Yugrakh, MD

Department of Neuroscience

Roudabeh Behnia, PhD
Ethan Bromberg-Martin, PhD
Minoree Kohwi, PhD
Franck Polleux, PhD
Michael Shadlen, MD, PhD
Michail Tsodyks, PhD

Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology

Arnold Advincula, MD
Henry Behar, MD
Jaclyn Coletta Lucas, MD
Antoinette Danvers, MD
Bruce Feinberg, MD
Alexander Friedman, MD
Annie Fu, MD
Robert Goldenberg, MD
Shravya Govindappagari, MD
Cara Grimes, MD
Margo Harrison, MD
June Hou, MD
Nitasha Jain, MD
Tamara Kelly, MD
Kfier Kuba, MD
Obianuju Madueke Laveaux, MD
Pearl Lim, MD
Reut Moyal, MD
Swapna Nalgonda, MD
Hemashi Perera, MD
Michael Pitter, MD
Piyapa Praditpan, MD
Sharon Quayle, MD
Carrie Shawber, PhD
Jean-Ju Sheen, MD
Hemangi Shukla, DO
Khara Simpson, MD
Raeka Talati, MD
Ana Tergas, MD
Joy-Sarah Vink, MD
Jennifer Walsh, MD
Caitlin Weber, MD
Constance Young, MD
Noelia Zork, MD

Department of Ophthalmology

Maria Amaro-Quireza, OD
Steven Brooks, MD
Jonathan Chang, MD
Royce Chen, MD
Donald Coleman, MD
Karina Conlin, OD
Carlos Gustavo De Moraes, MD
Elona Gavazi, MD
Larissa Ghadiali, MD
Quan Hoang, MD, PhD
John Johnson, MD
Chad Kaplan, MD
Jeffrey Liebmann, MD
James Murphy, MD
Jeffrey Gordon Odel, MD
Gregory Stein, MD
Linus Sun, MD
Gulgun Tezel, MD
Tongalp Tezel, MD
Andrei Tkatchenko, PhD
Danielle Trief, MD
Lauren Yeager, MD
Xin Zhang, PhD

Department of Orthopedic Surgery

Natasha Desai, MD
Charla Fischer, MD
Charles Jobin, MD
Rajendra Kadiyala, MD
Ronald Lehman, MD
Lawrence Lenke, MD
Thomas Lynch, MD
Charles Popkin, MD
Kiehyun Riew, MD
Roshan Shah, MD, JD
Robert Steffner, MD
Stavros Thomopoulos, PhD
George Zambetti, MD

Department Otolaryngology/Head & Neck Surgery

Ilana Cellum, AuD
Justin Golub, MD
David Gudis, MD
Flora Holderbaum, AuD
Lawrence Lustig, MD
Jason Moche, MD
Lauren Steiner, AuD
Amanda Ucci, AuD

Department of Pathology & Cell Biology

Swarnali Acharyya, PhD
Vimla Aggarwal, MBBS
Edmund Au, PhD
Ibrahim Batal, MD
Helen Causton, PhD
Piero Dalerba, MD
Claudia Doege, MD
Ellen Ezratty, PhD
Karthik Ganapathi, MBBS, PhD
Tatyana Gindin, MD, PhD
Abel Gonzalez, MD
Mehrvash Haghighi, MD
Erin Heinzen Cox, PhD
Daniela Hoehn, MD, PhD
Susan Hsiao, MD, PhD
Syed Hussaini, PhD
Alina Iuga, MD
Stephen Lagana, MD
Roger Lefort, PhD
Laura Beth McIntire, PhD
Russell Nicholls, PhD
Kevin Roth, MD, PhD
Ismael Santa-Maria Perez, PhD
Dominick Santoriello, MD
Antonia Sepulveda, MD, PhD
Jorge Sepulveda, MD, PhD
Markus Siegelin, MD
Anthony Sireci, MD
Andrew Sproul, PhD
Yvette Tanhehco, MD, PhD
Patricia Tiscornia-Wasserman, MD
Andrew Turk, MD
Harris Wang, PhD
Fann Wu, MD
Hui-Min Yang, MD

Department of Pediatrics

Christopher Adrian, MD
Nauman Ahmad, MD
Danielle Ahn, MD
Brett Anderson, MD
Shweta Antani, DO
Linda Aponte-Patel, MD
John Babineau, MD
David Bank, MD
Sumeet Banker, MD
Sarah Blank, MD
Clare Bush, MD
Robert Carter, MD
Lindsey Chaudoin, MD
Anjali Chelliah, MD
Thomas Connors, MD
Matthew Crystal, MD
Yesim Demirdag, MD
Kerrin DePeter, MD
Stephanie Desgrottes, MD
Nicolino Dorrello, MD
Jeffrey Edwards, MD
Dietrich Egli, PhD
Daniel Fenster, MD
Jenny Francis, MD
Lindsay Freud, MD
Suzanne Friedman, MD
Joji Fujisaki, MD, PhD
Dania Golan, MD
Melanie Gold, MD
Kim Hekimian, PhD
Ruben Igal, MD
Namrata Jain, MD
Nazreen Jamal, MD
Vasudeva Kamath, MD
Rose Karanicolas, MD
David Kessler, MD
Julie Khlevner, MD
Minsoo Kim, MD
Sivan Kinberg, MD
Andrew Kung, MD
Elena Ladas, PhD
Esi Sama Lamouse-Smith, MD
Sabrina Law, MD
Jennifer Lee, MD
Teresa Lee, MD
Tina Leone, MD
Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, MD
Tamar Lubell, MD
Angela Maxwell, MD
Teresa McCann, MD
Adrienne McMillan, MD
Michael Monaco, MD
Cindy Neunert, MD
Lorraine Ng, MD
Jennifer Oberg, EdD
Shirley Obioha, MD
Christina Orfali, PhD
Alok Patel, MD
Rafael Perez Figueroa, MD
Laura Perretta, MD
Kalpana Pethe, MD
Monica Prieto, MD
Laura Pisani, MD
Jennifer Rathe, MD
Meenakshi Rao, MD, PhD
Jasmin Roohi, MD, PhD
Alice Ruscica, MD
Hossein Sadeghi, MBBS
Cyril Sahyoun, MD
Tessa Scripps, MD
Collette Spalding, MD
Sally Sultan, MD
Alvin Teodoro, MD
Mariel Turner, MD
Natalie Uy, MD
Jennifer Vittorio, MD
Patricia Vuguin, MD
Elisha Waldman, MD
Patrick Wilson, MD
Jennifer Woo Baidal, MD
Xin Ye, MD
Joyce Yu, MD
Philip Zachariah, MD

Department of Pharmacology

Emily Chen, PhD

Department of Physiology & Cellular Biophysics

Edward Owusu-Ansah, PhD

Department of Psychiatry

Jose Arvizu Olvera, MD
Jessica Benson, PhD
Robert Berman, MD, PhD
Adriane Birt, MD
Walter Bockting, PhD
Gay Brucato, PhD
Kendra Campbell, MD
Alexandra Canetti, MD
Rachel Caravella, MD
Stephanie Cheung, MD
Renu Culas, MD
Ravi DeSilva, MD
Michael Devlin, MD
Jade Dewitt, MD
Nery Diaz, MD
Dianna Dragatsi, MD
Erin Engle, PhD
Gary Escola, MD, PhD
Eve Freidl, MD
Karin Friederwitzer, MD
Maalobeeka Gangopadhyay, MD
Dennise Garcia-Sevilla, PhD
Christina Garza, MD
Ragy Girgis, MD
Claire Golden, PhD
Erica Kass, MD
David Kuhn, PhD
Martin Lan, MD
Ryan Lawrence, MD
Norman Lee, MD
Cindy Lim, MD
Vasco Lopes, PhD
Karimi Mailutha, MD
Amy Margolis, MD
Ali Mattu, PhD
Cheryl McGibbon, MD
Amanda McGovern, PhD
Jennifer Minami, MD
Adrienne Mishkin, MD
Megan Mroczkowski, MD
Daniel Notzon, MD
Mayumi Okuda Benavides, MD
Maria Perez Coste, MD
Kathleen Pike, PhD
Anthony Puliafico, PhD
Adriana Rego, MD
Diana Samuel, MD
Carlos Sanchez, MD
Shabnam Shakibaie, MD
Silvia Sloan, MD
Marisa Spann, PhD
Julie Spicer, PhD
Oliver Stroeh, MD
Meghan Tomb, PhD
Jeremy Veenstra-VanderWeele, MD
Ilene Wilets, PhD
Elizabeth Zakarin, PhD
Maria Zerrate, PhD

Department of Radiation Oncology

Guy Garty, PhD
Peter Grabham, PhD
David Horowitz, MD
Tony Wang, MD
Jingsong Yuan, PhD

Department of Radiology

Rama Ayyala, MD
Stuart Bentley-Hibbert, MD
Patrick Carberry, PhD
Sophie Chheang, MD
Lynn Chinitz, MD
Mark Francescone, MD
Richard Ha, MD
Klaus Hamacher, PhD
Janine Keuskamp, MD
Serena Mak, MD
Victoria Mango, MD
Alpesh Mehta, MD
David Mobley, MD
Gul Moonis, MD
Jeffry Neil, MD
Birva Patel, MD
Amir Paydar, MD
Guy Ross, MD
Akash Shah, MD
Samantha Shankar, MD
Arif Sheikh, MD
Gregory Sica, MD
Gail Sorrel-Mosk, MD
Karoly Viragh, MD
Tony Wong, MD
Randy Yeh, MD
Department of Rehabilitation & Regenerative Medicine
Akinpelumi Beckley, MD
Anna-Christina Bevelaqua, MD
Colleen Brough, DPT
George Christolias, MD
Barbara Corneo, PhD
Katherine Dimitropoulou, PhD
Lei Ding, PhD
Wing Fu, PhD
Farah Hameed, MD
Michael Johnson, PhD
Susan Klepper, PhD
Samuel Rosenberg, DO
Heidi Schambra, MD
Patricia Tan, MD
Diane Thompson, MD
Rebekah Wallach, DPT
Masayuki Yazawa, PhD

Department of Surgery

Onur Baser, PhD
Michael Borger, MD
Paul Chai, MD
Xiaojuan Chen, MD, PhD
Margaret Chen-Seetoo, MD
Mary Digiorgi, PhD
Vincent Duron, MD
Isaac George, MD
Arpan Goel, MBBS
Richard Green, MD
Adam David Griesemer, MD
Beth Hochman, MD
Thomas Imahiyerobo, MD
David Kalfa, MD, PhD
Pokala Kiran, MD
Michael Kluger, MD
Abram Krikhely, MD
Jennifer Kuo, MD
Paul Kurlansky, MD
Steven Lee-Kong, MD
Kasi McCune, MD
Emmanouil Pappou, MD, PhD
Amanda Powers, MD
David Sachs, MD
Richard Schutzer, MD
Koji Takeda, MD
Kazuhiko Yamada, MD, PhD

Department of Systems Biology

Tuuli Lappalainen, PhD

Department of Urology

Shumyle Alam, MD
Christopher Anderson, MD
Pasquale Casale, MD
Jorge Caso, MD
Doreen Eleanor Chung, MD
Yvonne Koch, MD
Alan Polackwich, MD
Roger Riechers, MD
Ojas Shah, MD
Peter Stahl, MD
David Weiner, MD
Sven Wenske, MD