New faculty

Jennifer Medlin, MD, is a new rheumatologist for UNMC/Nebraska Medicine.

A total of 44 new faculty members have joined the College of Medicine. They include one associate professor, 41 assistant professors and two instructors.

Associate Professor

Attila Csordas, MD, radiology

Assistant Professors

Jeffrey Akerson, MD, family medicine

Patrick Anderl, MD, family medicine

Megan Arthur, MD, dermatology

David Berkheim, MD, surgery-cardiovascular & thoracic surgery

Abigail Besemer, PhD, radiation oncology

Laxmi Narayana Buddharaju, MBBS, internal medicine-oncology/hematology

Jason Christensen, MD, pediatrics cardiology

Timothy Donovan, MD, radiology

Katie Freeman, MD, orthopaedic surgery

Katie Geelan-Hansen, MD, otolaryngology-head and neck surgery

Amy Goldstein, MD, pediatrics hospitalists

Jonathan Hatch, MD, otolaryngology-head and neck surgery

Kyle Hewitt, PhD, genetics, cell biology and anatomy

Loretta Jophlin, MD, PhD, internal medicine-GI

Brynn Lastovica, MD, family medicine

Xiaowei Li, PhD, neurological sciences

Kristi Lorenzen, MD, anesthesiology

Katherine MacKrell, MD, pediatrics hospitalists

Thomas Manning, MD, anesthesiology

Jennifer Medlin, MD, internal medicine-rheumatology

Chad Moes, MD, family medicine

Hema Navaneethan, MD, pediatrics administration

Joseph Pawlowski, MD, anesthesiology

Kaitlyn Pellegrino, MD, anesthesiology

Prakash Pillai, PhD, pharmacology/experimental neuroscience

Sara Putnam, MD, orthopaedic surgery

Bradley Reames, MD, surgical oncology

Jeffrey Robinson, MD, pediatrics cardiology

Hannah Sneller, MD, pediatrics emergency medicine

Erica Stohs, MD, internal medicine-infectious diseases

Jeremy Stone, MD, internal medicine-cardiovascular medicine

Elena Strunk, MD, emergency medicine

Adam Sutton, MD, dermatology

Arun Swaminathan, LTMMC, neurological sciences

Andrea Talukdar, MD, pediatrics critical care

Jonathan Thompson, MD, surgery-general surgery

Ryan Trowbridge, MD, dermatology

Amrita Amanda Vuppala, MD, neurological sciences

Jordan Warchol, MD, emergency medicine

Nicholas Weiland, DO, internal medicine-general medicine

Kenneth Zoucha, MD, psychiatry

Instructor

James Bisanti, MD, radiology

Kristin Wakin, MD, anesthesiology