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.
Professor
Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD, neurosurgery
Associate professors
Amie Hollard, MD, obstetrics/gynecology
Muhammad Rafique, MBBS, anesthesiology
Assistant professors
Nurlan Aliyev, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine
David Anderson, PhD, ophthalmology and visual sciences
Michael Baine, MD, radiation oncology
Aleh Bobr, MD, pathology/microbiology
Melissa Caha, DO, pediatrics general
Sarah Cameron, MD, internal medicine-general medicine
Jie Chen, MD, PhD, pathology/microbiology
George Chesteen, MD, radiology
Andrew Christiansen, MD, surgery-urologic surgery
Rao Chundury, MD, ophthalmology and visual sciences
Nicolas Cortes-Penfield, MD, internal medicine-infectious diseases
Jesse Cox, MD, PhD, pathology/microbiology
Kevin Denton, MD, radiology
Karisa Hajek, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine
Jessie Jenkins, MD, internal medicine-general medicine
Anupam Kotwal, MBBS, internal medicine-diabetes, endocrinology and metabolism
Joshua Lauarila, DO, internal medicine-general medicine
Ernesto Martinez Duarte, MD, pathology/microbiology
Thomas Meredith, MD, family medicine
Alex Nester, MD, internal medicine-oncology/hematology
Valerie Rinehart, MD, pediatrics hospitalists
Lindsey Schindler, DO, family medicine
Afsaneh Shirani, MD, neurological sciences
Bronwyn Small, MD, internal medicine-pulmonary
Shubra Srinivas, MD, pediatrics hospitalists
Veronica Taylor, MD, pediatrics nephrology
Robert Taylor, MD, surgery-general surgery
Melissa Thoene, PhD, pediatrics newborn medicine
Hope Voto, DO, physical medicine & rehabilitation
Tesia Winter, DO, internal medicine-general medicine
Instructors
Abhjit Aithal, PhD, biochemistry and molecular biology
Skye Bakker, MD, anesthesiology
Andrew Baumgartner, MD, psychiatry
Mollie Brittan, MD, internal medicine-general medicine
Kristy Carlson, PhD, internal medicine-hospital medicine
Seoung Ryoung Choi, PhD, pathology/microbiology
Raghubendra Dagur, PhD, internal medicine-gastroenterology
Amanda Dimmitt, MD, radiology
Kevin Dowlatshahi, MD, pathology/microbiology
Shailendra Gautam, PhD, biochemistry and molecular biology
Venugopal Gunda, PhD, pediatrics computational chemistry
Richard Hankins, MD, internal medicine-infectious diseases
Tate Johnson, MD, internal medicine-general medicine
Jeffrey Klug, MD, radiology
Kylie Liermann, DO, pediatrics general
Miranda Mesloh, MD, emergency medicine
Asit Misra, MD, emergency medicine
Kate-Lynn Muir, DO, internal medicine-general medicine
Gopalakrishnan Natarajan, PhD, biochemistry and molecular biology
Dalton Nelsen, MD, emergency medicine
Weston Ross, DO, emergency medicine
Susmita Sil, PhD, pharmacology/experimental neuroscience
Annadural Thangaraj, PhD, pharmacology/experimental neuroscience
Meilinh Thi, DO, internal medicine-pulmonary
Jill Wagoner, MD, internal medicine-general medicine
New faculty
Aviva Abosch, MD, PhD, is professor and chair of the UNMC Department of Neurosurgery.