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