New medical faculty, November 2023

Zin Mar Htun, MD

Fourteen faculty members joined the UNMC College of Medicine in September and October. They are:

Professors

  • Anthony Scalzo, MD, neurological sciences

Assistant professors

  • Rana Al-Sadi, PhD, internal medicine-GI
  • Matthew Fuglestad, MD, surgery-colorectal surgery
  • Ria Fyffe-Freil, PhD, pathology/microbiology
  • Denai Gordon, MD, family medicine
  • Zin Mar Htun, MD, internal medicine-pulmonary
  • Christopher Kovach, MD, neurosurgery
  • Ashleigh Kussmann, MD, pediatrics-hematology/oncology
  • Smitha Mathew, MD, orthopaedic surgery
  • Michelle Mulder, MD, surgical oncology
  • Austin Rupp, MD, internal medicine-hospital medicine
  • Ashley Walters, MD, psychiatry

Instructors

  • Debashis Dutta, PhD, pharmacology/experimental neuroscience
  • Li Zheng, PhD, biochemistry/molecular biology