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Faculty Recognition 2024-25

The Department of Medical Education is pleased to recognize the following faculty members who were nominated by MD students during the 2024-25 academic year for demonstrating exemplary professionalism. Faculty are listed below by department. Names marked with an asterisk received two or more nominations. Congratulations to those who were named and thank you to all of our dedicated faculty members for their commitment to teaching. 

 Anesthesiology (Cardiothoracic Anesthesiology)

  • Sherif Afifi

 Anesthesiology (Critical Care Medicine)

  • Louanne Carabini

 Emergency Medicine

  • Molly Estes

  • Larry Faines

  • Matthew Kippenhan

  • Demetrios Kyriacou

 Family and Community Medicine

  • Dorina Feher*

  • Matthew Hagerman

  • Joanna Kmiecik

  • Ray Mendez*

  • Rachel Tatz

  • Nanajan Yakoub*

 Family Medicine-SCH

  • Lukasz Jaros

 Internal Medicine

  • Anuj Chokshi

  • Dan Tong Jia

  • Samuel Luebbe

  • Orlyn Rivas

  • Andrew Tout

  • Asantewaa Ture*

 Medical Education

  • Keith Boyd
  • Sarah Rodriguez

 Medicine (Allergy and Immunology)

  • Baiju Malde*

 Medicine (Gastroenterology and Hepatology)

  • A Aziz Aadam

 Medicine (General Internal Medicine)

  • Denise Au*

  • Niyati Bhandari

  • Jennifer Bierman

  • David Fox*

  • Lee Freedman

  • Amy Henning

  • Muriel Jean-Jacques

  • Collette Kalal*

  • Gary Martin*

  • Sasha Mehrabian

  • Danielle Pierro

  • Toshiko Uchida*

  • Karin Ulstrup*

  • Michael Zielinski

 Medicine (Geriatrics)

  • Sara Bradley

 Medicine (Hematology and Oncology)

  • Jyoti Patel

 Medicine (Hospital Medicine)

  • Bilal Al-Khalil*

  • Darren Boyd

  • Timothy Caprio

  • Ashti Doobay-Persaud

  • Michelle Fletcher

  • Bijal Jain

  • Emily Kahn

  • Cheryl Lee

  • Hiren Shah

  • Annette Zacharia

 Medicine (Infectious Diseases)

  • Muhammad Dhanani

 Neurology

  • Joshua Cahan

  • Nicholas Hac

 Neurology (Comprehensive Neurology)

  • Katherine Carroll*

  • Neena Cherayil

  • Sam Ung Ho

  • Zachary Pardieck*

 Neurology (Epilepsy/Clinical Neurophysiology)

  • Stephen VanHaerents

 Neurology (Neurocritical Care)

  • Ayush Batra*

 Neurology (Neuromuscular Disease)

  • Arjun Seth

 Neurology (Neuro-oncology)

  • Karan Dixit

  • Priya Kumthekar

  • Rimas Lukas*

 Neurology (Sleep Medicine)

  • Sabra Abbott

 Neurology (Stroke and Vascular Neurology)

  • MerryJean Losso

  • Geeta Verma

 Obstetrics & Gynecology

  • Carmen Adams

  • Mary Arlandson

  • Melissa Dugan-Kim

  • Nuzhath Hussain

  • Wilberto Nieves-Neira

  • Erica O'Neill

 Obstetrics and Gynecology (General Obstetrics and Gynecology)

  • Weronika Armstrong

  • Ismely Minaya

  • Elisabeth Stark

 Obstetrics and Gynecology (Gynecologic Oncology)

  • Emily Hinchcliff

 Obstetrics and Gynecology (Maternal Fetal Medicine)

  • Priya Rajan

 Obstetrics and Gynecology (Reproductive Endo and Infertility)

  • Emily Jungheim

 Orthopaedic Surgery

  • Stephen Gryzlo

  • Anish Kadakia

  • Linda Suleiman*

 Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

  • Allen Carlins

 Pediatrics (Advanced General Pediatrics and Primary Care)

  • Preethi Raghupatruni

 Pediatrics (Cardiology)

  • Peter Koenig

 Pediatrics (Community Based Primary Care)

  • Laura Banks
  • Carly Berg
  • Shelly Flais*
  • Larisa Jesinskis

 Pediatrics (Emergency Medicine)

  • Susan Samreth

 Pediatrics (Hospital-Based Medicine)

  • Emma Anselin

  • Alanna Higgins Joyce

  • Virginia Hsu

  • Catherine Michelson*

  • Jessica Pryor

  • Waheeda Samady

 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

  • Sangeeta Patel

 Preventive Medicine (Epidemiology)

  • Tiwaloluwa Ajibewa*

 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

  • Kaitlyn Kunstman*

  • Maria Gunaratnam*

 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Child and Adolescent Psychiatry)

  • Tareq Yaqub

 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (Consultation Liaison Psychiatry)

  • Brandon Hamm*

  • Michael Marcangelo

 Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (General Psychiatry)

  • Chandrika Shankar*

  • Robert Sobut

 Pulmonary Disease & Critical Care Medicine

  • Timothy Rowe

 Surgery (Breast Surgery)

  • Kevin Bethke*

 Surgery (Gastrointestinal)

  • Kyle Mueller*

 Surgery (Organ Transplantation)

  • Kyle Curtis

 Surgery (Plastic Surgery)

  • Neil Fine

 Surgery (Surgical Oncology)

  • Juliet Lumati

  • Rebecca Williams*

 Surgery (Thoracic Surgery)

  • Kalvin Lung

 Surgery (Trauma and Critical Care)

  • Nicole Meredyth

 Urology

  • Aurash Naser-Tavakolian

  • Amanda Vo*