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*