October 4, 2002

New faculty members join VUMC

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Christopher F.J. Hardy

Susan Wente

Susan Wente

Phyllis Ekdall

Phyllis Ekdall

George C. Hill

George C. Hill

(Editor’s Note: New faculty will be highlighted each month in the Reporter. The following people joined the faculty at VUMC during July and August. The Executive Committee of the Board of Trust approved the faculty action during the September meeting. Due to space limitations, the remaining faculty names will be published in next week’s Reporter.)

Kevin P.M. Currie, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Dr. Alan Dean, Instructor of Clinical Anesthesiology

Dr. Richard C. Evans, Instructor of Clinical Anesthesiology

Dr. Clark H. Galbraith, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Dr. William W. Goldsmith, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Dr. Alexander K. Hughes, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Dr. Michael G. Richardson, Associate Professor of Anesthesiology

Dr. Annemarie Thompson, Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Hans Rudolf Aerni, Assistant in Biochemistry

David Cortez, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biochemistry

Charles R. Sanders II, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Biochemistry

Eugenia M. Yazlovitskaya, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Biochemistry

Erik M. Boczko, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Dr. Kevin B. Johnson, Associate Professor of Biomedical Informatics

Dr. Samuel T. Rosenbloom, Instructor of Biomedical Informatics

Dr. Rashid M. Ahmad, Assistant Professor of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery

Dr. James P. Greelish, Assistant Professor of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery

Dr. Jess D. Schwartz, Instructor of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgery

Daniela Drummond-Barbosa, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Guoqiang Gu, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Christopher F.J. Hardy, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Susan Rae Wente, Ph.D., Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology

Dr. Donald Hayes Arnold, Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Thomas L. Brown, Instructor of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Susan Kathleen Marlow, Instructor of Emergency Medicine

Dr. John Paul Rohde, Instructor of Emergency Medicine

Dr. R. Jason Thurman, Instructor of Emergency Medicine

Dr. Elizabeth Harlan Crowe, Clinical Instructor of Family Medicine

Renee Marie Brown, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences

Gary P. Jacobson, Ph.D., Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences

Devin McCaslin, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences

Clare Melanie Schuele, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Hearing and Speech Sciences

Phyllis Ekdall, Assistant Professor of Medical Administration

George C. Hill, Ph.D., Levi Watkins Jr. Professor of Medical Administration

Michelle B. Marrs, Assistant Professor of Medical Administration

Roxane B. Spitzer, Ph.D., Professor of Medical Administration

Pichumani Balagurumoorthy, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Paolo Boffetta, Adjunct Professor of Medicine

Dr. Jeffrey B. Boord, Instructor of Medicine

Larry R. Churchill, Ph.D., Professor of Medicine

Dawood Darbar, M.B., Ch.B., Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Catherine L. Dekle, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Shelley Ellis, Instructor of Clinical Medicine

Dr. Tina Covington Gresham, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine

Patricia Harrison, Assistant in Medicine

Dr. Murali Krishna Kolli, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine

Dr. Anthony James Langone, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Carlo Lavecchia, Adjunct Professor of Medicine

Dr. Xia Li, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

John T. Loh, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Glen C. Manalo, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Lisa A. Mendes, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Harvey Johnson Murff, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Ronald Andrew Nelson, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Dr. Josh Favrot Peterson, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Michael Karl Porayko, Associate Professor of Medicine

Dr. Zhonghua Qi, Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Thomas Ramsey Richardson, Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine

Dr. Russell Lawrence Rothman, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Christianne L. Roumie, Instructor of Clinical Medicine

Genbin Shi, Ph.D., Research Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Catherine V. Stober, Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Munirathinam Sundaramoorthy, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Medicine

Dr. Patty Walchak Wright, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Aurelio Galli, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Habibeh Khoshbouei, Ph.D., Research Instructor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Douglas Paul Mortlock, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Phoebe L. Stewart, Ph.D., Research Associate Professor of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics

Dr. Joseph S. Cheng, Assistant Professor Department of Neurological Surgery

Muhammad Majid Al-Kaylani, MBBCH, Instructor of Neurology

Dr. Michael Cooper, Assistant Professor of Neurology

Dr. Martin J. Gallagher, Assistant Professor of Neurology

Dr. Peter Hedera, Assistant Professor of Neurology

Dr. Adrian A. Jarquin-Valdivia, Assistant Professor of Neurology

Dr. Andre Lagrange, Assistant Professor of Neurology

Dr. Stephen Luming Lee, Assistant Professor of Neurology

Dr. Susan M. Naselli, Assistant Professor of Neurology

Dr. John Lauchlin Currie, Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Dr. Jeffrey A. Kammer, Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Dr. Diana Reeves, Instructor of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Dr. Jeffrey Sonsino, Associate in Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences

Dr. Sanjay Puttam Reddi, Assistant Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery

S.K. Bahandare, Visiting Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation

Robin E. Driver, R.N., Assistant in Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation

Dr. Ginger E. Holt, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation

Dr. Bhaskar Aditya Mukherji, Instructor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation

Dr. William Todd Obremskey, Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation

Dr. Edward K. Gardner, Clinical Instructor of Otolaryngology

Dr. Michael M. Johns III, Instructor in Otolaryngology

Dr. Felicia J. Johnson, Instructor in Otolaryngology

Dr. Robert R. Lorenz, Instructor in Otolaryngology

Dr. Charles K. Oh, Instructor in Otolaryngology

Dr. Paul G. van der Sloot, Instructor in Otolaryngology

Dr. Katherine Stokes Hamilton, Assistant Professor of Pathology.