2020 Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards
Congratulations to the 2020 winners of the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Awards. May is designated as teaching excellence month for McGovern Medical School.
Anesthesiology
William Baumgartner, MD
Lauren Brollier, MD
Amber Campbell, MD
Warren Choi, MD
Daniel Contreras, MD
Johanna de Haan, MD
Christopher Fung, MD
Amy Graham-Carlson, MD
Sara Guzman-Reyes, MD
Nadia Hernandez, MD
Thanh-Thuy Le, MD, PhD
Travis Markham, MD
Stacy Norrell, MD
Eric Nesrsta, MD
Alexander Reskallah, MD
Madhumani Rupasinghe, MBBS
Srikanth Sridhar, MD
John Zaki, MD
Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
Phillip Carpenter, PhD
Vasanthi Jayaraman, PhD
Harry Karmouty-Quintana, PhD
John Putkey, PhD
CV Surgery
Rana Afifi, MD
Steven Eisenberg, MD
Adel Irani, MD
Philip Rascoe MD
Dermatology
Natasha Klimas, MD
Diagnostic and Interventional Imaging
Charles Beasley, MD
Nicholas Beckmann, MD
Ronald Bilow, MD
Eliana Bonfante-Mejia, MD
Jeffrey Carlson, MD
Naga Chinapuvvula, MBBS
Jeanie Choi, MD
Miguel Fabrega, MD
Arash Kamali, MD
Manickam Kumaravel, MB, BS
Eduardo Matta, MD
Daniel Ocazionez-Trujillo, MD
Latifa Sanhaji, MD
Venkateswar Surabhi, MB, BS
Rodrick Zvavanjanja, MB, ChB
Emergency Medicine
Shifa Abraham, MD
Amee Amin, MD
Salil Bhandari, MD
Benjamin Cooper, MD
Tom Fadial, MD
Hilary Fairbrother, MD
Jonathan Giordano, DO
Richard Gordon, MD
Ryan Huebinger, MD
Adeola Kosoko, MD
Thomas McCarty, MD
Afnan Moussaad, MD
Ezenwa Onyema, MD, MS
Michael Pandya, MD
Jonathan Rogg, MD
Hannah Smith, MD
Gowri Stevens, MD
Family and Community Medicine
Michael Altman, MD
Pedro Aquino, MD
Dominique Balla, MD
Larry Butcher, MD
Shira Goldstein, MD
Deepa Iyengar, MB, BS
Alexander Laceras, MD
Vijaya Mallela, MD
Shrabanee Mitra, MB, BS
Phuc Duc Nguyen, MD
Bal Reddy, MD
Louise Terrill, MD
Yu Wah, MB, BS
Carman Whiting, MD
Ronald Winter, MD
Amber Zulfiqar, MBBS
Integrative Biology and Pharmacology
Jeffrey Chang, PhD
Shane Cunha, PhD
Catherine Denicourt, PhD
Carmen Dessauer, PhD
Guangwei Du, PhD
Jeffrey Frost, PhD
Alex Gorfe, PhD
Ilya Levental, PhD
Oleh Pochynyuk, PhD
Gary Rosenfeld, PhD
Edgar Walters, PhD
Yong Zhou, PhD
Internal Medicine
Rodeo Abrencillo, MD
David Aguilar, MD
Omowunmi Aibana, MD
Gabriel Aisenberg, MD
Bindu Akkanti, MD
Jane Andrews, MD
Effrosyni Apostolidou, MD, PhD
Salman Arain, MD
Cesar Arias, MD, PhD
James Robert Baker, MD
Prakash Balan, MD, JD
Jammie Barnes, MD
Modushudan Bhattacharjee, MBBS
Jessica Campbell, MD
Konstantinos Charitakis, MD
Sujith Cherian, MBBS
Manjari Devidi, MBBS
Kha Dinh, MD
Pratik Doshi, MD
Andrew DuPont, MD
Angelina Edwards, MD
Ijeoma Ekeruo, MD
Rosa Estrada-Y-Martin, MD
Mark Farnie, MD
Kevin Finkel, MD
Renee Flores, MBBS
Enrique Garcia-Sayan, MD
Anneliese Gonzalez, MD
Rukma Govindu, MBBS
Absalon Gutierrez, MD
Katie Guttenberg, MD
Caroline Ha, MD
Rodrigo Hasbun, MD
Modupe Idowu, MD
Syed Jafri, MBBS
Pushan Jani, MBBS
Rachel Jantea, MD
Nils Johnson, MD
Jessica Jones, MD
Jaya Kala, MBBS
Zeyad Kanaan, MBBS
Mubeen Khan, MD
Aisha Khattak, MBBS
Bruce Kone, MD
Gus Krucke, MD
Susan Laing, MD
Scott Larson, MD, PhD
Ana Leech, MD
Ruckshanda Majid, MB, BS
Courtney McCray, MD
Brandy McKelvy, MD
William Miller, MD
Donald Molony, MD
Cristina Murdock, MD
Shahla Nader-Eftekhari, MB, ChB
Sriram Nathan, MBBS
Moises Nevah, MD
Masayuki Nigo, BM
Philip Orlander, MD
Luis Ostrosky, MD
Monica Patel, MD
Saher Rabadi, MB, BCh
Nahid Rianon, MBBS, PhD
Julie Rowe, MD
Lilit Sargsyan, MD
Neel Shah, MD
Brian Skaug, MD, PhD
Jennifer Swails, MD
Jade Teakell, MD, PhD
Poyee Tung, MD
Karen Vigil, MD
Dia Waguespack, MD
Mark Warner, MD
Robby Wesley, DO
McGovern Center for Humanities and Ethics
Rebecca Lunstroth, JD
Nathan Carlin, PhD
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Heidi Kaplan, PhD
Nayun Kim, PhD
Ronald “Chris” MacKenzie, PhD
Neurobiology and Anatomy
Len Cleary, PhD
Claire Hulsebosch, PhD
David Marshak, PhD
Anthony Wright, PhD
Han Zhang, MD
Jing Zhao, PhD
Neurology
Hammad Bokhari, DO
Allison Boyle, MD
Kristin Brown, MD
Shivika Chandra, MBBS
Amanda Jagolino-Cole, MD
Haris Kamal, MD
Fudong Liu, MB
Rodrigo Morales, PhD
Nassim Naderi, MD
Thy Nguyen, MD
Adriana Rosero Enriquez, MD
Anjail Sharrief, MD
Shaun Smart, MD
Erin Furr Stimming, MD
Melissa Thomas, MD
Tzu-Ching Wu, MD
Alicia Zha, MD
Neurosurgery
Huimahn Alex Choi, MD
Ying Liu, MD, PhD
Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences
Nana-Ama Ankumah, MD
Asha Bhalwal, MBBS
Anushka Chelliah, MD
Diana Crabtree Sokol, MD
Jenny Duret-Uzodinma, MD
Megha Gupta, MD
Julie Gutierrez, MD
Sara Holcombe, DO
Randa Jalloul, MD
Ha Nguyen, MD
Elizabeth Nugent, MD
Lavanya Palavalli Parsons, MD
Ramesha Papanna, MBBS
Diana Racusin, MD
James Sargent, MD
Eugene Toy, MD
Stephen Wagner, MD
Alexander Wainwright, MD
Orthopaedic Surgery
Timothy Achor, MD
Andrew Choo, MD
Ernest Conrad, MD
Allen Criswell, MD
Steven Flores, MD
Joshua Gary, MD
James Gregory, MD
James Kellam, MD
Matthew Koepplinger, DO
Alfred Mansour, III, MD
Stacey Martin, MD
Kenneth Mathis, MD
Wade McAlister, MD
William McGarvey, MD
John Munz, MD
Mark Prasarn, MD
Milton Routt, MD
Stephen Warner, MD, PhD
Kyle Woerner, MD
Shiraz Younas, MBBS
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Jeffrey Actor, PhD
Yu Bai, MB, PhD
Leomar Ballester, MD, PhD
Meenakshi Bhattacharjee, MBBS
Maximilian Buja, MD
Zhenjian Cai, MD, PhD
Nina Tatevian, MD, PhD
Amanda Tchakarov, MD
Margaret Uthman, MD
MD Amer Wahed, MB, BS
Priya Weerasinghe, MD, PhD
Mamoun Younes, MD
Hui Zhu, MB, PhD
Pediatric Surgery
Matthew Harting, MD
Phuong Nguyen, MD
Manish Shah, MD
Pediatrics
Joseph Alcorn, PhD
Chiamaka Aneji, MBBS
Myla Ashfaq, MS
Cynthia Bell
Laura Benjamins, MD
Konstantinos Boukas, MD
Michael Chang, MD
John Chapman, MD
Alvaro Coronado Munoz, MD
Lisa De Ybarrondo, MD
Abby Geltemeyer, MD
Wallace “Skip” Gleason, MD
Anand Gourishankar, MBBS
Amalia Guardiola, MD
Paul Hillman, MD
Jean Hsu, DO
Cindy Jon, MD
Ankur Kamdar, MD
Sutapa Khatua, MBBS
Sofia Khera, MD
Jeremy Lankford, MD
Pedro Mancias, MD
Sandy McKay, MD
Shade’ Moody, MD
Ricardo Mosquera, MD
Kristine O’Connor, MD
Emma Omoruyi, MD
Kenya Parks, MD
Raymond Parlar-Chun, MD
Norma Perez, DO
Michelle Rivera-Davila, MD
Nidra Rodriguez, MD
Michelle Ruda, MD
Joyce Samuel, MD
Joshua Samuels, MD
Nivedita Thakur, MD
Shivani Tripathi, MD
Melissa Van Arsdall, MD
Aravind Yadav, MB, BS
Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Glendaliz Bosques Mendez, MD
Jason Chen, DO
Nikola Dragojlovic, DO
Christopher Falco, MD
Joel Frontera, MD
Stacey Hall, DO
Ajai Sambasivan, MD
Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Elaheh Ashtari, PsyD
Tatiana Barichello, PhD
Jeffrey Barr, MD
Rania Elkhatib, MD
Luis Fernandez, MD
Jonathan Findley, MD
Silvia Hafliger, MD
Jane Hamilton, PhD
Amanda Helminiak, MD
Katherine Loveland, PhD
Thomas Meyer, PhD
Caesa Nagpal, MBBS
Deborah Pearson, PhD
Teresa Pigott, MD
Segundo Robert-Ibarra, MD
Marsal Sanches, MD, PhD
Cynthia Santos, MD
Salih Selek, MD
Lokesh Shahani, MBBS
John Sneed, MD
Ana Ugueto, PhD
Michael Weaver, MD
Hanjing Wu, MD, PhD
Cristian Zeni, MD, PhD
Surgery
Sasha Adams, MD
Erik Askenasy, MD
Kulvinder Bajwa, MD
Wasim Dar, MD, PhD
Daniel Freet, MD
Matthew Greives, MD
David Hall, MD
John Harvin, MD
Todd Huzar, MD
Lillian Kao, MD
Saleem Khan, MBBS
Anil Kulkarni, MD
Melina McCarty, MD
Stefanos Millas, MD
Emily Robinson, MD
Ethan Taub, DO
Charles Wade, PhD
David Wainwright, MD
James Wallace, MD