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Matthew T. Hurford, MD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor; and Hong Qu, MD, has joined as Assistant Professor.
Gregg E. Gorton, MD, recently joined the faculty as Associate Professor and psychiatric consultant liaison. Diane B. Gottlieb, MD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor.
PEDIATRICS RADIOLOGY
Soo Kim, MD ’97
Alexander Parikh, MD
Marvin Ziskin MD ’62, Professor, has been inducted as a Fellow of the Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers. SURGERY
Ernest Bertha, MD
Several new faculty have joined the Department: Ernest Bertha, MD, Associate Professor and Chief Medical Officer of Temple University Children’s Medical Center; Patricia Campbell, MD, Assistant Professor; Dione Cash, MD, Assistant Professor; Salwa Chawich, MD, Assistant Professor; Barry Evans, MD, Assistant Professor; Surya Gupta, MD, Instructor; Yaron Harel, MD, Assistant Professor; Allan Kahler, MD ’97, Instructor; Alisa LoSasso, MD, Assistant Professor; Stephen Nemerson, MD, Assistant Professor; and Geetanjali Srivastava, MD, Assistant Professor. PHARMACOLOGY
Professor Emerita Concetta Harakal, PhD ’62, and George Kehner, PhD ’02
The Department welcomes three new faculty: Eugen Brailoiu, MD, Assistant Professor; C. Gabriela Brailoiu, MD, Assistant Professor; and George Kehner, PhD ’02, Assistant Professor. PHYSIOLOGY
Satoru Eguchi MD, PhD, has joined the faculty as Associate Professor. His research interests pertain to vasculature in relation to heart disease.
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Frank Schmeider, MD, with Dean Daly
THROMBOSIS RESEARCH CENTER John Blebea, MD, with Dean Daly
John Blebea, MD, recently joined the faculty as Professor of Vascular Surgery, Section Chief, Director of Temple’s Vascular Diagnostic Laboratory and Director of Temple’s Vascular Surgery Fellowship Program. Prior to joining the temple faculty, he was Professor of Surgery and Radiology at Penn State College of Medicine. His areas of expertise include angiogenesis, ultrasound detection of micro-emboli, ischemia/ reperfusion injury, and clinical vascular outcomes. Vincent Armenti , MD, has joined the faculty as Professor of Surgery and kidney transplant surgeon in the Abdominal Organ Transplant Program. Dr. Armenti is the principal investigator for the National Transplantation Pregnancy Registry, a comprehensive registry to track pregnancy outcomes of transplant recipients. Five other faculty are recent additions to the Department: Soo Kim, MD ’97, Assistant Professor; Christopher Kowalski, MD ’97, Assistant Professor; Alexander Parikh, MD, Assistant Professor; Frank A. Schmieder, MD, Assistant Professor; and Philip P. Stapleton, PhD, Assistant Professor.
Su Hwi Hung, PhD, has joined the faculty as Assistant Professor. UROLOGY
Michael Ruggieri, PhD, Research Associate of Professor of Urology, received a grant from Astra-Zeneca to conduct pre-clinical trials on medications developed for overactive bladders. Other research projects in Dr. Ruggieri’s lab include several NIH studies that focus on the role of muscarinic receptor subtypes in both urinary bladder and gallbladder function and dysfunction. Michel Pontari, MD, Associate Professor, was recently awarded a second NIH grant for his study, “Chronic Prostatitis Collaborative Research Network.” This five-year, $250,000 grant will be used to develop several clinical trials in treating prostatitis.