In continuation of its effort to grow its clinical faculty, UConn Health has recruited more than 50 physicians, dental surgeons, and clinical psychologists since July 2012.
The added clinician depth supports the overall direction UConn Health is taking as Bioscience Connecticut takes shape. In addition to adding and modernizing clinical space on campus, this includes strategies to make clinical services more easily accessible to patients and referring physicians, increase the medical and dental school class sizes by 30 percent, and expanding the institution’s capability to provide postdoctoral training.
“We grow our faculty practice to meet today’s health care needs, with a sharp eye on the future, both in terms of educating tomorrow’s practitioners and advancing science to improve health care for everyone,” says Dr. Denis Lafreniere, medical director of the UConn Medical Group.
Among the additions are Dr. David Steffens, a geriatric psychiatrist who chairs the Department of Psychiatry, and Dr. Pamela Moore, a family medicine practitioner who is anchoring the UConn Health primary care services in Storrs Center.
Following is a list of faculty recruits from the current and previous fiscal year:
FY 13
Dr. Naila Azhar | Psychiatry |
Dr. Karina Berg | Medicine/Geriatrics |
Dr. Ashley Casserino | Pediatrics/General Pediatrics |
Dr. Reena Chokshi | Medicine/Gastroenterology |
Dr. Peter Cuniowski | Traumatology & Emergency Medicine |
Dr. Cory Edgar | Orthopaedics |
Dr. Kirsten Ek | Medicine/Internal Medicine |
Dr. Justin Finch | Dermatology |
Dr. Carolyn Greene | Psychiatry/Psychology Division |
Dr. Stephen Grund | Medicine/Hematology & Oncology |
Dr. Vitaly Kantorovich | Medicine/Endocrinology |
Dr. Marilyn Katz | Medicine/Internal Medicine |
Dr. Matthew Ledford | Traumatology & Emergency Medicine |
Dr. JuYong Lee | Medicine/Cardiology |
Dr. Yazeed Maghaydah | Medicine/Geriatrics |
Dr. Marco Molina | Radiology |
Dr. Amir Nasir | Surgery/Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery |
Dr. Michael Payette | Dermatology |
Dr. Lawrence Peacock | Psychiatry |
Dr. Felipe Porto | Dentistry/Oral Health & Diagnostic Sciences |
Dr. Carla Rash | Psychiatry/Psychology Division |
Dr. Steven Singer | Psychiatry |
Dr. David Steffens | Psychiatry |
Dr. Kirti Talole | Medicine/Internal Medicine |
Dr. Ruchir Trivedi | Medicine/Nephrology |
Dr. Meryem Tuncel-Kara | Medicine/Nephrology |
Dr. Kristina Zdanys | Psychiatry |
Dr. Ryan Zengou | Surgery/Neurosurgery |
FY 14
Dr. Jennifer Baldwin | Internal Medicine |
Dr. Kiesha Benn | General OB/GYN |
Dr. John Cappadona | Internal Medicine |
Dr. Adam Cloud | General Surgery |
Dr. Nicole Cote | Dermatology |
Dr. Jaclyn Cox | Internal Medicine |
Dr. Timothy Coyle | Pulmonary Disease |
Dr. Khayyam Durrani | Ophthalmology |
Dr. Robert Fitzpatrick | Occupational Medicine |
Dr. Lauren Geaney | Orthopaedic Surgery |
Dr. Matthew Hall | Sports Medicine |
Dr. Chinedu Igwe | Internal Medicine |
Dr. Agnes Kim | Cardiovascular Disease |
Dr. Vincent Leone | Internal Medicine |
Dr. Yu Liang | General Surgery |
Dr. Bat-Sheva Maslow | General OB/GYN |
Dr. Sanjay Mittal | Vascular Neurology |
Dr. Pamela Moore | Family Medicine |
Dr. José Orellana | Internal Medicine |
Dr. Amish Patel | Diagnostic Radiology |
Dr. Shobhana Pathani | Internal Medicine |
Dr. Frank Santoro | Dermatology |
Dr. Papia Sen | Diagnostic Radiology |
Dr. Roy I. Sittig | Internal Medicine |
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