School of Medicine 2026 Faculty Appointments

The Academic Affairs Subcommittee of the Board of Directors at UConn Health announced this August the new senior rank appointments for UConn School of Medicine faculty.

The academic rotunda entrance at UConn Health (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health).

The academic rotunda entrance at UConn Health (Tina Encarnacion/UConn Health).

PROMOTIONS TO SENIOR RANK:

 

Award of Academic Tenure

Dr. Margaret K. Callahan – Medicine

Professor – In-Residence

Dr. Enrique Ballesteros- Pathology & Laboratory Medicine

Dr. Karina Berg – Medicine

Dr. Murali Dharan – Medicine

Dr. Hao Feng – Dermatology

Dr. Marilyn Katz – Medicine

Dr. Philip Kerr – Dermatology

Dr. Agnes Kim – Medicine

Dr. Christine Thatcher – Family Medicine

Dr. Kristina F. Zdanys – Psychiatry

Professor – w/Award of Academic Tenure

Dr. Carla Rash – Medicine

Professor – Tenured

Dr. Irina Bezsonova – Molecular Biology & Biophysics

Dr. Breno Diniz – Psychiatry

Dr. Michael Guertin – Genetics & Genome Sciences

Dr. Yusuf Khan – Orthopaedic Surgery

Dr. Taeho (Greg) Rhee – Public Health Sciences

Professor – Affiliated Institution

Dr. Sonia Chaudhry – (Connecticut Children’s) – Orthopaedic Surgery

Dr. Henry Chicaiza – (Connecticut Children’s) – Pediatrics

Dr. Andrea Orsey – (Connecticut Children’s) – Pediatrics

Dr. Rachel Stanley – (Connecticut Children’s) – Pediatrics (new chair)

Dr. Haviva Veler – (Connecticut Children’s) – Pediatrics

Associate Professor – In-Residence

Dr. Roopjeet Bath – Medicine

Dr. Mina Boutrous – Surgery

Dr. Laura E. Bujold – Family Medicine

Dr. Jaclyn Cox – Medicine

Dr. David FitzGerald – Psychiatry

Dr. Lalarukh Haider – Medicine

Dr. Jennifer Jorgensen – Obstetrics and Gynecology

Dr. Parvathy Madhavan – Medicine

Dr. Yazeed Maghaydah – Medicine

Dr. Anu D. Maharjan – Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Dr. Natalie Moore – Emergency Medicine

Dr. Hardeep Singh – Orthopaedic Surgery

Dr. Amanda Ulrich – Obstetrics & Gynecology

Dr. Tarunya Vedere – Medicine

Associate Professor – w/Award of Academic Tenure

Dr. Eran Agmon – Molecular Biology & Biophysics

Dr. Rajkumar Verma – Neuroscience

Dr. Kepeng Wang – Immunology

Dr. Dong Zhou – Medicine

Associate Professor – Affiliated Institution

Dr. Jessica Abrantes-Figueiredo – (Trinity St. Francis) – Medicine

Dr. Corey Baker – (Connecticut Children’s) – Pediatrics

Dr. Natasha Frederick – (Connecticut Children’s) – Pediatrics

Dr. Edward D. Gifford – (Hartford Healthcare)- Surgery

Dr. Jason Gluck – (Hartford Healthcare) – Medicine

Dr. Robert Hagberg – (Hartford Healthcare) – Surgery

Dr. Christopher Hughes – (Connecticut Children’s)- Surgery

Dr. Colin Huguenel – (Hartford Healthcare)- Emergency Medicine

Dr. Matthew Jaffa – (Hartford Healthcare)- Neurology

Dr. Cesar Mesia – (Connecticut Children’s)- Pediatrics

Dr. Sandra Motta – (Connecticut Children’s)- Pediatrics

Dr. Elizabeth Ng – (Connecticut Children’s)- Pediatrics

Dr. Alaina Pyle – (Connecticut Children’s) – Pediatrics

Dr. Anumeha Singh – (Hartford Healthcare) – Emergency Medicine

Dr. Ajay Tunguturi – (Hartford Healthcare) – Neurology

Clinical Professor

Dr. Melanie Collins – Pediatrics

Dr. Dhamodaran Palaniappan – Anesthesiology

Associate Clinical Professor

Dr. Yasser Al-Baghdadi – Anesthesiology

Dr. Joseph Gerace – Anesthesiology

Dr. Alberto Gonzalez – Psychiatry

Dr. Vasilije Mijovic – Anesthesiology

APPOINTMENTS TO SENIOR RANK:  

Professor – In-Residence

Dr. Linganatha Adisesh – Medicine

Associate Professor – In-Residence

Dr. Sunny Mitchell – Surgery

Dr. James Scott – Anesthesiology

Associate Clinical Professor

Dr. Neal Weisbrod – Neurology

Adjunct Associate Professor

Dr. Derek Rosenzweig – Orthopaedic Surgery