Three physicians who did some of their postdoctoral training at UConn Health and a veteran dental surgeon are among those who recently joined the UConn Health faculty.

Dr. David Banach is an infectious diseases physician and graduate of both the UConn School of Medicine and the UConn Master of Public Health Program. He is back as a member of the clinical faculty, serving as hospital epidemiologist and head of infection prevention, and seeing patients in the Outpatient Pavilion. Banach rejoins UConn Health from Yale School of Medicine. His clinical interests include health care-associated infections and infections in immunocompromised patients. He completed fellowship training in infectious diseases and residency training in both internal medicine and general preventive medicine, all at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City. Banach is board certified in infectious diseases, internal medicine, and public health and general preventive medicine.

Dr. Avram Berger joins the UConn School of Dental Medicine faculty as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Craniofacial Sciences. He has had a private oral and maxillofacial surgery practice in Torrington since 1971. At UConn Health he shares his expertise with residents and students. Berger is a fellow of the American College of Dentists and diplomate of both the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and the National Dental Board of Anesthesiology. He holds a doctor of dental surgery from the Howard University College of Dentistry in Washington, D.C., and trained in oral and maxillofacial surgery at the Boston University School of Dental Medicine and the SUNY Downstate residency program at the Kings County Hospital Center in New York City.

Dr. Victor Fang is a maternal-fetal medicine physician who is seeing patients in the main building. He also will see patients in the Outpatient Pavilion once the women’s center opens on the eighth floor. His areas of expertise include management of complicated pregnancies, prenatal diagnosis, obstetrical ultrasound, fetal echocardiography, and fetal aneuploidy screening. Fang is a graduate of the UConn Maternal-Fetal Medicine fellowship program and returns to UConn Health from Hartford Hospital. He residency trained in obstetrics and gynecology at the Winthrop University Hospital and earned his medical degree from Stony Brook University, both on Long Island. He is board certified in maternal-fetal medicine and ob/gyn.

Dr. Dawn Murphy is a UConn fellowship-trained geriatrician who, now as a faculty clinician, sees patients in the UConn Center on Aging in the Outpatient Pavilion as well as in the community. In the role of “transitionist,” Murphy works to reduce readmissions by providing a continuum of care from a patient’s hospital stay to his or her recovery and rehabilitation in a local assisted-living facility. She specializes in post-acute care, frailty, gait speed and dementia. In addition to her geriatric medicine fellowship training, Murphy also completed an internal medicine residency at UConn Health. Her postdoctoral training also includes occupational medicine residencies at the University of Pittsburgh and the Institute of Occupational and Environmental Health in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she earned a master of public health. In addition she completed a residency in internal medicine at the Medical College of Pennsylvania, where she earned her medical degree. Murphy is board certified in internal medicine