UConn Health recently announced the following promotions and appointments.<\/p>\n
PROMOTED TO:<\/strong><\/p>\n Professor \u2013 In Residence<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Julie Robison \u2013 Medicine – WALLINGFORD<\/p>\n Professor \u2013 Tenure Track<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Yuanhao James Li \u2013 Genetics and Genome Sciences \u2013 WEST HARTFORD<\/p>\n Dr. Linda Shapiro \u2013 Cell Biology – MIDDLEBURY<\/p>\n Professor \u2013 Affiliated Institution<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Naveed Hussain (Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center) \u2013 Pediatrics – FARMINGTON<\/p>\n Dr. Allan Mayer (St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center) \u2013 Obstetrics and Gynecology \u2013 WEST HARTFORD<\/p>\n Dr. Jeffrey Thomson (Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center) \u2013 Orthopaedic Surgery – FARMINGTON<\/p>\n Clinical Professor \u2013 Community <\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Michael Aronow \u2013 Orthopaedic Surgery \u2013 WEST HARTFORD<\/p>\n Dr. Andrew Salner \u2013 Diagnostic Imaging and Therapeutics – BLOOMFIELD<\/p>\n Adjunct Professor – Community<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Jean Schensul \u2013 Community Medicine and Health Care \u2013 WEST HARTFORD<\/p>\n Associate Professor \u2013 In Residence<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Biree Andemariam \u2013 Medicine – HARTFORD<\/p>\n Dr. Richard Kamin \u2013 Traumatology and Emergency Medicine \u2013 WEST HARTFORD<\/p>\n Dr. Alex Merkulov \u2013 Diagnostic Imaging and Therapeutics – PLAINVILLE<\/p>\n Dr. Elizabeth Simmons \u2013 Surgery \u2013 WEST HARTFORD<\/p>\n Dr. Aseem Vashist \u2013 Medicine – CHESHIRE<\/p>\n Associate Professor \u2013 Tenure Track\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Lakshmi Nair \u2013 Orthopaedic Surgery – <\/strong>AVON\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong>PROMOTED TO:<\/strong><\/p>\n Associate Professor \u2013 Affiliated Institution<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. James Hagadorn (Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center \u2013 Pediatrics – UNIONVILLE<\/p>\n Dr. D\u2019Andrea Joseph (Hartford Hospital) \u2013 Surgery – NEW HAVEN<\/p>\n Dr. Ajay Kumar (Hartford Hospital) \u2013 Medicine – AVON<\/p>\n Dr. Shawn London (Hartford Hospital) \u2013 Traumatology and Emergency Medicine \u2013 WEST HARTFORD<\/p>\n Dr. Asher Rehan Ahmed Qureshi (St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center) \u2013 Medicine \u2013 AVON<\/p>\n Dr. Tulio Valdez (Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center) \u2013 Surgery – SIMSBURY<\/p>\n Dr. Zhu Wang (Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center) \u2013 Pediatrics \u2013 WEST HARTFORD<\/p>\n Dr. Ulysses Wu (St. Francis Hospital and Medical Center) \u2013 Medicine – UNIONVILLE<\/p>\n APPOINTED TO:<\/strong><\/p>\n Clinical Professor<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. David Melzer \u2013 Genetics and Genome Sciences \u2013 EXETER, UK<\/p>\n Associate Professor (In Residence)<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Andrew Chen \u2013 Surgery – AVON<\/p>\n Dr. Guoyang Luo \u2013 Obstetrics and Gynecology – SHELTON<\/p>\n Dr. Surita Rao \u2013 Psychiatry – AVON<\/p>\n Associate Professor \u2013 Tenure Track<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. Beiyan Zhou \u2013 Immunology – AVON<\/p>\n Associate Professor (Affiliated Institution)<\/u><\/p>\n Dr. James Moore \u2013 Pediatrics \u2013 Connecticut Children\u2019s Medical Center – FARMINGTON<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The 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