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Dr. Matthew Tremblay<\/a> is a neurologist who specializes in multiple sclerosis and neuroimmunology. He directs the Department of Neurology\u2019s multiple sclerosis clinic. In addition to multiple sclerosis, he has expertise in the management of neuromyelitis optica, neurosarcoidosis, autoimmune encephalitis, and other autoimmune neurological diseases. Tremblay sees patients in Farmington, in the Outpatient Pavilion<\/a>. Tremblay joins UConn Health from the University of California San Francisco, where he completed an MS fellowship. He residency trained in neurology at UCLA, where he was honored with the Augustus S. Rose teaching award Tremblay earned his M.D. and Ph.D. from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University in the Bronx as part of the NIH-funded Medical Scientist Training Program.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \n ![\"Dr.](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/DeGroff.jpg\")
Dr. Shannon DeGroff<\/a> is an obstetrician and gynecologist seeing patients in UConn Health\u2019s Women\u2019s Center<\/a> and at UConn Health\u2019s Canton office<\/a>. She joins the faculty after training at UConn Health as an OB-GYN resident, her last year as chief administrative resident. DeGroff\u2019s areas of specialty include high-risk pregnancies, teen pregnancies, minimally invasive surgeries, and women\u2019s health over the life span. Her M.D. is from the University of Vermont College of Medicine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \n ![\"Dr.](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Kisicki.jpg\")
Dr. Michael Kisicki<\/a> is a child and adolescent psychiatrist who sees patients at UConn Health\u2019s West Hartford office<\/a>. His areas of expertise include depression, anxiety, attention deficit-hyperactive disorder, suicide prevention, violence, self-injury, and spirituality and faith in medicine. Kisicki joins UConn Health from in California, where he worked for Kaiser Permanente. He fellowship trained in child and adolescent psychiatry at UCLA, where he also earned his M.D., and completed a residency in general adult psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco. He is board certified in psychiatry and child and adolescent psychiatry.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \n ![\"schilling\"](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Schilling.jpg\")
Dr. Shirin Schilling<\/a> is a psychiatrist who stayed at UConn Health following her residency training in psychiatry, which included a year as inpatient chief of psychiatry. She primarily sees inpatients in the UConn John Dempsey Hospital and providing electroconvulsive therapy. Schilling\u2019s M.D. is from the St. George\u2019s University School of Medicine in Grenada, West Indies. She is board certified in psychiatry.<\/p>\n \n \n ![\"Dr.](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Ivanaviciene.jpg\")
Dr. Jurate Ivanaviciene<\/a> is an infectious diseases physician who joined the faculty after completing a fellowship in infectious diseases at UConn Health. Her areas of expertise include HIV\/AIDS, travel medicine, and hepatitis B and C. She sees patients by appointment in Outpatient Pavilion<\/a>. Ivanaviciene completed medical school at the Lithuania University of Health Sciences. She is board certified in internal medicine and speaks English, Lithuanian and Russian.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n \n \n ![\"Dr.](\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/El-Ali.jpg\")
Dr. Ibrahim Elali<\/a> is a UConn-trained nephrologist who sees patients in the UConn Dialysis Center<\/a> and UConn Health\u2019s main building in Farmington as well as the UConn John Dempsey Hospital. His clinical interests include general nephrology, dialysis, hypertension, glomerular diseases, kidney diseases and pregnancy, plasmapheresis, and home dialysis. Elali joined the faculty out of his UConn Health fellowship in nephrology. His clinical training also includes an internal medicine residency at St. Vincent\u2019s Medical Center in Bridgeport (a Columbia University affiliate) and a pediatric internship at the Howard University Hospital in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences. Elali is board certified in internal medicine and is fluent in English and Arabic.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n