{"id":123541,"date":"2017-03-23T10:59:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=123541"},"modified":"2017-03-23T10:59:15","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T14:59:15","slug":"uconn-health-continues-grow-clinical-faculty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2017\/03\/uconn-health-continues-grow-clinical-faculty\/","title":{"rendered":"UConn Health Continues to Grow Its Clinical Faculty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet another six clinicians who recently joined UConn Health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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Hillary Siddons, audiologist (Photo by Janine Gelineau)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
Hillary Siddons<\/a> is a UConn-trained audiologist who sees patients in Farmington at the Outpatient Pavilion and in Southington. She performs hearing tests and balance tests in patients of all ages, and additional clinical interests include cochlear implants, bone-anchored hearing aids, vestibular evaluations and adult amplification. Siddons joins UConn Health from private practice in New Haven. She holds a doctor of audiology degree from the UConn Graduate School and completed her undergraduate studies at UConn, where she earned a bachelor\u2019s in communications science with a psychology minor.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Courtney Holmes, geriatrics nurse practitioner (Photo by Janine Gelineau)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
Courtney Holmes<\/a> is a nurse practitioner seeing patients in geriatrics in the Outpatient Pavilion. Her areas of expertise include wound care, palliative care, end-of-life care, post-acute care, and long-term care. Holmes works with the Southern New England Practice Transformation Network and Nurses Improving Care for Healthsystem Elders (NICHE) to improve care for seniors at the UConn Center on Aging. She holds bachelor\u2019s and master\u2019s degrees in nursing from Johns Hopkins University, and a doctor of nursing practice degree from Quinnipiac University. She is certified in wound care and as an adult nurse practitioner.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Dr. Gracia Mui, neurologist (Photo by Janine Gelineau)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
Dr. Gracia Mui<\/a> is a neurologist with specialized training in neurocritical care and stroke. She is co-director of the UConn Stroke Center and sees patients in Farmington, both in the Outpatient Pavilion and in UConn John Dempsey Hospital\u2019s intensive care unit. Mui is a graduate of the UConn Health-Hartford Hospital neurology residency program. She returns to UConn Health after a fellowship in neurocritical care and vascular neurology at Stanford University. Mui earned a medical doctorate and a master of public health from St. George\u2019s University in Grenada, then completed an internal medicine internship at the University Hospital of Brooklyn at Long Island College Hospital. She speaks both English and Cantonese.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Dr. Brooke Harnisch, urologist (Photo by Janine Gelineau)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
Dr. Brooke Harnisch<\/a> is a urologist seeing patients in the Outpatient Pavilion. In addition to general urology such as prostate health and stone treatment, Harnisch brings expertise in male infertility and sexual dysfunction. She joins UConn Health from private practice in California. Her postdoctoral training includes a fellowship in andrology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and a urology residency at the Boston Medical Center. Her medical doctorate is from the Boston University School of Medicine.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Dr. Roopjeet Bath, gastroenterologist (Photo by Janine Gelineau)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
Dr. Roopjeet Bath<\/a> is a gastroenterologist with clinical interests in women\u2019s health, liver disease, and nutrition. She sees patients in the Outpatient Pavilion. Bath is a graduate of UConn\u2019s gastroenterology and hepatology fellowship program. She completed an internal medicine residency at Legacy Health in Portland, Oregon, and is board certified in internal medicine. Bath completed medical school at Monash University and a medical internship at the Royal Melbourne Hospital, both in in Victoria, Australia. In addition to English, she speaks Hindi and Punjabi.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Dr. Sara Tabtabai, cardiologist (Photo by Janine Gelineau)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
Dr. Sara Tabtabai<\/a> is a graduate of the UConn School of Medicine who has returned as a member of the clinical faculty. She is a cardiologist who specializes in heart failure, seeing patients in Farmington in both the main building and at 11 South Road. Her postdoctoral training includes an internal medicine residency, a clinical research fellowship in cardiovascular medicine, specific adult congenital heart disease, and echocardiology, an NIH-sponsored research fellowship in heart failure, and an advanced fellowship in heart failure and transplant, all at Massachusetts General Hospital. Tabtabai is board certified in cardiovascular disease, internal medicine, and advanced heart failure and transplant.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Meet another six clinicians who recently joined UConn Health. Hillary Siddons is a UConn-trained audiologist who sees patients in Farmington at the Outpatient Pavilion and in Southington. She performs hearing tests and balance tests in patients of all ages, and additional clinical interests include cochlear implants, bone-anchored hearing aids, vestibular evaluations and adult amplification. Siddons […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":123542,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1868],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[2010],"class_list":["post-123541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meds"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-29 07:16:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/123542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123541"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=123541"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=123541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}