{"id":251399,"date":"2026-08-11T16:33:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=251399"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:33:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T20:33:21","slug":"school-of-medicine-2026-faculty-appointments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2026\/08\/school-of-medicine-2026-faculty-appointments\/","title":{"rendered":"School of Medicine 2026 Faculty Appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"

PROMOTIONS TO SENIOR RANK:<\/strong><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Award of Academic Tenure<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Margaret K. Callahan – Medicine<\/p>\n

Professor – In-Residence<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Enrique Ballesteros- Pathology & Laboratory Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Karina Berg – Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Murali Dharan – Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Hao Feng – Dermatology<\/p>\n

Dr. Marilyn Katz \u2013 Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Philip Kerr – Dermatology<\/p>\n

Dr. Agnes Kim – Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Christine Thatcher – Family Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Kristina F. Zdanys – Psychiatry<\/p>\n

Professor – w\/Award of Academic Tenure<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Carla Rash – Medicine<\/p>\n

Professor – Tenured<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Irina Bezsonova – Molecular Biology & Biophysics<\/p>\n

Dr. Breno Diniz – Psychiatry<\/p>\n

Dr. Michael Guertin – Genetics & Genome Sciences<\/p>\n

Dr. Yusuf Khan – Orthopaedic Surgery<\/p>\n

Dr. Taeho (Greg) Rhee – Public Health Sciences<\/p>\n

Professor – Affiliated Institution<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Sonia Chaudhry – (Connecticut Children\u2019s) – Orthopaedic Surgery<\/p>\n

Dr. Henry Chicaiza – (Connecticut Children\u2019s) – Pediatrics<\/p>\n

Dr. Andrea Orsey – (Connecticut Children\u2019s) – Pediatrics<\/p>\n

Dr. Rachel Stanley \u2013 (Connecticut Children\u2019s) – Pediatrics (new chair)<\/p>\n

Dr. Haviva Veler – (Connecticut Children’s) – Pediatrics<\/p>\n

Associate Professor – In-Residence<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Roopjeet Bath – Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Mina Boutrous – Surgery<\/p>\n

Dr. Laura E. Bujold – Family Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Jaclyn Cox – Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. David FitzGerald – Psychiatry<\/p>\n

Dr. Lalarukh Haider – Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Jennifer Jorgensen – Obstetrics and Gynecology<\/p>\n

Dr. Parvathy Madhavan – Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Yazeed Maghaydah – Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Anu D. Maharjan – Pathology and Laboratory Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Natalie Moore – Emergency Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Hardeep Singh – Orthopaedic Surgery<\/p>\n

Dr. Amanda Ulrich – Obstetrics & Gynecology<\/p>\n

Dr. Tarunya Vedere – Medicine<\/p>\n

Associate Professor – w\/Award of Academic Tenure<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Eran Agmon – Molecular Biology & Biophysics<\/p>\n

Dr. Rajkumar Verma – Neuroscience<\/p>\n

Dr. Kepeng Wang – Immunology<\/p>\n

Dr. Dong Zhou – Medicine<\/p>\n

Associate Professor – Affiliated Institution<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Jessica Abrantes-Figueiredo – (Trinity St. Francis) – Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Corey Baker – (Connecticut Children\u2019s) – Pediatrics<\/p>\n

Dr. Natasha Frederick – (Connecticut Children\u2019s) – Pediatrics<\/p>\n

Dr. Edward D. Gifford – (Hartford Healthcare)- Surgery<\/p>\n

Dr. Jason Gluck – (Hartford Healthcare) – Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Robert Hagberg – (Hartford Healthcare) – Surgery<\/p>\n

Dr. Christopher Hughes – (Connecticut Children\u2019s)- Surgery<\/p>\n

Dr. Colin Huguenel – (Hartford Healthcare)- Emergency Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Matthew Jaffa – (Hartford Healthcare)- Neurology<\/p>\n

Dr. Cesar Mesia – (Connecticut Children\u2019s)- Pediatrics<\/p>\n

Dr. Sandra Motta – (Connecticut Children\u2019s)- Pediatrics<\/p>\n

Dr. Elizabeth Ng – (Connecticut Children\u2019s)- Pediatrics<\/p>\n

Dr. Alaina Pyle – (Connecticut Children\u2019s) – Pediatrics<\/p>\n

Dr. Anumeha Singh – (Hartford Healthcare) – Emergency Medicine<\/p>\n

Dr. Ajay Tunguturi – (Hartford Healthcare) – Neurology<\/p>\n

Clinical Professor<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Melanie Collins – Pediatrics<\/p>\n

Dr. Dhamodaran Palaniappan – Anesthesiology<\/p>\n

Associate Clinical Professor<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Yasser Al-Baghdadi – Anesthesiology<\/p>\n

Dr. Joseph Gerace – Anesthesiology<\/p>\n

Dr. Alberto Gonzalez – Psychiatry<\/p>\n

Dr. Vasilije Mijovic – Anesthesiology<\/p>\n

APPOINTMENTS TO SENIOR RANK: <\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Professor – In-Residence<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Linganatha Adisesh \u2013 Medicine<\/p>\n

Associate Professor –<\/u> In-Residence<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Sunny Mitchell – Surgery<\/p>\n

Dr. James Scott \u2013 Anesthesiology<\/p>\n

Associate Clinical Professor <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Neal Weisbrod – Neurology<\/p>\n

Adjunct Associate Professor <\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Derek Rosenzweig \u2013 Orthopaedic Surgery<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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