Faculty & Staff

Carmelita P. Escalante, M.D.
Professor and Department Chair

Consultative Medicine section

Carmelita P Escalante, M.D.
Professor, Department Chair,  Ad Interim Section Chief

Shuwei Gao, M.D.
Associate Professor

Jessica P Hwang, M.D., M.P.H.
Professor

Gloria Iliescu, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Ellen F Manzullo, M.D.
Professor, Deputy Division Chair, Deputy Department Chair

Jeong H Oh, M.D., M.P.H.
 Professor

Edwin Ostrin, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Tacara Soones, M.D., M.P.H.
Assistant Professor

Khanh D Vu, M.D.
Associate Professor

Hospital Care section

Josiah Halm, M.D.
Associate Professor and Section Chief

Norman Ali, M.D.
Instructor 

Ali Al-Ameri, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Norman Brito-Dellan, M.D.
Associate Professor

Kodwo Dickson, M.D.
Assistant Professor 

Mikel Etchegaray, M.D 
Instructor

Maria Franco Vega, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Marina C. George, M.D.
Associate Professor

Kwame Koom-Dadie, .M.D.
Assistant Professor 

Ed Kheder, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Joanna Manzano, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Alyssa Mohammed, M.D.
Instructor 

Mayoora Muthu, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Peter M Lamie, D.O.
Assistant Professor

Cerena K Leung, M.D.
Assistant Professor 

Khanh Thi-Thuy Nguyen, M.D.
Associate Professor

Orhue E Odaro, M.D.
Instructor 

David Rubio, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Charles Shang, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Michelle Sibille, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Cesar Simbaqueba- Clavijo, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Natalie Walton, M.D.
Assistant Professor

Rheumatology and Immunology section

Jean H Tayar, M.D.
Associate Professor,  Section Chief  Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology
Medical Director- Internal Medicine Center-Mays Clinic

Maryam Buni, M.D.
Assistant Professor 

Noha Abdelwahab Hassan, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Sang T. Kim, M.D.
Instructor

Huifang (Linda) Lu, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor

Maria E Suarez-Almazor, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor 

APRNs

 

Clinical pharmacist specialists

Maggie Lu, RPH
PharmD

Isaac Perales, RPH
PharmD 

Michael Tanner Moser, RPH
PharmD 

Justin Wang, RPH
PharmD 

Ali Zalpour, RPH
PharmD

Daria Zavgorodnyaya, RPH
PharmD

 

Research staff

• Jessica Foreman, BA - Program Manager
• Jeffrey Mayo Jr, BSc - Research Assistant II
• Qian Peng, MS - Research Investigator

 

Administrative staff

• Cheryl Faust, MPH - Department Administrator
• Tanya Dabney, MBA -  Operations Manager
• Christine Eberle - Executive Assistant
• Margaret Capuchino - Clinical Billing Specialist
• Marie Gonzalez - Program Coordinator Consultative Med
• Nicole Kemei - Program Coordinator Hospital Med
• Vy Martinez - Sr. Financial Analyst
• Elisa Mills - Sr. Administrative Assistant
• Carol Murphy - Sr. Administrative Assistant
• Felicia Stephens - Program Coordinator, Education
• Chelsea Washington - Assoc. Financial Analyst