The Office of Faculty Affairs and Faculty Development is pleased to continue its exciting new quarterly series to highlight new School of Medicine faculty hires. This second article includes new clinical and research faculty hired in September, October, and November of 2024.
To promote collaboration and connectivity among our new faculty and within the UVA Health community, the table below includes a description of each new faculty member’s clinical and/or research interests. The table is searchable by name, department, or other key words.
The next article in the series will feature the newly hired faculty arriving in December, January, and February; be on the lookout for the article in Medicine in Motion in March 2025.
Please join us in welcoming our new faculty to the School of Medicine and UVA Health!
| PHOTO | NAME | RANK | DEPARTMENT | FACULTY STATEMENT |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Matthew Holland, MD | Assistant Professor | Anesthesiology | Dr. Holland works within the Pain Management Division with special interest in worker's compensation medicine and interventional pain management treatments. |
 | Natalie Pate, MD | Assistant Professor | Anesthesiology | Dr. Natalie Pate works within the Obstetrics Division with special interest in teaching residents and caring for high-risk obstetric patients. |
 | Kristin Bibee, MD, PhD | Associate Professor | Dermatology | Dr. Bibee is a dermatologist, Mohs surgeon, and cell biologist with a special interest in the dermatologic care of solid organ transplant recipients. Her translational research program is aimed at understanding both the tumor and stromal drivers of aggressive biologic behavior in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. |
 | Daniel McCarter, MD | Professor | Family Medicine | Dr. Daniel McCarter is the Medical Director for Practice Innovation, interested in population health and value based care. He sees patients in Family Medicine and his clinical interest is complex chronic care. |
 | Mansi Trivedi, MD | Assistant Professor | Family Medicine | Dr. Mansi Trivedi completed residency in UVA Famliy Medicine and will provide patient care at Zion Crossroads and in the International Family Medicine Clinic, providing care for immigrant and refugee patients and families. |
 | Kathryn Young, MD | Assistant Professor | Family Medicine | Dr. Kathryn Young is a Family Medicine physician providing full spectrum primary care with a focus on women's health and the health of vulnerable populations. |
 | Sheng'en Hu, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | Genome Sciences | Dr. Sheng'en Hu, works with Dr. Chongzhi Zang on the simplex encoding model, a tool developed to convert the complex genome sequence into a much simpler mathematical form. |
 | Xiaowei, Hu, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | Genome Sciences | Dr. Xiaowei Hu's research focuses on the development and application of statistical methods for 'omics prediction and 'omics risk score prediction of complex human diseases and traits. Her main interests in human disease are chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and interstitial lung disease. |
 | Layal Esper, MD | Assistant Professor | Medicine | Layal Esper is interested in general Endocrinology with a focus on clinical research on thyroid disease. |
 | Erica Giraldi, MD | Assistant Professor | Medicine | Dr. Erica Giraldi's primary clinical and research interest is pituitary neuroendocrinology, with a focus on functional pituitary tumors, including acromegaly and Cushing's disease. From a research standpoint she is interested in evaluating gender differences in Cushing's disease, possible interventions to aid in early diagnosis of acromegaly, and in assessing the impact of long-term hormone alterations on comorbidities in pituitary patients. |
 | Margaret Hayden, MD | Assistant Professor | Medicine | Dr. Margaret Hayden is a general internist with a background in medical anthropology and interests in health equity, particularly relating to incarceration and health, substance use disorders and hepatitis C. |
 | Sanjay Kishore, MD | Assistant Professor | Medicine | Dr. Kishore is interested in the intersection of health, inequality, and public policy with a particular focus on programs that deliver care for the most marginalized. |
 | Anya Mezina, MD | Assistant Professor | Medicine | Dr. Mezina's clinical focus area is in Transplant Hepatology, where she feels humbled by the depths of unanswered questions in medicine, especially chronic liver disease, and aspires to use clinical and translational research tools to chip away at the unknowns. She feels privileged to be a part of a dynamic and innovative field. |
 | Oliver Monfredi, MBChB | Associate Professor | Medicine | Dr. Monfredi's clinical and research interests are in electrophysiology and he is the Director of the Cardiac Lead Extraction Center of Excellence. |
 | Rajan Patel, MD | Professor | Medicine | Dr. Patel's clinical and research interests are in interventional cardiology and he will direct the Catherization Laboratory and Interventional fellowship. |
 | Tim Saidi, MD | Assistant Professor | Medicine | Dr. Saidi's interests largely revolve around education of students and residents, in an effort to engage with them and provide a role of guidance on their journey. |
 | Haley Vest, DO | Assistant Professor | Medicine | Dr. Vest is passionate about communication skills education, particularly in navigating intense emotions and conflict in clinical settings. She is also dedicated to exploring the narrative experiences of patients and families facing serious illness and grief. This work aligns closely with her role clinical role in providing inpatient palliative care. |
 | Ellen Volker, MD | Professor | Medicine | Dr. Ellen Volker's primary clinical focus is in interventional pulmonology which includes advanced diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopic and pleural procedures, lung cancer, lung nodules, lung cancer screening, lymphadenopathy, pleural effusions, airway stenosis, telehealth, rural health equity around lung nodules and lung cancer and fellow education. Her research interests include lung nodules, lung cancer screening, lung cancer, procedural quality measures, interventional pulmonary procedure education, rural health equity. |
 | Joseph Chung, MD | Assistant Professor | Medicine | Dr Chung is a general cardiologist who uses non-invasive techniques to diagnose, treat, and manage patients with common and complex cardiovascular disease. |
 | Daniel Grigsby, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology | Dr. Grigsby's focus is on age-related macular degeneration and the complement system using AAVs and mice. |
 | Uday Tak, PhD | Assistant Professor | Microbiology, Immunology and Cancer Biology | Dr. Tak's interests are to establish a mechanistic and structural understanding of bacterial immune receptors and ion channels in biological conflict, antiviral immunity, and physiology. |
 | Ming-Feng Tsai, Ph.D. | Associate Profesor | Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics | Dr. Tsai's research focuses on molecular mechanisms and physiological functions of transporters and ion-channels, particularly Ca2+ transport proteins in mitochondria. He approaches questions using a wide range of tools, including membrane-biochemistry, electrophysiology, cryo-electron microscopy, and live-cell imaging. |
 | Jarred Whitlock, PhD | Assistant Professor | Molecular Physiology and Biological Physics | Dr. Whitlock's focus is is on the formation, function, and signaling of multinucleated cells that maintain musculoskeletal system and underpin its pathological dysfunction. |
 | Jonathan Crowe, MD, MPH, MSc | Assistant Professor | Neurology | Dr. Crowe is a vascular neurologist with a research interest in how health policy can help patients get the care they need. |
 | Caroline Hinkle, PhD | Assistant Professor | Neurology | Dr. Hinkle's clinical interest is evaluating cognition in neurodegenerative diseases and other neurological disorders. Her research interest is in examining how medical and lifestyle factors (polypharmacy, pain, medical illness, etc.) relate to cognitive aging. |
 | Alexandra Simpson, MD | Assistant Professor | Neurology | Dr. Simpson's clinical and research interests include development of strategies to improve access to care and management of refractory symptoms for individuals with multiple sclerosis (MS) and other neuroinflammatory disorders. |
 | Stephanie Zuo, MD | Assistant Professor | Obstetrics & Gynecology | Dr. Zuo recently graduated from her fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center and is eager to grow her current research, presenting opportunities for collaborative research efforts in obstetrics and gynecology. |
 | Marshall Kadin, MD | Research Professor | Pathology | Dr. Kadin's research has been focused on cellular origin and functional properties of Hodgkin lymphoma and T cell lymphomas. Dr. Kadin's current research is on cytokine production and signaling of lymphoma cells. Cytokine profile is being used to develop point of care testing for breast implant associated lymphoma. |
 | Kara Coffey, MD | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Dr. Coffey's clinical interests include caring for children with food allergies as well as children with inborn errors of immunity and she wants to be an advocate for children and families having access to care for these diseases. |
 | Lindsay Farley, MD | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Dr. Farley's interests include child health policy, legislative advocacy, and ethics/health humanities. |
 | Anshu Gupta, MBBS, MSCTS | Professor | Pediatrics | Dr. Gupta's interests are in obesity and cardiometabolic disease and medical education innovation. |
 | Curtis Kovaleski | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Dr. Kovaleski's interests include mechanical ventilation while on ECMO as well as non-invasive interfaces in the pediatric population. |
 | Julia Lovin, MD | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Dr. Julie Lovin is a pediatric cardiologist specializing in noninvasive imaging with a strong interest in medical education. |
 | Aaron Misakian, MD, MFA | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Dr. Misakian is most passionate about advancing the care of underserved and marginalized populations, particularly through research, direct clinical care, and advocacy of transgender and gender diverse youth in addition to children and adolescents with elevated BMI (“pediatric obesity”). |
 | Emily O'Gorman, PhD | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Dr. O'Gorman's clinical interests focus broadly on assessment and treatment of youth with intellectual and developmental disorders and co-occurring anxiety-related or other psychiatric disorders, while her research revolves around understanding risk and protective factors impacting mental health difficulties in this population. |
 | Joshua Reyes, MD | Assistant Professor | Pediatrics | Dr. Reyes' interests include the assessment and treatment of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, undergraduate medical education, and the recruitment of medical students into the wonderful world of Pediatrics. |
 | Kelsey Voss, PhD | Assistant Professor | Pharmacology | Dr. Kelsey Voss's research interests are in Iron metabolism and Immunometabolism in inflammation and autoimmune diseases. |
 | Ava Chappell, MD | Assistant Professor | Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial, and Oral Health | Ava Chappell's professional interests include upper extremity reconstruction for both pediatric and adult patients. She is passionate about plastic surgery education, global surgery and surgical ethics. |
 | Luke Poveromo, MD | Assistant Professor | Plastic Surgery, Maxillofacial, and Oral Health | Luke Poveromo's professional interests include complex cancer reconstruction, helping to build the lymphedema program, and teaching students, residents and fellows the clinical aspects of plastic surgery. |
 | Ariel Williams, PhD | Assistant Professor | Public Health Sciences | Dr. Williams uses whole genomic sequencing and electronic health record data from the All of Us Research Program to address gaps in health equity and health disparities in hypertension, chronic kidney disease, uterine fibroids, and type 2 diabetes phenotypes. |
 | Natalie Cain-Wisdom, MD, MPH | Assistant Professor | Radiology and Medical Imaging | Dr. Cain-Wisdom is a breast radiologist with research interests involving increasing access to breast imaging services in underserved communities locally and internationally, as well artificial intelligence application in breast imaging in low and middle income countries. |
 | Shao Zun Chen, MD | Assistant Professor | Radiology and Medical Imaging | Dr. Chen’s clinical/research interest focuses on breast cancer screening and diagnosis using multiple modalities including screening mammogram, ultrasound, contrast enhanced mammography and contrasted enhanced MRI. |
 | Rachelle Crescenzi, PhD | Associate Professor | Radiology and Medical Imaging | Dr. Rachelle Crescenzi leads the SALT Lab, where research projects aim to develop sodium and lymphatic MRI methods to understand vascular disease mechanisms of lipedema and lymphedema, and to serve as outcome measures in clinical trials for diagnostics and therapeutics of lymphatic diseases. |
 | Anthony Higinbotham, MD | Assistant Professor | Radiology and Medical Imaging | Dr. Anthony Higinbotham works in the division of Neuroradiology with interests in medical education, neuro-oncology, and skull base imaging. |
 | Ankush Gosain, MD, PhD, MBA | Professor | Surgery | Dr. Gosain is a NIH-funded Pediatric Surgeon-Scientist with a basic & translational science laboratory studying the enteric nervous system and gastrointestinal mucosal immune development and function as they relate to congenital colorectal disease (e.g., Hirschsprung disease) and aberrant intestinal homeostasis, with the overarching goal of developing novel therapies. |
 | Jae-Kyun Ko, PhD | Research Assistant Professor | Surgery | Dr. Ko's research focuses on understanding the molecular mechanisms of tissue repair and regeneration, with an emphasis on the role of autophagy and microvesicles in skeletal muscle and cardiovascular systems. |
 | Samantha Ruff, MD | Assistant Professor | Surgery | Dr. Ruff is a Surgical Oncologist who will be building the cytoreductive surgery/HIPEC program and investigating the underlying mechanisms of metastatic colorectal cancer. |
 | Stephanie Silpe, MD | Assistant Professor | Surgery | Dr. Slipe is a multi-organ abdominal transplant surgeon with interests in robotic surgery including donor nephrectomies and NRP in DCD donation. |
 | Nassib Abou Heidar, MD | Assistant Professor | Urology | Dr. Heidar’s work will be focused on urologic oncology. |
 | Alexander Henry, MD | Assistant Professor | Urology | Dr. Henry, an alumnus of UVA, is working in general urology. |
 | Allison May, MD | Assistant Professor | Urology | Dr. May, a physician-scientist, will be establishing a lab and working in urologic oncology. |
 | Wesley Pate, MD | Assistant Professor | Urology | Dr. Pate specializes in endourology. |
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