New Faculty Introductions 2020-2021

Kelly McMaster, MD, MBA

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (MD)
• Graduate of Texas Tech University, Rawls College of Business (MBA)
• Family Medicine Primary Care Faculty Development Fellowship, The University of Alabama at Birmingham

Ahmed Qasim, MD

Assistant Professor

• • Graduate of the University of Baghdad, College of Medicine, Baghdad, Iraq
  • Board Certified in Internal Medicine

Hariharan Parameswaran, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

• Doctorate in Biochemistry from the National Chung Hsing University in Taichung, Taiwan

Brandon Haney, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas
• Board Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology

Temilolu Abikoye, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Lagos University Teaching Hospital
• Fellowship in Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Fellowship at the Children's National Hospital/George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

Bryce Cragg, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center
• Fellowship in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry/Psychosomatic Medicine at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida

Raja Kiani, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Aga Khan University Medical College, Pakistan
• Post Graduate Training, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Triple Board in:
  • Pediatrics
  • Psychiatry
  • Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Andre Coombs, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica
• Fellowship in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care
• Board Certified in General Surgery

Mohamed Elfedaly, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
• Graduate of Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt
• Board Certified in Surgery
• Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, The Ohio State University

Shelby Fields, APRN, AGACNP-BC

Faculty Associate

• Graduate of West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas
• Certified in Trauma Nursing
• Certified in Critical Care Support

Bennet Graham, MSN, APRN, FNP-C

Faculty Associate

• Graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
• Graduate of Simmons University, Boston, Massachusetts
• Graduate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Abilene, Texas

Jeannette Sandoval, APRN, FNP-C

Faculty Associate

• Graduate of West Texas A&M University, Canyon, Texas
• Medical Examiner Certification
• Stroke Scale Certification

Amy Sappington, ACNP-BC, FNP-BC

Faculty Associate

• Graduate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas
• Board Certified Acute Care Nurse Practitioner
• Board Certified Family Nurse Practitioner
• Registered Respiratory Therapist

Basem Soliman, MD, PhD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Assiut University, Egypt
• Graduate of South Egypt Cancer Institute - Assiut University, Egypt
• Board Eligible for the American Board of Surgery

Bharat Bhushan, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Gandhi Medical College & Hamidia Hospital, Bhopal, India
• Graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
• Board Certified in Internal Medicine

Nibedita Chowdhury, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Chittagong Medical College, Chittagong, Bangladesh
• Graduate of the University of New England, Biddeford, Maine
• Board Certified in Internal Medicine

Ryan Lurtsema, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of the University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico
• Sports Medicine Fellowship at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas

Shaili Felton, MD

Associate Professor

• Graduate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas
• Fellowship in Endocrinology, Barnes Jewish Hospital

William Kennedy Jr., MD

Assistant Professor

Subodh Kumar, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

• Graduate of the Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India
• Doctorate in Biotechnology

Pulak Manna, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal, India
• Doctorate in Biochemical Endocrinology & Reproduction Biology

Sarath Nath, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Government Medical College Thiruvananthapuram, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
• Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, University of Texa Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas
• Chief Resident in Internal Medicine, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York

Alexander Philipovskiy, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

• Graduate of Odessa State Medical University, Odessa, Ukraine
• Doctorate in Medical Immunology & Microbiology
• Board Certified in:
  
  • Internal Medicine
  • Medical Oncology

Udit Verma, MD

Professor

• Graduate of Kin George's Medical College, Luknow University, India
• Board Certified in:
  • Hematology
  • Medical Oncology
  • Internal Medicine

Murali Vijayan, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli, India
• Doctorate in Biotechnology

Jason Wischmeyer, MD, PhD

Associate Professor

• Graduate of Texas A&M University, College of Medicine, College Station, Texas
• Graduate (with Honors) of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, Galveston, Texas
• Board Certified in:
  • Interventional Cardiology
  • Cardiovascular Diseases
  • Internal Medicine

Christine Prater, PhD

Faculty Associate

• Graduate of Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
• Post-doctoral Fellow at Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
• Expertise in Neuroscience

Sarif Bushnaq, MD

Assistant Professor

• Jordan University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine
• Board Certified in
  • Psychiatry and Neurology
  • Vascular Neurology

John Norbury, MD

Associate Professor

• Graduate of Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, Cleveland, Ohio
• Residency in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
• Certified in Neuromuscular Ultrasound, American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine
• Battlefield Acupuncture Certification, Department of Veteran's Affairs
• Registered Musculoskeletal Sonography Certificate
• Diplomate, American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine
• Board Certified in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation

E. Oluwakemi Ogunjimi, MD, MS

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Wright State University, School of Medicine, Dayton, Ohio
• Board Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology

Dauod Arif, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Rawalpindi Medical College, Rawalpindi, Pakistan
• Fellowship in Surgical Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Fellowship in Gastrointestinal/Liver Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota
• Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology

Meenu Sharma, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Medical College, Kanpur (Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University), Kanpur Uttar Pradesh, India
• Fellowship in Cytopathology, University of Florida College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida
• Fellowship in Surgical Pathology, Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, Jacksonville, Florida
• Chief Resident, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
• Board Certified in Anatomic Pathology & Clinical Pathology

Manish Aligeti, MD

Associate Professor

• Graduate of the University of Bombay, Mumbai, India
• Graduate of Midwestern State University, Wichita Falls, Texas
• Board Certified in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
• Board Certified in General Psychiatry
• Certification in Telemedicine

Wail Amor, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas
• Chief Psychiatry Resident, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas

Shamini Parameswaran, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas
• Administrative Chief Resident, Integrated Cardiothoracic Surgery, Yale University, School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut

Katie Corkill, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Long School of Medicine, University of Texas Health San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas
• Residency in Family & Community Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Odessa, Texas
• Board Eligible

Vijay Eranki, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Gandhi Medical College, Hyderabad, India
• Fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, St. Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri
• Chief Resident in Internal Medicine, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center/University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Hassan Khalid, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan
• Residency in Internal Medicine, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Permian Basin Campus
• Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine

Victor Levy, MD, MSPH

Associate Professor

• Graduate of Tulane University School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana
• Graduate of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi
• Board Certified in:
  • Pediatrics
  • Pediatric Cardiology
  • Neonatology