New Faculty Introduction 2021-2022

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

Thomas Byrne, MD

Associate Professor

• Graduate of Loyola University of Chicago, Maywood, Illinois
• Fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine, University of New Mexico, School of Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Tanay Patel, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Ross University, School of Medicine, Portsmouth, Dominica, West Indies
• Board Certified in Obstetrics & Gynecology

Jeremy Bailoo, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

• Doctorate in Developmental Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina

Hariharan Parameswaran, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

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

Katy Kemeze, MD

Assistant Professor

•  Graduate of the University of Turin, Turin, Italy
• Residency in Family Medicine, Natividad Medical Center, California

Marina Iskandir, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of St. George's University School of Medicine, Grenada, West Indies
• Fellowship in Interventional Cardiovascular Disease, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas

Mareena Zachariah, MD

Professor

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.

Amara Abid, DPM

Assistant Professor

• Doctorate in Podiatric Medicine from New York College of Podiatric Medicine
• Residency in Podiatric Medicine - Foot and Ankle Surgery, SUNY Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, New York

Tala Porter, MD

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas
• Residency in Pediatrics, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Lubbock, Texas

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

Natalie Scanlon, PhD, LP

Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Texas Tech University
• Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
• Specialized Training in:
  • Cognitive-Behavioral Theraphy (CBT)
  • Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for TICS (CBIT)
  • Trauma Focused-Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT)

Samudani Dhanasekara, PhD

Research Assistant Professor

• Graduate of Texas Tech University, Lubbock Texas
• Doctorate in Nutritional Sciences

Ashley Northcutt, MD

Assistant Professor

• Gradute of Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock & Amarillo, Texas
• Residency in General Surgery, Louisana State University Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, Louisiana
• Fellowship in Surgical Critial Care, University of Florida Health Sciences Center, Jacksonville, Florida
• Board Certified in:
  • General Surgery
  • Sugical Critical Care
  • Endoscopy
  • Fundimentals of Laparoscopic Surgery (FLS)
  • Advanced Surgical Skills for Exposure in Trauma (ASSET)

Gregory Bartha, MD

Associate Professor

• Graduate of Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut
• Board Certified in Internal Medicine

Megan Galindo, MD

Instructor

• Graduate of the University of Texas School of Medicine, San Antonio, Texas
• Fellowship in Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas

Yi-Zarn Wang, DDS, MD

Associate Professor

• Graduate of the School of Dentistry, Kaohsiung Medical College, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Republic of China
• Graduate of Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon
• General Surgery Residency at Barnes Hospital, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
• Oral Pathology Residency, Department of Pathology, School of Dentistry, Oregon Health Sciences University, Portland, Oregon