New Faculty - July 2018
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Lynd Bacon, PhD, MBA Lynd is an experimental psychologist with neuroscience training who has held academic appointments and private sector positions throughout his career. He has a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Chicago and an M.B.A. from the Booth School of Business at The University of Chicago. He has been teaching graduate level predictive analytics and applied data science at Northwestern for the last six years and marketing analytics for Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business for the last three years. He has an adjunct associate professor appointment in the David Eccles School of Business, where he will be teaching business, marketing, and healthcare analytics. Lynd has held senior level management and science positions in business intelligence companies, and was the chief research officer for Knowledge Networks, Inc., which has been acquired by GfK of Germany. Lynd has moved to Utah with his wife Sara Knight, who has accepted a faculty position at the University of Utah's School of Medicine. Lynd and Sara have lived in Birmingham, AL, Northern Califoria, and Chicago, IL. They have a cat named Turtle. Lynd was also a Motorcycle Safety Foundation instructor for 10 years. |
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Emily Beck, MD |
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Ellen Beswick, PhD I moved here from University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center where I was trained in Translational Research. My research program has the long term goal of translating novel GI tumor immunotherapy approaches to the clinic. |
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Brian Breviu, MD |
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Gerald Cochran, MSW, PhD |
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Andrew Freeman |
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Carlos Gomez, MD Dr. Gomez received his MD degree from the University Nacional de Colombia, in Bogota, Colombia. He then completed Internal Medicine residency at the University of Pittsburgh, followed by fellowship training in general Infectious Diseases, Medical Microbiology, and Immunocompromised Host ID at Stanford University. Carlos A Gomez, MD, is board-certified in Adult Infectious Diseases (ABIM) and board eligible for Medical Microbiology (ABP). His primary focus of interest is infections in patients with weakened immune systems relating to solid-organ transplantation, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, cancer, and drugs that suppress or modulate immune responses. He speaks Spanish.
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Mark Ibrahim, MD Dr. Ibrahim earned his medical degree from Tishreen University School of Medicine. He completed his internal medicine residency at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine and a Chief Medicine Resident year at the University of Illinois-Chicago. He went on to complete a Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship at UIC. Most recently, Dr. Ibrahim completed an Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship here at the University of Utah. He is board certified in internal medicine, cardiovascular medicine, echocardiography, and cardiac nuclear imaging. Dr. Ibrahim specializes in the prevention, diagnosis, and management of patients with Cardiovascular Disease including coronary artery disease, valvular heart disease, hyperlipidemia, and hypertension. He has special interest and expertise in Cardiovascular Imaging, including Cardiac CT, Cardiac MRI, Echocardiography, and Nuclear Cardiology. |
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Conan Kinsey, MD, PhD Dr. Kinsey is from Lancaster, Pennsylvania and completed his undergraduate education at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. He then went on to train in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Rochester, New York completing his Ph.D. in Genetics in Hartmut Land’s Laboratory and his M.D. He completed a Research Track Internal Medicine Residency at the University of Utah and a Medical Oncology Fellowship at the Huntsman Cancer Institute with a post-doctoral fellowship in Martin McMahon’s Laboratory. Dr. Kinsey specializes in Gastrointestinal Oncology with a translational research focus on pancreatic cancer. |
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Rachel Kroencke, MD Rachel Kroencke received her MD from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2015. She completed her Internal Medicine Residency here at the University of Utah. |
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Ami Patel, MD |
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Divya Raghavan, MBBS |
New Fellows - July 2018
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Ben Brintz Ben completed his PhD in statistics at Oregon State University and did research on models for disease surveillance. While living in Corvallis, Ben completed two half marathons: one on the road and one on a trail. He is originally from Boston. I am originally from the Boston area but have now lived in all 4 time zones of the contiguous U.S. I completed my Ph.D. in statistics at Oregon State University in Corvallis and did research on models for disease surveillance. While living in Corvallis I completed two half marathons: one road, one trail. |
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Dajiang Li |
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Timothy Smith |
New Staff - July 2018
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Tara Abbott |
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Tyler Bardsley |
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Elizabeth Bevis, MSN, ANP, NP-C |
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Kimberly Bloom |
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Gabrielle Chieppa |
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Shannon Duncan |
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Seth Elieson |
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Michael Fiedel |
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Dalin Froerer |
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Jacqueline Garcia |
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Kayla Godfrey |
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Nikki Giles Nikki just completed her Medical Assistant certification in May and is excited to start working as a medical assistant. She is from Pleasant Grove, but currently lives in American Fork UT with her husband. They enjoy dirtbiking, shopping, and going out to restaurants. |
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Alexandra Heitkamp |
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Brett Larsen, LCSW Brett is originally from Salt Lake City, however he recently returned from living out of the state and country for the past eight years. He first left Salt Lake to join Peace Corps, where he served as an urban youth development volunteer in Fernando de la Mora Paraguay. After his experience in South America, he returned to the U.S. in order to complete a master’s degree in social work at UC Berkeley. After graduating, he lived and worked in Oakland, California for several years as a clinical case manager for youth with severe and persistent mental illness, and later as an integrated behavioral health clinician in a school based health center. He recently returned to Salt Lake City this year to raise his family and be close to family. |
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Cassie Larsen |
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Dajiang Li |
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Jennifer Lloyd, FNP-C |
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Kiara Matthews |
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Srinivas Mulamalla |
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Hailey Elizabeth Nielson |
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Hannah O'Neil |
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Omprakash Rao |
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Orvelin Roman |
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Marissa Salsbery |
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Michelle Sanchez |
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Brooke Taggart |