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New Employees - October 2020


New Faculty - October 2020

Janet Lee
Assistant Professor
Pulmonary Medicine 

New Adjunct Faculty - October 2020

Sonia Malik
Adjunct Assistant Professor
General Internal Medicine

Patrick Powers
Adjunct Assistant Professor
General Internal Medicine - SLC VA

Pat was born and raised in Gatesburg, Pennsylvania. He attended medical school at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA. He went on to do his residency in Internal Medicine here at the University of Utah, after which he completed a chief resident year in quality and safety. He has recently started as an Assistant Professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine. He works at the SLC VA, splitting his time as a primary care physician and hospitalist. In his spare time, he enjoys rock climbing, skiing, wood working, and attempting to tire out his endlessly energetic Labrador retriever.

New Staff - October 2020

Md Saruar Bhuiyan
Postdoctoral Research Scholar
Infecious Diseases - University Main Hospital

Saruar is from Bangladesh. He graduated from University of Dhaka. He started his research career at international center for diarrheal disease research, Bangladesh known as icddr,b. His research focus was enteric infection and host immune response especially cholera and typhoid fever. He earned his PhD from Monash University, Australia. He studied host-pathogen interaction of hospital acquired pathogen using zebrafish as model. Currently, he is working on identifying serological markers for diagnosis and disease prediction

Stevie Brown
Clinical Nurse
Dialysis - Nevada, Utah

McKenzie Clark
Dialysis Technician
Dialysis - Utah

John Doyle, BS
Graduate Research Assistant
Epidemiology - SLC VA

Originally from California, John joined the Navy and spent his 6 years of service up and down the East Coast. After completing his enlistment, John moved to Utah and began schooling at the University of Utah. John took the 2015 – 2016 and 2016 – 2017 academic years off to support science as a Power Plant Technician at McMurdo Station, Antarctica. Upon returning from his second season in Antarctica he returned to school and began working as a clinical study coordinator in the University’s Department of Pediatrics focusing in neurology. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Anthropology, minoring in Integrative Human Biology from the University in 2019. He is currently a first year MS Occupational Health – Industrial Hygiene student at the University of Utah and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Division of Epidemiology as part of the TORCH team.

Caitlin Fermoyle
Postdoc Research Associate
Geriatrics

Laneta Fitisemanu, MPA, MSC
Medicine- Pediatrics Residency Program Coordinator
General Internal Medicine - SLC

Laneta was born and raised in the Salt Lake City area. She has worked in state government and higher education at both the University of Utah main campus and Westminster College for the past eight years. During this time she earned master’s degrees in Public Administration from the University of Utah and Strategic Communication at Westminster College. Laneta has volunteered extensively in the Pacific Islander community in Utah as a board member on the Utah Pacific Islander Health Coalition and is also an early childhood education policy fellow at Voices for Utah Children.

Raquel Hardy
Clinical Nurse
Dialysis - Utah

Brent Hill
Research Associate
Epidemiology

Robey Lasat
Dialysis Technician
Dialysis - Utah

Lateesha Leal
Clinical Nurse
Dialysis - Idaho

Wenjin Liu
Postdoc Fellow
Nephrology

Jay Love
Postdoc Fellow
Infectious Disease

Patricia Miguez Arosemena, MD
Postdoctoral Fellow
Cardiovascular Medicine

Patricia was born in Panama City, Panama. She grew up surrounded by conversations related to construction since both her parents and her siblings work together in a family business mainly dedicated to construction. For a few years, she thought about becoming an architect too, but later she realized she deeply admired the human connection a doctor can have with their patients, that’s why she decided to become a doctor herself.

During medical school, she did electives rotations in Chile, Spain, and the United States giving her experience in different health care systems. In 2018 she graduated from Universidad Latina de Panama and she is currently applying for an internal medicine residency. In the meantime, she is at the University of Utah doing research on amyloidosis and heart failure under the guidance of Dr. Nativi-Nicolau. She enjoys outdoor activities and playing ultimate Frisbee.

Mark Phillips
Clinical Nurse
Dialysis - Utah

Tatiana Pryor
Dialysis Technician
Dialysis - Provo Clinic

Tatiana is from Ogden, Utah and is currently a Pubic Health and Spanish student at BYU. She is certified in phlebotomy, so her past experience aids in dialysis procedures. She is a Pre-med student, so any chance to learn about health and work with patients is greatly appreciated and thoroughly enjoyed. Tatiana spends most of her time studying, but in her free time she likes to roller-skate and watch movies.