Department of Medicine Faculty

Department of Medicine Directory

Office of the Chair

Brian H. Annex, MD, Professor (Chair)

Justin Pantano, Administrator Operations

Cardiology

Neal Weintraub, MD, Professor (Chief)

Adam E. Berman, MD, Professor

Vishal Arora, MD, Professor

Kimberly Atianzar, MD, Assistant Professor

Preston D. Conger, MD, Assistant Professor

Stephanie Dunlap, DO, Professor

Haitham M. Hreibe, MD, Assistant Professor

Sean P. Javaheri, DO, Associate Professor

Deepak Kapoor, MD, Professor

Mahendra Mandawat, MD, Professor

Vincent J.B. Robinson, MBBS, Professor

Pascha E. Schafer, MD, Associate Professor

Gyanendra K. Sharma, MD, Professor

Robert A. Sorrentino, MD, Professor

John W. Thornton, MD, Associate Professor

D. Douglas Miller, MD, Professor (PT)

Christopher W. Pallas, MD, Assistant Professor (PT)

James Wilkin, MD, Professor (RET)

Endocrinology, DIABETES & METABOLISM

Carlos M. Isales, MD, Professor (Chief)

Edward Chin, MD, Professor

Renee J. Harper, MD, Associate Professor

Bridget Sinnott, MD, Associate Professor

Anthony L. Mulloy, DO, Professor Emeritus (RET)

Max E. Stachura, MD, Professor Emeritus (RET) [T]

Gastroenterology & Hepatology

Kenneth J. Vega, MD, Professor (Chief)

Steven Ellison, MD, Associate Professor

Satish S.C. Rao, MD, Professor

Amol Sharma, MD, Assistant Professor

Humberto Sifuentes, MD, Assistant Professor

Subbaramiah Sridhar, MBBS, Professor

John Yap, MD, Assistant Professor

Joseph Griffin, MD, Clinical Professor [VA]

Leonard Little, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor [VA]

Charles Spurr, Jr., MD, Clinical Assistant Professor [VA]

General Internal Medicine

Christos Hatzigeorgiou, DO, Associate Professor (Chief)

Shilpa P. Brown, MD, Associate Professor

Thaddeus Y. Carson, MD, Assistant Professor

Thomas S. Dobosz, MD, Assistant Professor

David J. Fallaw, MD, Associate Professor

Wanda D. Jirau-Rosaly, MD, Associate Professor

Namita Mohanty, MD, Assistant Professor

Dean U. Harrell, MD, Assistant Professor [PT]

Vanessa Spearman, MD, Assistant Professor*

Hematology/Oncology

Anand Jillella, MD, Professor (Chief)

John Henson, MD, Professor

Abdullah Kutlar, MD, Professor

Asha Nayak Kapoor, MBBS, Assistant Professor

Locke C. Bryan, MD, Assistant Professor

Paul M. Dainer, MD, Professor [PT]

Achuta K. Guddati, MD, Associate Professor

Vamsi Kota, MD, Professor

Ayushi Chauhan, MD, Assistant Professor

Amany Keruakous, MD, MS

Girindra Raval, MD, Assistant Professor

Priyanka Raval, MD, Assistant Professor

Jordan Ciuro, MD, Assistant Professor

Gerald Wallace, MD, Assistant Professor

Jigarkumar R. Parikh, MD, Clinical Associate Professor

Germame Ajebo, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor

Anusha Vakiti, MD, Clinical Assistant Professor

 

 Hospital Medicine

David Walsh, MD, Associate Professor (Chief)

Jackson Elam, MD, Assistant Professor

Edward Agabin, MD, Assistant Professor

Pamela Tipler, DO, Assistant Professor

Bryan Broach, MD, Assistant Professor

Jack Ellis, DO, Assistant Professor

Joshua Elder, MD, Assistant Professor

Barry Scott Fuller, MD, Assistant Professor

Christopher Ellington, MD, Assistant Professor

Richard Lane Perry, MD, Assistant Professor

Ferdinand Schafer, MD, Assistant Professor

Robert Broughton, MD, Assistant Professor

Yao Kang, MD, Assistant Professor

George Downey, DO, Assistant Professor

Ding Xie, MD, Assistant Professor

Cassandra Perard, MD, Assistant Professor

Rashmi Karanth, MD, Assistant Professor

Adonis Imam, MD, Assistant Professor

Krisztina Nadasy, MD, Assistant Professor

Derek Backer, MD, Assistant Professor

Patricia Morissette, MD, Assistant Professor

Kathryn Humes, MD, Assistant Professor

Joshua Fakess, DO, Assistant Professor

Infectious Diseases

Jose A. Vazquez, MD, Professor (Chief)

Andrew W. Chao, MD, Associate Professor

Ashley Huggett, DO, Assistant Professor

John Fisher, MD, Professor

Rodger D. MacArthur, MD, Professor

Cheryl L. Newman, MD, Professor

Budder Siddiqui, MD, Assistant Professor

Stuart A. Thompson, PhD, Professor

Stephanie Baer, MD, Associate Professor [PT]

J. Peter Rissing, MD, Professor [RET] [T]

Nephrology

Laura L. Mulloy, DO, Professor (Chief)

Azeem A. Mohammed, MD, Assistant Professor

J. Jason White, MD, Associate Professor

Sandeep Padala, MD, Assistant Professor

Imran Gani, MD, Assistant Professor

Palmela Fall, MD, Professor Emeritus [RET]

William Paulson, MD, Professor Emeritus [RET] [T]

Palliative Care

Egidio Del Fabbro, MD, Professor (Chief)

Pamela Tipler, DO, Associate Professor

Faten Ragaban, MD, Assistant Professor

 Pulmonary 

Shaheen Islam, MD, Professor (Chief)

Amy R. Blanchard, MD, Associate Professor

Caralee J. Forseen, MD, Associate Professor

Joyce N. Gonzales, MD, Associate Professor

James R. Gossage, MD, Professor

Clark A. McDonough, DO, Assistant Professor

Varsha S. Taskar, MBBS, Professor

William Bruce Davis, MD, Professor Emeritus [T]

John W. Brice, MD, Clinical Associate Professor [VA]

Rheumatology

Laura D. Carbone, MD, J. Harold Harrison, MD Distinguished University Chair in Rheumatology and Professor (Chief)

Rachel Elam, MD, Assistant Professor

Alyce M. Oliver, MD, Joseph P. Bailey, MD Chair In Rheumatology, Professor

Shi, Hong, MD, Assistant Professor

 

Institutes/ Centers & Other Campuses:

Academic Affairs

Amanda J. Kleinheksel, PhD, Asst. Professor

Louise M. Thai, MD, Professor (PT)

Andria Thomas, PhD, Assoc. Professor

AU/UGA Medical Partnership

Thomas A. Albritton, MD, Professor

Gerald E. Crites, MD, Professor

Michelle A. Nuss, MD, Professor

Donald W. Scott, MD, Assoc. Professor

John S. Francis, MD, Assoc. Professor

Cancer RESEARCH Center (CRC)

Ahmed Chadli, PhD, Assoc. Professor [TT]

Georgios Kallifatidis, PhD, Asst. Research Scientist

Pandelakis Koni, PhD, Assoc. Professor [T]

Yukai He, MD, Assoc. Professor [T]

Gang Zhou, PhD, Asst. Professor [TT]

CBGM (Center For Biotechnology & Genomic Medicine)

Bo-Shiun Chen, PhD, Asst. Professor

HongYan Liu, PhD, Asst. Professor

Rafal Pacholczyk, PhD, Asst. Professor [TT]

Yunchao Su, MD, Professor

Graduate Studies

Patricia L. Cameron, PhD, Assistant Professor

Neuroscience & regenerative medicine

Erhard Bieberich, PhD, Professor [T]

Richard S. Cameron, PhD, Assoc. Professor [T]

Ke-Hong Ding, Research, PhD, Sr. Research Scientist

Ali Eroglu, PhD, Associate Professor [T]

Rhea-Beth Markowitz, PhD, Sr. Research Scientist

BaoZheng Yuan, MD, Asst. Research Scientist

Qing Zhong, PhD, Sr. Research Scientist

Cancer immunology, inflammation & tolerance (Immunotherapy Center)

Esteban Celis, MD, Professor

Yukai He, MD, Professor

Pandelakis Koni, PhD, Assoc. Professor [T]

Santhakumar Manicassamy, PhD, Assoc. Professor [TT]

David Munn, MD, Professor

Molecular Chaperone & Radiobiology

Anatolij Horuzsko, MD, PhD, Professor [T]

Dimitrios Moskophidis, MD, Professor [T]

Vascular Biology Center (VBC)

Eric J. Belin de Chantemele, PhD, Associate Professor

Tohru Fukai, MD, PhD, FAHA, Professor

Vijay Ganta, PhD, Assistant Professor

Ha Won Kim, PhD, Assistant Professor

Joseph Miano, PhD, Professor

Yaoliang Tang, MD, PhD, Professor

Masuko Ushio-Fukai, PhD, FAHA, Professor

Alexander Verin, PhD, Professor [TT]