Faculty and Administration
The School of Medicine faculty includes more than 200 full-time physicians
as well as a handful of part-time physicians and more than 700 volunteer physicians.
There are more than 100 other full-time faculty members in clinical, basic science
and academic departments and more than 150 volunteers. Appointment stories are
prepared by Public Affairs for new faculty and for those named to administrative positions and posted below. Biographical
information often is posted on departmental pages. The website for Physicians
& Surgeons also carries information on clinical faculty or go to Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Affairs for information about our research faculty.
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Hossam H. AbdelSalam, M.D. - Neurology 
Robert Abrams, M.D. - Obstetrics and Gynecology 
Harirama K. Acharya, M.D. - Neurology
Sajida Ahad, M.D. - Surgery 
Jatinder P. Ahluwalia, M.D. - Medicine 
Thomas A. Ala, M.D. - Neurology
Janet Albers, M.D. - Family and Community Medicine
Tracy A. Aldridge, M.D. - Family and Community Medicine 
Edward J. Alfrey, M.D. - Surgery

Vinod N. Alluri, M.D. - Psychiatry 
M. Samer Ammar, M.D. - Pediatrics
Amy Arai, Ph.D. - Pharmacology 
Lydia Arbogast, Ph.D. - Physiology
Carl Arentzen, M.D. - Surgery
Cesar S. Arguelles, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine-Decatur
Glen Aylward, Ph.D. - Pediatrics and Psychiatry 
M. Haitham Bakir, M.D. - Medicine

Brent Bany, Ph.D. - Physiology 
Amber Barnhart, M.D. - Family and Community Medicine 
Blaine Bartholomew, Ph.D. - Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
Andrzej Bartke, Ph.D. - Internal Medicine 
Sangita Basnet, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Richard Bass, M.D. - Surgery 
Craig Batterman, M.D. - Pediatrics
Beau J. Batton, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Daniel G. Batton, M.D. - Pediatrics
Carol A. Bauer, M.D. - Surgery 
Gregory L. Bennett, M.D. - Pediatrics

Jeffrey Bennett, M.D. - Psychiatry 
Dhrubajyoti (Dru) Bhattacharya, J.D. - Medical Humanities 
Andre Bieniarz, M.D. - Obstetrics and Gynecology 
James E. Black, Ph.D. - Psychiatry
Peter T. Borgia, Ph.D. - Medical Microbiology, Immunology/Cell Biology
Kathy Bottum, M.D. - Medicine 
John Bradley, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine-Decatur
Gregory P. Brandt, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Christina M. Branham, M.D. - Pediatrics
Careyana Brenham, M.D. - Family and Community Medicine
Michael J. Brenner, M.D. - Surgery 
Gregory Brewer, Ph.D. - Medical Microbiology, Immunology/Cell Biology 
Karen Broquet, M.D. - Internal
Medicine/Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education 
Reuben Bueno, Jr., M.D. - Surgery

Lucinda Buescher, M.D. - Medicine 
Reginald Bulkley, M.D. - Anesthesia
Robert A. Buzzell, M.D. - Medicine
Peter Cadwell - Chief Compliance Officer 
Deliang Cao, M.D., Ph.D. - SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute/Medical Microbiology, Immunology/Cell Biology 
Kathleen C. M. Campbell, Ph.D. - Surgery
Pamela A. Campbell, M.D. - Psychiatry 
Deborah Case - SIU Foundation
Donald Caspary, Ph.D. - Pharmacology 
Subhas Chakrabarty, Ph.D. - SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute/Medical Microbiology, Immunology/Cell Biology 
Christopher Chambers, Ph.D. - Surgery 
Subhash C. Chaudhary, M.D. - Pediatrics
Joseph L. Cheatwood, Ph.D. - Anatomy 
Howard Chodash, M.D. - Medicine 
Richard W. Clough, Ph.D. - Anatomy

Michael W. Collard, Ph.D. - Physiology
Erik J. Constance, M.D. - Internal Medicine/Associate
Dean for Student Affairs 
Morris Cooper, Ph.D. - Medical Microbiology/Immunology/Cell
Biology 
Virginia L. Cooper, J.D. - Associate Senior General Counsel 
Julio A. Copello, Ph.D. - Pharmacology
Wendy Cox-Largent - Chief Financial Officer for SIU P&S 
Dennis T. Crouse, M.D., Ph.D.- Pediatrics

Edgard Cumpa, M.D. - Medicine 
Klara Curtis, M.D. - Medicine/Psychiatry
Rod C. Curtis, M.D. - Medicine/Psychiatry 
James M. Daniels, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine - Quincy

Cindy Davidsmeyer - SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute 
Judith K. Davie, Ph.D. - Biochemistry/Microbiology / SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute 
Patricia J. Davis - Diversity and Minority Affairs
Phillip Davis, Ph.D. - Associate Provost for External and Health Affairs
Alan J. Deckard, M.D. - Medicine 
David H. Decker, M.D. - Psychiatry 
Konstantin Denev, M.D. - Pediatrics
Mary I. Dobbins, M.D. - Psychiatry 
J. Kevin Dorsey, M.D., Ph.D. - Dean and Provost 
Gary Dunnington, M.D. - Surgery
Lanie Eagleton, M.D. - Professor Emeritus on Medicine
Randolph C. Elble, Ph.D. - Pharmacology 
Rodger Elble, M.D., Ph.D. - Neurology 
Charles R. Ellington, M.D., J.D. - Family/Community Medicine - Decatur
Buffy Ellsworth, Ph.D. - Physiology 
Jose E. Espinosa, M.D. - Neurosurgery
Joan A. Esplin, M.D. - Medicine / SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute
Sandra Ettema, M.D. - Surgery 
M. Steven Evans, M.D. - Neurology 
Robert M. Ewart, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine 
Carl Faingold, Ph.D. - Pharmacology 
Romaisa Firdose, M.D. - Medicine 
Mark Francis, M.D. - Medicine 
Maureen Francis, M.D. - Medicine 
Stuart Frank, M.D. - Medicine 
Carmel Fratianni, M.D. - Medicine
Per Freitag, M.D., Ph.D. - Surgery
Jason A. French, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Pamela P. Friye, D.O. - Family/Community Medicine - Quincy 
Keith Gabriel, M.D. - Surgery
Sree S. Garapati, M.D. - Medicine
Edward Gershburg, Ph.D. - SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute /Medical Microbiology, Immunology/Cell Biology 
Ralph Glasser, M.D. - Anethesiology 
Christopher L. Gleason, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine - Springfield 
John E. Godwin, M.D. - SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute 
Jonathan Goldfarb, M.D. - Medicine
David Graham, M.D. - Family and Community Medicine 
Ramesh Gupta, Ph.D. - Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
Smita Gupta, M.D. - Medicine
Zachariah Gurnsey, M.D. - Medicine
Dale Buchanan Hales, Ph.D. - Physiology 
William P. Halford, Ph.D. - SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute /Medical Microbiology, Immunology/Cell Biology 
Thomas Hansen, M.D. - Surgery 
Peter Hardwicke, Ph.D. - Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
David Hartman, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine - Carbondale 
Imran Hassan, M.D. - Surgery
Terry F. Hatch, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Kanako Hayashi, Ph.D. - Physiology - Carbondale 
Stephen R. Hazelrigg, M.D. - Surgery
Joseph Q. Henkle, M.D. - Medicine
Connie Hess - Assistant Provost for Financial Affairs
Katherine Hild-Mosley, M.D. - Obstetrics/Gynecology
Susan T. Hingle, M.D. - Medicine 
Kim Hodgson, M.D. - Surgery
M. Rebecca Hoffman, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine - Springfield
Douglas B. Hood, M.D. - Surgery 
Gary M. Horowitz, M.D. - Obstetrics/Gynecology
Haojiang Huang, M.D., Ph.D. - Psychiatry 
Mei Chris Huang, Ph.D. - Medicine
Chad Huston, M.D - Obstetrics/Gynecology
Osaretin B. Idusuyi, M.D. - Surgery
Sayeeda Azra Jabeen, M.D. - Medicine 
Wojciech Janowski, M.D. - Medicine
Magali Jean-Louis, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Colleen M. Johnson, M.D. - Surgery
Gary A. Johnson, M.D. - Obstetrics and Gynecology 
Mark Johnson, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Nancy Johnston, D.V.M. - Laboratory Animal
Medicine
Rhonda L. Johnson, Ph.D. - Psychiatry 
Jessie A. Junker, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine - Decatur 
Farid A. Kadyrov, Ph.D. - Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Carbondale 
Levent Kahraman, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Praveen Kandula, M.D. - Medicine 
Ronald W. Kanwischer - Psychiatry 
Kent S. Kapitan, M.D. - Internal Medicine 
Aziz-Ur-Rehman Khan, M.D. - Medicine/SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute 
Narinder Khanna, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Nancy Khardori, M.D., Ph.D. - Medicine 
Romesh Khardori, M.D. - Medicine 
Randy A. Kienstra, M.D. - Pediatrics 
David King, Ph.D. - Anatomy
Debra Klamen, M.D. - Medical Education/Associate
Dean for Education and Curriculum 
Susan M. Klein, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine-Decatur
Tobias Köhler, M.D. - Surgery 
Janak Koirala, M.D. - Medicine 
Regina A. Kovach, M.D. - Medicine 
Christina L. Kramer - Human Resources 
Jerry Kruse, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine 
Ellen Kucharski - Pediatrics, Genetic Counselor
Munish Kumar, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Kathy A. Lake, M.D. - Pediatrics
Harald Lausen, D.O. - Family and Community Medicine 
Theodore LeBlang, J.D. - Medical Humanities
Cynthia Ledbetter - Family and Community Medicine 
Cheng-Shu Li, M.D., Ph.D. - Anatomy - Carbondale
Teresa A. Liberati, D.V.M., Ph.D. - Laboratory Animal Medicine 
Lauri Lopp, M.D. - Family and Community Medicine - Springfield 
J. Ricardo Loret de Mola, M.D. - Obstetrics/Gynecology 
Tracy K. Lower, M.D. - Pediatrics
Guangming Liu, M.D., Ph.D. - Internal Medicine 
Paula S. Mackrides, D.O. - Family/Community Medicine - Quincy
James A. MacLean, Ph.D. - Physiology-Carbondale 
James Malone, M.D. - Surgery 
Gurpreet S. Mander, M.D. -
Pediatrics 
Gabor F. Matos, M.D. - Medicine 
Ruth D. Mayforth, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Mark McAndrew, M.D. - Surgery
Mary Ellen McAsey, Ph.D. - Obstetrics and Gynecology 
Penny L. McCarty -
Human Resources
Patrick McKenna, M.D. - Surgery 
Robert B. McLafferty, M.D. - Surgery 
Wesley McNeese, M.D. - Assistant to the
Dean for Diversity
Juan M. Medina, M.D. - Psychiatry
Andreas Meier, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Tracy P. Milbrandt, M.D. - Pediatrics
Anne V. Miller, M.D. - Medicine 
Brooke A. Miller, P.A. - Family/Community Medicine-Carbondale
Robert L. Miller, M.D. - Surgery 
Michelle Miner, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Yin-Yuan Mo, Ph.D. - Medical Microbiology/Immunology
Robert S. Mocharnuk, M.D. - Hematology/Oncology
H. Dennis Mollman, M.D. - Surgery 
Marci Moore-Connelley, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine-Carbondale
Helen Moose - Family and Community Medicine
John E. Murphy, M.D. - Pathology 
Kyaw T. Naing, M.D., Ph.D. - Family/Community Medicine-Carbondale
Erica E. Nelson, M.D. - Obstetrics and Gynecology 
Michael W. Neumeister, M.D. - Surgery 
Ramzi Nicolas, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Dao-tai Nie, Ph.D. - SIU Cancer Institute/Medical Microbiology/Immunology/Cell Biology 
Daniel J. Niebrugge, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Eric Niederhoffer, Ph.D. - Biochemistry/Molecular Biology
Dharmendra J. Nimavat, M.D. - Pediatrics
Chad A. Noggle, Ph.D. - Psychiatry 
B. Rock Oh, M.D. - Obstetrics/Gynecology 
Cameron Olson, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine-Springfield 
David Olysav, M.D. - Surgery
Tankut Onal, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Loren Ost, M.D. - Surgery

Phillip D. Pan, M.D. - Psychiatry
Julio Pardo, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Robert M. Patino - Director, Technology Transfer 
Gina Paul, Ph.D. - MEDPREP
Yen-Yi Peng, M.D. - Neurology 
Elizabeth Peralta, M.D. - Surgery 
Gary P. Pezall - Director, Capitol Planning/Service Operations
Marthe Phelps, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Connie Poole - Associate Dean for Information
Resources 
Michael Pranzatelli, M.D. - Neurology
Louis S. Premkumar, Ph.D. - Pharmacology 
Mark S. Puczynski, M.D. - Pediatrics
Manisha Punwani, M.D. - Psychiatry 
William G. Pyle, M.D. - Surgery
Geunyeong Pyo, Ph.D. - Psychiatry
Jan Rakinic, M.D. - Surgery
Vickram Ramkumar, Ph.D. - Pharmacology 
Don Ramsey, M.D. - Surgery 
Sophia Ran, Ph.D. - Medical Microbiology/Immunology 
Sriya Ranatunga, M.D. - Internal Medicine 
Krishna Rao, M.D., Ph.D. - Internal
Medicine 
David S. Resch, M.D. - Internal Medicine/Psychiatry 
K. Thomas Robbins, M.D. - Surgery/SimmonsCooper Cancer
Institute
Julie Robbs - SIU School of Medicine Alumni Affairs
Stephen W. Robinson, M.D. - Psychiatry 
Nicole Roberts, Ph.D. - Medical Education
Robert Robinson, M.D. - Internal Medicine 
David Rogers, M.D. - Surgery 
Laura Q. Rogers, M.D. - Medicine
Richard B. Rosher, M.D. - Internal Medicine 
Gary Rull, M.D. - Internal Medicine 
Leonard Rybak, M.D., Ph.D. - Surgery 
John G. Saint, M.D. - Obstetrics/Gynecology
Khaled J. Saleh, M.D. - Surgery 
Hilary Sanfey, M.D. - Surgery 
Stacy L. Sattovia, M.D. - Medicine 
Michael C. Schneider, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Scott K. Schonewolf, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine-Carbondale 
Bradley Schwartz, D.O. - Surgery 
Don W. Scott, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine
Mark D. Scott, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine-Decatur 
Deborah Seale - Telehealth Networks and Programs
Anwar Shafi, M.D. - Pediatrics 
Andrew Sherrick, M.D. - Radiology
Ross D. Silverman, J.D. - Medical Humanities 
Anjali Singh, M.D. - Pediatric Orthopaedics
Sharon A. Smaga, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine-Carbondale
Stephen Soltys, M.D. - Psychiatry 
Nicole Zook Sommer, M.D. - Surgery
Pam Speer - Associate Provost for Finance and Administration
Cristian A. Speil, M.D. - Medicine 
Bethany Spielman, Ph.D., J.D. - Medical Humanities 
Raj Sreedhar, M.D. - Medicine 
RaNae Stanton, M.D. - Family/Comunity Medicine-Quincy
William Stevens, M.D. - Surgery 
David Steward, M.D. - Medicine
Stephen Stone, M.D. - Medicine 
Vidya Sundareshan, M.D. - Internal Medicine 
Theodore R. Sunder, M.D. - Pediatrics 
John Sutyak, M.D. - Surgery/Southern Illinois Trauma Center
Kathy D. Swafford, M.D. - Pediatrics/Director of SIU's Children's Medical Resource Network 
Ayame Takahashi, M.D. - Psychiatry 
Thomas H. Tarter, M.D., Ph.D. - Surgery 
Cynthia Thomas, M.D. - Family/Community
Medicine-Springfield
Gwyneth Thompson, M.D. - Obstetrics and Gynecology
Angela Tippey - Human Resources
Penny Tippy, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine 
Shelley A. Tischkau, Ph.D. - Pharmacology
Kay Titchenal - Human Resources
Christine Y. Todd, M.D. - Internal Medicine 
Stuart A. Torgerson, M.D. - Medicine 
Donald S. Torry, Ph.D. - Medical Microbiology/Immunology/Cell Biology 
Linda Toth, Ph.D., -
Associate Dean for Research 
Jeremy G. Turner, Ph.D. - Pharmacology 
Victor V. Uteshev-Gaard, Ph.D. - Pharmacology
Srikanth Vallurupalli, M.D. - Medicine 
Andrew Varney, M.D. - Medicine
Christina Vassileva, M.D. - Surgery
Robert Vautrain, M.D. - Medicine 
Steven Verhulst, Ph.D. - Statistics and Research Consulting
Sandra Vicari, Ph.D. - Psychiatry
Timothy James Von Fange, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine-Quincy
Jarrod Wall, M.D. - Surgery 
Zeng Yu Wang, M.D., Ph.D. - Neurology 
Patricia J. Wappel - Marketing, SimmonsCooper Cancer Institute at SIU
Douglas Wallace, M.D. -Surgery 
Linda Werner - Family/Community Medicine
Donna L. White, M.D. - Family/Community Medicine-Quincy
Mattie M. White, M.D. - Education and Curriculum-Carbondale 
Peter White, M.D. - Internal Medicine
Andrew Wilber, Ph.D. - Surgery 
Evan Wilson - Student Affairs
Steven P. Wittmer, M.D. - Medicine
Christopher Wohltmann, M.D. - Surgery/Southern Illinois Trauma Center 
Gayle Woodson, M.D. - Surgery
Stephen A. Yenchko - Director of Environmental Safety and Security 
Kendra Yociss, Pharm.D. - Family/Community
Medicine 
Xiao-Xin Yan, M.D. -
Anatomy
Casey Younkin, M.D. - Obstetrics/Gynecology 
Ronald F. Zec, Ph.D. - Psychiatry and Neurology 
Mingyan Zhu, M.D., Ph.D - Anatomy
Elvin G. Zook, M.D. - Surgery
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