Getting to know you: Q&As with new faculty joining the Department of Medicine in 2021-22
Vital Signs is featuring introductions to many of the new faculty members who joined us over the past year. Each has been invited to tell us a little more about what drew them to the University of Wisconsin Department of Medicine, as well as their primary professional focus, first-year hopes and dreams, hobbies and interests, and their favorite piece of advice from a mentor or inspiring figure.
We are pleased to welcome:
Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
- Kaitlin Bradley, DO, MS, assistant clinical professor
- Robert Guzy, MD, PhD, associate visiting professor
- Amik Sodhi, MD, associate visiting professor
Cardiovascular Medicine
- Francisco Alvarado, PharmD, PhD, assistant professor
- Allexa Hammond, MD, assistant clinical professor
- Petar Igic, MD, FACC, FHRS, associate visiting professor
- Anupama Joseph, MD, assistant professor
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
- Jessica Musto, MD, assistant professor
General Internal Medicine
- Parisa Amleshi, MD, associate visiting professor
- Abigail Bales, MD, associate visiting professor
- Adrienne Johnson, PhD, assistant professor
- Thomas Piasecki, PhD, MS, professor
- Gina Utrie, MD, associate visiting professor
Geriatrics and Gerontology
- Nimira Jina, MD, assistant clinical professor
- Sophie Kramer, MD, FACP, assistant clinical professor
- Katherine Wang, MD, associate visiting professor
Hematology, Medical Oncology and Palliative Care
- Matthew Brunner, MD, assistant professor
- Zhubin Gahvari, MD, MS, assistant professor
- Elyse Harris, MD, MS, assistant clinical professor
- Marina Sharifi, MD, assistant professor
- Rhiannon Talbot, MD, assistant clinical professor
- Joanna Zurko, MD, assistant professor
Hospital Medicine
- Abdul Wahab Arif, MD, assistant clinical professor
- Trent Bailey, MD, assistant clinical professor
- Jessica Beier, MD, assistant clinical professor
- Rohan Bodapati, MD, assistant clinical professor
- Muhammad Usman, MD, assistant clinical professor
- Sara Westergaard, MD, MPH, assistant clinical professor
- Maryam Zamanian, MD, MSC, assistant clinical professor
Infectious Disease
- Marin Schweizer, PhD, visiting professor
- Lindsay Taylor, MD, assistant professor
Rheumatology
- Trevor McKown, MD, assistant professor