FACULTY RECRUITED TO UF HEALTH AS PART OF THE PREEMINENCE INITIATIVE Name Prior Institution William R Hogan, M.D., M.S University of Arkansas Jatinder Lamba, Ph.D., M.S Preeminence Area College Position 6/1/2014 Informatics Institute Biomedical Science Medicine University of Minnesota 7/1/2014 Metabolomics & Cancer Therapeutics Pharmacy Faming Liang, Ph.D Texas A&M University 7/18/2014 Informatics Institute Life Science Medicine & PHHP Director of Biomedical Informatics, CTSI Professor, Health Outcomes & Policy Associate Professor, Pharmacotherapy and Translational Research Professor, Biostatistics Steven D Munger, Ph.D University of Maryland 9/1/2014 Neuroscience and Brain Medicine Gail Keenan, Ph.D., R.N University of Illinois Chicago Colorado State University University of Wisconsin 9/2/2014 Informatics Institute Biomedical Science Nursing Select Agents Burkholderia Medicine Neuroscience and Brain PHHP Herbert P Schweizer, Ph.D Gordon Mitchell, Ph.D Start Date 11/1/2014 11/13/2014 Associate Director, UF Center for Smell and Taste Professor, Pharmacology and Therapeutics Annabel Davis Jenks Endowed Professor Director of EPI BSL3 Facilities Professor, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology Professor, Physical Therapy Joint Professor, COM Neuroscience Associate Professor, Epidemiology Mattia Prosperi, Ph.D., M.Eng University of Manchester 1/1/2015 Informatics Institute Biomedical Science Medicine & PHHP Chris Vulpe, M.D., Ph.D UC - Berkeley 1/1/2015 One Health Vet Med Professor of Toxicology, Physiological Sciences Roy Curtiss III, Ph.D Arizona State University 1/1/2015 One Health Vet Med Professor, Infectious Diseases & Pathology Cynthia Johnson, Ph.D University of Pittsburgh 1/5/2015 Early Childhood Interventions PHHP Associate Professor, Clinical and Health Psychology H Lee Sweeney, Ph.D University of Pennsylvania 1/5/2015 Neuroscience and Brain Medicine Francois Modave, Ph.D Jackson State University 1/30/2015 Informatics Institute Biomedical Science Medicine Director, COM Myology Institute Professor, Pharmacology and Therapeutics Associate Professor, Health Outcomes and Policy Jane Aldrich, Ph.D University of Kansas 2/3/2015 Drug Discovery and Development Pharmacy Professor, Medicinal Chemistry Jiang Bian, Ph.D University of Arkansas 2/27/2015 Informatics Institute Biomedical Science Medicine Assistant Professor, Health Outcomes and Policy Jay P McLaughlin, Ph.D Torrey Pines Institute 3/1/2015 Drug Discovery and Development Pharmacy Associate Professor, Pharmacodynamics Josephine Clark-Curtiss, Ph.D Dorina Avram, Ph.D ASU Albany Medical College Ohio State University 4/15/2015 5/1/2015 One Health Mucosal Immunology / Cancer Biology Medicine Medicine Professor, Medicine Professor, Department of Medicine 7/1/2015 Cancer Therapeutics / Drug Discovery & Development Pharmacy Professor, Pharmaceutics 7/1/2015 Neuroscience and Brain Medicine Drug Discovery and Development Pharmacy Professor, Biochemistry & Molecular Biology, Center for NeuroGenetics Associate Professor, Pharmaceutics Neuroscience and Brain Medicine Thomas Schmittgen, Ph.D Andrew Berglund, Ph.D University of Oregon Jürgen Bulitta, Ph.D Monash University 7/17/2015 Carol A Mathews, M.D UC - San Francisco 8/1/2015 Chief of Psychiatric Genetics Professor, Psychiatry Glenn Smith, Ph.D Mayo Clinic 8/1/2015 Neuroscience and Brain PHHP Professor and Chair, Clinical and Health Psychology Jose A Lemos, Ph.D University of Rochester 8/3/2015 Metabolomics Dentistry Associate Professor, Oral Biology Matthew Merritt, Ph.D University of Texas Southwestern 8/15/2015 Metabolomics Medicine Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Somnath Datta, Ph.D University of Louisville 9/1/2015 Genomic Medicine Medicine & PHHP Professor, Biostatistics Susmita Datta, Ph.D University of Louisville 9/1/2015 Metabolomics Medicine & PHHP Professor, Biostatistics Karyn A Esser, Ph.D University of Kentucky 9/1/2015 Skeletal Muscle Biology Medicine Professor, Physiology and Functional Genomics Matthew Gurka, Ph.D West Virginia University 10/30/2015 Early Childhood Interventions Medicine Health Outcomes and Policy Liang Zhou, M.D., Ph.D Northwestern University 12/1/2015 Mucosal Immunology Vet Med Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases & Pathology Anthony T Maurelli, Ph.D Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences Johns Hopkins University 1/4/2016 Select Agents / Dangerous Pathogens PHHP Professor, Environmental and Global Health 7/1/2016 Select Agents / Dangerous Pathogens Vet Med Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases & Pathology Jorge Frias-Lopez, Ph.D Harvard University 8/1/2016 Mucosal Immunology Dentistry Associate Professor, Oral Biology Chengguo Xing, Ph.D University of Minnesota 8/1/2016 Drug Discovery & Development / Cancer Preeminence COP Professor, Medicinal Chemistry Chenglong Li, Ph.D Ohio State University 8/1/2016 Drug Discovery & Development / Cancer Preeminence COP Professor, Medicinal Chemistry Jinying Zhao, M.D., Ph.D Tulane University 8/1/2016 Genomic Medicine Medicine & PHHP Dean’s Professor, Epidemiology Frank Gibson, Ph.D Boston University 8/15/2016 Mucosal Immunology Dentistry Associate Professor, Oral Biology Russell Hepple, Ph.D McGill University 1/1/2017 PHHP Christopher R McCurdy, Ph.D University of Mississippi 1/2/2017 Skeletal Muscle Biology / Cancer Preeminence Drug Discovery and Development Professor, Physical Therapy & Physiology and Functional Genomics (Joint - COM) Professor, Medicinal Chemistry Lance R McMahon, Ph.D University of Texas Health San Antonio 8/14/2017 Drug Discovery and Development COP Rhoel Dinglasan, Ph.D COP Professor and Chair, Pharmacodynamics