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 formerly IMMAG (institute of molecular medicine & genetics)

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]