News Release

October 26, 2010

Contact: Carolyn Pennington, 860-679-4864
e-mail: cpennington@uchc.edu

UConn Health Center Faculty News

FARMINGTON, CONN. – The University of Connecticut Health Center recently announced the following.

Faculty promoted to professor:

  • Micha Abeles, M.D., Department of Medicine, West Hartford
  • Rashmi Bansal, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Farmington
  • Ann Cowan, Ph.D., Department of Molecular, Microbial, and Structural Biology, Farmington
  • Julian Ford, Ph.D., Department of Psychiatry, Farmington
  • Mary Guerrera, M.D., Department of Family Medicine, Farmington
  • Anne Kenny, M.D., Department of Medicine, West Hartford
  • Cheryl Oncken, M.D., MPH, Department of Medicine, Avon
  • Eugene Orientale, M.D., Department of Family Medicine, Glastonbury
  • David Silverman, M.D., Department of Medicine, West Hartford
  • Alan Smally, M.D., Department of Medicine, Hartford

Faculty promoted to associate professor:

  • Srdjan Antic,  Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, West Hartford
  • Latha Dulipsingh, M.D., Department of Medicine, West Hartford
  • Christine Finck, M.D., Department of Surgery, South Glastonbury
  • Eileen Gillan, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Glastonbury
  • Michael Gryk, Ph.D., Department of Molecular, Microbial, and Structural Biology, Hartford
  • Richard Johnson, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, Cheshire
  • Paul Kanev, M.D., Department of Pediatrics, East Longmeadow, Mass.
  • James Li, Ph.D.,  Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, West Hartford
  • Geraldine Pearson, Ph.D., R.N., Department of Psychiatry, Higganum
  • Donald Peterson, Ph.D., Department of Medicine, Broad Brook
  • Blanka Rogina, Ph.D., Department of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Farmington
  • Susan Tannenbaum, M.D., Department of Medicine, West Hartford
  • Zhao-Wen Whang, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience, Avon
  • Lixia Yue, Ph.D., Department of Cell Biology, Unionville

Faculty promoted to associate clinical professor:

  •  Lawrence Bluth, M.D., Department of Neurology, Glastonbury

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