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Faculty and Staff

Tenured and Tenure Track

Lynn Dobrunz, PhD

Department Chair

Professor

Neural circuits of anxiety in PTSD and Alzheimer’s Disease, Neuropeptide Y, development of NPY sensitive microelectrodes

John D. Boughter Jr., MS, PhD

Professor

Brain circuits that control taste and feeding behaviors. Teaching: Head and neck anatomy.

901.448.1633

Joseph C. Callaway, PhD

Associate Professor

901.448.8497

Viktor Chizhikov, PhD

Professor

901.448.2309

Jianyang Du, PhD

Associate Professor

901.448.3463

Matthew Ennis, PhD

Professor

901.448.1225

Max Fletcher, PhD

Professor

901.448.2212

Kristin Hamre, PhD

Associate Professor

Brain and development, gene expression, drugs of abuse including alcohol

901.448.2643

Tauheed Ishrat, PhD

Associate Professor

901.448.2178

Il Hwan Kim, PhD

Associate Professor

901.448.2648

Reese S Scroggs, PhD

Associate Professor

901.448.7470

Robert S. Waters, PhD

Professor

Development, organization, and reorganization of sensorimotor cortex, modeling phantom limb sensation and pain

901.448.5796

Non-Tenure Track

Aundrea Bartley, PhD

Assistant Professor

Dysfunction of GABAergic interneurons, synaptic dynamics, and circuit function in animal models of neuropsychiatric disorders.

901.448.5965

Yunping Deng, MD

Assistant Professor

901.448.3138

Igor Iskusnykh, PhD

Instructor

901.448.2812

Lie Wang, MD

Assistant Professor

Reorganization of somatosensory cortex, mechanism of phantom limb sensation and pain

901.448.6933

Joint Faculty Appointments

Ronald Cowan, MD, PhD

Chair

Professor

Psychiatry

Rajashekhar Gangaraju, PhD

Associate Professor

Ophthalmology

901.448.2721

Karen Hasty, PhD

Professor

Orthopaedic Surgery

901.523.8990

TJ Hollingsworth, PhD

Assistant Professor

Ophthalmology

901.448.7830

Monica Jablonski, PhD, FARVO

Professor

Ophthalmology

901.448.7572

Jianxiong Jiang, PhD

Professor

Pharmaceutical Sciences

901.448.2935

Richard John Kasser, PhD

Associate Professor

Physical Therapy

901.448.4792

Nawajes Mandal, PhD

Professor

Ophthalmology

901.448.7740

Michael McDonald, PhD

Professor

Neurology

901.448.4648

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Mark H. Myers
Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology
mmyers25@uthsc.edu

Shalini Narayana, MBBS, PhD

Professor

Pediatric Clinical Neurosciences

901.287.6391

Thaddeus S. Nowak Jr., PhD

Professor

Neurology

901.448.7384

Affiliated Appointments

Punett Bagga, PhD

Assistant Professor

Anatomy & Neurobiology

Jay Bikoff, PhD

Assistant Professor

Anatomy & Neurobiology

Fabio Demontis, PhD

Assistant Professor

Anatomy & Neurobiology

Michael Dyer, PhD

Professor

Ophthalmology

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Alessandra D'Azzo, PhD
Affiliated Professor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
alessandra.dazzo@stjude.org

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Peter McKinnon, PhD
Affiliated Professor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
peter.mckinnon@stjude.org

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Heather Mefford, PhD
Affiliated Professor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
heather.mefford@stjude.org

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James Morgan, PhD
Affiliated Professor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
jim.morgan@stjude.org

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Junmin Peng, PhD
Affiliated Professor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
junmin.peng@stjude.org

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Lindsay Schwarz, PhD
Affiliated Professor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
lindsay.schwarz@stjude.org

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David Solecki, PhD
Affiliated Professor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
david.solecki@stjude.org

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Paul J. Taylor, MD, PhD
Affiliated Professor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
jpaul.taylor@stjude.org

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Stanislav S. Zakharenko, MD, PhD
Affiliated Professor
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
stanislav.zakharenko@stjude.org

Adjunct Faculty

Zak Ozmo

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Anatomy & Neurobiology

Emeritus Faculty

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William Armstrong, PhD
Emeritus Professor
warmstro@uthsc.edu

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Robert Foehring, PhD
Emeritus Professor
rfoehrin@uthsc.edu

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Marcia Honig, PhD
Emeritus Professor
mhonig@uthsc.edu

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Hitoshi Kita, PhD
Emeritus Professor
hkita@uthsc.edu

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Randall Nelson, PhD
Emeritus Professor
rnelson@uthsc.edu

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Anton J. Reiner, PhD
Emeritus Professor
areiner@uthsc.edu

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Jack Wilson, PhD
Emeritus Professor
jwilson@uthsc.edu

Administrative Staff

Department Staff
Holly Simmers

Sr. Administrative Associate

Anatomy & Neurobiology

901.448.5957

Tashara Davis

Administrative Associate

Anatomy & Neurobiology

901.448.5965

College of Medicine Administrative Staff

Alicia Stires

Director

Basic Sciences Administration

Patricia Fayne

Assistant Director

Basic Sciences Administration

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Ordeathia Simpson
HR Coordinator
Basic Sciences Administration

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Brooklyn Griffin
Grants/Contracts Coordinator
Basic Sciences Administration

Lanya Lester

Accounting Specialist

Basic Sciences Administration

Frances Grigsby

Travel Accounting

Basic Sciences Administration

Nov 13, 2024