Faculty Advisors

Our expert faculty advisors are matched with a medical student to provide one-on-one structured advising as the student explores specialty options and prepares for match. Our faculty advisors are well versed in the AAMC Careers in Medicine program and combine UTMB’s resources to provide quality advising to our students to increase their chances of matching in their top choice of specialty.

Advisor	Specialty	Student Year Advising
Al Snih, Soham	Pop Hlth & Hlth Disp	3, 4
Allen, Michael	Family Medicine	4
Arellano, Diana	Surgery/ Trauma	2
Boyars, Michael	Internal Medicine	3, 4
Bush, Ruth	Vascular Surgery	3, 4
Carter, Jeremy	Emergency Med	3
Casey, Chelsea (Altinger)	Anesthesiology	3
Chaudhry, Umar	Radiology	3, 4
Conti, Vincent	Internal Medicine	2
Covington, Cleavon	Pediatrics	1
Cram, Peter	Internal Med (chair)	1
D'Andrea, Anthony	Surgery	1
Dostal, Carlos	Internal Med	1
Febres, Rafael	Pediatrics	1
Fonseca, Rafael	Pediatrics	3, 4
Gilani, Syed	Internal Medicine	2
Gonzalez, Amy	Pediatrics	3
Goodwin, James	Internal Medicine	3, 4
Gordon, Yvette	Ob/Gyn	1
Grayson, Kimberly	Psychiatry	1
Gugala, Zbigniew	Orthopaedic Surgery	3, 4
Gutierrez, Alberto	Internal Medicine	2
Hagedorn, John	Orthopedics	2
Hajiyev, Yusif	Otolaryngology	1
Hill, T. Preston	Emergency Med	3
Hoffmann, Michael	Internal Medicine	2
Hornak, J. Patrik	Internal Medicine	2, 3, 4
Jain, Sangeeta	Ob/Gyn	1
Jain, Sunil	Pediatrics	4
Jehle, Dietrich	Emergency Med	3
Karnath, Bernard	Internal Medicine	1, 2, 3, 4
Kelly, Brent	Dermatology	2
Koscumb, Paul	Emergency Med	3
Kroger, Kathleen	Dermatology	2
Kueht, Mike	Surgery	3
Levine, Ruth	Psychiatry	4
Levy, Ronald	Anesthesiology	3, 4
Li, Dongming	Internal Medicine	2
Linfante, Anthony	Dermatology	2
Mallett, Robin	Psychiatry	1, 2, 3, 4
Marx, Marilyn	Surgery	2, 3, 4
Mathis, Samuel	Family Medicine	1, 2, 3, 4
McCracken, Jennifer	Internal Medicine	3
McDougal, April	Internal Medicine	3
McKee, Julie	Family Medicine	2, 3, 4
Melnyk, Charlena	Psychiatry	1
Miller, Michael	Psychiatry	3, 4
Moffett, Jennifer	Surgery	3
Mosavi, Paymon	Psychiatry	1
Munoz Gonzalez, Ayezel	Dermatology	2
Murphy, Luke	Emergency Med	3, 4
Murray, Manuela	Pediatrics	1
Neal, Derek	Psychiatry	3, 4
Oorjitham, Navin	Psychiatry	3
Pallav, Kumar	Internal Med-Gastro	1
Pantoja, Otto	Ob/Gyn	3
Parupudi, Sreeram	Internal Medicine	2
Perez Raifaisen, Norma	Intemeg-Geniatric WOS	1, 3, 4
Petrov, Roman	Surgery	2
Phillips, Linda	Surgery - Plastics	3
Pillai, Chanthu	Pediatrics	4
Raja, Muhammad	Internal Med-Cardio	1
Raji, Mukaila	Internal Medicine	4
Raley, Jennifer	Family Medicine	2, 3
Ranasinghe, Viran	Otolaryngology	3
Rapp, Alexandra	Pathology	3
Rastellini, Cristiana	Neurobiology	1
Ray, Joseph	Pediatrics	1
Robinson, Angelica	Radiology	4
Romman, Adam	Anesthesiology	1
Ross, Lindy	Dermatology	2, 3
Rowen, Judith	Pediatrics-Infectious Disease	1
Saleem, Arsalan	Radiology	3, 4
Samreen, Sarah	Surgery	2, 3, 4
San Andres, Maria	Pediatrics	1
Self, M. Chandler	Psychiatry	1, 3
Serna, Myrna	Internal Med	1
Shokrzadeh, Christine	Surgery	1, 2
Shotwell, Joseph	Psychiatry	2, 4
Silva, Gayani	Pediatrics	3, 4
Smith-Phillips, Melissa	Pediatrics	1
Snyder, Russell	Ob/Gyn	4
Somerson, Jeremy	Orthopaedic Surgery	3
Sonstein, Joseph	Surgery / Urology	2, 3
Sreshta, J. Nicholas	Surgery / Urology	2
Stone, Michael	Psychiatry	4
Sultana, Rizwana	Internal Medicine	1
Syed, Misha	Ophthalmology	3, 4
Talbott, Matthew	Emergency Med	3
Trinh, Angeline	Psychiatry	2
Villarreal, Lucy	Ob/Gyn	3, 4
Walker, John	Surgery	2, 3
Weiss, William	Orthopedics	2
Wigg, Cindy	Psychiatry	4
Wilkerson, Michael	Dermatology	2, 3
Wilson, Janice	Dermatology	2
Wolf, Dwight	Psychiatry	1, 4
Yaklic, Jerome	Ob/Gyn	2, 3
Yang, Juliana	Internal Medicine	2
Yang, Zhibo	Pediatrics	3
Zhong, Rocksheng	Psychiatry	3