Administration And Staff

Division Administration | Clinic Staff | Procedure Unit Staff | Research Staff

Division Administration Information

Division Director: Vincent W. Yang, M.D. Ph.D.

Director of GI Fellowship Program: Jan-Michael A.Klapproth , M.D.

Chief of GI at the Emory Clinic: Robin E. Rutherford, M.D.

Chief of GI at Grady MemorialHospital:  Henry Olejeme, M.D.

Chief of GI at The Atlanta Veterans Medical Center: Mohammad Wehbi, M.D.

Director of Endoscopy at Emory University Hospital: Field Willingham, M.D.

Director of Hepatology: Frank Anania, M.D.

Director of Clinical Hepatology, Liver Transplantation and Advanced Hepatology Fellowship: James Spivey, M.D.

Division Administrative Staff:

Sr. Business Manager: Rebecca Ratcliffe
Administrative Assistant : Carla Fairclough
Fellowship Program Coordinator: Rola Doughan
Sr. Research Project Coordinator : Joan Adamson

Grady Administrative Staff:

Administrative Assistant : Jodi Herring

The Emory Clinic Staff Information

Manager of Clinical Operations:  Kevin Clark

Clinical Supervisor: Sherrie Kenney , RN

Clinic Nurses & Medical Assistants:

Cynthia Smith, RN

Watesha Wallace

Lisa Dowlen

Deidre Brasley

Nurse Practitioners:

Angela Ward , N.P. GI

Tenita Foston , N.P. Hepatology

Clinic Office Staff:

Sabrina Hardy

Deborah Johnson

Michele Johnson

Penny Norris

Sabita Sanjay

Daphne Taylor Pearsall

Jennifer Bradley

Kathe Fitzsimmons

Emory University Hospital GI Lab Staff Information

Director of Endoscopy:

Nursing Department Administrator: Dianne Williams, R.N.

Unit Charge Nurse: Rita Harden, R.N.

Unit Nurses & Technicians:

Augusta Bullard
Becky Harris
Renee Jones
Beverly Markott
Nancy Meehan
Barbara Sawak
Yvonne Taylor

Research Staff Information


Whitehead Biomedical Research Building Lab Directors:

Vincent W. Yang, M.D., Ph.D.

Frank Anania, M.D.

Jan-Michael Klapproth, M.D.

Beth McConnell, Ph.D.

Didier Merlin, Ph.D.

Neeraj Saxena, Ph.D.

Shanthi Sitaraman, M.D., Ph.D.

Shanthi Srinivasan, M.D.

Arianne Theiss, Ph.D.

Yutao Yan, Ph.D.

Chris Yun, Ph.D.

Dr. Yang's Lab:

Vincent W. Yang, M.D., Ph.D.
R. Bruce Logue Professor of Medicine
Division Director
Professor of Hematology and Oncology
Winship Cancer Instittute

Agnieszka Bialkowska, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow)

James Du, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Amr Ghaleb, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Endga Hagos, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Mandayam Nandan, M.S. (Lead Research Specialist)

Dr. Anania's Lab:

Frank Anania, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine

           Pingping Fu (Research Specialist Lead)

           Neeraj Saxena, Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)

           James Mells, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow)

          Jeff Hardy, Ph.D.

Dr. Klapproth's Lab:


Jan-Michael Klapproth, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Maiko Papke (Lead Research Specialist)

Dr. Merlin's Lab:

Didier Merlin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Guillaume Dalmasso, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Hang Thi Thu Nguyen, PhD (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Dr. Sitaraman's Lab:

Shanthi Sitaraman, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Pallavi Garg, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Tracy Obertone, Ph.D.  (Supervisor Research Specialist)

Lixin Wang, M.D. (Senior Research Specialist)

Hamed Laroui, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Dr. Srinivasan's Lab:

Shanthi Srinivasan, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Simon Mwangi, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Mallappa Anitha (Lead Research Specialist)

Bindu Chandrasekharan, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Dr. Yun's Lab:
Chris Yun, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine

Songbai Lin, Ph.D. (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Huanchun Zhang  (Lead Research Specialist)

Peijian He, Ph.D.(Postdoctoral Fellow)

Seijung Lee, Ph.D.  (Postdoctoral Fellow)

Woodruff Memorial Research Building Lab Directors:

Dr. Ziegler:

Tom Ziegler, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine