Global Health Faculty

Co-Directors

Sommer Aldulaimi, MD, FAAFP

Co-Director, Global Health Programs, Office of Global & Border Health
Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Director of Rural Health, FM Residency
Medical Director, Tucson Family Advocacy Program

Srikar Adhikari, MD, MS, FACEP

Professor with Tenure, Emergency Medicine
Vice Chair, Faculty Affairs
Section Chief, Emergency Ultrasound
Director, Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship
Ultrasound Discipline Director, UA College of Medicine
Chair, Promotion and Tenure Committee

Christian Bime, MD, MSc

Associate Professor, Medicine
Vice Chair for Access, Community & Belonging, Department of Medicine
Associate Professor, Clinical Translational Sciences (CTS) Graduate Program
Medical Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, BUMC-Tucson

B. Jason Brotherton, MD, MS

Departments of Pediatrics & Internal Medicine, Kijabe Hospital, Kijabe, Kenya
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Pittsburgh

Kevin Burns, MD, MPH

Relief Physician, Correctional Health, Los Angeles County Department of Health Services
Associate, Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Martin Demant, MD

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Emergency Medicine
Advanced Emergency Medicine Ultrasonography Core Faculty
South Campus Emergency Medicine Residency Program Core Faculty
CRC facilitator, College of Medicine – Tucson

Thomas Erwes, MD

Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Lawrence Gernon, MD, MPH&TM, FACP

Adjunct Professor Global Health Security, Global and National Security Policy Institute
Attending Physician Department of Emergency Medicine, Raymond G. Murphy Medical Center
Associate Professor Clinical Medicine, Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine
Senior Foreign Service Officer (Minister Counselor) US Department of State (RETD)
Deputy Health Commissioner Eastern Region, Virginia Department of Health

Philipp Hannan, MD

Assistant Professor Disaster Medicine, EMS Faculty
Banner - University Medical Center Tucson

Timothy Hereford, MD

Faculty, Kapsowar Hospital in Kapsowar, Kenya
Director of Orthopedics, Kapsowar Hospital
Faculty, PAACS Surgical Residency Kapsowar Hospital

Esther Johnston, MD, MPH, FAAFP

Residency Faculty, The Wright Center National Family Medicine Residency at HealthPoint
Adjunct Clinical Professor, A.T. Still University School of Osteopathic Medicine
Clinical & Academic Advisor, Seed Global Health

Anna Landau, MD, MPH, DTM&H

Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine
Director, Commitment to Underserved People Program
Director, Rural Health Professions Program
Director, Rural Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship

Obiageli Nnodu, MBMCH, FWACP (MD), FNAMed

Professor of Haematology and Blood Transfusion
Director, Centre of Excellence for Sickle Cell Disease, Research and Training, University of Abuja
Vice Chair, Sickle Cell Support Society of Nigeria
Director, Centre for Sponsored Projects, University of Abuja
National Coordinator, American Society for Hematology Consortium for Newborn Screening in Africa
Consortium for Newborn Screening in Africa

Carlos Perez-Velez, MD, DTM&H

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
Director of Hospital Epidemiology & Infection Control and Infectious Diseases Physician, VA Medical Center, Albuquerque, NM