Welcome to UMB: New Hires for October
November 04, 2025
Here is a list of new hires for the University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB) central administration and the seven schools:
UMB
Helaina Davis, Staff
Kyaira Friend, Staff
Karen Gomez, Staff
Jessica Holmes, Staff
Mary Johnson, Staff
David Leatherbury, Staff
Aaron McNair, Staff
Jaela Morris, Staff
Dennis Nangle, Faculty
SCHOOL OF GRADUATE STUDIES
Kaitlyn Ayerle, Faculty
Edernst Noncent, Faculty
SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
Manar Ahmaro, Staff
Cathleen Ambrogi, Staff
David Brinker, Faculty
James Cushman, Faculty
Zhen Fan, Faculty
Anthony Ghanem, Faculty
Hannah Guan, Faculty
Talha Hammad, Staff
Philip Heiser, Staff
Sallie Heslop, Staff
Jia-Rong Jheng, Faculty
Martha Johnson, Faculty
Alejandro Lopez Ramirez, Trainee
Joseph Massa, Staff
Srinivasan Muthukrishnan, Faculty
Jernelle Owens, Trainee
Christopher Parrino, Faculty
Ruchin Bharat Patel, Faculty
Mariya Prokhorenko, Trainee
Sanjana Rao, Trainee
Andrea Romanowski, Trainee
Emily Rosen-Wachs, Faculty
Sameer Sawhney, Faculty
Duohua Sun, Trainee
Olivia Winn, Staff
SCHOOL OF NURSING
Tricia Carvalho, Faculty
Charvonne Holliday Nworu, Faculty
Maria Theresa Lao, Faculty
Kenia Martinez Vallejo, Faculty
Ariel Michael, Staff
Mindy Morrell, Staff
Jacquelyn Peters, Faculty
Fabiola Sanz, Faculty
Sanaz Taherzadeh, Faculty
SCHOOL OF PHARMACY
Heather Cook, Faculty
Joshua Ranieri, Staff
Caroline Rodriguez, Staff
Aarion Romany, Trainee
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Emma Kupferman, Faculty
Tonya Phillips, Faculty
Paulette Smith, Faculty
Note: This list of new hires is provided by UMB Human Resource Services. Trainees include clinical fellows, postdoctoral fellows, research fellows, and resident G1 fellows.