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2025-2026 Catalog 
    
2025-2026 Catalog

Administration



Office of the Dean

Lisa R. Nash, DO, MS-HPEd, FAAFP, Dean

Erin Milam, MBA, Senior Academic & Business Director

Steven Bartolotta, Director of Communications

Joanna M. Baksh, Senior Executive Assistant

Rita Patterson, PhD, Associate Dean for Research

Lesa Thomas, PhD, Senior Proposal Support Specialist

Natasha Buxton, Research Coordinator

Mike Kennedy, EdD, Assistant Dean for TCOM Admissions

Lorena Marin, Admissions Assistant Director

Contact Information:
817-735-2652
DeanTCOM@unthsc.edu

Office of Academic Affairs

Ryan Seals, DO, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Andrea Gordon, EdD, Assistant Dean for Assessment & Accreditation 

Michael L. Smith, PhD, Year I Curriculum Director

Meaghan Nelsen, DO, Year II Curriculum Director

Amy L. Chambers, Year II Academic Program Manager

Ashton Whaley, Year I Academic Program Manager

Lara Herreid, Academic Program Manager

John Lentz, Senior Education Tech Support

Janice Smith, Senior Administrative Coordinator

Korie Kiser, Senior Administrative Coordinator

Michael Wallace, Senior Administrative Coordinator

Contact Information:
817-735-2528

Office of Osteopathic Clinical Education

David C. Mason, DO, MBA, FACOFP, Assistant Dean of Osteopathic Clinical Education

Dana Blanton, BS, MEd, Executive Director of Osteopathic Clinical Education

Carolyn Anderson, Academic Program Specialist

Whitnee Branham, Academic Program Specialist

Nora Cantu, Academic Program Specialist

Celeste Castorena, Academic Program Specialist

Kendra Haas, Academic Program Specialist

Ana Macias, Academic Program Specialist

Emily Reske, Academic Program Specialist

Sarah E. Taylor, Academic Program Specialist

Sarah J. Taylor, Academic Program Specialist

Teresa Turner, Academic Program Specialist

Ashley Williams, Academic Program Specialist

Contact Information:
817-735-2537
ClinicalEducation@unthsc.edu 

 

Office of Graduate Medical Education & Educational Programs

Administration

Sajid Surve, DO, Interim Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Medical Education

Briana Anderson, Business Coordinator

Nicole Williams-Hall, MBA, Executive Assistant

Medical Student Success

Rynn Ziller, EdD, Assistant Dean

Melva Landrum, MEd, Instructor

Tina Bernard, EdD, Assistant Director

Tina Martin, PhD, Assistant Director

Peter Mosley, PhD, Assistant Director

Kimberly Warfield, C-TAGME, Career Development Coordinator

Rebekah Sumsion, Academic Student Navigator

Jessica Timmons, Academic Student Navigator

Julie Schwartz, Executive Assistant

Faculty Development Center

Sharon Manson, EdD, Director

Elizabeth Burleson, EdD, Educational Program Manager

Joshua Utay, EdD, Educational Program Manager

Melanie O’Donnell, Administrative Coordinator

Graduate Medical Education

Aurea Baez-Martinez, MS, C-TAGME, Institutional Coordinator 

Contact Information:
817-735-5021

Osteopathic Research Center

John Licciardone, DO, MS, MBA, FACPM, Regents Professor, and Executive Director

Samantha Johnson, Research Assistant Director

Contact Information:

817-735-0515

Departments

Priya Bui, DO, Chair of Pediatrics & Women’s Health

Curtis Galke, DO, Chair of Family and Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine

Asim Kichloo, MD, FACP, Chair of Internal Medicine and Geriatrics

Albert Yurvati, DO, Ph.D., FACOS, FICS, FAHA, Chair of Medical Education

Stephanie Carson-Henderson, MD, Affiliate Division Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology

Nekesha Oliphant, MD, CPE, Affiliate Division Chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health

Russell Wagner, MD, Affiliate Division Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery