Please join us in welcoming these recent additions to the College of Medicine faculty!
Department of Biomedical Informatics
Cari Anne Bogulski, Ph.D.
Cari Anne Bogulski, Ph.D., has joined the Department of Biomedical Informatics as an Assistant Professor. Recruited in partnership with the UAMS Institute for Digital Health & Innovation, Dr. Bogulski is based at the UAMS Northwest Regional Campus and collaborates extensively with IDHI Director of Research Hari Eswaran, Ph.D. She also continues to collaborate with the Office of Community Health and Research at UAMS Northwest, where she works on program evaluation and research projects addressing issues of health equity in maternal and child health, food insecurity, diabetes self-management and prevention, and impacts of COVID-19.
Dr. Bogulski received her doctorate in cognitive psychology and language science from Pennsylvania State University. She has over 17 years of experience in research, experimental design, data processing and statistical analysis.
Department of Internal Medicine
John D. Shaughnessy Jr., Ph.D.
John D. Shaughnessy Jr., Ph.D., has rejoined the faculty as a Professor of Internal Medicine and a principal staff scientist in the Myeloma Center. He previously served at UAMS from 1996 to 2010 as Director of the Lambert Laboratory of Myeloma Genetics and leader of the center’s Division of Basic Sciences.
Dr. Shaughnessy’s research in the UAMS Winthrop P. Rockefeller Cancer Institute is focused on developing new targeted therapies for multiple myeloma, and on the genetic profiles of myeloma patients including extremely long survivors.
Dr. Shaughnessy received his doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Maryland. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship in the Mammalian Genetics Laboratory of the National Cancer Institute’s Frederick Cancer Research and Development Center.
Read more in the UAMS Newsroom.
Department of Pathology
Eric U. Yee, M.D.
Eric U. Yee, M.D., has joined the Department of Pathology as an Associate Professor in the Surgical Division. Dr. Yee received his medical degree at the University of Colorado Denver & Health Sciences Center. He completed his residency and served as Chief Resident at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/Harvard Medical School in Boston. Dr. Yee continued his training with a fellowship in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary pathology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.
Prior to coming to UAMS, Dr. Yee served as the Director of Surgical Pathology and Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology at the Renaissance School of Medicine, Stony Brook University Hospital in Stony Brook, New York.
Department of Radiation Oncology
Pouya Sabouri Ph.D.
Pouya Sabouri Ph.D., has joined the Department of Radiation Oncology as an Assistant Professor. Dr. Sabouri holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics, physics and nuclear engineering from the University of British Columbia and McMaster University in Canada. He received his doctorate in nuclear reactor physics at the Laboratory of Subatomic Physics and Cosmology (LPSC/INPG/CNRS) in Grenoble, France. Dr. Sabouri completed his residency at the University of Maryland Medical Center, where he subsequently served as faculty, proton physicist and planner for LINAC-based stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS).
Dr. Sabouri’s research interests include motion management, tumor tracking, lung motion models, adaptive radiotherapy and applications of dual energy CT for particle therapy. He is passionate about educational outreach as well as providing high-quality care for cancer patients.