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Associate Junior Faculty Scholars

Each year, the nomination process for Junior Faculty Scholars consistently generates many exceptional candidate recommendations from all clinical departments. In an effort to retain involvement from these superb faculty, the position of Associate Junior Faculty Scholar was created in 2012. Associate Junior Faculty Scholars are eligible to participate in all Bucksbaum Institute programs and each spring they may apply for funding through the Bucksbaum Institute Pilot Grant Program.

Amanda Adeleye, MD

Amanda Adeleye, MD

2020–2021 Associate Junior Faculty Scholar

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
Bio

Dr. Amanda Adeleye is a reproductive endocrinologist and an Assistant professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the section of reproductive endocrinology and infertility. She completed her medical degree at Columbia University. Dr. Adeleye completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Columbia’s New York Presbyterian Hospital. She pursued a fellowship in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of California San Francisco. She is interested in health care disparities in fertility care as well as the reproductive considerations for transgender and non-binary people. Dr. Adeleye also has an interest in patient education and is on the American Society of Reproductive Medicine, Patient Education committee and Society for Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility Medical Student and Resident education committee.

Khalid Afzal, MD

Khalid Afzal, MD

2015–2016 ASSOCIATE JUNIOR FACULTY SCHOLAR

Department of Psychiatry
Bio

Dr. Afzal is a Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist and an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience. He is the Director of Pediatric Consultation–Liaison Service at Comer Children Hospital. He was trained at Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center El Paso for his Adult Psychiatry Training and completed Child and Adolescent Fellowship at the University of Chicago. His research interests include mental health awareness in minority population, posttraumatic stress symptoms in newly diagnosed pediatric cancer population and role of social media in mental health. Clinically, he focuses on the psychiatric and psychosomatic presentations of medical illnesses and creative family interventions for depressive, anxiety, ADHD and disruptive behavior disorders. Dr. Afzal has presented his clinical and research interests both nationally in the U.S. and internationally, in the Middle East and South East Asia. His Child & Adolescent Mental Health Awareness Questionnaire for Parents has been translated in Arabic, French and Chinese languages.

Dr. Afzal is the didactic course director of child psychiatric interviewing, advanced psychopharmacology and family therapy/interventions for child and adolescent fellows.

Osman Ahmed, MD

Osman Ahmed, MD

2020–2021 ASSOCIATE JUNIOR FACULTY SCHOLAR

Department of Radiology
Bio

Dr. Osman Ahmed is currently an Assistant Professor in the section of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at the University of Chicago. He completed medical training at the University of Illinois College of Medicine before attending the University of Chicago for Diagnostic Radiology residency. He subsequently completed his VIR fellowship at Stanford.

Dr. Ahmed has been recognized as a leader in the community of IR, having recently been selected to attend the SIR’s leadership and development academy and received the society’s Young Investigator award for 2020. He also contributes as Social Media Editor for SIR’s flagship editorial, the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology. He has also been recognized by the journal as a Top Reviewer for the years 2016-2020. His clinical and research interests include catheter-based treatments for venous thromboembolism, caval filter retrieval, health economics, embolization, and interventional oncology.

James Ahn, MD

James Ahn, MD

2015–2016 ASSOCIATE JUNIOR FACULTY SCHOLAR

Department of Medicine
Bio

Dr. Ahn is an Associate Professor of Medicine in the Section of Emergency Medicine and is faculty for the GME Scholars Training Program. He attended medical school at Jefferson Medical College and completed his emergency medicine residency and medical education fellowship at the University of Chicago. As Associate Director for the Emergency Medicine Residency Program, he has worked on multiple regional and national panels focusing on technology in education and milestone assessment. Dr. Ahn’s research interests focus on medical education, specifically in the areas of curriculum assessment, millennial education, and procedural competency.

Jason Alexander, MD

Jason Alexander, MD

2017–2018 ASSOCIATE JUNIOR FACULTY SCHOLAR

Department of Medicine
Bio

Dr. Jason Alexander is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He then completed his medical residency at the University of Chicago and subsequently completed a chief residency at MacNeal Hospital in Berwyn, Illinois. He is currently a clinician-educator in the primary care group and serves as core faculty and director of the evidence-based medicine curriculum for the University of Chicago Internal Medicine Residency Program. Dr. Alexander has academic interests in developing curricula that focus on evidence-based medicine and clinical reasoning.

Lolita Alkureishi, MD

Lolita Alkureishi, MD

2016–2017 ASSOCIATE JUNIOR FACULTY SCHOLAR

Department of Pediatrics
Bio

Lolita (Maria) Alkureishi, MD, is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics, in the Section of Academic Pediatrics. Following her residency at UCSF, Dr. Alkureishi served as the Pediatric Medical Director for the San Mateo County Keller Center for Family Violence Intervention. Since joining the University of Chicago as faculty in 2011, she has continued her commitment to caring for underserved children and her outpatient clinical time is based at the Friend Family Health Center Pulaski location, a Federally Qualified Health Clinic which serves primarily underserved Spanish-speaking patients. Dr. Alkureishi has a particular interest in advocating for and developing curricula to improve patient-centered technology use in order to enhance, rather than compete with, communication and the patient-doctor relationship and she has received a number of awards and grants in recognition of her work.

Dr. Alkureishi also serves as the Clerkship Director for Pediatrics, and oversees all fourth year sub-internships and electives within the Department. Dr. Alkureishi is a Fellow of the Academy of Distinguished Medical Educators and was a recipient of the Leonard Tow Humanism in Medicine Award, the Richard M. Rothberg Faculty Award for Excellence in Patient Care and Resident Education, and was an AOA Faculty Inductee.

Pathik Amin, OD

Pathik Amin, OD

2023-2024 ASSOCIATE JUNIOR FACULTY SCHOLAR

Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science
Bio

Dr. Pathik Amin is an optometrist and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Science at the University of Chicago, where he serves as the Director of Optometry.  He earned his optometric degree from the University of Houston and completed a residency in ocular disease at the Albuquerque VA Medical Center. Dr. Amin’s clinical practice focuses on the medical management of glaucoma patients. He is interested in exploring ways to improve glaucoma adherence and outcomes, and was the recipient of the 2022 Bucksbaum Institute National Research Grant. Dr. Amin has a strong interest in education and founded the first optometric residency at the University of Chicago in 2021, for which he serves as the program director. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Optometry, serves on the executive committee for the Academy’s Glaucoma Section, and is a member of the Optometric Glaucoma Society.

Danielle Anderson, MD

Danielle Anderson, MD

2011–2012 ASSOCIATE JUNIOR FACULTY SCHOLAR – ALUMNI

Department of Psychiatry
Bio

Dr. Danielle Anderson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience.

She completed her medical degree at University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Medicine. She received training in psychiatry at the University of Chicago and fellowship training in geriatric psychiatry at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. Her interests include psychiatric complications that arise in dementia, late life depression, and how medical education impacts the empathy of developing physicians. She believes that communication and conveying understanding to diverse populations are essential to clinical excellence.

Dr. Anderson joined the faculty at Northwestern University in Chicago, IL in 2015.

Mim Ari, MD

Mim Ari, MD

2018–2019 ASSOCIATE JUNIOR FACULTY SCHOLAR

Department of Medicine
Bio

Dr. Mim Ari is an Assistant Professor in the Section of General Internal Medicine at the University of Chicago. After attending Georgetown University for her undergraduate degree, Dr. Ari completed medical school, residency in internal medicine (primary care track) and a chief medical resident year at the University of Colorado. After working at Denver Health and Cook County, she joined the Department of Medicine at the University of Chicago in 2017. She is currently a clinician-educator interested in the integration of substance use disorder recognition and treatment into internal medicine practice, behavioral health and underserved/stigmatized populations. She is actively involved and interested in both resident and medical student training. She is currently completing the MERITS Faculty Fellowship in Medical Education at the University of Chicago.

Andrew Aronsohn, MD

Andrew Aronsohn, MD

2011–2012 ASSOCIATE JUNIOR FACULTY SCHOLAR

Department of Medicine
Bio

Gastroenterologist and hepatologist Andrew Aronsohn, MD, is a specialist in the diagnosis and management of liver diseases. Dr. Aronsohn has particular expertise in treating hepatitis C and in evaluating patients for liver transplantation. He is a member of the University of Chicago Center for Liver Diseases, a multidisciplinary center nationally known for its broad experience, research discoveries, and treatment innovations related to liver diseases and transplantation.

Dr. Aronsohn researches and evaluates new treatments for liver disease. He is currently studying different types of therapies for elderly patients with hepatitis C. Also a medical ethicist, Dr. Aronsohn is investigating the principles involved in the allocation of organs for transplantation.