A physician who completed a four-year residency in Psychiatry in June at the medical school is among four new faculty members who recently joined WMed.
Garrick Priebe, MD, became an on-call assistant professor in August in WMed’s Psychiatry residency program. Dr. Priebe earned his MD degree from the University of Iowa in 2018 and completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Iowa in 2013, earning a bachelor’s degree in human physiology.
Prior to joining the medical school, Dr. Priebe worked as a psychiatrist in the outpatient mental health clinic at St. Joseph County Community Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. He also has worked as a physician supervisor at the Family Health Center in Kalamazoo.
As he begins his tenure at WMed, Dr. Priebe is being joined by several other new faculty members, including Christopher Jondle, PhD, who is serving as an assistant professor in the Department of Investigative Medicine and the Center for Immunobiology.
Dr. Jondle completed his undergraduate degree chemistry and human biology in 2012 from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He went on to obtain a doctorate degree from the University of North Dakota in 2017 in microbiology and immunology.
At UND, Dr. Jondle was awarded the American Association of Immunologist (AAI) Careers in Immunology Fellowship in 2016 for his research focusing on bacterial-host interactions. Upon completing his Ph.D., Dr. Jondle went to the Medical College of Wisconsin for a postdoctoral fellowship. There he focused on viral-host interactions, specifically focusing on oncogenic gammaherpesviruses.
As a postdoctoral fellow, Dr. Jondle was awarded a 3-year American Cancer Society Fellowship in 2019 for his groundbreaking discovery that the proinflammatory cytokine IL-17A is proviral in the context of gammaherpesvirus infection.
In the Department of Family and Community Medicine, Jerome Pomeranz, MD joined as an assistant professor with obstetrics on August 15.
Dr. Pomeranz is an alumnus of Binghamton University in New York, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 2013. He went on to earn his MD degree from the Quinnipiac University Frank H. Netter School of Medicine in Connecticut in 2019.
Dr. Pomeranz completed a residency in family medicine at Memorial Hospital in South Bend, Indiana, in 2022.
Meanwhile, in the Department of Pathology, Anna Tart, MD, joined the medical school August 22 as an assistant professor of forensic pathology. Dr. Tart earned a bachelor’s degree in biology in 2013 from John Brown University. She went on to complete her MD degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Studies in 2017.
Dr. Tart followed that with a residency in anatomic and clinical pathology in 2021 at the University of Arkansas for Medical Studies. She also completed a clinical fellowship in 2022 in forensic pathology with the Hennepin County Medical Examiner.