The medical school recently welcomed two new faculty members to its departments of Biomedical Sciences and Psychiatry.
Suzanne J. Huberty, MD, began her new role at WMed on January 8 as an assistant professor of child and adolescent psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry. Dr. Huberty is an alumna of the University of Colorado at Boulder where she earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering in 2008.
In 2015, Dr. Huberty earned her MD degree from the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine and then remained at the institution to complete her psychiatry residency training in 2018. Following residency, Dr. Huberty completed a two-year fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Colorado Denver.
During her residency and fellowship, Dr. Huberty enhanced her skills in maternal and infant mental health by working in a co-located women's health clinic and group therapy for mothers and infants. Additionally, she carried out a research study on trans-generational trauma. She also completed the early childhood training through DC 0-5 training program.
After fellowship, and prior to coming to WMed, Dr. Huberty worked from 2020 to 2023 providing outpatient psychiatric care to children and adolescents at the Ascension Borgess Delano Clinic in Portage.
Meanwhile, L. Robert Peters Jr., PhD, joined the medical school on January 29 as an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences.
Dr. Peters is an alumnus of Central Michigan University where he graduated summa cum laude in 2005 with a bachelor’s degree in biology. Later, in 2011, he earned his PhD degree in immunology from the University of Michigan and then spent one year as a visiting assistant professor at Eastern Oregon University.
More recently, before coming to Kalamazoo, Dr. Peters served for more than five years as an associate professor of biology at Aquinas College in Grand Rapids where he also previously held the role of assistant professor. At Aquinas, Dr. Peters taught a variety of classes, including principles of biology, microbiology, immunology, and human biology. He also regularly mentored students in his research lab with a focus on cloning and characterizing innate immune receptors in zebrafish and the model anemone Aiptasia.