Two new faculty members recently joined the departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Psychiatry at WMed.
Khondakar A. Hasanat, MD, an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry, came to WMed on May 1, 2019, following a four-year stint as a staff psychiatrist at Palos Community Hospital in Palos Heights, Illinois.
Dr. Hasanat completed his premedical studies at Gurudas College in Kolkata, West Bengal, in India, in 1977 before earning his MBBS degree from NRS Medical College, also in Kolkata. He earned his MD degree in Psychiatry at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1988.
At the same time he was earning his MBBS and MD degrees, Dr. Hasanat completed more than 11 years of postgraduate work in India, which included training in internal medicine, residency training in pathology and psychiatry, as well as a research fellowship.
In 1996, Dr. Hasanat completed a three-year residency in Psychiatry at Wayne State University. After residency training, Dr. Hasanat completed a one-year consultation liaison fellowship and a one-year research fellowship, both at Wayne State University.
Dr. Hasanat is board certified in general psychiatry and the subspecialty of psychosomatic medicine. Prior to his work at Palos Community Hospital in Illinois, Dr. Hasanat was an assistant professor of Clinical Psychiatry for four years at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine and worked as an attending physician at HSHS St. John’s Hospital in Springfield, Illinois.
Meanwhile, Silvia T. Linares, MD, has joined the medical school’s Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology as an assistant professor. Previously, Dr. Linares had been a clinical assistant professor in the Department of OB-GYN at WMed since 2017.
Prior to her new faculty appointment at WMed, which became official on April 15, 2019, Dr. Linares worked for more than two years as an attending physician for Bronson Women’s Service in Kalamazoo and also was an attending physician at Bronson Methodist Hospital and Bronson South Haven Hospital.
Dr. Linares earned her Doctor of Medicine and Surgery degree in 1993 from Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario in Bogota, Colombia. Later, she was an Obstetrics and Gynecology resident for one year at the Instituto de Ciencias de La Salud in Medellin, Colombia, before completing a four-year OB-GYN residency at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
Dr. Linares is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and she has been a member of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists since 2003. She also has several book chapters, research articles and abstracts to her credit.
Most recently, before coming to Kalamazoo, Dr. Linares was an assistant professor for two years in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Baylor College of Medicine and she was an attending physician at the Pavilion for Women at Texas Children’s Hospital.
Dr. Linares is the recipient of several awards. Most recently, in 2010 and in 2011, she received the Outstanding Faculty Award in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital in Houston, as well as the Dean’s Teaching Excellence Award at the UT Health Science Center at Houston.