New Faculty in the Department of Medicine

Faculty

Ahmad Arham MD

Ahmad Z. Arham, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine

Division
CA
Specialty
Cardiovascular Disease
M.B.B.S. - The Aga Khan University Medical College
Hometown
Morgantown, WV
Dr. Arham did his Internal Medicine residency, Cardiovascular Disease and Interventional Cardiology fellowships at the West Virginia University School of Medicine. He then joined the West Virginia University Heart and Vascular Institute as Assistant Professor of Medicine between 2016 till 2020. While there, he established a busy clinical practice at the Fairmont Regional Medical Center and was also sharing STEMI call and performing elective interventions at a community hospital, United Hospital Center, Bridgeport, WV. At this latter facility, Dr. Arham played a pivotal role in expanding the spectrum of interventions being performed, by introducing a number of firsts; radial PCI, same-day-discharges for uncomplicated PCI, and radial PCI for STEMI cases, which resulted in improved patient outcomes and satisfaction. Dr. Arham has since completed an advanced fellowship in Peripheral Vascular Interventions at Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT in 2021.
 
He has been engaged in clinical research throughout his training years, and is well published in peer-reviewed journals. His research interests include atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease (CAD), peripheral artery disease (PAD), critical limb ischemia (CLI), and working with large databases.
Laura Binari MD

Laura Binari, MD

Clinical Fellow Instructor

Division
NP
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Hometown
Annandale, VA
Laura grew up in Annandale, Virginia with her parents and older sister. She traveled a short drive from home to the University of Virginia for college, where she majored in Neuroscience. During her time at UVA, she developed a passion for medicine while volunteering at the free clinic and the university hospital. After graduation, she stayed in the beautiful city of Charlottesville for another year to complete her research project on the development of the peripheral nervous system. She continued her migration south for medical school at EVMS where she met her fiancé, Barron, who will be starting residency in Pediatrics at Vanderbilt. Outside of medicine, Laura enjoys running, playing soccer, baking (and eating) desserts, cheering for the Washington Redskins, and relaxing with family and friends. Laura is very excited to move to Nashville and to join the Vanderbilt family! Member of AOA.
Daniel Blackwell Ph.D.

Daniel J. Blackwell, PhD

Research Instructor in Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology

daniel.j.blackwell@vumc.org
Division
CP
Reasearch Instrctor in Medicine
Daniel Carmody

Daniel W. Carmody, MD

Division
General Internal Medicine and Public Health
M.D. - James Quillen College of Medicine
Paras Karmacharya MD, MS

Paras Karmacharya, MD, MS

Instructor of Medicine, Department of Rheumatology

Division
RH
Previous Role/Title
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Specialty
Rheumatology
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN - Master's Degree in Research - Clinical and Translational Science (CCaTS)
Hometown
Rochester, MN
Dr. Karmacharya’s clinical expertise include psoriatic arthritis (PsA), ankylosing spondylitis, inflammatory bowel disease associated arthritis, and reactive arthritis. He is part of the Psoriatic Arthritis Research Consortium (PARC), which includes five PsA-dedicated clinics in the US aimed to improve patient-centered care and advance personalized medicine in PsA. The mission of his clinical and research program is to improve outcomes in PsA by developing better treatment strategies for PsA, and to understand the factors leading to the development of PsA enabling early intervention.
As a result of his post-doctoral MSK research training and Master of Science training in Clinical and Translational Sciences, he is proficient in the use of large databases, designing and performing longitudinal studies with primary data sources, and outlining clinical and treatment heterogeneity in different patient subgroups using machine learning methods. He received the Medical and Pediatric Resident Research Award as a resident and the Philip S. Hench Award 2020 for Outstanding Achievement as a Rheumatology fellow. He has received research grants from Spondyloarthritis Research and Treatment Network (SPARTAN), Group for Research and Assessment of Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis (GRAPPA), and Assessment of spondyloarthritis international society (ASAS) to understand how chronic conditions influence the risk and outcomes in spondyloarthritis.
Michelle Martin-Pozo PhD

Michelle D. Martin-Pozo, PhD

Program Director, Center for Drug Safety and Immunology

Division
ID
Sara Nunnery MD

Sara Nunnery, MD

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Hematology

Division
HO
MD - University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Residency - University of California San Francisco
Sharon Onguti, MD, MPH, FACP

Sharon Onguti, MD, MPH

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

Division
ID
MD - University of Nairobi
MPH - Johns Hopkins University
Sharon Onguti MD MPH completed her Infectious Diseases fellowship training at University of Texas Health San Antonio followed by a sub-fellowship in Antimicrobial Stewardship at Stanford University. She has a Master of Public Health with a concentration in Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She previously served as an Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine at the Southern Illinois University where she was also an Associate Clerkship Director for Internal Medicine. She is a board member of the Society of Bedside Medicine and is passionate about medical education.   
Matthew Sweeney

Matthew Sweeney, MD

Division
General Internal Medicine and Public Health
M.D. - University of Kansas School of Medicine