New faculty join UMMC academic ranks
Published on Monday, February 5, 2024
Medical Center leadership is proud to announce the following additions to its faculty and leadership staff.
Megan Hurley Altsman
Megan Hurley Altsman, recently an Epic application coordinator/senior analyst in the Division of Information Systems at UMMC, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of health informatics/information management in the School of Health Related Professions.
Altsman earned her Masters of Health Informatics and Information Management in 2017 at UMMC. Her previous positions include Epic application coordinator/analyst and genetic counseling assistant at UMMC.
She also served as a research assistant for the National Children’s Study, which examined environmental influences on children’s health and development, and for the Hunter Outcome Survey, a large disease registry that collects information on patients with Hunter syndrome, a rare genetic disorder.
Altsman is a member of the Alpha Eta Honor Society and the Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society. She has earned a number of certifications, including those for Epic Clinical Case Management and EpicCare Inpatient Clinical Documentation. Her record of volunteer community service is extensive.
— — —Dr. Jasmine Miller-Kleinhenz
Dr. Jasmine Miller-Kleinhenz, recently a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University in Atlanta, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor with a primary appointment in the Department of Population Health Science in the John D. Bower School of Population Health and a secondary appointment in the Department of Cell and Molecular Biology in the School of Medicine.
Miller-Kleinhenz earned her PhD in cancer biology and certificate in translational research in 2017 at Emory University in Atlanta after receiving a Master of Science in molecular diagnostic science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her previous roles at Emory include program coordinator in the Department of Surgery.
She is the recipient of a number of research honors and awards, including the National Cancer Institute Pathway to Independence Award for Outstanding Early-Stage Postdoctoral Researchers (K99/R00). She is currently the principal investigator for a study examining the interplay between social determinants of health and the epigenome to understand racial disparities in breast cancer.
Miller-Kleinhenz is the coauthor of a number of peer-reviewed scientific investigations and has given a number of invited talks and conference presentations.
For several years she served as a mentor at Emory University, including at the institution’s Winship Cancer Institute. She held a number of leadership and community engagement positions at Emory and at the Ruhi Institute in Atlanta.
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Dr. Pawel T. Pomianowski
Dr. Pawel T. Pomianowski, recently director of medical genomics and genetics at Christiana Care Hospital/Helen F. Graham Cancer Center and Research Institute in Newark, Delaware, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of medicine-genetics/genomics in the School of Medicine.
At UMMC, he is also the director of adult medical genetics and genomics and is offering cardiovascular genetics clinics, neurogenetics and adult genetics clinics.
Pomianowski, who recently had an academic appointment at the Thomas Jefferson School of Medicine in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as well, earned his medical degree in 1998 at the K. Marcinkowski Medical Academy in Poznan, Poland. He completed his residency in internal medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center/Penn State College of Medicine, followed by his residency in genetics at the Yale University School of Medicine, where he developed a multidisciplinary aortopathy clinic.
At West Haven Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Connecticut, he also started the second Clinical Genetics Clinic on the East Coast for veterans, as well as a Pharmacogenomic Action for Cancer Survivorship program at WHVA.
Also, in Connecticut, Pomianowski served as a hospitalist for Windham Hospital in Willimantic, Saint Francis Medical Center in Hartford, and Bridgeport Hospital in Bridgeport. At Christiana Care Hospital, he built and developed cardiovascular genetics clinics, neurogenetics clinics and adult genetics clinics, and supervised neonatal genetics and cancer genetics. He built the only comprehensive Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome clinic in the tri-state area. Along with his heart failure team, he developed a multidisciplinary amyloidosis clinic.
Pomianowski is a member of the American Board of Medical Genetics and Genomics and the American Board of Internal Medicine. His academic interests are adult genetics, specifically cardiovascular genetics. He has a number of scientific publications/presentations to his credit.