Faculty Affairs

June 2025 Faculty Promotions

Congratulations to the following BU Chobanian & Avedisian School of Medicine faculty on their recent appointment or promotion.

Professor

Valerie Gouon-Evans, PhD, PharmD, Medicine/Gastroenterology, studies liver development and therapeutic strategies to alleviate liver diseases using human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) and innovative nanoparticle mRNA platforms. Earlier this year she was named the inaugural BMC Research Excellence Award winner. She has a track record for training postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and technicians who have remained in the research field either in academia or with industry/consulting firms. She also mentors junior and peer faculty members through her position as the director of the BU Liver Biologist (BULB) program, which provides intellectual and technical resources for peers in the liver field at a local and national level. In addition, she is associate director of the molecular and translational medicine PhD program.

Sung Kwon, MD, MPH, MBA, Surgery, is a surgical oncologist who studies population health and cancer outcomes. His clinical interests are in caring for patients with peritoneal surface malignancy and in regional therapies for advanced cancers. Using large databases, Dr. Kwon is working to build prediction models and to identify modifiable factors that may improve cancer outcomes. Particularly, he is interested in evaluating interventions to improve surgical and cancer outcomes of older patients undergoing multi-modal cancer therapies. He directs the Roger Williams Surgery and Cancer Outcomes Research and Equity Center. In addition, he directs the surgery clerkship at Roger Williams Medical Center (RWMC) and is an associate clerkship director for BU’s medical school. He also is associate program director of RWMC Complex General Surgical Oncology fellowship and serves on several national committees related to surgery and surgical oncology.

Clinical Associate Professor

Krithika Muruganandan, MD, Emergency Medicine, is a clinician-educator with a focus on point-of-care ultrasound, global health and medical education. She previously served as the Advanced Emergency Ultrasound Fellowship director and Emergency Ultrasound Clerkship director and currently is the director of Emergency Ultrasound in the emergency department. Dr. Muruganandan has developed and implemented novel ultrasound curricula that have influenced emergency medicine training both locally and internationally. She created a point of care ultrasound training for emergency providers (both physicians and non-physicians) in low-resourced settings (Haiti, Uganda, Rwanda and Sierra Leone), which has contributed to increased diagnostic accuracy, increased local expertise and a more sustainable healthcare infrastructure.

Sundara Rengasamy, MD, Anesthesiology is a clinician-educator specializing in cardiothoracic and vascular anesthesia at Boston Medical Center (BMC). Dr. Rengasamy has held academic and clinical roles in cardiac anesthesia across Boston-area hospitals including Mt. Auburn Hospital and Mass General Brigham Salem Hospital. He has received multiple teaching awards and mentored numerous trainees. He serves on the BU Medical Group’s Wellness and Professional Vitality Advisory Council and BMC’s Central Venous Access Safety Committee. Dr. Rengasamy has led international education in perioperative transesophageal echocardiography, helping establish protocols in India. His leadership contributed to Holy Family Hospital receiving the first Center for Orthopedic Excellence in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Mona Doss Roberts, DO, Pediatrics, is a clinician-educator who serves as director of the Boston Combined Residency Program BMC Primary Care Continuity Clinic. She also works in BMC’s GROW clinic caring for children with growth failure. She created the Primary Care Refresh (PCR) Series that provides didactic topic updates to BMC pediatric primary care providers. Dr. Roberts also designed and implemented a “mini” clinic in primary care that offers developmental evaluations for vulnerable children with developmental delays and concern for autism spectrum, which has helped decrease barriers in accessing these developmental assessments. She precepts pediatric residents, medical students and dental students in pediatric primary care. She serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Practice and Ambulatory Medicine.

Dellara Terry, MD, MPH, Medicine/Geriatrics, specializes in geriatrics and performs cognitive assessments at Boston Medical Center’s (BMC) Geriatrics Memory Disorders Clinic. Her primary role is chief and vice president of Value Based Care for the BMC Health System, where she addresses opportunities to improve clinical care delivery and risk-based contractual performance using a data-driven approach. Dr. Terry brings 20+ years of experience working in large integrated healthcare systems, venture-backed companies and academic medicine to her current rol

Deborah Whalen, MSN, MBA, APRN, Medicine/Cardiovascular Medicine, is a clinician and leader whose career over the last 30 years epitomizes individual clinical excellence. She currently serves as the director of quality and patient safety for the department of medicine. Through her extensive accomplishments in championing methodologies of quality assessment and improvement (QA/QI), she has inspired generations of MD-trained clinicians and advanced practice providers in the cardiovascular medicine section and larger department of medicine to incorporate QI into their clinical practice. Ms. Whalen has played a leadership role in shaping the clinical environment through numerous contributions that have been recognized at local, national and international levels.