New faculty join UMMC academic ranks
Published on Monday, June 3, 2024
Medical Center leadership is proud to announce the following additions to its faculty and leadership staff.
Phuc Do
DoPhuc Do, recently a genetics health care consultant for Tam Anh General Hospital Group in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has joined the Medical Center faculty as a clinical instructor of medical genetics in the School of Medicine.
She earned her Master of Science in genetic counseling and her Master of Public Health in public health genetics in 2022.
She has also served as a genetics counselor at Genetics Center in Orange, California. Before that, she completed various genetics counseling internships at the UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, GeneDx, UPMC Magee-Womens Hospital and Allegheny Health Network in these areas: pediatric genetics, industry/laboratory genetics, cancer genetics, prenatal genetics, primary care/precision medicine genetics, and public health.
As a genetics counseling intern, she worked in clinics specializing in muscular dystrophy, ophthalmology, cardiovascular health, Huntington’s disease, Down syndrome and pediatric oncology.
Do also has advocacy experience as a trauma intervention volunteer crisis counselor and Be Red Cross Ready presenter.
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Angela L. McKee
McKeeAngela L. McKee, recently a reference/archives librarian at Hinds Community College in Raymond, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of academic services.
McKee, who received her bachelor’s degree from Tougaloo College, earned her Master of Library and Information Science at the University of Southern Mississippi in 2023.
She has also served as retirement specialist for the Public Employees Retirement System of Mississippi, Medicaid Specialist for the Mississippi Division of Medicaid, and customer care supervisor for Conduent Business Services in Madison.
Her interests include promoting information literacy and access to library resources and services for all people. McKee, who is a member of several professional organizations, recently presented research on public libraries serving children with disabilities and special needs.
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John Baskin Sanders
SandersJohn Baskin Sanders, recently an administrative librarian at Hinds Community College, has joined the Medical Center faculty as an assistant professor of academic information services.
Sanders earned his Master of Library and Information Studies in 2018 at the University of Alabama. He has worked as a library assistant at the Lafayette County and Oxford Public Library, library specialist at the University of Mississippi Libraries, and reference and serials librarian at Hinds Community College.
He has held a variety of leadership roles, including chair of the Poster Sessions Committee of the Mississippi Library Association Conference, chair of the Mississippi SirsiDynix Users Group, and membership on the Hiring Committee for the dean of Learning Resource Services at Hinds Community College.
In 2022, Sanders, who is a member of the Mississippi Library Association, received the organization's Past President’s Award.
He has also served on the Customer Service Policy Committee for the five-county First Regional Library in north Mississippi; Phi Theta Kappa Advisor Hiring Committee at Hinds Community College; and on the Collaborative Space Committee, Information Literacy Learning Outcomes Committee, Library Specialist Hiring Committee and User Experience Committee for the J.D. Williams Library at the University of Mississippi.