Faculty and Staff

Tetiana Hliebova, MD, received her medical training and Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree from Lugansk State Medical University, Ukraine in 2009. She went on to complete her residency training in Internal Medicine at the Lugansk State Regional Hospital, Ukraine in 2011. Dr. Hliebova further served in the cardio-rheumatology department at the Lugansk State Medical University, where she obtained Master of Medicine (Internal Medicine) degree, Ukraine (2009-2011). Dr. Hliebova combined practicing medicine and teaching medical students in her native country and from 2016 on the Caribbean.

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Niels Larsen, was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Life Sciences from Aarhus University, Denmark in 1994. That was followed by two periods of postdoctoral fellowships in the USA, in the Department of Animal Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, and at Department of Animal Science, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa. The research interests during those years was to correlate the genetic maps of humans and farm animals.

Romeen Lavani is Associate Professor and Chair of Pediatrics at Ross University School of Medicine (RUSM). He was appointed to this role in May 2014. He has been a member of the faculty since 2010.

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Mallet Percival Marie, MBBS, graduated from the University of Guyana with a Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) in 2002. Dr. Marie is certified and registered with the Caribbean Association of Medical Councils and has been practicing medicine for over sixteen (16) years with the past six (6) being at senior management level. He is an Emergency Trained Physician with at least ten (10) years’ experience in the field with the past six (6) years being spent as Head of the Accident and Emergency Department, Princess Margaret Hospital in the Commonwealth of Dominica.

Jessalyn Mayer, ME.d, earned her Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas, in 2010, and her Master of Arts in Education (ME.d) from Ashford University in Denver, Colorado, in 2013. She has worked in International Student Affairs and Academic Advising for the University of North Texas before relocating to Dominica to work in Student Affairs at Ross University School of Medicine.

Dr. Rhonda McIntyre is the Senior Associate Dean of External Affairs, responsible for developing and nurturing key partnerships and community engagement strategies in Barbados and the region. She most recently served as Associate Dean of Medical Sciences and was previously the Dean of the Satellite Campus in St. Kitts for RUSM. While still serving in her prior role as Director of Health Services from September 2016 she brought with her a dedication to patient advocacy while delivering expert care.

Dr. Mishra earned his PhD from the Department of Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy at the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences in Copenhagen, Denmark and has over 20 years of teaching and research experience in Medical Pharmacology.

Hilary Antoniette Moore MBBS, DM (Emergency Medicine) is a graduate of the University of the West Indies Cave Hill campus for both her bachelor’s in medicine and bachelor’s in surgery and Doctorate in Emergency Medicine. Although she graduated from this campus, she completed her preclinical years at the St. Augustine campus in Trinidad and started her post graduate training in Emergency Medicine at the Mona campus in Jamaica. Dr.