2025-2026 UMMC Promotions and Tenure

More than 80 current Medical Center faculty will begin the new academic year with a promotion in rank, newly granted tenure, or both. Faculty are listed alphabetically, by school, in rank order of professor with tenure, associate professor with tenure, professor, and associate professor.

School of Health Related Professions
Harish Chander Promotion to Professor of Health Sciences with Tenure	Alyssa Bradford Promotion to Associate Professor of Physical Therapy	Lisa Bryant Promotion to Associate Professor of Physical Therapy
Jacob Daniels Promotion to Associate Professor of Physical Therapy	Joshua Jefferson Promotion to Associate Professor of Medical Laboratory Science	Kendria Lyles Promotion to Associate Professor of Health Administration
Moira Mills Promotion to Associate Professor of Occupational Therapy
School of Medicine
Kristen Alston Promotion to Professor of Family Medicine with Tenure	Omar Chohan Promotion to Professor of Neurosurgery with Tenure	Pier Paolo Claudio Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology with Tenure
Denise Cornelius Promotion to Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology with Tenure	Vinayak Nahar Promotion to Professor of Dermatology with Tenure	Andrew Craig Voluse Promotion to Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior with Tenure
Keli Xu Promotion to Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology with Tenure	Lorena Amaral Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology with Tenure	Kristin Edwards Promotion to Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology with Tenure
Laura Humphries Associate Professor of Surgery with Tenure	Srishti Shrestha Promotion to Associate Professor of Neurology with Tenure	Kevin Sullivan Associate Professor of Medicine with Tenure
Sabahat Afshan Promotion to Professor of Pediatrics	Suwarna Anand Promotion to Professor of Anesthesiology	Allison Barrett Promotion to Professor of Emergency Medicine
Danny Burgess Promotion to Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior	Trey Clark Promotion to Professor of Medicine	Amy Flischel Promotion to Professor of Dermatology
Jim Galbraith Promotion to Professor of Emergency Medicine	Shreyas Gangadhara Promotion to Professor of Neurology	John Henegan Promotion to Professor of Medicine
David Josey Promotion to Professor of Pediatrics	Sarah Jones Promotion to Professor of Pediatrics	Simon Karam Promotion to Professor of Pediatrics
Matthew Kutcher Promotion to Professor of Surgery	Jacob Moremen Promotion to Professor of Surgery	Michael Morris Promotion to Professor of Surgery
Robert Morris Promotion to Professor of Radiology	Rahat Noor Promotion to Professor of Medicine	Simeen Pasha Promotion to Professor of Pediatrics
Sara Robertson Promotion to Professor of Anesthesiology	Amber Shiflett Promotion to Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology	Pradeep Vaitla Promotion to Professor of Medicine
Lyssa Weatherly Promotion to Professor of Medicine	Mohammad Atari Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Daniela Bettschen Promotion to Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Adam Byrd Promotion to Professor of Dermatology	Wade Christopher Promotion to Associate Professor of Surgery	David Cretella Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine
Ajinkya Desai Promotion to Associate Professor of Radiology	Paula Domino Promotion to Associate Professor of Surgery	Julia Enos Promotion to Associate Professor of Surgery
Bassam Farhat Promotion to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology	Fernando Gomez Promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics	Yanglin Guo Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine
Ashish Gummadi Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Kimberley Harper Promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics	Joaquin Hidalgo Promotion to Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Thy Huynh Promotion to Associate Professor of Dermatology	Tulip Jhaveri Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Alejandro Lemor Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine
Tara Lewis Promotion to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine	Luiz Lima Promotion to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology	Christina Marbrey Promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Adriana Martini Promotion to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology	Joshua Norman Promotion to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine	Yoshitsugu Obi Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine
Bobby Owens Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Amanda Rice Promotion to Associate Professor of Family Medicine	Jawed Siddiqui Promotion to Associate Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology
Michael Steiner Promotion to Associate Professor of Radiology	Bushra Syed Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Maria Clarissa Tio Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine
Jay Vasani Promotion to Associate Professor of Radiology	Aubrey Duane Williamson Promotion to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology	Heng Zeng Promotion to Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology
School of Nursing
Katie Hall Promoted to Professor of Instruction
School of Population Health
Abigail Gamble Promotion to Professor of Preventive Medicine with Tenure	Yufeng Zheng Promotion to Professor of Data Science
Academic Information Services
Sarah Adcock Promotion to AIS-Rowland Medical Library Professor	Elizabeth Hinton Promotion to AIS-Rowland Medical Library Professor with Tenure