2023-2024 UMMC Promotions and Tenure

Published on Monday, July 1, 2024

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 Dentistry
Niping Wang Professor of Periodontics and Preventive Sciences with Tenure	Stephen Gandy Promotion to Professor of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery and Pathology	Deepti Janorkar Promotion to Associate Professor of Advanced General Dentistry
Firas Mourad Promotion to Associate Professor of Care Planning and Restorative Sciences	Cynthia Senior Promotion to Associate Professor of Dental Hygiene
School of Health Related Professions
Angela Burrell Promotion to Professor of Health Administration	Michael Brown Promotion to Associate Professor of Physical Therapy
School of Medicine
Erin Dehon Professor of Emergency Medicine with Tenure	Richard Duszak Professor of Radiology with Tenure	Candace Howard Promotion to Professor of Radiology with Tenure
Cynthia Karlson Promotion to Professor of Pediatrics with Tenure	Gustavo Luzardo Promotion to Professor of Neurosurgery with Tenure	Chad Washington Promotion to Professor of Neurosurgery with Tenure
Licy Cardozo Yanes Promotion to Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology with Tenure	Xinchun Zhou Promotion to Professor of Pathology with Tenure	Svenja Albrecht Promotion to Professor of Medicine
Josie Bidwell Promotion to Professor of Preventive Medicine	Dongmei Cui Promotion to Professor of Advanced Biomedical Education	Austin Harrison Promotion to Professor of Pediatrics
Yue Lu Promotion to Professor of Advanced Biomedical Education	Charles Paine Promotion to Professor of Pediatrics	Anand Prem Promotion to Professor of Anesthesiology
Lori Reed Promotion to Professor of Orthopedic Surgery	Mildred Ridgway Promotion to Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology	Dustin Sarver Promotion to Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Melissa Scholes Promotion to Professor of Otolaryngology & Head and Neck Surgery	Laura Vearrier Promotion to Professor of Emergency Medicine	Sarika Jain Associate Professor of Pathology with Tenure
Sally Huskinson Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior with Tenure	Utsav Nandi Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine with Tenure	Ana Palei Associate Professor of Surgery with Tenure
Josh Speed Associate Professor of Physiology & Biophysics with Tenure	Jorge Vidal Associate Professor of Cell & Molecular Biology with Tenure	Lorena Amaral Promotion to Associate Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology
Emily Boothe Promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics	Maria Bueno Rios Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Allison Cruse Promotion to Associate Professor of Dermatology
Alex Da Silva Promotion to Associate Professor of Physiology & Biophysics	Mauricio De Castro Pretelt Promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics	Neil Duggar Promotion to Associate Professor of Radiation Oncology
Scott Gibson Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Manasa Gunturu Promotion to Associate Professor of Neurology	Jimmy Hamilton Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine
Drew Hayslett Promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics	Mitchell Hobbs Promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics	Laura Sestokas Humphries Promotion to Associate Professor of Surgery
Sara Johnston Promotion to Associate Professor of Pathology	Jasmine Kency Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Ashok Kumar Promotion to Associate Professor of Surgery
Michael Marlin Promotion to Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine	Seema McKenzie Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Chelsea Mockbee Promotion to Associate Professor of Dermatology
Jarrett Morgan Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Patrick Newman Promotion to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology	Charalampos Pantazopoulos Promotion to Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Lampros Papadimitriou Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Adam Protos Promotion to Associate Professor of Surgery	Jeremy Rainey Promotion to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Lauren Rowe-Hobbs Promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics	Sameer Sharma Promotion to Associate Professor of Neurology	Elizabeth Sims Promotion to Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Kevin Sullivan Promotion to Associate Professor of Medicine	Athanasios Tsiouris Promotion to Associate Professor of Surgery	Channing Twyner Promotion to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology
Jennifer Villacorta Promotion to Associate Professor of Neurosurgery	Caroline Walker Promotion to Associate Professor of Anesthesiology	Courtney Walker Promotion to Associate Professor of Psychiatry & Human Behavior
Brandon Weatherly Promotion to Associate Professor of Radiology	Kristin Weaver Promotion to Associate Professor of Neurosurgery	Jason Williams Promotion to Associate Professor of Radiology
Nilda Williams Promotion to Associate Professor of Radiology
School of Nursing
Angela Duck Associate Professor of Nursing with Tenure	Michelle Palokas Promotion to Professor of Nursing	Derek Holt Promotion to Associate Professor of Nursing
Melissa Klamm Promotion to Associate Professor of Nursing	Robyn MacSorley Promotion to Associate Professor of Nursing
School of Population Health
Seth Lirette Associate Professor of Data Science with Tenure	William Hillegass Promotion to Professor of Data Science	Lori Ward Promotion to Associate Professor of Population Health Science
Charles Chima Promotion to Associate Professor of Population Health Science