Faculty Promotions
The following faculty promotions took effect Sept. 1 at UT Southwestern Medical Center. (Where more than one department is listed, the first is the primary appointment.)
ANESTHESIOLOGY AND PAIN MANAGEMENT – Associate Professor: Margaret G. Craig, M.D.; Philip James DuChamp, M.D.; Jose Enrique Lagueras Garcia, M.D.; David Wayne Mercier, M.D.; Vadim David Vornik, M.D.
BIOCHEMISTRY – Professor: Joseph Martin Ready, Ph.D.
CARDIOVASCULAR AND THORACIC SURGERY – Professor: J. Michael DiMaio, M.D. Associate Professor: Kristine Jane Guleserian, M.D.
CELL BIOLOGY – Professor: Beatriz M.A. Fontoura, Ph.D. Associate Professor: Lawrence Lum, Ph.D.
DERMATOLOGY – Associate Professor: Heidi Jacobe, M.D.; Jason Reichenberg, M.D.
FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE – Professor: Amer Shakil, M.D. Associate Professor: Dana Sprute, M.D.
INTERNAL MEDICINE – Professor: Anil Kumar Agarwal, Ph.D.; Tony G. Babb, Ph.D.; Fredrick Laurence Dunn, M.D.; Robert A. Goldsteen, D.O.; Jose A. Joglar, M.D.; William C. Santangelo, M.D.; Ramesh Saxena, M.D., Ph.D.; Duwayne L. Willett, M.D. Associate Professor: Jadranko Corak, M.D.; Carol Fuzeti Elias, Ph.D.; Qi Fu, M.D., Ph.D.; Robert Gordon Huth, M.D.; Mamta Jain, M.D.; Owen A. Obel, M.D.; Andreas M. Reimold, M.D.; Sherine Shawky Eskander Salib, M.D.; Jay W. Schneider, M.D., Ph.D.; Amit A. Shah, M.D. Clinical Associate Professor: Kristin Elisa Mondy, M.D.
INTERNAL MEDICINE/ADVANCED IMAGING RESEARCH CENTER – Associate Professor: Jeffrey David Browning, M.D.
INTERNAL MEDICINE/MOLECULAR BIOLOGY – Associate Professor: Beverly Amy Rothermel, Ph.D.
MICROBIOLOGY – Associate Professor: Julie K. Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
MOLECULAR BIOLOGY – Professor: Rueyling Lin, Ph.D. Associate Professor: Ondine Cleaver, Ph.D.; Jenny Hsieh, Ph.D.
MOLECULAR GENETICS – Associate Professor: Jin Ye, Ph.D.
NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY – Associate Professor: Samuel L. Barnett, M.D.
NEUROLOGY AND NEUROTHERAPEUTICS – Associate Professor: Amyn A. Habib, M.D.
NEUROSCIENCE/PHARMACOLOGY – Associate Professor: Jonathan Richard Terman, Ph.D.
OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY – Professor: David Scott Miller, M.D. Associate Professor: Cherine A. Hamid, M.D.; Jayanthi S. Lea, M.D.; Vanessa Laibl Rogers, M.D.; Robin S. Rosen, M.D.; Patricia C. Santiago-Munoz, M.D.; Michael V. Zaretsky, M.D.
OPHTHALMOLOGY – Professor: Preston Howard Blomquist, M.D.
ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY – Professor: Karl Eric Rathjen, M.D.; Adam Jennings Starr, M.D. Associate Professor: David A. Podeszwa, M.D.; Philip Lamar Wilson, M.D.
OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY – Associate Professor: Brandon Isaacson, M.D.
PATHOLOGY – Professor: Gene Edward Ewing, M.D.; Makoto Kuro-o, M.D., Ph.D. Associate Professor: James Dean Burner, M.D.; Dinesh Rakheja, M.D.
PATHOLOGY/UROLOGY – Associate Professor: Payal Kapur, M.D.
PEDIATRICS – Associate Professor: Theresa Barton, M.D.; Carolyn L. Cannon, M.D., Ph.D.; Catherine Minor Ikemba, M.D.; Vineeta Mittal, M.D.; Jon David Oden, M.D.
PEDIATRICS/NEUROLOGY AND NEUROTHERAPEUTICS – Associate Professor: Michael M. Dowling, M.D., Ph.D.; Rana R. Said, M.D.
PHARMACOLOGY – Associate Professor: Gurol Mehmet Suel, Ph.D.
PHYSICAL MEDICINE & REHABILITATION – Associate Professor: Anjali Shah, M.D.
PHYSIOLOGY – Professor: Youxing Jiang, Ph.D. Associate Professor: P. Robin Hiesinger, Ph.D.
PLASTIC SURGERY/ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY – Associate Professor: Scott N. Oishi, M.D.
PSYCHIATRY –Associate Professor: Keith S. Garcia, M.D., Ph.D.; Hicham Ibrahim, M.D.; Alyson K. Nakamura, M.D. Clinical Professor: Martin Alan Lumpkin, Ph.D. Clinical Associate Professor: Robert Kenneth Garrett, M.D.
PSYCHIATRY/NEUROLOGY AND NEUROTHERAPEUTICS – Professor: Laura J. Lacritz, Ph.D.
RADIATION ONCOLOGY – Associate Professor: Ramzi E. Abdulrahman, M.D.; Sandeep Burma, Ph.D.; Ping-chi Benjamin Chen, Ph.D.
RADIOLOGY/ADVANCED IMAGING RESEARCH CENTER – Associate Professor: Xiankai Sun, Ph.D.
SURGERY – Professor: Joseph Noel Martinez, M.D.; Ohwofiemu E. Nwariaku, M.D.; Kathy J. Rinnert, M.D.; Daniel J. Scott, M.D.; Raymond E. Swienton, M.D. Associate Professor: Mustafa Fayez Al-Arab, D.D.S.; Sergio Huerta, M.D.; Ronna Miller, M.D.; Ava Edwana Pierce, M.D.; Roshni Rao, M.D.; Jeffrey Van Dermark, M.D.; Jane G. Wigginton, M.D.
UROLOGY – Professor: Yair Lotan, M.D.