The following faculty promotions took effect Sept. 1 at UT Southwestern. (Where more than one department is listed, the first is the primary appointment.)

ANESTHESIOLOGY & PAIN MANAGEMENT – Professor: Weike Tao, M.D.; Associate Professor: Trenton Daniel Bryson, M.D., Gloria Shih Cheng, M.D., Courtney Kowalczyk Derderian, M.D., Shaina M. Drummond, M.D., Christina Anne Albano Riccio, M.D.

CELL BIOLOGY/BIOPHYSICS – Professor: Daniela Nicastro, Ph.D.

CENTER FOR HUMAN NUTRITION/MOLECULAR GENETICS – Professor: Jeffrey G. McDonald, Ph.D.

CENTER FOR HUMAN NUTRITION/PHARMACOLOGY – Professor: Shawn Christopher Burgess, Ph.D.

DERMATOLOGY – Professor: Lu Quang Le, M.D., Ph.D.; Associate Professor: Richard Chih-Chien Wang, M.D., Ph.D.

DERMATOLOGY/PATHOLOGY – Associate Professor: Travis W. Vandergriff, M.D.

EMERGENCY MEDICINE – Professor: Brett Alan Roth, M.D.; Associate Professor: Kapil Sharma, M.D.

FAMILY AND COMMUNITY MEDICINE – Associate Professor: Neelima Jayavant Kale, M.D., Ph.D., MBA

INTERNAL MEDICINE – Professor: Homer Franklin Herlong, M.D., Mamta Jain, M.D., Marlyn Jean Mayo, M.D., Hesham A. Sadek, M.D., Ph.D., Yu-Min Paul Shen, M.D.; Associate Professor: Joseph Rossi Berger, M.D., Lisa Catherine Casey, M.D., Kevin Dale Courtney, M.D., Ph.D., James Bradford Cutrell, M.D., Mythili Ghanta, M.D., Ruth Gordillo, Ph.D., Jade Homsi, M.D., Thomas Archibald Kerr, M.D., Ph.D., Nisa Kubiliun, M.D., Michael Luna, M.D., Shannon Amerilda Scielzo, Ph.D., Abey K. Thomas, M.D., Shannan Renee Tujios, M.D., Kevin W. Williams, Ph.D.

INTERNAL MEDICINE/BIOCHEMISTRY – Associate Professor: Deepak Nijhawan, M.D., Ph.D.

INTERNAL MEDICINE/CELL BIOLOGY – Associate Professor: Denise K. Marciano, M.D., Ph.D.

INTERNAL MEDICINE/EUGENE MCDERMOTT CENTER FOR HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT/MOLECULAR BIOLOGY – Associate Professor: Nikhil V. Munshi, M.D., Ph.D.

INTERNAL MEDICINE/PEDIATRICS – Associate Professor: Alecia Curlene Nero, M.D., Christian Allen Wysocki, M.D., Ph.D.

INTERNAL MEDICINE/POPULATION AND DATA SCIENCES – Professor: Jarett D. Berry, M.D.

EUGENE MCDERMOTT CENTER FOR HUMAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT/POPULATION AND DATA SCIENCES/INTERNAL MEDICINE – Associate Professor: Julia Kozlitina, Ph.D.

MICROBIOLOGY – Professor: Nicholas K. Conrad, Ph.D., David R. Hendrixson, Ph.D.; Associate Professor: John W. Schoggins, Ph.D.

MOLECULAR BIOLOGY – Professor: Michael Buszczak, Ph.D.; Associate Professor: Ning Liu, Ph.D., Kathryn Ann O’Donnell-Mendell, Ph.D.

NEUROLOGY AND NEUROTHERAPEUTICS – Associate Professor: Stephen Figueroa, M.D., Jay H. Harvey, D.O.

NEUROLOGY AND NEUROTHERAPEUTICS/NEUROLOGICAL SURGERY – Associate Professor: Michael Rubin, M.D.

NEUROLOGY AND NEUROTHERAPEUTICS/PEDIATRICS – Professor: Benjamin Greenberg, M.D.

NEUROSCIENCE – Professor: Shin Yamazaki, Ph.D.

NEUROSCIENCE/BIOPHYSICS – Associate Professor: Ryan Edgemon Karr Hibbs, Ph.D.

OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY – Professor: Vanessa Laibl Rogers, M.D.; Associate Professor: Meridythe Ashley Hickman Zink, M.D.

ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY – Professor: Philip Lamar Wilson, M.D.; Associate Professor: Henry Bone Ellis, M.D., Brandon Aaron Ramo, M.D.

OTOLARYNGOLOGY-HEAD AND NECK SURGERY – Professor: Joe Walter Kutz, M.D., I-Fan T. Mau, M.D., Ph.D., Baran Devrim Sumer, M.D.; Associate Professor: Lesley French Childs, M.D.

PATHOLOGY – Professor: Dwight H. Oliver, M.D.; Associate Professor: Purva Gopal, M.D., Elizabeth M. Kurian, M.D., Elena A. Lucas, M.D.

PATHOLOGY/PEDIATRICS – Professor: Dinesh Rakheja, M.D.

PEDIATRICS – Associate Professor: Ellen Kaizer Grishman, M.D., Darryl K. Miles, M.D., Preeti Bhatia Sharma, M.D., Julide Sisman, M.D., Matthias Wolf, M.D., Ayesha Noor Zia, M.D.

PEDIATRICS/NEUROLOGY AND NEUROTHERAPEUTICS – Professor: Rana R. Said, M.D.

PEDIATRICS/NEUROLOGY AND NEUROTHERAPEUTICS/ANESTHESIOLOGY & PAIN MANAGEMENT – Associate Professor: Tonia Marie Sabo, M.D.

PHARMACOLOGY/HAMON CENTER FOR THERAPEUTIC ONCOLOGY RESEARCH – Associate Professor: Elisabeth D. Martinez, Ph.D.

POPULATION AND DATA SCIENCES – Associate Professor: Sandi Pruitt, Ph.D.

POPULATION AND DATA SCIENCES/BIOINFORMATICS – Professor: Guanghua Xiao, Ph.D., Yang Xie, Ph.D.

POPULATION AND DATA SCIENCES/HAROLD C. SIMMONS COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER – Associate Professor: Hong Zhu, Ph.D.

PSYCHIATRY – Professor: Hicham Ibrahim, M.D., James LePage, Ph.D., Jodie Kathlene Trello-Rishel, M.D.; Associate Professor: Kevin T. Brown, M.D., Mary Camp, M.D., Alexis Inabinet Clyde, Ph.D., Bettina Fehr, M.D., Aleksandra Aceska Foxwell, Ph.D., Celia Elizabeth Heppner, Ph.D., Psy. D., Elena Ivleva, M.D., Ph.D., Carrie McAdams, M.D., Ph.D., Geetha Shivakumar, M.D., Nicholas Westers, Psy. D.

RADIATION ONCOLOGY – Professor: Sandeep Burma, Ph.D.; Associate Professor: Bo Zhao, Ph.D.

RADIOLOGY – Professor: Roderick William McColl, Ph.D.; Associate Professor: Hythem Adnan Omar, M.D., Mark A. Reddick, M.D.

RADIOLOGY/ADVANCED IMAGING RESEARCH CENTER – Professor: Xiankai Sun, Ph.D.; Associate Professor: Daniel Nobrega Costa, M.D., Elena Vinogradov, Ph.D.

SURGERY – Associate Professor: Adam Craig Alder, M.D., Michael William Cripps, M.D., Diana L. Diesen, M.D.

UROLOGY – Professor: Vitaly Margulis, M.D.