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2022 Faculty Promotions

UTSW logo and Faculty Promotions

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

Advanced Imaging Research Center/Radiology

Associate Professor

  • Jae Mo Park, Ph.D.

Anesthesiology and Pain Management

Professor

  • Marco Alejandro Aguirre, M.D.
  • Catherine Brooks Barden, M.D.
  • David Wayne Mercier, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Joy Lo Chen, M.D.
  • Guy E. Efune, M.D.
  • Kristina Liselotte Goff, M.D.
  • Galit Kastner Ungar, M.D.
  • Anthony Thomas Machi, M.D.
  • Meghan McDonald Michael, M.D.
  • Daisuke Francis Nonaka, M.D.
  • Biral Patel, M.D.
  • Christopher Tan Setiawan, M.D.
  • Lytorre Denise Vidaurri, M.D.

Applied Clinical Research (School of Health Professions)

Professor

  • Karen Brewer-Mixon, Ph.D.

Biochemistry

Professor

  • Jennifer J. Kohler, Ph.D.

Biophysics

Professor

  • Zhe Chen, Ph.D.

Biophysics/Biochemistry

Professor

  • Daniel Mark Rosenbaum, Ph.D.

Biophysics/Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics

Associate Professor

  • Khuloud Jaqaman, Ph.D.

Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Associate Professor

  • Lynn Huffman, M.D.

Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences/Obstetrics and Gynecology/Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics

Associate Professor

  • Gary Hon, Ph.D.

Cell Biology

Associate Professor

  • Maralice Conacci-Sorrell, Ph.D.
  • Saikat Mukhopadhyay, M.D., Ph.D.

Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern/Pediatrics

Associate Professor

  • Min Ni, Ph.D.

Emergency Medicine

Professor

  • Walter Louis Green, M.D.
  • Erik Kulstad, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Mary P. Chang, M.D.
  • Juan Marcos Rendon, M.D.

Emergency Medicine/Anesthesiology and Pain Management

Associate Professor

  • Emily E. Gundert, M.D.

Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development/Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics

Professor

  • Chao Xing, Ph.D.

Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development/Psychiatry/Center for Genetics of Host Defense/Neuroscience

Associate Professor

  • Maria Chahrour, Ph.D.

Family and Community Medicine

Professor

  • Marc A. Nivet, Ed.D.

Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center/Pathology

Associate Professor

  • Cheryl Meravi Lewis, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine

Professor

  • Larry D. Anderson, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Farrukh Tauseef Awan, M.D.
  • Kavita P. Bhavan, M.D.
  • Kerry Elizabeth Dunbar, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Jason Scott Fish, M.D.
  • Hans Hammers, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Yujin Hoshida, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Vaidehi Kaza, M.D.
  • Corey Dean Kershaw, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Jessica D. Abramowitz, M.D.
  • Kartik Agusala, M.D.
  • Puneet Bajaj, M.D.
  • Moheb Boktor, M.D.
  • Stephanie Kaye Brinker, M.D.
  • Catherine Chen, M.D.
  • Sung-hee Choi, M.D.
  • Pearlie Pao Ee Chong, M.D.
  • Jeremy Yan-Shun Chow, M.D.
  • Sravanya Gavini, M.D., M.P.H.
  • Justin Lee Grodin, M.D.
  • Anita Hegde, M.D.
  • Ibrahim Fuad Ibrahim, M.D.
  • Nicole Elise Minniefield, M.D.
  • Robert M. Morlend, M.D.
  • Dale Oritseweyimni Okorodudu, M.D.
  • Bonnie Chase Prokesch, M.D.
  • Christiana Renner, M.D.
  • Aravind Sanjeevaiah, M.D.
  • Satyam Sarma, M.D.
  • Elizabeth Blair Solow, M.D.
  • Nisha Unni, M.D.
  • Phi Wiegn, M.D.
  • Vlad G. Zaha, M.D., Ph.D.

Internal Medicine/Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research

Associate Professor

  • Audrey N. Chang, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine/Molecular Biology

Professor

  • Zhi-Ping Liu, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine/Neuroscience

Associate Professor

  • Chen Liu, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Associate Professor

  • Kara Nicole Goss, M.D.

Internal Medicine/Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health

Professor

  • Amit Singal, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Michael E. Bowen, M.D.

Molecular Biology

Associate Professor

  • Jenna Lee Jewell, Ph.D.

Molecular Genetics

Professor

  • Jin Ye, Ph.D.

Neurological Surgery

Associate Professor

  • Mazin Al Tamimi, M.D.

Neurology

Professor

  • Amyn A. Habib, M.D.
  • Steven Paul Sparagana, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Ghazala Perven, M.D.
  • Denise M. Ramirez, Ph.D.

Neuroscience

Professor

  • Genevieve Konopka, Ph.D.

Neuroscience/Anesthesiology and Pain Management

Associate Professor

  • Helen C. Lai, Ph.D.

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Professor

  • Kimberly Anne Kho, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Jamie Larsen Morgan, M.D.

Ophthalmology

Professor

  • Ronald Mancini, M.D.
  • Danielle Marie Robertson, O.D., Ph.D.

Orthopaedic Surgery

Professor

  • Robert Lane Wimberly, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Drew T. Sanders, M.D.
  • Christopher Michael Stutz, M.D.

Orthopaedic Surgery/Pediatrics

Associate Professor

  • Jane S. Chung, M.D.

Orthopaedic Surgery/Plastic Surgery

Associate Professor

  • Ann Sheenan Golden, M.D.

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Professor

  • Romaine F. Johnson, M.D.
  • Kenneth H. Lee, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Baran Devrim Sumer, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Eli Gordin, M.D.

Pathology

Associate Professor

  • Chunyu Cai, M.D., Ph.D.
  • Jesse Manuel Jaso, M.D.
  • Daniel K. Noland, M.D.
  • Hasan Zaki, Ph.D.

Pathology/Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development

Professor

  • Jason Young Park, M.D., Ph.D.

Pathology/Pharmacology

Associate Professor

  • Weibo Luo, Ph.D.

Pediatrics

Professor

  • Cindy Darnell Bowens, M.D.
  • Catherine Minor Ikemba, M.D.
  • Mambarambath Abdul Jaleel, M.D.
  • Patrick J. Leavey, M.D.
  • Lakshmi Raman, M.D.
  • Rinarani Monish Sanghavi, M.D.
  • Meghana Nitin Sathe, M.D.
  • Surendranath Reddy Veeram Reddy, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Noorjahan Ali, M.D.
  • Priya Bhaskar, M.D.
  • Michael Cronin Cooper, M.D.
  • Lorien Alford Nassi, M.D.
  • Renee Mitchell Potera, M.D.
  • Isabel Cristina Rojas Santamaria, M.D.
  • Kavita Sharma, M.D.
  • Luis Alfredo Umaña Franco, M.D.

Pediatrics/Internal Medicine

Professor

  • John Andrew Bird, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Jaclyn Lewis Albin, M.D.

Pediatrics/Neurology

Professor

  • Michael Morgan Dowling, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

  • Alison Marie Dolce, M.D.

Pharmacology/Biochemistry

Associate Professor

  • Michael Reese, Ph.D.

Pharmacology/Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics

Associate Professor

  • Erdal Toprak, Ph.D.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation/Neurology

Professor

  • Nneka Lotea Ifejika, M.D., M.P.H.

Physician Assistant Studies (School of Health Professions)

Associate Professor

  • Veronica Coleman, M.P.A.S, PA-C

Plastic Surgery

Associate Professor

  • Christopher A. Derderian, M.D.
  • Rami Robert Hallac, Ph.D.
  • Jennifer S. Kargel, M.D.
  • James Richard Seaward, M.D.

Psychiatry

Professor

  • Kenneth Dekleva, M.D.
  • Shawn M. McClintock, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

  • Pedro Jose Fernandez, M.D.
  • Laura Lamminen, Ph.D.
  • Kehinde Obikoya, M.D.
  • Laura Allison Stone, M.D.

Psychiatry/Neurology

Professor

  • Lana L. Harder, Ph.D.

Radiation Oncology

Professor

  • Weiguo Lu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

  • Zabihullah Wardak, M.D.

Radiation Oncology/Immunology/Urology

Professor

  • Raquibul Hannan, M.D., Ph.D.

Radiology

Professor

  • Basak Dogan, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Kristen A. Bishop, M.D.
  • Jody C. Hayes, M.D.
  • Asha Kandathil, M.D.
  • Jacques Lux, Ph.D.
  • William A. Moore, M.D.
  • Parham Pezeshk, M.D.
  • Karuna Munjal Raj, M.D.
  • Gary Robert Schooler, M.D.
  • Jennifer Schopp, M.D.

Radiology/Internal Medicine

Associate Professor

  • Kiran Batra, M.D.

Radiology/Neurology

Professor

  • Roberta Novakovic, M.D.

Surgery

Professor and Division Chief

  • Melissa L. Kirkwood, M.D.

Professor

  • Steven Ira Hanish, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Bala Ramanan, M.D.
  • Javier Salgado Pogacnik, M.D.

Urology

Professor

  • Vitaly Margulis, M.D.

Associate Professor

  • Kenneth Allen Goldberg, M.D.
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