2022 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.