2023 Faculty Promotions

Published on: September 29, 2023 By: Staff Reports

The following faculty promotions for the FY24 academic year took effect September 1 at UT Southwestern. (Where more than one department is listed, the first is the primary appointment.)

UT Southwestern Medical School

Anesthesiology and Pain Management

Professor

Aditee Ambardekar, M.D.

Clinical Professor

Amy Macaluso, M.D.
Dawood Nasir, M.D.

Associate Professor

Omaira Azizad, M.D.
Megan Maxwell, M.D.
Rita Saynhalath, M.D.
Jesse Stewart, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

Sandy Thammasithiboon, M.D.
James Theisen, M.D.

Biochemistry

Associate Professor with Tenure

Tian Qin, Ph.D.

Biomedical Engineering/Biochemistry/Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center

Professor with Tenure

Daniel Siegwart, Ph.D.

Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery

Professor

Matthias Peltz, M.D.
Scott Reznik, M.D.

Associate Professor

John Murala, M.D.

Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences/ Obstetrics and Gynecology/Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern

Associate Professor with Tenure

Laura Banaszynski, Ph.D.

Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases/Biochemistry

Associate Professor with Tenure

Lukasz Joachimiak, Ph.D.

Center for Human Nutrition/Internal Medicine

Associate Professor

Rodney Infante, M.D., Ph.D.

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

Professor with Tenure

Hao Zhu, M.D.

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

Associate Professor with Tenure

Prashant Mishra, M.D., Ph.D.

Dermatology

Professor with Tenure

Heidi Jacobe, M.D.

Professor

Benjamin Chong, M.D.

Associate Professor

Rebecca Vasquez, M.D.

Dermatology/Immunology

Associate Professor

Tamia Harris-Tryon, M.D., Ph.D.

Emergency Medicine

Associate Professor

Steven Field, D.O.
Samuel McDonald, M.D.

Family and Community Medicine/Neurology

Associate Professor

Safia Khan, M.D.

Immunology

Associate Professor

Prithvi Raj, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine

Professor with Tenure

Roger Bedimo, M.D.
Vishal Patel, M.D.

Professor

Tayo Addo, M.D.
Rachel Bonnema, M.D.
Raksha Jain, M.D.
Dharam Kumbhani, M.D.
Jacqueline O’Leary, M.D.
Kamalanathan Sambandam, M.D.
Melanie Sulistio, M.D.
Jeffrey Tessier, M.D.
Aslan Turer, M.D.

Associate Professor

Reuben Arasaratnam, M.D.
Mujeeb Basit, M.D.
Srinivas Bollineni, M.D.
Christopher Chaney, M.D.
Lesley Davila, M.D.
Fatemeh Ezzati, M.D.
Anupama Gangavati, M.D.
Sonia Garg, M.D.
Jerrold Grodin, M.D.
Oksana Hamidi, D.O.
Stephen Harder, M.D.
Iram Hussain, M.D.
Syed Kazmi, M.D.
Helen King, M.D.
Kehinde Odedosu, M.D.
Ambarish Pandey, M.D.
Jiten Patel, M.D.
Neha Patel, M.D.
Praveen Ramakrishnan Geethakumari, M.D.
Trushil Shah, M.D.
Caitlin Siropaides, D.O.
Kim Styrvoky, M.D.
Andrew Tomlinson, M.D.
Hendrikus Vanderveldt, M.D.
Sarah Wingfield, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

Markus Goldschmiedt, M.D.
Sumitha Hathiramani, M.D.
Dawn Klemow-Reed, M.D.
Khurram Mazhar, M.D.
Yin Oo, M.D.

Internal Medicine/Biochemistry

Associate Professor with Tenure

David McFadden, M.D., Ph.D.

Internal Medicine/Molecular Biology

Professor with Tenure

Beverly Rothermel, Ph.D.

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

Professor with Tenure

David Gerber, M.D.
Ildiko Lingvay, M.D.

Professor

Ank Nijhawan, M.D.

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

Associate Professor with Tenure

Courtney Karner, Ph.D.

Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics/Biophysics

Associate Professor with Tenure

Kimberly Reynolds, Ph.D.

Microbiology

Professor with Tenure

Ivan D’orso, Ph.D.
John Schoggins, Ph.D.

Molecular Biology

Associate Professor with Tenure

Peter Douglas, Ph.D.
Jun Wu, Ph.D.

Molecular Genetics

Professor with Tenure

Arun Radhakrishnan, Ph.D.

Neurology/Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute

Professor with Tenure

Marek Napierala, Ph.D.

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Associate Professor

Elaine Duryea, M.D.
Denisse Holcomb, M.D.
Jason Jarin, M.D.
Jessica Pruszynski, Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

Victor Beshay, M.D.
Alvin Hyslop, M.D.
Ann Lutich, M.D.
Mark Peters, M.D.
Shelley Ramos, M.D.
Patrick Weix, M.D., Ph.D.

Ophthalmology

Clinical Professor

Ziad El Husseini, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

Zachary Robertson, M.D.

Orthopaedic Surgery

Professor

Michael Khazzam, M.D.

Associate Professor

Alexander Cherkashin, M.D.

Orthopaedic Surgery/Pediatrics

Professor

Shane Miller, M.D.

Orthopaedic Surgery/Plastic Surgery

Clinical Professor

Robert Bass, M.D.

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery

Professor

Teresa Chan-Leveno, M.D.

Associate Professor

Ashley Agan, M.D.
Christopher Liu, M.D.
Brittny Tillman, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

Mark Newcomer, M.D.

Pathology

Associate Professor

Jing Cao, Ph.D.
Andrew Quinn, M.D.
Sean Yates, M.D.

Pathology/Neurology

Associate Professor with Tenure

Yingfei Wang, Ph.D.

Pathology/Urology

Associate Professor with Tenure

Ram Mani, Ph.D.

Pediatrics

Professor and Division Chief

Nicolas Madsen, M.D.

Professor

Mohamed Badawy, M.D.
Sing-Yi Feng, M.D.
Elizabeth Stehel, M.D.
Kenneth Yen, M.D.

Clinical Professor and Division Chief

Andrew Gelfand, M.D.

Clinical Professor

Becky Ennis, M.D.
Michael Lee, M.D.
Syed Naqvi, M.D.
M. Gaith Semrin, M.D.
Alexandra Volk, M.D.
Jonathan Wickiser, M.D.

Associate Professor

Sirine Baltagi, M.D.
Maria Bano, M.D.
Michelle Caraballo, M.D.
Clifford Chen, M.D.
Abha Choudhary, M.D.
Amanda Evans, M.D.
Jawahar Jagarapu, M.D.
Saima Kayani, M.D.
Kathleen Ludwig, M.D.
Hoang Nguyen, M.D.
Eric Ortigoza, M.D.
Shalini Ramachandran, M.D.
Sushmita Yallapragada, M.D.
Priscilla Yu, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

Michele Alkalay, M.D.
Christina Chan, M.D.
Leslie Garner, M.D.
Erin Gordon, D.O.
Melissa Ham, M.D.
Halima Janjua, M.D.
Judy Lee, M.D.
Eron Linver, M.D.
Amit Mehta, M.D.
Jessica Morse, M.D.
Phuong Nguyen, M.D.
Kathleen Vandiver, M.D.

Pediatrics/Internal Medicine

Associate Professor

Christopher Parrish, M.D.
Ami Waters, M.D.

Pediatrics/Neurology

Associate Professor

Andrea Lowden, M.D.
Jeffrey Waugh, M.D., Ph.D.

Physical Medicine And Rehabilitation

Clinical Professor

Weibin Yang, M.D.

Associate Professor

Wei-Han Tan, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

Heather Adair, M.D.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation/Anesthesiology and Pain Management

Clinical Associate Professor

Renie Guilliod Troconis, M.D.

Plastic Surgery

Professor

Bardia Amirlak, M.D.

Plastic Surgery/Orthopaedic Surgery

Professor

Andrew Zhang, M.D.

Psychiatry

Associate Professor

Manish Jha, M.D.
Kelli Triplett, Ph.D.

Psychiatry/Neuroscience

Associate Professor with Tenure

Takashi Kitamura, Ph.D.

Radiation Oncology

Professor with Tenure

Jing Wang, Ph.D.

Professor

Jie Deng, Ph.D.
Yulong Yan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

Dan Nguyen, Ph.D.
Mohammad-Amir Owrangi, Ph.D.
You Zhang, Ph.D.
Tingliang Zhuang, Ph.D.

Radiology

Professor with Tenure And Division Chief

Suhny Abbara, M.D.

Professor and Division Chief

Anil Pillai, M.D.

Professor

Travis Browning, M.D.
Jeanne Dillenbeck, M.D.
Jeannie Kwon, M.D.
Seth Toomay, M.D.

Associate Professor

Guiyang Hao, Ph.D.
Abdelmohsen Radwan Hussien, M.D.
Yin Xi, Ph.D.
Mary Yang, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

Bradley Strout, M.D.
Jennifer Veltkamp, M.D.

Radiology/Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research

Professor with Tenure and Division Chief

Orhan Oz, M.D., Ph.D.

Radiology/Advanced Imaging Research Center

Professor

Fangyu Peng, M.D., Ph.D.

Surgery

Professor And Division Chief

Adam Yopp, M.D.

Professor with Tenure

Daolin Tang, M.D., Ph.D.

Professor

Samir Pandya, M.D.
Thai Pham, M.D.
Faisal Qureshi, M.D.

Associate Professor

Linda Dultz, M.D.
Ryan Dumas, M.D.
Thomas Shoultz, M.D.
Shirling Tsai, M.D.

Surgery/Biomedical Engineering

Associate Professor with Tenure

Ganesh Sankaranarayanan, Ph.D.