The following faculty promotions for the FY27 academic year took effect Sept. 1 at UT Southwestern. (Where more than one department is listed, the first is the primary appointment.)

UT Southwestern Medical School

Advanced Imaging Research Center/Radiology

Associate Professor

• Bei Zhang, Ph.D.

Anesthesiology & Pain Management

Clinical Professor

• Javier H. Marull, M.D.
• Adnan Rafique, M.D.
• Jeremy Mun-Hing Wong, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Christopher Hae Choi, M.D.
• Christopher Bryan McLeod, D.O.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Kanu Birdi, M.D.
• Jonathan Nicolas Chang, M.D.
• Daltry B. Dott, M.D.
• Bryce Chatham Foster, M.D.
• Christopher Joseph Miciotto, M.D.
• Jami E. Miller, M.D.

Anesthesiology & Pain Management/Neurology/Neurological Surgery

Associate Professor

• Jia Wang Romito, M.D.

Anesthesiology & Pain Management/Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute/Biomedical Engineering

Professor

• Amol Madhusudan Patwardhan, M.D., Ph.D.

Biochemistry

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Myles Warwick Smith, Ph.D.

Biophysics

Associate Professor

• Daniel J. Stoddard, Ph.D.

Biophysics/Cell Biology

Professor with Tenure

• Xiaochen Bai, Ph.D.

Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery

Associate Professor

• Tre Raymond Welch, Ph.D.

Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences/Obstetrics and Gynecology/Molecular Biology

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Benjamin Ross Sabari, Ph.D.

Cell Biology/Biochemistry

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Fei Wang, Ph.D.

Cell Biology/Biophysics

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Jeffrey B. Woodruff, Ph.D.

Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases/Pediatrics

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Rachel M. Bailey, Ph.D.

The Center for Genetics of Host Defense/Internal Medicine

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Zhao Zhang, Ph.D.

Center for Human Nutrition/Internal Medicine

Associate Professor

• Goncalo Dias do Vale, Ph.D.
• Chaiwan Kim, Ph.D.
• Shunxing Rong, Ph.D.

Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI)/Biochemistry/Pediatrics

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Gerta Hoxhaj, Ph.D.

CRI/Pediatrics

Associate Professor

• Thomas P. Mathews, Ph.D.

CRI/Pediatrics/Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center/Cell Biology

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Peter Ly, Ph.D.

Dermatology

Professor

• Rajiv I. Nijhawan, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Meghan Mcintosh Heberton, M.D.

Emergency Medicine

Professor

• Marquita Stephanie Norman, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Robert William Turer, M.D.

Family and Community Medicine

Associate Professor

• Rebecca Lynne Eary, D.O.

Family and Community Medicine/Emergency Medicine/Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation/Health Data Science and Biostatistics – O’Donnell School of Public Health

Associate Professor

• Bhaskar Thakur, Ph.D.

Immunology

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Zhenyu Zhong, Ph.D.

Immunology/Microbiology

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Robert C. Orchard, Ph.D.

Immunology/Molecular Biology

Professor with Tenure

• John David Farrar, Ph.D.

Immunology/Simmons Cancer Center

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Tuoqi Wu, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine

Professor with Tenure

• Kevin W. Williams, Ph.D.

Professor

• Henning J. Drechsler, M.D.
• Thomas Archibald Kerr, M.D., Ph.D.
• Nisa Kubiliun, M.D.
• Ricardo Martin La Hoz, M.D.
• Sasan Mirfakhraee, M.D.
• Arjmand Rasool Mufti, M.D.
• Madhuri M. Sopirala, M.D., M.P.H.
• Alex Tessnow, M.D.
• Netanya Sandler Utay, M.D.
• Tian Zhang, M.D., M.H.S.

Clinical Professor

• Matthew C. Lo, M.D.
• Emilia Thomas, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Ariel Winona Aday, M.D.
• Bethany Agusala, M.D.
• Salman Allana, M.D.
• Natalie Ruth Bavli, M.D.
• Lanna Michelle Felde, M.D.
• Sheena Monique Knights, M.D.
• Shan Renee Luong, M.D.
• Sangeetha Reddy, M.D., M.Sc.
• Audra Jane Schwalk, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Divya Bhatt, M.D.
• Eric Chang, M.D.
• Gangamma Chenenda Prabhu, M.D., M.P.H.
• Tara Michelle Duval, M.D.
• Magdalena Espinoza, M.D.
• Patricia Larios, M.D.
• Ioana Batran Smith, M.D.
• Jose Andres Soto, M.D.
• Greta Szabo, M.D.

Internal Medicine/Cell Biology

Professor with Tenure

• Denise K. Marciano, M.D., Ph.D.

Internal Medicine/Epidemiology – O’Donnell School of Public Health

Professor

• Ramona L. Rhodes, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Sheila Hegde, M.D., M.P.H.

Internal Medicine/Health Economics, Systems and Policy – O’Donnell School of Public Health

Professor

• Ann Marie Navar, M.D., Ph.D.

Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Professor

• Christian Allen Wysocki, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Paul Michael Broker, M.D.

Molecular Biology

Professor with Tenure

• Jun Wu, Ph.D.

Neurological Surgery

Associate Professor

• Salah Aoun, M.D.

Neurological Surgery/Radiology

Associate Professor

• Rafael de Oliveira Sillero, M.D.

Neurology/O’Donnell Brain Institute

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Amber Salter Albright, Ph.D.

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Associate Professor

• Anne M. Ambia, M.D.
• Robert Benjamin Martin, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Sarah K. Happe, M.D.
• Paula Noemi Lomba, M.D.
• Kimberly Michelle Spoonts, M.D.

O’Donnell Brain Institute/Neurology

Associate Professor

• Samuel Stahly Pappas, Ph.D.

Ophthalmology

Associate Professor

• Jennifer Hsuleejen Cao, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Jeremy Bartley, M.D.
• Mary Beth Kansora, M.D.

Orthopaedic Surgery

Associate Professor

• Alison L. Cabrera, M.D.
• Yinshi Ren, Ph.D.

Orthopaedic Surgery/Biomedical Engineering

Associate Professor

• Chi Ma, Ph.D.

Orthopaedic Surgery/Plastic Surgery

Professor

• Katherine Marie Raspovic, D.P.M.

Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery

Professor

• Lesley French Childs, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Hongzhao Ji, M.D.
• Yann-Fuu Kou, M.D.
• Felicity Lenes-Voit, M.D.
• Adrianna Shembel, Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Ilene Chiu, M.D.

Pathology

Professor

• Purva Gopal, M.D.
• Elena A. Lucas, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Qi Cai, M.D., Ph.D.
• James Michael Mitchell, M.D.
• Shuang Niu, M.D., Ph.D.
• Doreen Nguyen Palsgrove, M.D.

Pediatrics

Professor with Tenure

• Myra H. Wyckoff, M.D.

Professor

• Vishal Subodhbhai Kapadia, M.D.
• Yadira Rivera-Sanchez, M.D.
• David Michael Troendle, M.D.
• Tanya Carens Watt, M.D.
• Hayden Zaccagni, M.D.

Clinical Professor

• Preeti Bhatia Sharma, M.D.
• Tiffany R. Simms-Waldrip, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Kikelomo Babata, M.D.
• Bharati Beatrix Bansal, M.D.
• Keri Anne Drake, M.D.
• Alessandra Amy Guiner-da Silva, M.D.
• Olivia Lund Hoffman, M.D.
• Geoffrey Scott Lowe, M.D.
• Megha Satish Mehta, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Chelsea Anderson, M.D.
• Kevin Barnes, M.D.
• Caleb John Cook, M.D.
• Ernesto Miguel Fernandez, M.D.
• Shamaila Gill, M.D.
• Patricia Allyson Petroff, M.D.
• Megan Hickman Street, M.D.
• Shravan Vallala, M.D.
• Ming Yang, M.D.

Pediatrics/Biochemistry

Associate Professor

• Dawn Marie Wetzel, M.D., Ph.D.

Pediatrics/Internal Medicine

Associate Professor

• Nicole Danica Oakman, M.D.

Pediatrics/Neurology

Associate Professor

• Michelle Christie, M.D.
• Michelle Ngozichukwu Machie, M.D.
• Mathew A. Stokes, M.D.
• Afsaneh Talai, M.D.
• Cynthia Xinzi Wang, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Meagan K. Hainlen, M.D.
• Eric Michael Remster, M.D.

Pharmacology/Internal Medicine

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Sarah Huen, M.D., Ph.D.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Professor

• Kim Dan Do Barker, M.D.

Clinical Professor

• Anjali Shah, M.D.

Plastic Surgery

Associate Professor

• Matthew J. Johnson, D.P.M.

Psychiatry

Professor

• Elena Ivleva, M.D., Ph.D.
• Nicholas Westers, Psy.D.

Clinical Professor

• Celia Elizabeth Heppner, Psy.D.
• Sarah E. Spain, Ph.D.
• Collin John Vas, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Joshua Hubregsen, M.D.
• Diana M. Robinson, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• William David Brown, Ph.D.
• Izabella Dutra De Abreu, M.D.
• Suzanne Elizabeth Holm, Ph.D.
• Mohsin Khan, M.D.
• Hillary Margaret-Jean Kimbley, Ph.D.
• Brad R. Nederostek, Psy.D.
• Joy Neumann, Psy.D.
• Jenna N. Oppenheim, Psy.D.
• Kipp Ryan Pietrantonio, Ph.D.
• Stevie Lane Puckett, Ph.D.
• Caitlin Reese, Ph.D.
• Lisa Schuster, Ph.D.
• Megan Tierney, Psy.D.
• Daniela Maria Vela, Ph.D.
• Andrea Christine Wahlberg, Ph.D.

Radiation Oncology

Professor with Tenure

• Steve Bin Jiang, Ph.D.

Professor

• Debabrata Saha, Ph.D.
• Kang-Hsin Wang, Ph.D.

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Prasanna G. Alluri, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Todd Anthony Aguilera, M.D., Ph.D.
• Tsuicheng David Chiu, Ph.D.
• David D.M. Parsons, Ph.D.

Radiology

Professor and Division Chief

• Mi-Ae Park, Ph.D.

Professor

• Nima Kasraie, Ph.D., M.S.
• Marion Scoggins, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Maddy C. Artunduaga, M.D.
• Uma J. Thakur, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Jonathan Friedman, M.D.

Radiology/Obstetrics and Gynecology

Clinical Associate Professor

• Theresa Tien-Ho Huang, M.D.

Surgery

Professor

• Diana L. Diesen, M.D.
• Samuel Pierce Mandell, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Sneha Bhat, M.D.
• Audra Tess Clark, M.D.
• Lauren Ann Gillory, M.D.
• Angela Guzzetta, M.D.
• Ana Kashfia Islam, M.D.
• Madhukar S. Patel, M.D., M.B.A., Sc.M.
• Jigesh A. Shah, D.O.
• Michael Shih, M.D.
• Michael Cyrus Siah, M.D.

Urology

Professor

• Maude Carmel, M.D.

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UT Southwestern Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health

Health Data Science and Biostatistics/CRI – School of Medicine

Associate Professor

• Ling Cai, Ph.D.

Health Economics, Systems and Policy

Professor

• Timothy Patrick Hogan, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Bella Etingen, Ph.D.

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UT Southwestern School of Health Professions

Applied Clinical Research

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Christopher M. Hearon Jr., Ph.D.

Health Care Sciences

Associate Professor

• Ramona Dorough, Ph.D.