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

Advanced Imaging Research Center
Associate Professor: Zoltan Kovacs, Ph.D.

Advanced Imaging Research Center/Internal Medicine
Associate Professor: Eunsook Seo Jin, Ph.D.

Advanced Imaging Research Center/Radiology
Associate Professor: Jimin Ren, Ph.D.

Anesthesiology and Pain Management
Associate Professor: Stephanie Caprice Jones, M.D.; Gerald Albert Matchett, M.D.

Biochemistry
Associate Professor: Yonghao Yu, Ph.D.

Biophysics/Biochemistry
Associate Professor: Dominika Borek, Ph.D.; Daniel Mark Rosenbaum, Ph.D.

Cell Biology
Associate Professor: Janine Prange-kiel, Ph.D.

Children’s Research Institute at UT Southwestern/Pediatrics Eugene Mcdermott Center For Human Growth and Development
Professor: Ralph J. Deberardinis, M.D., Ph.D.

Dermatology
Associate Professor: Benjamin Chong, M.D.; Heather Woodworth Wickless, M.D., M.p.h.

Emergency Medicine
Professor: Angela Fulgham Gardner, M.D.

Immunology/Microbiology
Associate Professor: Nan Yan, Ph.D.

Internal Medicine
Professor: Muhanned A. Abu-Hijleh, M.D.; Roger J. Bedimo, M.D.; James B. Brugarolas, M.D., Ph.D.; Jonathan E. Dowell, M.D.; Joseph A. Garcia, Ph.D., M.D.; S. Susan Hedayati, M.D.; Randall S. Hughes, M.D.; Amit Khera, M.D.; Shawna D. Nesbitt, M.D.; Andreas M. Reimold, M.D. Associate Professor: Reeni Ann Abraham, M.D.; Blake Robert Barker, M.D.; Arti Barnes, M.D.; Michael J. Chiu, M.D.; Jeffrey L. Hastings, M.D.; Raksha Jain, M.D.; Ellen Elizabeth Kitchell, M.D.; Susan Andrea Matulevicius, M.D.; Hetal J. Patel, M.D.; Ramona L. Rhodes, M.D.; Alex Tessnow, M.D.; Roopa Vemulapalli, M.D.

Internal Medicine/Molecular Biology
Professor: Ezra Burstein, M.D.

Internal Medicine/Neurology and Neurotherapeutics
Professor: Elizabeth A. Maher, M.D., Ph.D.

Eugene Mcdermott Center for Human Growth and Development/Pharmacology/Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
Associate Professor: Ralf Kittler, Ph.D.

Microbiology
Professor: Julie K. Pfeiffer, Ph.D. Associate Professor: Ivan D’Orso, Ph.D.

Neurological Surgery/Radiology
Professor: Babu G. Welch, M.D.

Neurology and Neurotherapeutics
Professor: Shilpa Chitnis, M.D., Ph.D.; Darin Okuda, M.D. Associate Professor: Ryan Scott Hays, M.D.

Neurology and Neurotherapeutics/Internal Medicine
Professor: Rong Zhang, Ph.D.

Neurology and Neurotherapeutics/Psychiatry
Professor: Craig M. Powell, M.D., Ph.D.

Neuroscience
Associate Professor: Taekyung Kim, Ph.D.; Genevieve Konopka, Ph.D.

Obstetrics and Gynecology
Associate Professor: Siobhan M. Kehoe, M.D.

Orthopaedic Surgery
Associate Professor: Ashoke Kasyap Sathy, M.D.

Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Professor: Angela Gail Shoup, Ph.D. Associate Professor: Rachel Dana St John, M.D.

Pathology
Professor: Diego H. Castrillon, M.D., Ph.D.; Weina Chen, M.D., Ph.D.; Ravindra Sarode, M.D. Associate Professor: Helena Haemin Hwang, M.D.; Hung Si Luu, M.D.; Shelby D. Melton, M.D.; Anita Louise Sengupta, M.D.; Joel Drew Thibodeaux, M.D.; Shirley Xiao Yan, M.D.

Pediatrics
Professor: Bradley A. Barth, M.D., M.p.h.; Andrew Philip Feranchak, M.D.; Maeve Sheehan, M.D. Associate Professor: Nandini Channabasappa, M.D.; Michael Linden Green, M.D.; Colin E. Kane, M.D.; Ximena Lopez, M.D.; Lakshmi Raman, M.D.; Charina Marie Ramirez, M.D.; Tiffany R. Simms-Waldrip, M.D.; Tamra Slone, M.D.; Audra Leigh Stewart, D.o.; Kathryn Maria Sumpter, M.D.; Poonam Punjwani Thankavel, M.D.

Pediatrics/Internal Medicine
Associate Professor: Jennifer Buchanan Walsh, M.D.

Pediatrics/Eugene Mcdermott Center for Human Growth and Development
Associate Professor: Jonathan J. Rios, Ph.D.

Pediatrics/Microbiology/Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center
Associate Professor: Andrew Koh, M.D.

Pediatrics/Neurological Surgery
Associate Professor: Laura Jean Klesse, M.D., Ph.D.

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Professor: Radha Holavanahalli, Ph.D. Associate Professor: Ankit M. Patel, M.D.

Physiology
Associate Professor: Jiang Wu, Ph.D.

Plastic Surgery
Professor: Shai Rozen, M.D.

Plastic Surgery/Orthopaedic Surgery
Associate Professor: Nicholas T. Haddock, M.D.

Psychiatry
Professor: Rajbir Bakshi, M.D. Associate Professor: Lindsey S. Pershern, M.D.; Julia C. Smith, Psy.D.; Sarah E. Spain, Ph.D.

Radiation Oncology
Professor: Kevin Albuquerque, M.D.; Paul M. Medin, Ph.D. Associate Professor: Xuejun Gu, Ph.D.; Raquibul Hannan, M.D., Ph.D.; Dong Wook Kim, M.D., Ph.D.; Arnold Pompos, Ph.D.; Strahinja Stojadinovic, Ph.D.

Radiology
Professor: Gary M. Arbique, Ph.D.; Zhiyue Jerry Wang, Ph.D. Associate Professor: Kevin Bradley Cederberg, M.D.; Neil J. Fernandes, M.D.; Gaurav Khatri, M.D.; Qing Yuan, Ph.D.

Radiology/Advanced Imaging Research Center
Professor: Ivan Pedrosa, M.D.

Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center/Pharmacology
Associate Professor: Angelique Wright Whitehurst, Ph.D.

Surgery
Professor: Carlos H. Timaran, M.D. Associate Professor: Joselin L. Anandam, M.D.; Melissa L. Kirkwood, M.D.; Adam Charles Yopp, M.D.