Tenure, Promotion, and Appointment of WCM Faculty-- December 2025

The Office of Faculty Affairs is proud to announce our awards of Tenure, Promotion, Endowed Appointment, and New Appointments of Weill Cornell Medicine faculty for December 2025.

Tenure

Hua Zhong, Ph.D.--Professor of Population Health Sciences

Promotion

Professor

David Rickman, Ph.D.--Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Endowed Appointment

Endowed Professorship

Alessandro Fichera, M.D.--Eugene H. Pool Professor of Surgery

Research Scholar

Melanie Dubois, M.D.--Friedman Family Research Scholar in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Clinical Scholar

Melody Zeng, Ph.D.--Jane and Frederic Hamilton Clinical Scholar in Lipids

New Appointment

Professor

J Mocco, M.D.--Professor of Neurological Surgery (Pending Appointment at Rank)
Todd Cassese, M.D.--Professor of Teaching in Medicine (Pending Appointment at Rank)
Laura Collins, M.B.,B.S.--Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Associate Professor 

Sangil Lee, M.D.--Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine (Pending Appointment at Rank)
Ignacio Malaga, M.D., Ph.D.--Adjunct Associate Professor of Research in Pediatrics (Courtesy) (Pending Appointment at Rank)
Oana Zeleznik, Ph.D.--Associate Professor of Population Health Sciences (Pending Appointment at Rank)
Victor Jimenez-Zepeda , M.D.--Associate Professor of Medicine (Pending Appointment at Rank)
Ranjith Kamity, M.B.,B.S.--Associate Professor of Clinical Pediatrics (Pending Appointment at Rank)
Ryan Longman, M.D.--Associate Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology (Pending Appointment at Rank)

Instructor

Kazunori Gomi, M.D., Ph.D.--Instructor in Systems and Computational Biomedicine (Courtesy)

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