Promotion and Appointment of WCM Faculty-- April 2026

The Office of Faculty Affairs is proud to announce our awards of Promotion, Endowed Appointment, and New Appointments of Weill Cornell Medicine faculty for April 2026.

Promotion

Professor

Matthew Robbins, M.D.--Professor of Neurology
Lars Westblade, Ph.D.--Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Assistant Professor

Yang Lin, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Regenerative Medicine Research in Medicine

Endowed Appointment

Endowed Leadership Appointment

Geraldine McGinty, M.B.,B.Ch., B.A.O.--Banga-Bibliowicz Senior Associate Dean for Faculty

Endowed Professorship

Samara Reck-Peterson, Ph.D.--Vincent and Brooke Astor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience II
Timothy Ryan, Ph.D.-- Vincent and Brooke Astor Distinguished Professor in Neuroscience I
Allyson Ocean, M.D.--Walter B. Wriston Professor of Pancreatic Cancer Research II

New Appointment

Professor

Yun Shim, M.D.--Professor of Medicine (Pending Appointment at Rank)

Associate Professor 

Hirotaka Kato, M.D.--Associate Professor of Teaching in Medicine (Pending Appointment at Rank)
Jaikirshan Khatri, M.D.--Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Assistant Professor

Jongeun Rhee, Sc.D.--Adjunct Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
Rebecca Roediger, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Aleksei Tiulpin, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Artificial Intelligence in Radiology

Instructor

Edwin Patino Mejia, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

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