Appointment, Promotion, and Tenure of WCM Faculty---July 2020

Tenure

HuJim Hu, M.D.--Professor of Urology (elected to Tenure in June 2020)
PascualMaria Pascual, M.D.--Professor of Pediatrics (elected to Tenure in June 2020)

Promotions

Professor

Erika Abramson, M.D.--Professor of Pediatrics
Dmitriy Feldman, M.D.--Professor of Medicine
Manish Shah, M.D.--Professor of Medicine

Associate Professor

Kristy Brown, Ph.D.--Associate Professor of Biochemistry in Medicine
Brett Fortune, M.D.--Associate Professor of Medicine
Jiwon Kim, M.D.--Associate Professor of Medicine
Laura Kirkman, M.D.--Associate Professor of Medicine
Dan Landau, M.D., Ph.D.--Associate Professor of Medicine
Bradley Pua, M.D.--Associate Professor of Radiology
Berhane Worku, M.D.--Associate Professor of Clinical Cardiothoracic Surgery

Assistant Professor

Kerri Aronson, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Anirban Basu, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Kristie Busch, D.O.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Jillian Cohen, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Alexander Drelick, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Brett Ehrmann, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Zhanna Fridel, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Deborah Fung, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Shashi Kapadia, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Anton Kelly, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Surgery
Laura Kolbe, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Michael LeVine, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Computational Biomedicine (Courtesy)
William Levine, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Joseph Mailman, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Eric Mallack, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Angelica Meinhofer, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
Seung Ha Nam, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Evan Noch, M.D., Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Neurology
Vanessa Pena, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Erik Perez Batista, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Seyed Safavynia, M.D., Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Kohta Saito, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Neha Sharma, D.O.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Neil Singh, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Sara Strauss, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Radiology
Beverly Tchang, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Ljiljana Vasovic, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Robert White, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology
Devin Worster, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Xiaoping Wu, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Michele Yeung, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Julie Zhao, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

New Appointments

Professor

Laura Alonso, M.D.--Professor of Medicine
Maria Diaz-Meco Conde, Ph.D.--Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Manuel Hidalgo Medina, M.D., Ph.D.--Professor of Medicine
Rulla Tamimi, Sc.D.--Professor of Population Health Sciences

Assistant Professor

Juveria Abdullah, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Shudhanshu Alishetti, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Edward Amador, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Diana Anca, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology
Yahya Atalay, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology
Ariel Blanchard, D.M.D.--Assistant Professor of Surgery (Dentistry, Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery)
Josef Brejt, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Kathleen Bubb, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Anatomy Teaching in Radiology
Juste Buneviciute, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Michelle Chi, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine
David Edasery, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology
Hamza Gokozan, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Alyson Gorun, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Fayrisa Greenwald, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Dara Jones, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine
Justin Kaner, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Anisha Khaitan, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
James Kim, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Samuel Kim, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Brian Lamon, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Courtesy)
Ada Lee, D.O.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Anika McGrath, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology
Avital Mendelson, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Courtesy)
Tobias Meyer, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology (Interim)
Jorge Monge, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Nisha Narayanan, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Nupoor Narula, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Adin Nelson, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Dana O'Toole, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Madhu Ouseph, M.B.,B.S., M.D., Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Anna Podolanczuk, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine
Jonathan Power, M.D., Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Psychiatry
Eytan Rasekh, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Shaina Reid, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Anatomy Teaching in Radiology
Karl Schlobohm, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology
Jean Scofi, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Charles Shaffer, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Jawad Shahid, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine
Laura Sickles, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Paul Simonson, M.D., Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Julie Solomon, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology
Nili Solomonov, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Psychology in Psychiatry
Mary Frances Teruel, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Biochemistry (Interim)
Sri Lekha Tummalapalli, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences
Christian Umfrid, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Francesca Vinchi, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Courtesy)

Instructor

Waseem Ahmed, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Alexander Ajeto, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Alison Austin, M.D.--Instructor in Pediatrics
Hayley Born, M.D.--Instructor in Otolaryngology
Benjamin Botsford, M.D.--Instructor in Ophthalmology
Robert Braun, Ph.D.--Instructor in Population Health Sciences
Michael Chary, M.D., Ph.D.--Instructor in Emergency Medicine
Laura Chen, D.O.--Instructor in Medicine
Nicole Cruz, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Jonathan Elias, M.D.--Instructor in Pediatrics
Eve Feinberg, M.D.--Instructor in Ophthalmology
Brittany Gary, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Peter Gregos, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Vikas Gupta, M.D., Ph.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Kaveh Hajifathalian, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Joshua Heisler, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Carrie Johnston, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Caroline Kang, M.D., Ph.D.--Instructor in Urology
Sumana Kommana, M.D.--Instructor in Ophthalmology
Philip Kuo, M.D.--Instructor in Anesthesiology
Tamara Lenis, M.D., Ph.D.--Instructor in Ophthalmology
Tome Levy, D.O.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine
Tina Mathew, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine
Diksha Mishra, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine
Zachary Mulhivill, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Michal Nagiec, Ph.D.--Instructor in Pharmacology
Alexander Polyzos, Ph.D.--Instructor of Molecular Biology in Medicine
David Price, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Nikita Rabelo-Pagan, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Benjamin Rapoport, M.D., Ph.D.--Instructor in Neurological Surgery
Varun Reddy, M.D.--Instructor in Ophthalmology
Mahboubeh Rostami, Ph.D.--Instructor in Genetic Medicine
Michael Ryan, M.D.--Instructor in Ophthalmology
Thalia Salinas, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Kaitlin Seitz, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Nabeel Shalabi, M.B.,B.S.--Instructor in Ophthalmology
Gururaj Shan, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine
Marianne Sharko, M.D.--Instructor in Population Health Sciences
Lily Yan, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine
Sara Zaidi, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine

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