Promotion and Appointment of WCM Faculty--January 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 January 2026.

Promotion

Professor

Juan Cubillos-Ruiz, Ph.D.--Professor of Microbiology and Immunology in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Associate Professor

Shashi Kapadia, M.D.--Associate Professor of Medicine

Assistant Professor

Yongfeng He, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Cancer Biology Research in Cardiothoracic Surgery
Andy Phan, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Carla Ritagliati, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Research in Pharmacology

Endowed Appointment

Endowed Professorship

Alessandro Fichera, Active--Eugene H. Pool Professor of Surgery

Education Scholar

MacKenzi Preston, Active--Brause Family Education Scholar

Clinical Scholar

Melody Zeng, Active--Jane and Frederic Hamilton Clinical Scholar in Lipids

New Appointment

Professor

George Coukos, M.D., Ph.D.--Professor of Immunology in Medicine (Pending Appointment at Rank)
Caroline Cromwell, M.D.--Associate Professor of Medicine (Pending Appointment at Rank)

Associate Professor

Victor Jimenez-Zepeda , M.D.--Associate Professor of Medicine (Pending Appointment at Rank)
Sze Liu, Ph.D.--Adjunct Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences

Instructor

Lan Kang, Ph.D.--Instructor of Microbiology and Immunology in Medicine
Nikolaos Koundouros, Ph.D.-- Instructor in Pharmacology
David Thomas, M.D., Ph.D.--Instructor in Medicine

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