Tenure, Promotion, and Appointment of WCM Faculty--July 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 July 2025.

Tenure

Professor

Samara Reck-Peterson, Ph.D.--Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Promotion

Professor

Susan Gauthier, D.O.--Professor of Neurology

Matthew Austin, M.D.--Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery

Elizabeth Gausden, M.D.--Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Aleksey Dvorzhinskiy, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Associate Professor

Brendan Finnerty, M.D.--Associate Professor of Surgery

Elizabeth Gausden, M.D.--Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Aleksey Dvorzhinskiy, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Assistant Professor

Colin Bartz-Overman, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Jim Castellanos, M.D., Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Stanley Cooper, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Sashank Dusi, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Virginia Gao, M.D., Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Neurology

Caitlin Gribbin, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine

Bruce Gutierrez, D.O.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine

Jennifer Huang, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Jessie Huang, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Alexandra Huttle, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Zahraa Khan, M.B.,B.S.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Chanel Ligon, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Juan Francisco Linares Rodriguez, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Research in Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Grace Maldarelli, M.D., Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine

Andrew Milewski, M.D., Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology

Michal Nagiec, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Research in Pharmacology

Khanh Pham, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine

Mahboubeh Rostami, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Research in Genetic Medicine

Karlen Ulubabyan, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Leah Weston, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Robert Zhang, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine

Endowed Appointment

Endowed Professorship

Teresa Milner, Ph.D.--Thomas H. Meikle Professor in Medical Education

Clinical Scholar Award

Jeanyoung Kim, M.D.-- Clinique Clinical Scholar in Dermatology

Mateo Saldarriaga, M.D.--Charles, Lillian and Betty Neuwirth Clinical Scholar in Oncology

Joan Stilling, M.D.--Wilibald Nagler Clinical Scholar in Rehabilitation Medicine

Jaclyn Rosenzweig, M.D.--Charles, Lillian, and Betty Neuwirth Clinical Scholar in Pediatric Oncology

New Appointment

Professor

Laura Collins, M.B.,B.S.--Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (Pending Appointment at Rank)

Christopher Triggle, Ph.D.--Professor of Pharmacology

Matthew Austin, M.D.--Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery

Samara Reck-Peterson, Ph.D.--Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics

Assistant Professor

Taweevat Assavapokee, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine

Kevin Bachrach, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Timothy Becker, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Daniel Cabrera, M.D., Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Megan D'Andrea, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine

Joshua Fein, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine

Andrew Feldman, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Neurology

Saikat Goswami, M.B.,B.S.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics

Vikram Jakkamsetti, M.B.,B.S., Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Research in Pediatrics

Stephanie Jou, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Angela Kanna, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology

Kaavya Krishna Kumar, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Pharmacology

Pablo Loarte-Campos, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Shawn Ma, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Radiology

Evguenia Makovkina, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry

Nikita Malakhov, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Miloni Parekh, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine

Shadi Safar Gholi, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine

Kaitlin Seitz, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Mark Shapses, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Benjamin Silver, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine

Sophie Sohval, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine

Shuo Sun, Ph.D.--Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences

Gaurav Varma, M.D.--Assistant Professor of Medicine

Instructor

Michael Amador, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Zachary Barry, M.D.--Instructor in Ophthalmology

Zev Blumenkrantz, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine

Michael Bonafede, D.O.--Instructor in Medicine

Maximilliam Cabrera, M.D.--Instructor in Psychiatry

Jay Canarick, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Sadakat Chowdhury, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine

Reed Colling, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine

Priya Dave, M.D.--Instructor in Urology

Rateb Fouad, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Sarah Friedman, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Neurology

Alan Ge, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Jonah Goldblatt, M.D.--Instructor in Ophthalmology

Adam Goldman, M.D.--Instructor in Ophthalmology

Saori Goto, M.D., Ph.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Lee Gottesdiener, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Emma Greever, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine

Jesse Gruber, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Kevin Harvey, M.D.--Instructor in Ophthalmology

Aaron Holmes, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Ehsan Izadmehr, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Sun Young Jang, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Rebecca Kim, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Shawn Krishnan, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Emily Li, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Ching-Lan Lu, M.D., Ph.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Andrew Majeste, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine

Nabil Noureddin, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Niranjani Padayachi, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Ryan Pang, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine

Tara Pilato, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine

Stephanie Rademeyer, M.D.--Instructor in Psychiatry

Aditi Rao, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Erin Rieger, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Amanda Rosen, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Hassan Saleh , M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Medicine

Sarah Schumacher, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Elena Solli, M.D.--Instructor in Ophthalmology

Stacy Tsai, M.D.--Instructor in Medicine

Joyce Wahba , M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine

Fan Yang, M.D.--Instructor in Clinical Emergency Medicine

Aryeh Zolin, M.D., Ph.D.--Instructor in Neurology

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