The following faculty promotions took effect Sept. 1 at UT Southwestern Medical Center. Where more than one department is listed, the first is the primary appointment.

Advanced Imaging Research Center/Internal Medicine - Associate Professor: Ian R. Corbin, Ph.D.

Anesthesiology & Pain Management - Professor: Irina Gasanova, M.D., Ph.D., Luis Manuel Zabala, M.D.; Associate Professor: John Charles Alexander, M.D., Javier H. Marull, M.D., Tiffany Sun Moon, M.D.

Anesthesiology & Pain Management/plastic Surgery - Professor: Jayne Elizabeth Coleman, M.D.

Biochemistry - Professor: Benjamin Peng-chu Tu, Ph.D.

Biophysics - Associate Professor: Zhe Chen, Ph.D.

Biophysics/microbiology - Professor: Chad a. Brautigam, Ph.D.

Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery - Professor: Alberto L. De Hoyos, M.D.

Children’s Research Institute/Internal Medicine/Pediatrics - Associate Professor: Hao Zhu, M.D.

Dermatology - Associate Professor: Nnenna G. Agim, M.D., Divya Srivastava, M.D.

Emergency Medicine - Professor: Lynn Palacol Roppolo, M.D., Jeffrey Van Dermark, M.D.; Associate Professor: Dustin B. Williams, M.D.

Internal Medicine - Associate Professor: Shuaib M. Abdullah, M.D., Zahid S. Ahmad, M.D., Muhammad Shaalan Beg, M.D., Rana K. Gupta, Ph.D., Dharam Jaydeep Kumbhani, M.D., Vishal D. Patel, M.D., Rosechelle Mary Ruggiero, M.D., Jennifer Taylor Thibodeau, M.D.

Internal Medicine/Clinical Sciences - Professor: David Eric Gerber, M.D., Ildiko Lingvay, M.D.; Associate Professor: Una E. Makris, M.D., Ank E. Nijhawan, M.D.

Internal Medicine/Microbiology - Associate Professor: Michael U. Shiloh, M.D., Ph.D.

Internal Medicine/Pathology - Associate Professor: Francesca Mae Lee, M.D.

Microbiology - Professor: Neal M. Alto, Ph.D.

Molecular Biology - Professor: Ondine Cleaver, Ph.D., Chun-li Zhang, Ph.D.

Molecular Genetics - Associate Professor: Arun Radhakrishnan, Ph.D.

Molecular Genetics/Center for Human Nutrition - Professor: Guosheng Liang, Ph.D.

Neurological Surgery/Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery - Professor: Samuel L. Barnett, M.D.

Neurology and Neurotherapeutics/Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development/Pediatrics/Physiology - Professor: Juan M. Pascual, M.D., Ph.D.

Neurology and Neurotherapeutics/Neurological Surgery - Professor: Daiwai Olson, Ph.D., R.n.

Neuroscience/Neurology and Neurotherapeutics - Associate Professor: Julian Meeks, Ph.D.

Neuroscience/Pharmacology - Professor: Jonathan Richard Terman, Ph.D.

Obstetrics and Gynecology/Biophysics - Associate Professor: Xin Liu, Ph.D.

Otolaryngology-head & Neck Surgery - Professor: Brandon Isaacson, M.D.; Associate Professor: Amy R. Coffey, M.D., Romaine F. Johnson, M.D.

Pathology - Professor: Kimmo J. Hatanpaa, M.D., Ph.D., Yan Peng, M.D., Ph.D., Reade a. Quinton, M.D.; Associate Professor: Chantale Lacelle, Ph.D.

Pathology/urology - Professor: Payal Kapur, M.D.

Pediatrics - Professor: Alan Nugent, M.D., Norberto Rodriguez-baez, M.D.; Associate Professor: Ryan Butts, M.D., Archana Dhar, M.D., Theodore W. Laetsch, M.D., Tanya Carens Watt, M.D., Tracey Brock Wright, M.D.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation - Associate Professor: Kim Dan Do Barker, M.D.

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation/Pediatrics - Professor: Robert Rinaldi, M.D.

Physiology - Professor: Chengcheng Zhang, Ph.D.; Associate Professor: Jen Liou, Ph.D.

Psychiatry - Professor: Mary Ellen Bret, M.D., Alyson K. Nakamura, M.D., Sidarth Wakhlu, M.D.; Associate Professor: Osman Mohammed Ali, M.D., David Louis Atkinson, M.D., Gloria J. Emmett, Ph.D., Dina Hooshyar, M.D., Andrea Leigh Zartman, Ph.D.

Psychiatry/Pediatrics - Associate Professor: Veronica Bordes Edgar, Ph.D.

Radiation Oncology - Associate Professor: Assal Shoushtari Rahimi, M.D.

Radiation Oncology/Biochemistry - Associate Professor: Kenneth Dale Westover, M.D., Ph.D.

Radiology - Professor: Sanjeeva Prasad Kalva, M.D.

Radiology/Advanced Imaging Research Center - Associate Professor: Takeshi Yokoo, M.D., Ph.D.

Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center/Biochemistry - Associate Professor: Daniel John Siegwart, Ph.D.

Surgery - Professor: Herbert Phelan, M.D.; Associate Professor: Christine Susan Hwang, M.D.

Urology - Associate Professor: Ryan Mauck, M.D., Bruce Jeremy Schlomer, M.D.