The following faculty promotions for the FY25 academic year took effect September 1 at UT Southwestern. (Where more than one department is listed, the first is the primary appointment.)

 

UT Southwestern Medical School

 

Advanced Imaging Research Center

Professor

• Zoltan Kovacs, Ph.D.

 

Anesthesiology & Pain Management

Professor

• Ravi Joshi, M.D.
• Sana Ullah, M.D.

Clinical Professor

• Kapil Anand, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Neethu Chandran, M.D.
• Siddharth Dave, M.D.
• Adolfo Gonzalez, M.D.
• Benjamin Heller, M.D.
• James Kim, M.D.
• Katie Liu, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Brian Bravenec, M.D.
• Xi Luo, M.D.
• Jun Sasaki, M.D.
• Devin Trousdale, M.D.
• Isabel Wu, M.D.

Anesthesiology & Pain Management/Neurological Surgery

Associate Professor

• Ulrike Hoffmann, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Anesthesiology & Pain Management/Pediatrics

Associate Professor

• Proshad Efune, M.D.

 

Biochemistry

Associate Professor

• Andrew Lemoff, Ph.D.

 

Biophysics

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Jan Erzberger, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Yang Li, Ph.D.

 

Biophysics/Biochemistry

Professor

• Dominika Borek, Ph.D.

 

Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery

Professor

• Ryan Davies, M.D.

 

Cecil H. and Ida Green Center for Reproductive Biology Sciences/Obstetrics and Gynecology/Biophysics

Professor with Tenure

• Xin Liu, Ph.D.

 

Cell Biology

Associate Professor

• Peter Michaely, Ph.D.

 

Center for Human Nutrition/Internal Medicine

Associate Professor

• Xiaorong Fu, Ph.D.

 

Dermatology

Professor

• Heather Goff, M.D., M.P.H.
• Divya Srivastava, M.D.
• Richard Wang, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Katherine Gordon, M.D.

 

Emergency Medicine

Professor

• Gilberto Salazar, M.D.

 

Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development/Internal Medicine/Pediatrics

Associate Professor

• Markey McNutt, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Family and Community Medicine

Professor

• Dan Sepdham, M.D.

 

Hamon Center For Therapeutic Oncology Research/Pharmacology

Associate Professor

• Luc Girard, Ph.D.

 

Immunology/Microbiology

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Tiffany Reese, Ph.D.

 

Internal Medicine

Professor

• Reeni Abraham, M.D.
• John Battaile, M.D.
• Lafaine Grant, M.D.
• Susan Matulevicius, M.D.
• Heather McArthur, M.D.
• Jennifer Thibodeau, M.D.

Clinical Professor

• Sujata Bhushan, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Waddah Arafat, M.D.
• Laila Castellino, M.D.
• Ling Chu, M.D.
• Leah Cohen, M.D.
• Suzanne Cole, M.D.
• Teppei Fujikawa, Ph.D.
• Hurst Hall, M.D.
• Haekyung Jeon-Slaughter, Ph.D.
• Christine Kusminski, Ph.D.
• Susana Lazarte, M.D.
• Swee-Ling Levea, M.D.
• Yazan Madanat, M.D.
• Chad Newton, M.D.
• Sawsan Rashdan, M.D.
• Donald Storey, M.D.
• Anna Tavakkoli, M.D.
• Rebecca Vigen, M.D.
• Young-Jai You, Ph.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Shweta Chowdhury, M.D.
• Cecil Christian, M.D.
• Jason Clark, M.D.
• Ogechi Dike-Noble, M.D.
• James Galloway, M.D.
• Maeghan Gibson, M.D.
• Subhasri Kannan, M.D.
• Haseeb Kazi, M.D.
• Jeffrey Levea, M.D.
• Joseph Milburn, M.D.
• Vivek Patel, M.D.
• Sarah Schneider, M.D.
• Nainesh Shah, M.D.
• Amitha Thudi, M.D.

 

Internal Medicine/Family and Community Medicine

Professor

• Namirah Jamshed, M.D.

 

Internal Medicine/Immunology

Associate Professor

• Emre Turer, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Internal Medicine/Microbiology

Professor with Tenure

• David Greenberg, M.D.

 

Internal Medicine/Neurology

Associate Professor

• Bethany Lussier, M.D.

 

Internal Medicine/Surgery

Professor

• David Wojciechowski, D.O.

 

Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics/Biomedical Engineering

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Albert Montillo, Ph.D.

 

Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics/Biophysics/Center for Alzheimer’s and Neurodegenerative Diseases

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Milo Lin, Ph.D.

 

Lyda Hill Department of Bioinformatics/Cell Biology

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Reto Fiolka, Ph.D.

 

Molecular Biology

Professor

• Ning Liu, Ph.D.

 

Neurology

Professor with Tenure

• Vikram Shakkottai, M.D., Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Marisara Dieppa, M.D.
• Shaida Khan, D.O.
• Trung Nguyen, M.D., Ph.D.
• Rodrigo Zepeda, M.D.

 

Neurology/Immunology

Professor with Tenure

• Nancy Monson, Ph.D.

 

Neurology/Neurological Surgery

Associate Professor

• Kartavya Sharma, M.D.

 

Neurology/Radiology

Associate Professor

• Sasha Alick-Lindstrom, M.D.

 

Neuroscience

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Brad Pfeiffer, Ph.D.
• Wei Xu, Ph.D.

 

Neuroscience/Psychiatry

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Lenora Volk, Ph.D.

 

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Clinical Associate Professor

• Evelina Alcalen, M.D.
• Farnaz Jahangiri, M.D.
• Kristie Wilburn-Wren, M.D.

 

Ophthalmology

Professor

• Rafael Ufret-Vincenty, M.D.

 

Orthopaedic Surgery

Professor

• Ashoke Sathy, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Jaysson Brooks, M.D.
• Alexandra Callan, M.D.
• Megan Johnson, M.D.
• William Morris, M.D.
• Michael Van Hal, M.D.

 

Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery

Professor

• Larry Myers, M.D.
• Rachel St. John, M.D.
• Seckin Ulualp, M.D.

Clinical Professor

• Joseph Leach, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Andrew Day, M.D., M.P.H.

 

Pathology

Professor with Tenure

• Qing Zhang, Ph.D.

Professor

• Yisheng Fang, M.D., Ph.D.
• Katja Gwin, M.D., Ph.D.
• Dipti Karamchandani, M.D.
• Hung Luu, M.D., Pharm.D.
• Lan Peng, M.D.
• Olga Weinberg, M.D.

Clinical Professor

• Shelby Melton, M.D.

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Srinivas Malladi, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Glorimar Rivera Colon, M.D.

 

Pediatrics

Professor

• Soumya Adhikari, M.D.
• Ryan Butts, M.D.
• Nandini Channabasappa, M.D.
• Archana Dhar, M.D.
• Michael Green, M.D.
• Jo-Ann Nesiama, M.D.
• Charina Ramirez, M.D.
• Ayesha Zia, M.D.

Clinical Professor

• Colin Kane, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Folashade Afolabi, M.D.
• Dimitrios Angelis, M.D.
• Sari Bar, D.O.
• Radomir Chabiniok, M.D., Ph.D.
• M. Brett Cooper, M.D.
• Suzanne Dakil, M.D.
• Julie Fuller, M.D.
• Nakia Gaines, M.D.
• Hilda Loria, M.D.
• Sujir Pritha Nayak, M.D.
• Nivedita Patni, M.D.
• Kristen Reeder, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Asya Asghar, M.D.
• Muniza Mogri, M.D.
• Muraleedharan Sivarajan, M.D.

 

Pediatrics/Microbiology/Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center

Professor with Tenure

• Andrew Koh, M.D.

 

Pediatrics/Neurological Surgery

Professor

• Laura Klesse, M.D., Ph.D.

 

Pediatrics/Neurology

Professor

• Deepa Sirsi, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Jennifer Thomas, M.D.

 

Pediatrics/Neurology/Eugene McDermott Center for Human Growth and Development/Molecular Biology

Professor With Tenure

• Steven Gray, Ph.D.

 

Pediatrics/Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health

Professor

• Sadia Malik, M.D.

 

Pediatrics/Psychiatry

Professor with Tenure and Division Chief

• Lina Chalak, M.D.

 

Pharmacology

Professor with Tenure

• James Collins, Ph.D.

 

Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation

Clinical Professor

• John Thottakara, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Amy Mathews, M.D.
• Shanti Pinto, M.D.

 

Plastic Surgery

Associate Professor

• Purushottam Nagarkar, M.D.

 

Plastic Surgery/Orthopaedic Surgery

Professor

• Nicholas Haddock, M.D.

 

Psychiatry

Professor

• Alison Wilkinson, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Corinne Anton, Ph.D.
• Adriane Dela Cruz, M.D., Ph.D.
• Laura Kuper, Ph.D.
• Kapila Marambage, M.D.

Clinical Associate Professor

• Marianne Nash, M.D.

 

Psychiatry/Neurological Surgery

Associate Professor

• Christian LoBue, Ph.D.

 

Psychiatry/Pediatrics

Professor

• Veronica Bordes Edgar, Ph.D.

 

Psychiatry/Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute

Professor with Tenure

• Shawn McClintock, Ph.D.

 

Radiation Oncology

Professor

• Arnold Pompos, Ph.D.
• Assal Rahimi, M.D.
• Strahinja Stojadinovic, Ph.D.

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Anthony Davis, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Aurelie Garant, M.D.
• Kiran Kumar, M.D.
• Nina Sanford, M.D.

 

Radiology

Professor and Division Chief

• Gaurav Khatri, M.D.

Professor

• Jeffrey Guild, Ph.D.
• Ann Mootz, M.D.
• Qing Yuan, Ph.D.

Clinical Professor

• Daniel Veltkamp, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Rebekah Clarke, M.D.
• David Fetzer, M.D.
• Fernando Kay, M.D.
• Girish Kumar, M.D.
• Kate Louise Mangona, M.D.
• Eric Zeikus, M.D.

 

Radiology/Neurological Surgery/Advanced Imaging Research Center

Associate Professor

• Bhavya Shah, M.D.

 

Surgery

Professor and Division Chief

• Benjamin Schneider, M.D.

Professor

• Brandon Bruns, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Caroline Park, M.D.

 

Surgery/Plastic Surgery/Charles and Jane Pak Center for Mineral Metabolism and Clinical Research/Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern

Professor with Tenure and Division Chief

• Benjamin Levi, M.D.

 

Urology

Professor

• Steven Hudak, M.D.
• Micah Jacobs, M.D.

Associate Professor

• Solomon Woldu, M.D.

 

UT Southwestern Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health

 

Associate Professor with Tenure

• Yu-Lun Liu, Ph.D.

Associate Professor

• Amy Hughes, Ph.D.

 

Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health/Immunology

Professor with Tenure

• Lindsay Cowell, Ph.D.

 

Peter O’Donnell Jr. School of Public Health/Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center

Professor with Tenure

• Sandi Pruitt, Ph.D.

 

UT Southwestern School of Health Professions

 

Physician Assistant Studies

Professor

• Carolyn Bradley-Guidry, Dr.Ph., M.P.A.S., PA-C

 

Physical Therapy

Professor

• Jason Zafereo, M.P.T., Ph.D.