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College of Medicine faculty receive promotions, tenure

The following Penn State College of Medicine faculty members have been promoted and/or awarded tenure:

Promotion to professor

  • Valerie Brown, MD, PhD, Pediatrics
  • Zissis Chroneos, PhD, Pediatrics, Microbiology and Immunology
  • Stephanie Estes, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Niraj Gusani, MD, MS, Surgery, Medicine, and Public Health Sciences
  • Johnathan McGinn, MD, Surgery
  • Lisa McGregor, MD, PhD, Pediatrics
  • Matthew Moyer, MD, MS, Medicine
  • Lisabeth Scalzi, MD, MS, Pediatrics, Medicine and Public Health Sciences
  • Navesh Sharma, DO, PhD, Radiation Oncology
  • Kenneth Taylor, Jr., MD, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
  • Jonelle Thomas, MD, MPH, Radiology
  • Thomas Zacharia, MD, Radiology

Promotion to associate professor

  • Chandran Alexander, MD, Pediatrics
  • Henry Boateng, MD, Orthopedics and Rehabilitation
  • Milena Bogunovic, MD, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology (also awarded tenure)
  • Laura Duda, MD, Pediatrics
  • Benjamin Fogel, MD, M.PH, Pediatrics
  • Kristen Glass, MD, Pediatrics
  • Chandrika Gowda, MD, Pediatrics
  • Neerav Goyal, MD, MPH, Surgery, Neurosurgery and Public Health Sciences
  • Scott Halstead, MD, PhD, Pediatrics
  • Sprague Hazard, MD, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine and Neurosurgery
  • Yuka Imamura, PhD, MSc, Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Jenelle Izer, DVM, MS, DACLAM, Comparative Medicine
  • Kunal Karamchandani, MD, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
  • Venkatesh Krishnamurthy, MB, BS, Psychiatry
  • John Levenick, MD, Medicine
  • Guodong Liu, PhD, Public Health Sciences
  • Ryan Munyon, MD, Medicine
  • Seth Pantanelli, MD, MS, Ophthalmology
  • Lidija Petrovic-Dovat, MD, Psychiatry
  • Dorothy Rocourt, MD, Surgery and Pediatrics
  • Ajay Soni, MD, Ophthalmology and Pediatrics
  • Andrew Tinsley, MD, MS, Medicine
  • Robert Tunks, MD, MHS, Pediatrics and Radiology
  • Ming Wang, PhD, Public Health Sciences (also awarded tenure)
  • Joshua Warrick, MD, Pathology and Surgery
  • Joseph Wiedemer, MD, Family and Community Medicine
  • Feng Yue, PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (also awarded tenure)
  • Lijun Zhang, PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
  • Hong Zheng, MD, PhD, Medicine and Microbiology and Immunology

Promotion to associate librarian

  • Amy Knehans, MLIS, AHIP, Library (also awarded tenure)

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