College of Medicine faculty receive promotions, tenure for 2020-2021 academic year
The following Penn State College of Medicine faculty members have been promoted and/or awarded tenure effective July 1, 2020:
Promotion to professor
- Michael Bayerl, MD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Michael Beck, MD, Pediatrics, Medicine
- Debra Byler, MD, Pediatrics, Neurology
- Nancy Chauvin, MD, Radiology
- Verghese Cherian, MBBS, MD, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
- Alison Chetlen, DO, Radiology
- Jian Cui, MD, PhD, Medicine
- William Curtin, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Dhimant Desai, PhD, Pharmacology
- Tracy Fausnight, MD, MA, Pediatrics, Medicine
- Robert Gallo, MD, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
- Melissa George, DO, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Gisoo Ghaffari, MD, Medicine
- Jed Gonzalo, MD, MSc, Medicine, Public Health Sciences
- Gregory Holmes, PhD, Neural and Behavioral Sciences
- Jennifer Kraschnewski, MD, MPH, Medicine, Public Health Sciences, Pediatrics
- Kathleen Julian, MD, Medicine
- Joshua Kesterson, MD, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Colette Pameijer, MD, Surgery
- Eric Pauli, MD, Surgery
- Francesca Ruggiero, MD, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Mary Catherine Santos, MD, MS, Surgery, Pediatrics
- Brian Saunders, MD, Surgery, Medicine
- Ian Schreibman, MD, Medicine
- Cheryl Tierney, MD, MPH, Pediatrics
Promotion to associate professor
- Dov Bader, MD, Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation
- Erich Batra, MD, Family and Community Medicine, Pediatrics
- Nicholas Buchkovich, PhD, Microbiology and Immunology (and awarded tenure)
- Anthony Bonavia, MD, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Pharmacology
- Todd Cartee, MD, Dermatology (and awarded tenure)
- Matthew Coates, MD, PhD, Medicine, Pharmacology
- Smita Dandekar, MD, Pediatrics
- Carrie Daymont, MD, MSCE, Pediatrics, Public Health Sciences
- Timothy Deimling, MD, MS, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Guangwei Du, MD, PhD, Neurology
- Michael Freeman, MD, MA, Pediatrics, Humanities
- Cristy French, MD, Radiology
- Kristen Grine, DO, Family and Community Medicine
- Steven Hicks, MD, PhD, Pediatrics
- Jason Imundo, MD, Pediatrics
- Huseyin Isildak, MD, Otolaryngology, Surgery
- Pooja Jhaveri, MD, Pediatrics
- Punit Jhaveri, MD, Pediatrics
- John Knoedler, MD, Surgery
- Conrad Krawiec, MD, Pediatrics
- Susan Lane-Loney, PhD, MS, Pediatrics, Psychiatry and Behavioral Health
- Jessyka Lighthall, MD, Otolaryngology, Surgery
- Suzanne Merrill, MD, Surgery
- Stacey Milunic, MD, Family and Community Medicine
- Pritish Mondal, MD, Pediatrics
- Daniel Morgan, PhD, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine, Pharmacology, Neural and Behavioral Sciences (and awarded tenure)
- Munima Nasir, MD, Family and Community Medicine
- Jeffrey Neighbors, PhD, Pharmacology, Medicine
- Kristina Newport, MD, Medicine
- George Papachristou, MD Ophthalmology
- Michael Pfeiffer, MD, Medicine
- Andrea Rigby, PsyD, MEd, MS, Surgery
- Timothy Riley, MD, Family and Community Medicine
- Hiroko Shike, MD, MS, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
- Roopa Siddaiah, MBBS, Pediatrics
- Yoshinori Takahashi, PhD, MS, Pediatrics
- Rebecca Volpe, PhD, Humanities (and awarded tenure)
- Brad Zacharia, MD, MS, Neurosurgery
- Junjia Zhu, MS, PhD, Public Health Sciences
Promotion to assistant professor
- Jessica Allen, DO, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
- Amanda Dudak, MD, Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine
- Jennifer Osetek, PhD, Public Health Sciences
Promotion to senior instructor
- Carol LaRegina, MS, Public Health Sciences
Tenure award only
- Nadine Hempel, PhD, Pharmacology, Obstetrics and Gynecology
- Dajiang Liu, PhD, Public Health Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology
- Shengyu Yang, PhD, Cellular and Molecular Physiology
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